Small businesses must, by necessity, take advantage of technology: multi-tasking is essential for the smaller enterprise to compete, and wireless technology is the life-blood of multi-tasking.A recent AT&T Poll which surveyed 1,000 small businesses nationwide, indicated 98% of all small businesses used wireless technologies in their operations, and 66% stated operations would be virtually impossible without said technologies.
More and more of these business are equipping their employees with smartphones (56% being 4G) and tablets, both of which can be used for:
1) Mobile “Point of Sale” stations
2) Inventory locators
3) Tracking goods from the first stages of production to final delivery
4) Cyber sales meetings and powerful sales software (such as SalesForce)
5) Cloud based storage to augment the goods/equipment sold by the business (such as cloud-based voice mail for cell phones)
6) Secure and easy corporate banking
7) Technical support
8) Intra-company communications and scheduling
9) Mobile apps and GPS mapping and navigation for sales presentations and product deliveries
The polls and studies have shown the larger businesses lean more toward tablets, as do newer, “start-up” small companies.
Wireless technology simply allows small business enterprises to make up in flexibility, speed and efficiency for what they might lack in workforce and physical infrastructure. Further, without the heavy debt load of a large number of employees and the requisite office space and buildings, a leaner and tech-savvy business can offer more competitive pricing while maximizing profit.
In the current economic climate, businesses must take advantage of every technological tool available, and the wise proprietors are doing just that. Wireless and mobile technology can give the newest and smallest ventures more muscle on the commerce playing field.
Should your business have tech equipment and/or training needs, RentAComputer.com is available to help maximize the effectiveness of your workforce…and the bottom line.
It’s a sҺame you don’t have a donate button! I’d without a doubt donate to thiѕ excеllent blog!
I supposе for now i’ll sеttle for Ƅookmarking and adding your RSS feeԀ tо my
Googlе account. I look forward to new updates and will share this blog with my
Facebօok group. Talҝ soοn!