Cut Cost, Go Paperless

No matter what your business is, you have to use papers to maintain your business. These papers can be

• Legal document
• Orders
• Reports
• Invoices
• Survey forms
• Customer information
• Complain forms etc.

Managing each papers for your business incur cost like

• Printing paper
• Storing paper
• Maintain files
• Sending papers etc.

And you have to bare this cost which cuts your revenue and over all profit of your business and sometime it creates real mess in your office. You end up with piles of papers on your desk and storage and you may lost important documents in it and that will affect your business. You my end up with unhappy customers or you may loose contract as a delay in paper work. 

Well, yon can end up this mess and cut your costs by going paperless and increase your revenue. You can be eco friendly company. You can store all your papers in digital formats and make them available in digital form to your employees and customers so they can access it easily. Here are some benefits of going paperless.

Save on Printing Cost

Most printed documents in an office are for internal use and do not contribute positively to the bottom line.  By moving to a system where more tasks are done in the digital space, a business saves money in all of these areas and this way you will be more eco friendly and save papers and save our environment. For example you have survey reports, to do analysis you print many copies of it and distribute to your employees. These copies are used only once and then thrown out. Instead of this if you can have digital system where you can send it to all your employees in form of digital copy. You save lots of printing cost.

Save on Storage Space

In many modern offices, stored paper takes up much of the room. Paper is dead space – much of it doesn’t contribute to a companies  revenue in any way. In a paperless system, many of the records stored around an office could be digitized and can be stored in clouds so it can be available anytime and can be available anywhere. There is no meaning of storing piles of files in cupboards or on office desk. You can have everything in your computer so you can access it easily.

Easy to Maintain

It's hard to get correct paper from the piles of physical paper. You have to check each and every paper and find out the correct one. It will take lot of time and you may not have desired outcome. But if you have all the papers in digital format, you can scan through it easily and search the right paper from it.  This significantly improves your operational efficiency and employee productivity, since people don’t waste time searching endlessly for each piece of data they need.

Secure Your Data

Paper files may get lost, copied, folded, removed from the office or simply misplaced. When any of these situations arises, sensitive information is at risk. If you have digital data, you can restrict access to it and no body can manipulate it or steal it.

As a technology service provider we always insist on paperless solution for the businesses and we offer our clients number solutions from document management system, dynamic forms, mobile apps and cloud based applications. If you are looking for paperless solution for your business, contact me.

How You Can Use Technologies In Your Restaurant / Food Chain Business

Hello and welcome to next blog of this series. In this blog series I am going to explain how you can use technologies in your business and grow your business to next level. This blog is for the restaurant , food chain business. In this blog I am going to explain how you can take advantage of technologies to expand your business and engage more and more customers.

Here are some of the ideas and technologies you can use for your restaurant or food chain business.

Self Ordering Kiosk for Dine In

In general, in pick hours and over weekends and holidays, there is a heavy rush in restaurants and hotels. People are waiting outside your restaurant and waiting for their turn and do nothing. Same way you have to wait till people gets in and place order and their order gets ready. Till then your resources are ideal and you just have to wait. How about self ordering Kiosk outside your place, where people can fill in their details like

• How many people are coming for lunch or dinner?
• What they would like to eat? 

This way you will have their order by the time they are waiting for their turn and you can get it prepared and once they are in, you can immediately  serve them and thus saving their and your time and your customers are happy with your services. When they place an order with Kiosk, you can also saw them probable waiting time, so they know how much they have to wait for their turn.  This way you don't have to loose customers because of waiting and in pick hours as well, you can serve maximum customers and in crease your business. This types of Kiosk can be placed outside your place in waiting area or it can be placed on the table so if your waiters are not free at some point, our customers can still start placing orders. You can also display info about your place on Kiosk,  so your customers can know more about your place, you can show your featured dishes so they know about your dishes and place orders.

Mobile App for Placing Orders of Home Delivery or Take Away

Sometimes foodies want to place an order for home delivery or take away but for that either they have to call you or come to your place and give order. Then they have to wait till you prepare their order. How about mobile app where they can see your menus and place order and give you the order time and then you can get the order ready and send for delivery on the time or by the time they come to your place to take their orders, it will be ready for the take away and they don't have to wait. With the mobile revolutions, most of the people are using smart phones like Apple and Android. This type of mobile phones supports applications. You can have one application for your restaurant where your customers can see it and place order for home delivery and take away. You can also promote your offers like discounts and coupons through apps and attract more and more customers.

This way you can reach to maximum numbers of customers in your area and city. You don't have to wait people to come to your place and order but instead you reach to them with mobile app and you get more business. With increasing use of mobile applications, people prefer to use mobile apps for using placing an order and if you don't have one such application, then you are loosing your potentials customers.

Website and Mobile Website for Your Restaurant and Food Chain

People are smart now a days, before they go to some place to eat they would like to know more about your place, like

• How is the ambience of your place?
• What are your working hours?
• What are your specialities?
• What others are saying about your place? 
• How to reach your place?

So before coming to your place, they will search for this information in the web and if you don't have website or mobile website, they will not be able to see this information and they might not be interested in you and they will cancel your visit so you lost your customers, just because there is no web presence of you. So it's good to have website and mobile website where your customers can see this information. You can update your timings show a gallery of your place so customers can see it. Guide a customer to reach to your place with Google Maps so they don't get lost. Show reviews of your old customers. Allow user to review your place so you can show it to others. Integrate social media, like twitter, Facebook so your people can spread word about you and let others know about your place and you get more and more followers and customers.

If you are looking for any of the solutions mentioned above, contact me right now.

Why Your Business Needs a Mobile Application

Hello and welcome to first blog of this new series. In this blog series I am going to publish posts about how you can use technology in your business and be a technology company.  In this blog I am going to explain the importance of Mobile Application for your business.

Mobile apps are now integral part of almost every business, irrespective of their size and industry. Several small industries too have profited from developing mobile apps. While most small businesses have their own Website, it is indeed more profitable for them to also develop a mobile app. The mobile device world is constantly growing, evolving, and creating staggering opportunities for small businesses that market themselves through mobile apps. If you are not having mobile app for your business yet then you must consider to have it one. There are lots of benefits of having mobile application in your business. Here are some benefits of having mobile apps fir your business.

24 X 7 Hours Business Operations

This is one of the best advantage of mobile application as most of your customers carry a mobile phone with them every time and if you have business app and they installed it, they can interact with you any time. They do not have to wait for your office open hours or wait for next day in case your office is closed. They can interact with you anytime and this will also benefit you. For example, you are a supplier of some materials and one the customer needed some stuff on urgent basis but since your office is closed for the day, they can not place order right now, hence they will either wait or will place order with someone else. Now imagine if you have order management system with mobile app where your customer can place order anytime so you do not have to loose any orders and your customers will  be happy with your services.

Improved Customer Engagement and Marketing

With mobile application for your business you can improve customer engagement and marketing. Mobile application supports various ways to improve customer engagement. For example, you can ask for survey about your customer preference, you can ask about customer feedback, you can send important information to customer with push notifications and messages. Your customers will always be aware about your new offerings and services. This will certainly improve your customer engagement. Along with this you can boost your sales with digital marketing. You can send information about your services and offerings to the customers. One of the biggest benefits of having a mobile app is that all the information you’d like to provide to your customers – including special sales and promotions – is right at their fingertips. Through push notifications you’re getting even closer to a direct interaction, and can easily remind customers about your products and services whenever it makes sense. 

Developing an app for your business helps you reach many more customers than with a traditional Website. Mobile search has become very popular today, especially with the younger audience. Additionally, integrating major social networks with your app furthers the scope and reach of your business.

Build your Brand and Get Customer Loyalty

Once you have mobile application you will have your reward as loyalty of your customer. The reason is once customer is satisfied with your mobile app, they are going to use it again and again as it's the most convenient way for them to interact with you and they are going to refer you more and more and as a result your brand will be more valuable as mobile application and you will have more and more loyal customer.

So if you don't have mobile app for your business yet and after reading this blog if you have changed your mind and want to have mobile application for your business, contact me right now.