Whether your business is online, offline, or a combination of both, you need to use technology to grow your business.

Now I’m not talking about robots and expensive customized technology here. I’m talking about using common technical advances to save your business time and money.

Grow Your Business
With Mobile Phones
And Accessories

For example, consider something as common and inexpensive as using a cell phone in your business. My business phone is a cell. If I have to be out of the office (as I was last week for Jim’s surgery) I can still answer my calls, help my customers, and collaborate with my partners. Some phones even enable you to get online from your phone.

Mobile phones don’t cost that much. I use AT&T, and get a new basic phone every two years just for renewing my service. I did spend $29 extra for my newest business phone because it provides more technical features than the basic one, but that’s still inexpensive compared to most business expenses.

Mobile phones and accessories continually improve. To illustrate, I apparently left my chargers at the hospital. I can buy another charger for my new business phone for between $15 and $20, but I just saw a new charger advertised that is a better deal.

This new technology enables you to lay any phone on a pad to charge. The charging pads are said to sell for between $40 and $80 dollars. I guess the pads are pretty new because my local WalMart doesn’t have them, but I’ll probably buy one when I can find one. It’s cheaper than having to replace lost chargers over time, or to buy a new mobile charger every time I upgrade my phone.

Grow Your Business
With New Computer Technology

Owning a recent top-of-the-line computer can also save your business time and money.

My Mac is six years old. Although I’ve upgraded the memory several times and the operating system once, its processor is just too slow for me to operate efficiently online.

I have to wait between actions for the computer to take me from site to site, or even from post to post on this blog. I frequently have to click on a button multiple times before it works, and I sometimes loose work because I think my computer has taken an action, like saving, when it actually hasn’t. My old computer is wasting much of my work time.

New computers have much faster processors, larger memories, and loads of extra abilities that my old computer doesn’t. But a new computer is a big expense for a small company like mine. That’s why I’ve tried to upgrade my old one so many times. But I’m only delaying the inevitable and paying for that delay with inefficiency.

What Technology Do You Need
To Grow Your Business?

Is the lack of up-to-date technology costing you efficiency and  business growth? If so how? What technology do you need to help your business grow? Can you afford it in today’s economy?

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How Can Small Business Improve The Gross National Product?

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Grow Your Business
With Technology

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