Business Opportunity - Leverage Your Employees!Written by Martin Haworth
For business to be successful, you have to take every step possible to make sales, control costs, be profitable. Yet there is an asset that so often gets looked over. The very people you employ.And if your work it right, they can bring in rewards like you never thought possible. As a business asset, they don't sit well on P&L statement. They aren't valuable like a piece of machinery, or an office block. There is no assignment of currency with which you can measure them. But living and breathing within walls of your premises are biggest asset you could think of - your people. Here's why... Your people are:- - Your Face They are like a big advert on a bus or a hoarding. Whatever you want them to be - they are you, in whatever way they feel at time. One slip and there goes a lifetimes worth of business (have you ever worked that out over 20 years - try it!)
- Interactors They are one side of two-sided interaction between your business and your customers, clients and suppliers and anyone else you can think of. This interaction is not just a choice, but a reflection of how your are within your business. So their 'interaction' is down to you and you alone.
- Proactive Great at day job, your people can give more. They can think ahead and develop a knack of being pro-active for you. Using them as one big team you suddenly have 10 pairs, a hundred pairs or even a thousand pairs of eyes and ears, noticing and responding to things, on your behalf.
- Choosers They choose how to interact with your clients, customers and suppliers. And in that choice; in that very moment, they are able to make successful and long-term relationships - or not. They have choice.
- Synergistic They can contribute to you much more than bare bones of their 'being there'. If you build right relationship with your people they will spin and bounce ideas off you like no tomorrow. This is a very rich asset for you to utilise.
- Weight Lifters They can take some of your burden away. If you treat them fairly, honestly and trust them, your people are able to take on new roles - and give you time and energy, which will leverage your skills in your business to there most effective.
| | An introduction to point of sale softwareWritten by Jakob Jelling
Point of sale software gives business owners a convenient way of checking out customers and of recording sales. It can keep a record of store inventory, updating it when an order is processed. It can also print out receipts, carry out credit card processing, track customers, etc. Point of sale software eases flow at checkout terminals, while recording all information that can help you make better business decisions.Point of sale software allows users to input via keyboard or mouse, and some even have a touch screen interface. You can install software on your checkout register. When checking out a customer you can either input sales item yourself or use a bar code scanner. The point of sale software will look up item in inventory and bring up price. It can also calculate tax on item and change for customer. POS software can print out receipts and reports. Point of sale software makes your business accounting a lot easier by creating reports on inventory, sales, customers, etc. Since it is already recording each sale, it can easily tell you sales and revenue of day. Point of sale software can also help with credit card processing. Credit cards are preferred method of payment. People do not want to carry around cash for all their purchases. Credit card is a convenient method of payment and if you do not have credit card processing, your business can lose some of its competitiveness.
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