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Why would you ever NOT want free software?
Thursday, February 24th, 2011 | CRM, Strategy | Rob
Whatever software you are buying; be it CRM, eCommerce, web analytics or otherwise; there are normally a range of free or ‘open source’ alternatives being marketed to you. As a logical buyer making an investment in growing your business this raises the question – why go for a paid solution?
While open source solutions are free in terms of software cost, it is essential that you consider total cost of ownership of your solution; as given the time and technical expertise required to make a success of the project no software ends up being ‘free’!
Consider some of the following things that can add to total cost of ownership:
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Creating Successful Job Descriptions For SME (5-100 Employee) Businesses
Friday, January 14th, 2011 | Strategy | Andy
THE NUMBER ONE RULE, THE BIG ONE…
The number one rule with job descriptions is to ensure that at the end of the process everyone is empowered to deliver your vision, goals and targets – not constrained or limited by a narrow-minded or tunnel-vision view of their daily tasks.
A job description that just lists that tasks someone needs to carry out is USELESS – in fact its worse than that – its DANGEROUS and DAMAGING to your business.
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Adding Value for our Clients
Friday, September 17th, 2010 | Strategy | Nicola
*Editors note: Are you looking for a more rewarding way of doing business? Today’s guest post from Nicola Macdonald looks at adding more value to your business.*
At Accountech we strive to be ‘Go Givers’. We use this principle to provide excellent value to our customers.
The concept is told in a powerful and moving story in ‘The Go-Giver’ by Bob Burg & John David Mann about an ambitious young man, a real Go-Getter, who works hard and fast and yearns for success. The story takes the reader through five simple principles that help you to achieve your goals through a generous and giving spirit.
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Powerful Mission Statements – What? Why? How? – Part II
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 | Strategy | Andy
In Part I, we discussed the What, Why, How of powerful mission statements. In this second part, we are going to focus on how to construct a succinct, yet powerful mission statement.
I have personally tried lots of different ways of structuring a mission statement, and here is the most useful and easiest format – it actually requires 3 statements:
- What?
- Why?
- How?
What do you stand for? Why is that important? How do you deliver upon it?
Good Examples
Examples are always useful, so lets take an example hotel – Hotel A
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Powerful Mission Statements – What? Why? How? – Part I
Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | Strategy | Andy
WHAT?
What is a powerful mission statement?
Are they worth having? What should they look like? Ask 100 people, get 100 answers. But seriously, there is plenty of myth and mayhem surrounding mission statements. So, what is a powerful mission statement?
A Powerful Mission Statement defines what a business stands for, why a customer should consider dealing with this business (as opposed to its hundreds of competitors) and how this business goes about delivering on that promise.
WHY?
Why have a mission statement?
Your mission statement is there to be loved and lived – by you, your staff and your customers.
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Creating a Successful Organisation Chart For SME (5-100 Employee) Businesses
Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | Strategy | Andy
THE NUMBER ONE RULE, THE BIG ONE
The number one rule with organisation charts is make sure you have one before you need one. Okay too late – but still, today is better than tomorrow, and this week is a lot better than next year. Why? Well the organisation chart isn’t really about empowering the organisation. What?!? That’s right – its about empowering yourself to let go, to delegate, and most importantly to delegate well. Sounds good – or at least it ought to. If you aren’t focussed on letting go then ask yourself two serious questions?
1. Why are you running your own business? To make money of course, but surely you want freedom too. Freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. You aren’t building a business for someone else – it is there for you – so lets make sure we get what we want.
2. How are you going to build this business if everything it does is reliant on you?
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