Friday, November 21, 2008

Stop Burning Money By Performing Unprofitable Manual Activities

By G L Burrus

At some point in your internet business, your office operations consist of the following functions; ecommerce, internet, marketing, affiliate and or customer support functions.

When you become serious about being efficient with your office operations be it product or service based, you will be performing many many, many manual and very repetitive activities.

When you review these operations, they are essentially tracking, storing, scheduling and monitoring your business. Important activities to be sure but a lot of times, the actions you perform under this list of office operations while necessary are also a very mundane set of activities.

This causes you to lose your motivation because you lose interest performing repetitive manual activities. You need to think through investing in gaining some of the following benefits through automation.

Decrease the time spent on manual efforts.

Reduce the money spent on manual work.

Raise the productivity of your business operation.

Improve business quality.

Increase user and client confidence in your business.

Improve your ability to handle a larger volume of customer requests.

Produce shorter turnaround time.

Reduced limits on customer requests.

Gain time to develop new services for customer.

Reduce office move peak loads.

Ensure better service through automated service solutions.

Better customer and staff understanding and feedback.

Plan to have improved quality control.

Improved reliability of requested information and delivery.

Provide services regardless of time

As you can see there is a lot you do and iit takes time and time is money. Don't keep spending money that you can use for other things.

As you can see from the activities above you know you will be performing these activities as long as you stay in business. So the good part is you are in business for your self. The bad part you are in business for your self. At some point you will want to do a systems plan and start to think though the office automation process.

The process simple and does not have to be done over and over again. Once you automate the benefits can start immediately. That savings is real money in your pocket so get started now.

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