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Raise your hand if you’re still carrying around your paperbound daily planner! Throw it away and get software to keep track of your appointments and those of all your employees. You’ll appreciate how easy it is to know who’s doing what and when.
And think about how much time you spend each year gathering
paperwork your accountant needs at tax time to prepare your company income taxes. Why allow your accountant to charge you his or her hourly rate to do
type of data entry you could have been doing all year long IF you had only purchased AND installed business accounting software.
If you think, “Well, I do this only once a year,” you are right, but remember, there are many more income-generating things you can do with
time you are wasting. Every second of saved time helps your business operate more efficiently.
Even
most automated of offices is doomed should your hardware ever crash and your data not be backed up. And we’re not talking about “if” this crisis will occur; we’re talking about “when” it will occur. There are so many easy-to-use and affordable backup software programs available that you’ve no good excuse for not backing up your valuable data.
There are many other business tasks you can automate but there’s not enough room to list them all. Tasks like project management, employee management and inventory management are more efficient when they are automated. You can even translate your paper marketing and sales information for fast and easy delivery via
Internet.
There’s no end to
list of office tasks that can be automated using
software that is readily available today. Put together an office automation budget and decide which tasks are
most important to automate. Then get going – you’ve got work to do!

Cavyl Stewart is the author of "135 Hot Tech Tips for Small Business Owners." To Download your free copy, just visit: http://www.find-small-business-software.com/135_tips.php