Running a Good Business, Book 6: Choosing Technology - High Tech or Low?

By Claude Whitmyer
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Published: July 21, 2011
Words: 15,505 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452493695

Short description

Step-by-step guidance for launching your own small, micro or one-person business. For those who want to do what they love and still pay the bills. This volume covers choosing the technology to make your office hum.

Extended description

One in a collection of short, hands-on guides to managing the ins and outs and ups and downs of starting and growing a small, micro or one-person business driven by personal values and offering the unique lifestyle of self-employment. This volume offers a detailed process and specific criteria for choosing appropriate technology to make your office hum.

Table of Contents for this Volume

Chapter 1: When is Technology Right for Your Business? (Read more) One in a collection of short, hands-on guides to managing the ins and outs and ups and downs of starting and growing a small, micro or one-person business driven by personal values and offering the unique lifestyle of self-employment. This volume offers a detailed process and specific criteria for choosing appropriate technology to make your office hum.

Table of Contents for this Volume

Chapter 1: When is Technology Right for Your Business?
Chapter 2: Equipping the Low-Tech Office
- Typewriters
* Features
* Costs
- Phone Answering Machines
* Key Features
* Optional Features
* Cost
Chapter 3: Equipping a Higher Tech Office
- How Much Of My Income Should I Spend On New Technology?
- How to Choose
- All-In-One Printers
* Will it reduce my expenses?
* Will it increase my income?
* Will it save time or increase my output?
* Is this a new technology, or has it been around a while?
* How much will supplies and maintenance cost?
* How long will it take me to learn to use it?
* Will I have to continue to use the old manual system too?
* What about additional costs?
* What is the real life of the equipment?
* So, should I buy an all-in-one printer?
- Computers
* Decide what you want to do.
* Find the software that does that.
* Buy the hardware it runs on.
Chapter 5: Evaluating Your Computer Choices
- Will it reduce my expenses?
- Will it increase my income?
- Will it save time or increase my output?
- Is this a new technology, or has it been around a while?
- How much will supplies and maintenance cost?
- How long will it take me to learn to use it?
- Will I have to continue to use the old manual system too?
- What will be the additional costs?
- What is the real life of the equipment?
- Printers are another matter.
- So, should I buy a computer?
- Guidelines for buying a Computer
Resources
- Software
- Feedback Loop Software
- Time Saving Office Equipment
About the Authors
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