Launching your Business into the New Century
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Aug-30-2010
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If you haven’t already, then you are certainly feeling the pressure to ‘modernize,’ to ‘update’ your business. The whole process may seem arduous, complicated, and headache-inducing and the fruits of your labour insignificant, not at all worth all the associated trouble.
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If you haven’t already, then you are certainly feeling the pressure to ‘modernize,’ to ‘update’ your business. The whole process may seem arduous, complicated, and headache-inducing and the fruits of your labour insignificant, not at all worth all the associated trouble. But that is a false assumption. Modernizing your business can in fact be an easy, simple and, what more, cheap and lucrative process.
There are several ways you can accomplish this goal of modernization. It is entirely up to you to choose the best method or a combination of the different methods that best fit with your business.
To facilitate and accelerate the decision-making process, you can establish a management information system. A management information system is a computer system for gathering, storing, and analyzing data and also providing information for decision-making support. Management information systems, or MIS, quickly provide managers with an extensive amount of historical and current data, allowing them to swiftly make well-informed decisions and to avoid opportunity costs and misinformed decisions.
For a management information system, you can hire programmers to help you design the system. Once the system is complete, the next step is implementation. To ensure success of the system, you should educate your employees on how to use the system.
For marketing, you can create a company website and email marketing. A personal business website can be used to introduce potential customers to your company – to the type of products and services offered. You can increase your customer base by global proportions, considering that payment can be done electronically and shipping is more can be done over long distances. Consequently, your sales, and profits, will increase.
Setting up a website should be like opening a new branch for your business. Simply showcase your merchandise, displaying pictures and providing sufficient information about each product, recreating for these virtual shoppers the experience of shopping in one of your stores. On your website, you can also include information about the locations of your branches, your contact details, and news about your organization. Usually, businesses contract professional web designers to create websites for their organizations.
Marketing through email is another option for your business. Email Software has made both internal and external communication fast, cheap and simple. You can use an email campaign to familiarize customers with your business. You can also use email newsletters and direct mail to promote and market your products.
Marketing via email is like advertising your wares in a ‘cyber’ market; you send users information regarding your products and if any of the ‘wares’ appeal to those email users, they will come closer, i.e. to your company webpage, to find out more about those specific products. In this manner, a company website and marketing campaigns that employ the use of email are interdependent parts of your electronic marketing system.
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Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Launching your Business into the New Century_31105.aspx
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Author Resource :
Lucy James is currently working as an email marketing consultant in a leading IT firm. Her responsibilities include reviewing the weekly email newsletter which is sent through their email campaign software.
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Keywords :
email newsletter, email marketing, email software, email campaign,
Category :
Computers
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Software
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