Running a Good Business, Book 6: Choosing Technology - High Tech or Low?
Business & Finance, Career Planning & Job Hunting, Small Business
| Author: | Claude Whitmyer | ISBN: | 9781452493695 |
| Publisher: | Claude Whitmyer | Publication: | July 21, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Claude Whitmyer |
| ISBN: | 9781452493695 |
| Publisher: | Claude Whitmyer |
| Publication: | July 21, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
One in a collection of short, hands-on guides to managing the ins and outs and ups and downs of starting and growing a small, micro or one-person business driven by personal values and offering the unique lifestyle of self-employment. This volume offers a detailed process and specific criteria for choosing appropriate technology to make your office hum.
Table of Contents for this Volume
Chapter 1: When is Technology Right for Your Business?
Chapter 2: Equipping the Low-Tech Office
- Typewriters
* Features
* Costs
- Phone Answering Machines
* Key Features
* Optional Features
* Cost
Chapter 3: Equipping a Higher Tech Office
- How Much Of My Income Should I Spend On New Technology?
- How to Choose
- All-In-One Printers
* Will it reduce my expenses?
* Will it increase my income?
* Will it save time or increase my output?
* Is this a new technology, or has it been around a while?
* How much will supplies and maintenance cost?
* How long will it take me to learn to use it?
* Will I have to continue to use the old manual system too?
* What about additional costs?
* What is the real life of the equipment?
* So, should I buy an all-in-one printer?
- Computers
* Decide what you want to do.
* Find the software that does that.
* Buy the hardware it runs on.
Chapter 5: Evaluating Your Computer Choices
- Will it reduce my expenses?
- Will it increase my income?
- Will it save time or increase my output?
- Is this a new technology, or has it been around a while?
- How much will supplies and maintenance cost?
- How long will it take me to learn to use it?
- Will I have to continue to use the old manual system too?
- What will be the additional costs?
- What is the real life of the equipment?
- Printers are another matter.
- So, should I buy a computer?
- Guidelines for buying a Computer
Resources
- Software
- Feedback Loop Software
- Time Saving Office Equipment
About the Authors
One in a collection of short, hands-on guides to managing the ins and outs and ups and downs of starting and growing a small, micro or one-person business driven by personal values and offering the unique lifestyle of self-employment. This volume offers a detailed process and specific criteria for choosing appropriate technology to make your office hum.
Table of Contents for this Volume
Chapter 1: When is Technology Right for Your Business?
Chapter 2: Equipping the Low-Tech Office
- Typewriters
* Features
* Costs
- Phone Answering Machines
* Key Features
* Optional Features
* Cost
Chapter 3: Equipping a Higher Tech Office
- How Much Of My Income Should I Spend On New Technology?
- How to Choose
- All-In-One Printers
* Will it reduce my expenses?
* Will it increase my income?
* Will it save time or increase my output?
* Is this a new technology, or has it been around a while?
* How much will supplies and maintenance cost?
* How long will it take me to learn to use it?
* Will I have to continue to use the old manual system too?
* What about additional costs?
* What is the real life of the equipment?
* So, should I buy an all-in-one printer?
- Computers
* Decide what you want to do.
* Find the software that does that.
* Buy the hardware it runs on.
Chapter 5: Evaluating Your Computer Choices
- Will it reduce my expenses?
- Will it increase my income?
- Will it save time or increase my output?
- Is this a new technology, or has it been around a while?
- How much will supplies and maintenance cost?
- How long will it take me to learn to use it?
- Will I have to continue to use the old manual system too?
- What will be the additional costs?
- What is the real life of the equipment?
- Printers are another matter.
- So, should I buy a computer?
- Guidelines for buying a Computer
Resources
- Software
- Feedback Loop Software
- Time Saving Office Equipment
About the Authors
