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Business principles today are very much the same as they have been for a long time. What has changed is the approach and the timeframe to achieve certain things. With a quality camera built in to your phone, a fast connection that interfaces to your laptop and a plethora of document preparation and management tools we have gone from: (1 -THEN) travel to a destination, write a report, discuss the report, implement recommendations over next 12 months to (2 - NOW) travel to a destination, send photos that same day, follow up with a report on the same night and have everything published on the company's intranet before the next morning.
This may seem like a costly exercise, but in many cases it is not. In fact, it is a lot more cost effective than any of the processes in the past.
- Documents can be shared online
- Photos can uploaded on the day they were taken
- You can use pictures (in colour) to demonstrate products that no longer require samples to be shipped
- Your inventory can be managed electronically so that you know what you can and cannot sell online
- You can process orders online
- You can communicate with clients having problems, eg on how to setup the product they bought, by simple email.
All of it is available to ANY business, large or small!
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