Some markets are moving quickly to optimize expenses while increasing revenue even in a down economy.
Regardless of your business the movers and shakers are those who’ve figured out how to provide less expensive service to corporations are the ones flourishing now.
We are becoming more mobile than ever before, thanks to technology that lets us interact personally and professionally in diverse, fluid ways. While there are ample reports to confirm this truth, one needs only look around while out and about to know it’s accurate. Everywhere, people are texting, taking photos and forwarding, checking email and even, well, talking using their multi-functional phones–Blackberries, iPhones and the like. Now, even netbooks and slimline laptops also make it easier to make great use of mobile broadband, enabling users to be fully functional while on the go.
Parks Associates, a Texas-based research firm specializing in”digital living technologies,” was widely quoted earlier this year as it announced that mobile broadband users will top 140 million by 2013. Likewise, a 2008 report from comScore, Inc. reported that Americans accessing the Internet via mobile broadband lept by 154% in 2007. The comScore report noted that 59% of users were using the technology for work purposes, versus 41% for personal use. Suffice to say, this versatile capability is increasingly impacting our everyday lives in more integrated ways. Read the rest of this entry »
These days we marvel about how technology has torn down barriers to global business. Of course, the first hints of a global economy hearken back to early exploration accomplished by adventurous, curious (and often opportunistic) souls traversing worldly waters by ship. Many moons later, we figured out things like international air travel, telephone communications and so on. Then that aforementioned technology started really kicking in—computers, the Internet, mobile devices, and the game altered dramatically.
Thanks to all that progress and innovation, we now work in business world ready for global interconnectivity. In person or online, we can ‘be there’ at any time, at any point, anywhere.
It’s nearly impossible to “do everything right” when you’re doing “everything.” Even if you’re ambitious, resourceful, tireless and clever, you are a mortal with limitations, strengths and weaknesses. You simply can’t be best at everything, not to mention you’ll never have enough time to do everything on your own.
Small business people are often big thinkers with plenty of drive and motivation yet not a lot of capital, staffing or support. Their broad vision and intense drive sometimes supersedes the reality of logistics and the fact that there must be some money to spend in order to make more. Inspiration and operations must coalesce for small businesses to establish roots and grow.
In-boxes (especially those wood ones actually labeled “IN”). Fake ficus trees in office lobbies. Snail mail. Normal business hours. First generation Palm Pilots. Fax machines.
This is a list of things on their way to the Museum of How We Used to Do Business. As times change and technology evolves, these items will join dictation machines, rotary phones, gargantuan computers the size of boats, typewriters and carbon paper in the hall of relics from business eras gone by. I’m sure there are more than a few of you out there hoping that modular cubicle walls also go the way of extinction in the not so distant future.
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