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Connecting with Customers in Ecommerce: Why CRM is a Must-Have

Ecommerce isn’t a forgiving industry. If you’re one of the millions of online retailers that’s competing to earn the business of new customers, the lack of proper tools at your disposal could be what’s holding you back. The good news is that with the right marketing weapons, you can expand reach and nurture new as well as existing customer relationships to great success.

CRM for Ecommerce

Along the way, make sure you don’t overlook the benefits of a CRM for ecommerce. Here’s how it can help you earmark new accolades.

How Ecommerce CRM Works

Unlike traditional CRM, which is a lead-gen tool, ecommerce CRM has changed the game for this newer and evolving industry that’s currently undergoing explosive growth.…

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Thinking Big: How to Prepare Yourself and Your Business For Big-Time Success

We often hear successful entrepreneurs tell stories about the importance of being able to recover from failures. While it is essential to have the ability to learn from, integrate and grow past a failure or setback, it is equally important to know how to cope with the increasing pressures of growth and how to prepare for the impending success of a business. Will you be ready if that serendipitous alchemy of hard work and divine intervention suddenly sends demand for your products or services soaring?

Preparing for big success

While you’ve dreamed of this moment, the reality of it can still come as quite a shock.…

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7 Rookie Inventory Management Mistakes to Avoid in Retail

Inventory management is one of the most vital elements to the success of a new retail business. Keeping track of your inventory levels at all times helps you find products quickly (when you need to serve customers), understand your most popular and least popular products, identify sources of loss, and monitor and improve your profitability.

Inventory management mistakes

Unfortunately, inventory management isn’t as straightforward as it seems on the surface, and most new retail entrepreneurs end up making serious mistakes in the creation or execution of their overall strategy.

The Biggest Mistakes in Inventory Management

These are some of the most common and devastating mistakes new retail businesses make in inventory management:

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How to Keep Your Business Safe For Employees

As business owners, we value the contributions that our employees give. For sure, they are essential to a company’s growth. That said, it’s important that we make sure their needs are met and secure their well-being. After all, you won’t be able to deliver products and services to your market if you have high-performing workers stricken down by injuries.

Business safety

No doubt, the best way we can keep our employees healthy and our operations consistently productive is prioritizing workplace safety. No doubt, this is not something we need to secure at the office. It’s also a moral necessity that also has a lot to do with protecting your business’ reputation.…

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6 Tips for Throwing a Business Event Everyone Will Love

There are many benefits to throwing business events, ranging from a boost to employee morale to building better relationships with partners. However, like any project, an event is a serious matter that can produce a negative effect unless used right.

Should it be a failure of an evening, you might lose a deal or reduce the productivity of your employees who will be stressed and upset. And in case you use an event as a marketing opportunity, the negative impact on your business can be huge.

Fun business event

To avoid these problems you need to plan your event very carefully and use a few tricks along the way.…

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Beginner’s Guide to Cloud-Based Performance Testing

Once the functional testing phase of cloud computing is completed, it’s time for performance testing. Here are some reasons why.

Cloud performance testing

Focusing on Performance Testing

Performance analysts work hundreds of hours to support testing environments. Qualified performance testers have a high salary and can earn as much as an experienced developer. This is because performance analysts have to be proficient in 2+ programming languages and masters of multiple technologies. Using a valuable resource for supporting and installing software is a bit problematic no?

High Scalability

What will you do if you have to increase the number of testers from 1,000 to 20,000?…

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11 Gift Ideas for Your Business Partners

Whether you’re looking for the perfect birthday or holiday gift for your business partner, or simply want to welcome them aboard with something special, it’s important to find the gift that says the right thing.

Business gift ideas

In this guide, our friends at French Knot, Aussie’s premier online homewares store, offer 11 great ideas that will make your business partner feel the love. Each of these items have been chosen for business professionals and will be sure to be a hit!

1. Mini Zen Garden

Mini zen gardens are inexpensive yet entrancing novelties. A mini zen garden offers the perfect mental escape from the rigor of the work day, so if you want to help your business partner take a quick breather after a meeting, conference call, or just for relaxation, then a mini zen garden is truly just the thing!…

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How to Simplify Small Business Management with Managed IT Services

Learn How Outsourcing Basic IT Tasks Can Save You Time and Money

Small business IT management

Keeping a small business running takes plenty of blood, sweat, and tears– not to mention hours upon hours of managing tasks. Surprisingly, some of the most essential tasks– the ones that keep your business running day in and day out– can be some of the smallest. When it comes to IT, keeping these small but extremely important tasks on your own full (or let’s be honest, over-full) plate can lead to oversights that may have disastrous effects for your business.

Instead of managing IT tasks yourself, find an IT provider that offers managed service.…

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The Best Skip Services And Their Environmental Benefit

Whether you’re sat in the comfort of your own home or even your place of work, living in a clean and hygienic environment is not only important but a must. That being said, ensuring your waste disposal is kept on top of isn’t the task that always gets seen to. As a result, all too often, rubbish builds up causing an unsightly and unhealthy situation for everyone.

Skip hire truck

Thankfully, with the help of a professional waste disposal company, it needn’t be such an arduous task and what’s more, it can actually begin to do some good for this planet of ours.

Too many struggle with the idea of waste management and the sheer importance of it.…

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Business Fleet: Are Electric Scooters Safe?

Electric scooters are becoming more and more popular on our roads today. From businesses to pre-car license aged teens, electric scooters are proving to be a popular choice. Their range of miles have increased considerably from their first appearance on the market and their looks are equivalent to, if not better than their petrol run siblings.

Electric scooter for deliveries

With any electric vehicle today however, the biggest question on everyone’s lips surrounds the issue of safety. Are electric scooters safe to be driven on the road? Or quite simply, are they safe – full stop?

Today we’re going to look at the numerous reasons why electric mopeds aren’t just a safe choice but are one of the safety choices full stop.…

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