Category: Business Management

When deciding on your business hosting first you must decide whether you would like to host the site yourself or outsource it to an established hosting company. There are advantages and disadvantages to both of these options.

Advantages of hosting your own website

Those who decide to host their website themselves are those who want complete control over their hosting. This can be a major advantage to some, especially those who would like to constantly monitor everything about their website and their web hosting. Those who would like to make regular changes to the hosting setup (and want to do it themselves) will benefit from hosting their own site. In some circumstances it can be cost effective to host your own site but only if you have the requirements to have your own server. This is because you wont have to pay another company to do it for you. There is also the potential for an extra income stream, because if you are hosting your own website you may have the equipment and expertise to host websites on behalf of others as well.

Disadvantages of hosting your own website

Although in some circumstances it can be cheaper, the majority of the time it is more expensive to host your website yourself. You may have to hire staff just for this purpose, and the relevant expertise can be costly. You will also have to have you own server and other equipment, and if you dont have the requirements to use this to its capacity you will still be paying for it. If you dont have the necessary expertise it can pose obvious problems, especially if something goes wrong. It is also another area you have to worry about, and can distract you from the rest of your business.

Advantages of outsourcing your hosting

The main benefit of outsourcing your hosting is that you are leaving it in the hands of experts. You therefore should be able to forget about it, which allows you to focus on your core business. Most hosting companies offer 24/7 support, something you are unlikely to be able to manage if you are hosting your own site, unless you have a large team employed for this purpose. This support means your site is being watched around the clock which gives you peace of mind. For some sites this can be extremely important. If shared hosting is adequate then you can share servers with the hosting companys other customers which will be cheaper than having your own server. Colocation can also take away one of the disadvantages of outsourcing: that you have no control. With Colocation you own and maintain your own server but rent rack space at a Colocation centre which will cost less than hosting it yourself as you are sharing bandwidth and other variable with other customers. With outsourcing you can purchase Managed Hosting. Managed Hosting means all your hosting is completely managed for you. This should take the worry completely away from you.

Disadvantages of outsourcing your hosting

As already mentioned, you dont have the same control if you are outsourcing. To an extent things are dictated to you by the limitation of the hosting package you choose and the operations of the hosting company. If something goes wrong with the hosting company, for example if they go out of business or make a mistake, you could have a problem. There could also be a potential security risk if confidentiality is a major issue.

For the majority of businesses, outsourcing is the better option. Most do not have the expertise to host their own website, and can make use of the support an established hosting company can offer. In the end it all comes down to the hosting needs and hosting knowledge of each individual business.

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Research says that majority of internet users are actually looking for products and services; those active in social networking sites, video sharing platforms, and free libraries only account for around half of the total Web population. If you’re looking for efficient business management technologies for your company, doing so online is highly recommended. As a one-stop information hub, the Internet serves as a reliable source of news, data, and information that consumers can use for different purposes. Here are some features of business management websites that you can refer to.

Services and Support

When looking for information technology products and services, you can browse an IT company’s website and look for support solutions that apply to your business’s specific industry. You can look at contact relationship management (CRM) solutions, accounting and business management platforms, and network engineering services that address different issues and needs in your company. You can read on each service’s facts and features and thus choose one that suits your business management problems.

Products

Since technological products also come from years of hard work, planning, and effort, these solutions also come at a certain price if you want to use them. Through a website that offers advanced software products, you can access information on CRM solutions, accounting software, and technological innovations you can use in your own company. Simply click on a particular product’s icon or link and you can read the features it offers.

News and Information

Aside from innovative computer networking support, you can also access industry news and articles in a professional technological consultant’s website. You can read through these newsletters and archives and learn the latest in the technological market. You can also check the features and improvements about a new software and how such features address emerging challenges in your business.

Training and Events

For clients’ convenience, online technological consultants provide CRM training information through their websites. They post training class schedules and calendars online to allow you to effectively manage your time and efficiently learn from the classes. You can have the webinars delivered to your own desktop or attend a training class in the provider’s office if you want.

Register Online

If you want to enroll in different CRM online training classes, you can register on the website and enjoy comfort and convenience. Simply provide information about your company, preferred classes, and payment options and the website administrators will contact you within a few days for confirmation. You can also download a registration form from the website and fax the document if it’s more convenient.

Benefits of online business are very obvious to almost everyone. Internet is not just about selling products online, many other services are being utilized by using it. One such example is Human Resource services. Online job posting, resume management and online hiring are very common now. Even telephonic interviews by using internet are conducted instead of personal interviews. Therefore the market for products serving these needs is rich and growing faster.

Magento as an eCommerce platform serves the need of every business that is running online. It has a rich market scattered with dozens of products for each business type. We are concerned now with Magento Plugin providing solutions for Human resources and we find Open Jobs Manager a great utility because of its features.

This Magento Extension provides 6 smart configuration sections to manage your jobs. You can define job types, their locations, departments and much more. Each job has a section from where you will be able to manage applications received against it. This section provides required information for applicants like Name, Email, Application date, Phone and resume. Also another wonderful feature without which an application is considered to be incomplete has been provided and that is social integration. You can now publish any job to Facebook, Twitter and Linked-in.

Features:

Create, edit, enable/disable Job type, location, departments
SEO friendly URL for Job’s detail page
Set Meta title, meta keywords and meta description for each job’s detail page
View applicants from Job’s edit page
Download CV and view details of applicant right from jobs management section
Post job to your FaceBook wall from Job’s edit page
Tweet Job on twitter from job’s edit page
Share Job on LinkedIn from Jobs edit page
View applicants count on Jobs grid
Job listing page image can be set from configuration
Can change the label of Jobs in top links and bottom links
URL suffix can be configured from system configuration
Can configure the number of jobs to display per page
Can Filter jobs by location
Can Order jobs by Department, date etc.
Quickly apply for a job from a dropdown menu…

In a perpetually changing business environment, companies operating in different industries require scalable solutions that can contribute in increasing the productivity and eliminating any kind of inefficiencies to increase their profitability. Whether you are in the retail industry, hotel industry or restaurant business or any other corporate field, you need solutions that maximize productivity, reduce operational costs and generate quick results. The latest business management solutions can go a long way in ensuring that you achieve all this within your budget. From accounting to sales and property management, everything can be carried out using the right combination of hardware and software systems.

In countries like Australia, it has become very common to see major players of the hospitality industry making use of the latest accounting systems and point of sale solutions to better coordinate their operations. Restaurants, cafes and bars etc. make use of restaurant POS systems as these considerably reduce the man-hours and help in serving fast & accurate orders to customers. Moreover, there are several innovation based companies in Australia that manufacture accounting systems for hotel Point of Sale and motel of sale so that the cash inflows and outflows can be handled with the highest level of accuracy. Not only can the accounting systems Hotel Point Of Sale help in reducing data entry errors but also save considerable amount of time and money.

Today, hotels, resorts & restaurants have the option of getting customized Point of Sale solutions designed for meeting the specific requirements of their businesses. The business solution providers first assess the needs of the hotel or motel in question and then suggest a combination of hardware or software that can best fulfill their requirements depending on the scale of their operations. Apart from the accounting systems and motel point of sale solutions impeccable property management software can prove to be ideal for managing reservations, group bookings and even multiple tariffs. Since the entire process is automated there is no scope of manual errors, missed reservations, double bookings or guest charges.

Even the costs incurred by an in-house guest on accommodation, telephone, at bar or restaurant, and room service can be seamlessly tracked and processed using an accounting system Point of Sale. Using the latest software restaurants or bars in a hotel can instantly transfer the in-house guests costs to their room accounts. Property management software can help in managing Transaction Packages, Multiple rooms per booking, corporate activity tracking, floor plan display, maintenance tracking and even mailing list management. Therefore, if you are an aspiring player of the hospitality industry in Australia, bring the desired amount of efficiency in your operations using the latest business management solutions.

Attention, calling all people who are interested in how to declutter and eliminate clutter from their lives.

Is that you?

Are you paying the price for not clearing clutter?Do you feel stressed out and fatigued by clutter?Are you having problems losing weight because you have so much clutter you can’t get anything done and you just feel like the whole world is weighing you down?

Are you feeling the weight of all that clutter and feeling lost when it comes to how to declutter?

It’s impossible to lose weight if you’re weighed under by clutter.

If you have stacks and stacks of crap laying all over your house, there’s no way for you to lose weight, and get healthy and feel good about yourself.

If you want to feel good about yourself, if you want to get in shape and feel healthy, you have to deal with the psychic baggage of clutter. You have to start clearing clutter.

One of the ways you have to change your life to be able to deal with the clutter is you need more time. You need to be able to manage your time more effectively.

Part of the reason why you have so much clutter laying around is because you just don’t have time to deal with everything.

You don’t have time to deal with all the clutter you already have and you don’t have time to deal with all the new information and all the new stuff coming into your life.

So you’re probably suffering from bad time management skills.

In this article I want to give you a couple of good ideas, just a couple, to help you get started making more time for yourself so that you can deal with your clutter problem, and easiy learn how to declutter.

The first issue is, could you possibly avoid driving in rush hour traffic?

I don’t know if you have a job, or if you’re like me and are an entrepreneur and you create your own schedule.

But like my wife for example. She has quite a bit of clutter in her life and she has never really been strong at busting through her clutter.

Unfortunately for her she’s not as used to being an entrepreneur like I am. She does not protect herself from people who try to make her drive in rush hour traffic.

I’m always telling her, “baby, don’t make appointments that require you to drive in rush hour traffic”. Just don’t do it.

If you’re an entrepreneur, a small business owner, or a self-employed professional, and you control your own schedule, why would you ever make an appointment that required you to drive in rush hour traffic if you could possibly avoid it.

I understand, sometimes you have to go to traffic court, and you have to be there at 8am, and there’s nothing you can do about that, your a victim of the system.

I’ve been there myself, believe me.

When you get these appointments handed down to you by big beaurocracies, you’ve got to deal with it the way they want you to.

However, if you’re just making an appointment to go have a sales presentation, or to meet with a customer, or to get your hair cut, don’t make that appointment at 9am, make it at 10:30am.

For example, I’m on a mens team, and I kept asking the 12 guys on the team, “why are we having these meetings at 7:30pm so that we all have to drive through rush hour traffic?”. If we would make the meeting at 8pm every man on the team would save 30 minutes. That is 6 extra manhours of time, freed up, per week.

Being conscious of driving in rush hour traffic is important to your time management and you’ll save money on gas and reduce your carbon footprint.

I got this amazing idea from a friend of mine, Lori Marrero, who wrote this amazing book called “The Clutter Diet”.