Productivity Hacks

Small Business CRM: Zoho’s Role-based Security

admin — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:00:11 +0000

Zoho CRM offers Role Based Security, an enterprise grade solution to set up and manage access rights and security for users of CRM data. Zoho CRM Role Based Security uses Profiles, Roles, Data Sharing Rules, Field-level security, and Groups to help determine the level of access for each user. Key Features Profiles: Allows the administrator [...]

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Small Business CRM: Zoho’s Sales Force Automation

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:00:45 +0000

Posted in Small Business Topics

For a business seeking the right CRM software, Zoho‘s online offering provides extraordinary ease of use and functionality. One of the software’s features, Zoho CRM’s powerful Sales Force Automation tool, focuses on seven key steps or modules. These individual modules integrate flawlessly to provide a streamlined process of lead generation, information acquisition, sale conversion, customer [...]

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Energize Your Employees and Raise Their Morale!

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:00:34 +0000

Posted in Small Business Topics

Boosting Employee Morale: When dealing with a group of employees there are several things that can be done to keep morale up. Keeping morale up will ensure higher production, higher quality, and of course a great working environment. The first and foremost part of morale would be to know your employees personally. When we take [...]

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Employee Loyalty: How to Create, Maintain and Benefit from Employee Loyalty at Your Business

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:00:20 +0000

Posted in Small Business Topics

Employee loyalty is very important in today’s market. Employers are competing against each other to find the best employees, and employees are wanting to work for the best employers. How do you go about creating and maintaining employee loyalty with your business? How will your business benefit from employee loyalty? First, let’s examine how your [...]

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Small Business CRM: How ZOHO can Reduce IT Stress & Overhead

admin — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:26:02 +0000

Posted in Small Business Topics

Integrating an effective system for Customer Relationship Management in a start-up or small business may seem like an impossible task. A veritable minefield of possibilities exist, and finding the right one is essential. For small businesses and start-ups seeking to implement the right CRM system, ZOHO offers the most cost-effective small business CRM software solution [...]

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Increasing Productivity & Effectiveness: How Parkinson’s Law can Help Your Company

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:00:50 +0000

Posted in Time Management

For the worker bees of the world, productivity is king. They work long hours, hoping to show their boss how dedicated they are to their job with the hopes of promotion. Sadly, those who live by the words “work harder, not smarter” are most likely wasting most of those 40 hours a week, when they [...]

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Google 80/20 ITO: Can the Innovation Time Off Method Benefit Your Workplace?

admin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:10:12 +0000

Posted in No Mouse Series

ITO Explained: How to Increase Your Organizations Creativity Everyone in today’s work environment is looking to maximize on their organizations time management and creativity skills. One such company that has seemingly cornered the market on a unique concept is Google. It is no secret that Google’s work environment is not the atypical corporate environment of [...]

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Building Effective Teams: How to Create a Successful Work Environment

admin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:00:17 +0000

Posted in Productivity Tips

To build an effective team and create a successful working environment, managers need to understand that being a part of a team is a different experience all by itself. Members of a team are part of a larger whole with an espoused mission or objective and contribute to the overall success of an organization. A [...]

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90% of Meetings are a Waste of Time

admin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:00:31 +0000

Posted in Time Management

How many times have you sat through an interminable meeting, wondering why on earth you are there? I have often found myself resorting to counting ceiling tiles with boredom, or planning the week’s grocery shopping in my head. The last meeting I went to was so pointless that I had a great opportunity to think [...]

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Workflow Steps: Pomodoro Technique and The Results Curve

admin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:22:58 +0000

Posted in Time Management

Understanding the proper sequence of steps to maximize productivity during a time block is critical. Francisco Cirillo, the creator of the Pomodoro Technique, and Pierre Khawand, the creator of The Results Curve offers suggestions for how to handle your workflow during any block of time. Learn the workflow steps when following The Pomodoro Technique and The Results Curve time management systems.

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