Everything SMEs need to know about POS systems As consumers increasingly pay by swiping their cards or by Android or Apple Pay, the days of taking cash only are long gone for the vast majority of businesses. Even people who do crafts at home and sell them at craft fayres are starting to invest [...]
What’s new in Dropbox for your teams? Dropbox has long been working on improving its tools not just for remote working, but also for remote collaboration. As a tool that can be effectively utilised by teams, your business can take advantage of its new features for more efficient working. Showcase Showcase had [...]
Small business billing tools While many small- and medium-sized businesses want to bootstrap and pay the least amount possible for the tools they use, there is definitely an argument that investing in billing tools will save you time and money in the long term. So, if you’re all tied up in a huge spreadsheet [...]
Small business productivity tools Business owners and their employees are always keen to do more with less and work smarter not harder. The truth is that there’s a limit to how far either of these strategies will take you, as at some point you will need to increase your resources if you want to [...]
Small business marketing tools Getting people to notice you is possibly the single biggest challenge faced by small businesses and it’s fundamental since nobody is going to buy anything from you, be it goods or services, unless they know you exist and believe you can provide a solution to whatever problem it is they [...]
Small business networking tools While we may all know that the most powerful connections are forged in person, this is 2018 and that means that many of us will be doing a lot of our networking online. In fact, businesses on lower budgets may do all of their networking online. That being so, here [...]
Sales tools for small businesses Sales are what keeps companies in business and it is, therefore, important to equip your sales teams with the best tools you can afford. Fortunately for small businesses, there are a number of good tools out there at very reasonable prices. Here are six of them: Pipedrive [...]
Cloud storage and the question of back-ups Cloud storage site Megaupload was one of the success stories of the internet. It was one of the top fifteen most popular sites online and was believed to be responsible for about 4% of all internet traffic. Then it went out of business, without warning, as a [...]
VoIP phone system migration: ISDN’s final countdown Back in 2015, BT announced that it would be switching off both its PSTN and ISDN networks by 2025. But just because something’s been announced, that doesn’t mean that it’s going to happen; the government has been trying to switch off analogue radio for quite some time [...]
The great debate about net neutrality Regulating the internet is a question that has baffled web users since its inception, but that hasn’t stopped politicians of all persuasions and all across the world from trying to do it. The latest attempt to hit the headlines is the proposal to cancel the Obama-era net-neutrality laws, [...]
