Kylie Harker on genius customer relationship management tool ZOHO. Keeping your track of your customer relationships when business is growing rapidly can sometimes make your head spin. Kylie Harker, founder of Squirrel Hub has the solution to help you find the time. Squirrel Hub likes to keep things organised, and knows that everything has its [...]
If you've ever had trouble remembering a client's name, it could be time to invest in something that will help you nurture your customer relationships - and generate sales. Now, more than ever, we are in the business of people. Making sales will never depend simply on who can provide a cheaper service or product; [...]
With EFTPOS not being available for use with online purchasing, where do small businesses turn to acquire online payment facilities? Credit card processing is a complicated business - a lot of information needs to be transferred in a matter of seconds between your customer’s browser, their bank, your site, your payment gateway and your bank. Sounds [...]
While we at Squirrel CRM Hub are partners with TradeGecko, we do take the time to compare it to other software before we recommend it to your business, similar Inventory and Stock Management software is Unleashed. TradeGecko was created in 2012, by three New Zealand entrepreneurs who were frustrated with the inventory management systems available [...]
Before the advent of the internet, business was hard, manual, and extremely unforgiving. The internet came along and helped simplify many business processes; it gave us more research avenues, and allowed us to organise our thoughts in one place. The desktop still anchored us to one location; not entirely convenient. We sat and stared at [...]
The rapid rate of information technology deployment is one of the great transformations of the 21st century. Throughout history technology are deployed to do repetitive and information based tasks. When this happen the human skills associated with those tasks get rapidly devalued. They become worth less. A great example I read about recently is the [...]
Starting or buying a business necessitates research, risk, passion, courage and planning. The harsh reality is that enthusiasm, money, hard work, talent or a great idea is not enough to guarantee success in business. Over the years we have mentored hundreds of clients through the start up phase of their business and have earned a [...]
Have you ever counted how much time you spend creating proposals? If it takes you an average of five hours to create a proposal and you win one in three proposals, then in fact you spend 15 hours, on average, to land a job (not counting meetings and phone calls – I’m trying to keep [...]
So you've attended a bunch of networking events and now have a pile of business cards sitting on your desk gathering dust, right? Document scanners can be a little clunky and if you’re at a trade show or conference, it’s nice to be able to capture them quickly and be done with it. The best [...]
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