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How to Stop Manual Data Entry from Killing Your Productivity

How to Stop Manual Data Entry from Killing Your Productivity

We’re sure that even your most talented employees have tasks on their plate that make them feel like expensive data-entry clerks. This is known as the “tedium tax,” and it can have a very real impact on small businesses (especially when employees wear multiple hats). When you have multiple tools that don’t speak well with each other, and you’re forced to resort to manual data entry, your team starts to act like a “human bridge,” connecting these isolated apps themselves—and wasting a lot of time in the process.

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Think Of Your Technology as an Investment, Not a Cost

Think Of Your Technology as an Investment, Not a Cost

Have you ever looked at your technology bills and thought, “All I do is spend money on technology. It never actually makes me money.” This mindset is what keeps businesses trapped, seeing technology as a necessary evil and a cost center rather than a source of innovation and inspiration. But what if your technology was built in a way that accommodated scale and growth?

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Don't Sacrifice Your Holiday Productivity to a Slow Network!

Don't Sacrifice Your Holiday Productivity to a Slow Network!

It’s not exactly a secret that the holiday season is—speaking generally—a pretty busy time for businesses. This makes any slowness in your network particularly frustrating to deal with, and potentially alienating to your audience. So what can be done?

For starters, the following five fixes:

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How to Stop Time Theft and See Everything

How to Stop Time Theft and See Everything

For all its benefits, remote work has certainly created some challenges. One major issue is the lack of visibility you have over your employees and the ramifications that could result.

While it is critical to cultivate trust in and with your employees, you also need tools to monitor progress and hold your team members accountable. Let’s talk about some of the issues you may discover once we give you the visibility you need.

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Tip of the Week: 4 Frameworks for Better Time and Task Management

Tip of the Week: 4 Frameworks for Better Time and Task Management

We all want to be more productive, but actually being more productive is harder than it sounds. Thankfully, you can make being productive easier than ever by implementing proven frameworks to drive success. Today, we’ll highlight three different frameworks: the Eisenhower Matrix, Eat the Frog, and the Two-Minute Rule.

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Clean Up That Inbox Now (Before You Regret It)

Clean Up That Inbox Now (Before You Regret It)

Your email inbox is one of your most accessed business resources, which means that it cannot get clogged up with useless messages that have little to no value, i.e., spam. If you want to make the most out of your workday, that means mastering your inbox and getting it under control. Today, we have three great tips to help you do just that.

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A Great IT Project Manager is Worth It

A Great IT Project Manager is Worth It

Your IT project manager is the centerpiece at the proverbial table of project implementation. Without one, your project will be much more likely to fail, or at least more likely to get done incorrectly or inefficiently. Today, we want to break down some of the qualities that make for a great project manager and how you can find the right one for your business.

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Tip of the Week: Minimize All

Tip of the Week: Minimize All

How often do you find yourself overwhelmed by the sheer amount of clutter on your desktop? You might dig through a pile of applications, windows, files, and so much more, and it can be difficult to make sense of it all and be productive. Thankfully, there is a rather simple tool to help you clean up your desktop and focus on one window at a time.

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5 Tech Hacks to Reclaim an Hour of Your Day

5 Tech Hacks to Reclaim an Hour of Your Day

We can probably all agree that there’s a big difference between “staying busy” and “looking busy,” and that the first option is generally the better one in the workplace. The big difference is how productive you actually are.

Let’s go over some simple-to-implement ways you can help your team boost their productivity without even thinking about it.

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Is AI Boosting Business or Causing Headaches?

Is AI Boosting Business or Causing Headaches?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere these days. It has become a standard feature in many business tools and devices. This means a lot of people are using it day-in and day-out. The question becomes: Is it truly beneficial, or does it create more headaches than it solves? Let's explore how AI can actually help your business.

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The Productivity You Seek is Indeed Within Reach, with the Right Habits

The Productivity You Seek is Indeed Within Reach, with the Right Habits

Productivity is an essential metric in modern life, and while it can often feel impossible to achieve, there are ways to overcome the anti-productivity malaise. Here are three habits that are likely to help you in your search for both organizational and personal productivity.

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Transform Your IT from a Money Pit to an Asset

Transform Your IT from a Money Pit to an Asset

Many businesses are under the impression that their IT, despite being a necessary cost, is just that: a bottomless pit for the company’s hard-earned money. However, this impression could be a sign that the business is not utilizing its technology effectively. Let’s look at three signs that your organization might need to reconsider its relationship with IT spending and how they contribute to your company’s overall impressions of IT (as well as its productivity).

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How to Transition from Multitasking to Single-Tasking for Greater Productivity

How to Transition from Multitasking to Single-Tasking for Greater Productivity

Multitasking might commonly be seen as a super skill that all employees and business professionals should master, but is it really all it’s cracked up to be? The truth of the matter is that multitasking doesn’t work, even if it looks like it does. In fact, all it succeeds in doing is making you work slower while increasing your stress and decreasing productivity.

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Three Ways to Help Reduce Employee Burnout

Three Ways to Help Reduce Employee Burnout

All of your workers depend on the success of your business. A lot of times, however, it doesn’t always seem to managers that they understand that concept. They probably aren’t just slacking off, they probably are a little burned out. Deloitte estimates that approximately 8 out of 10 wage workers show some signs of burnout. Since any lack of productivity is wasted money, you need to do what you can to ensure your employees have the resources they need to overcome burnout. 

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Six Changes You Can Easily Make to Help Your Business Succeed

Six Changes You Can Easily Make to Help Your Business Succeed

Successful businesses need to change to keep up with what customers want, new trends, and how the world is changing. This means they have to know their business well and be open to trying new things. Let’s look at six important areas where businesses often make changes to stay successful.

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The Cloud Gives Modern Businesses More Opportunities

The Cloud Gives Modern Businesses More Opportunities

If you want to talk about the most important technology today, the cloud is definitely a big deal. The cloud helps businesses do things that used to only be possible for the biggest companies. Today, we’ll look at how small businesses use the cloud and the benefits they get from it.

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How Modern Businesses Can Avoid Downtime By Looking to the Future

How Modern Businesses Can Avoid Downtime By Looking to the Future

Every organization relies on its IT to be available when needed. Some businesses can’t function at all without them. However, if a business isn’t keeping up with the management and maintenance of its IT, it can lead to downtime. Today, we’ll explore proactive IT maintenance strategies and how they help businesses minimize downtime in various ways.

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You Should Be Aware of These Two Productivity Pitfalls

You Should Be Aware of These Two Productivity Pitfalls

Technology has empowered us to achieve more than ever, but with that progress comes increased expectations for everyone. This means greater productivity, and the pressure to perform can be relentless at times, making it crucial to find efficient ways to manage our tasks. Unfortunately, there is a natural limit to how much we can accomplish, and certain challenges can push us to that limit faster. Today, we want to explore two of the most common productivity pitfalls.

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If You Care About the Earth, You May Want to Send Fewer Messages

If You Care About the Earth, You May Want to Send Fewer Messages

We all share a lot of data. There’s everything shared for professional purposes, of course, but there’s also all the casual things that we send back and forth—chats, requests to have people to pick up things on the way home, and (naturally) memes and pet pictures.

Most of this is sent off without a thought. However, let’s take a moment to think about it for a moment… is there an impact to all this data being sent around?

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Your Technology Needs to Grow with Your Business

Your Technology Needs to Grow with Your Business

Technology plays a crucial role regardless of a company’s size or growth stage. Therefore, having an IT infrastructure that can adapt to changes in business scale is essential.

Let's discuss the significance of a suitable IT infrastructure and explore best practices for tailoring it to fit your business needs.

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