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What’s in it for you?

If you apply our recommendations to your business - you can expect an increase of up to 100% in terms of productivity and profitability.

Once you are fully aware of the financial benefits that integrated systems can offer your company, it will empower you when you have to decide about increasing turnover or any of the other 101 decisions you have to make.

Our intention is to give you a better understanding of how the technology is expected to work, which means you will be able to convey your business requirements to the IT/Telecoms department, rather than the IT department having to interpret your business!.

About the site

As business people our objectives are pretty much the same; we want to increase revenues with the least amount of expenditure. However, knowing how to achieve this can be difficult. For an SME, using a management consultant can be expensive and time consuming especially as time must be spent with the consultant whilst they get to know your business. Even then results are not guaranteed.

As business owner/managers our personal ability to generate new income may be exceptional; however when it comes to employing staff, replicating or cloning top performers or even ourselves is impossible. As a result, a vast proportion of companies seem to settle for a lower level of performance from staff, simply because they are unable to accurately gauge activities and performance in order to train them more effectively.

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It became apparent that whilst there were countless books available that delved into the subconscious to help expose the passions and innermost desires of a business person, virtually no books or websites were available that exposed how technology could help run businesses more efficiently and profitably. It’s all well and good changing habits, awakening the person within or being a principled success, but knowing how to mechanise your business using state-of-the-art technology and creating that all important money-making machine seemed to be lacking and thus the concept for a web portal emerged.

By design this is not a highly technical site dealing with the digital infrastructure of computers and communication systems. Nor is it a business management tool telling you how to run your business. It is a site about how off-the-shelf products can revolutionise the way you run your business because the fact is, there are no business publications available that correlate technology and business processes to help companies make money.

How This Site Is Organised

We have taken a simplistic and logical approach to the implementation of technology, which is illustrated through the navigation of the site. Every step of the consultative process is backed up by establishing a return on investment prior to implementation and installation. However this is not management consultancy in the form of taking your watch and telling you the time! Our approach is wholly quantifiable and backed up with hard, fast, financial facts, based upon your company data, which makes this process a win-win for everyone concerned.

In the first instance we help you to evaluate your business and its systems objectively. We then help you to identify any adjustments necessary, which ultimately could dramatically impact on the net profitability.

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We want to help companies by sharing our information and experience. We know how frustrating it can be to have salespeople continually contact you in order to try and sell a product you are not convinced you need especially when you already have fully functioning equipment working within your business. An analogy is a car mechanic, telephoning a car owner and requesting him to bring his car in to establish if he can carry out some maintenance work or a doctor telephoning a patient to book a time for a consultation to see if there is anything wrong. Either way, the call is not welcome and the business person is not going to be receptive to the salesperson's offering.

Our objective is to pull together all of the strands that make up an effective business operating system through the best use of technology, regardless of the industry you work in. We also hope to illustrate how the effective use of technology can help your company to maximise its profits and minimise its overheads.

The aim of the portal is to provide business owner/managers with information they can utilise immediately. In the end, it will be for you to decide whether or not you require help directly or if you can perform the tasks by yourself.

Let's face it, if your technology is not making you money, it must be called furniture.

Coaching Approach

To make this site meaningful, the structure and presentation is important in order that it can be used in a logical fashion. With this in mind a coaching approach has been adopted in order that you can use all this information and strategies in your business.

Main Site Sections - How the site is laid out to help you and the purpose of each review.

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Business Review
To identify your existing equipment, how it is working and who it is managed by. To confirm your current technology costs and identify any potential savings. In the ROI sections marked phase 1 to phase 3, a framework is provided, which helps identify all current operating costs. This forms the basis of the return on investment analysis.

Technology Review
To identify the specific products that could be instrumental in assisting your company to maximise your profit from technology. Information is provided which illustrates how these products integrate with other systems and how, when used properly, they will make money and not cost money.

Management Review
Whilst you are in the process of evaluating infrastructure, it is an ideal time to evaluate your business. To assist you some basic business analysis tools have been provided, along with access to example manuals that are available online.

Marketing Review
We are not in the business of teaching anyone to “suck eggs”, however, we have included a section that complements the technology infrastructure. Few businesses have the budget to advertise on television, therefore companies must be more innovative and creative when it comes to finding that all important new customer.

The Business Plan
Once you have read what you feel is necessary, the portal brings the strands together to present a logical appraisal of how you should apply information and data to your business and to help you determine which components(s) are to be prioritised in order for your business to generate the maximum profit from technology.

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Case Studies
Case studies are provided which help you understand how and why companies have structured their systems in order that you can get a fuller picture of what may be achievable for your company.

Accordingly, case studies have been included that make reference to various products and manufacturers which helps in understanding how businesses feel about the implementation of new systems and how they have benefited from them.

Conclusion

With so much information it is important to help members move on to the next stage which is identifying the various suppliers who can help them achieve their goals. If you would like our help with this please contact us as all the solutions within this site are available through Clearvoice Cosnulting.

If you have any questions about the site and how it can benefit your business please contact us on 0800 970 9751 or email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it