Team MJ loves hearing of ways that people use technology to improve their marketing or business strategies. That’s why a recent post on Surefire Social caught our attention. It talked about how roofing contractors utilize Google Earth to make their day-to-day operations more efficient. When these contractors receive a quote request, they use Google Earth to determine approximate dimensions of the building and identify any unique or unusual characteristics on the roof, that would impact their work. Then, they are able to use that information to create a preliminary estimate without having to visit the job site. Using Google’s aerial imaging services is quick and easy and ends up saving the business and their customers time and money. Along with roofing contractors, other professionals like landscapers and real estate agents are benefiting from using the online tool.
Even if you don’t fall into one of these professions, there’s a great takeaway for you here. There are numerous ways that any business owner can utilize online tools (oftentimes free ones) to improve their business process and customer experiences. Even if that means simply researching a client before meeting with them or using technology to provide additional resources to assist them. As you can see in the above example, the tools that are available to us today allow us to be more proactive in business, rather than reactive. Thinking of creative ways to address and improve your daily operations will impress your clients and allow you to work more efficiently.
Technology has become so engrained in our lives, that we often forget about the wealth of knowledge that’s right at our fingertips. Take a few minutes to think about areas of your business where you could be more proactive and efficient. Then, do a little research to see how other businesses are using online tools to address those very issues. If you discover a new tool that helps your business, we’d love for you to share in the comments!
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Fallon Financial Commentary: Daily Market Commentary: Early Gains Rebuffed Get the latest market commentary and stock trading ideas from Declan Fallon
A promising start gave way to selling, but at least the lows of last week held. Large Caps suffered the worst of the action and the Dow is doing its best to break support, despite the higher volume accumulation. The 200-day MA is looking a natural downside target for the Dow.
The Nasdaq still has the 50-day MA to lean against but is bound by 20-day MA resistance. It's somewhat protected by the weakness in Large Cap indices, although not immune...
The Russell 2000 is lurking near channel support, although the 20-day MA is also nearby as resistance.
It's decision time for the markets: 20-day MAs are offering supply problems and assisting shorts, while channel support is available for longs as (relatively) low risk buying opportunities. I suspect bears have control in the short term, but my sectorbreadth studies indicate a strong, tradeable swing low is only a few days of selling away.
BURBANK, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 15, 2007 -- With the decreasing costs associated with today's bandwidth technologies, a high speed connection can easily be had by every corporation. Of course, proper implementation of system performance software ensures speedy downloads remain consistent.
Generally, even with a broadband connection, sluggish file transfers can still occasionally occur. Now, while most of these download issues are related to latency and bandwidth, there is another critical factor involved... fragmentation.
Despite the number of employees or file transfers within an organization, it's a fact that fragmentation can and will occur on a daily basis. More details regarding this can be found in the Impact of Disk Fragmentation article, written by Joe Kinsella for Windows® IT Pro Magazine.
Now, when a new file is downloaded, regardless of origin, the operating system has to quickly locate a section of free space for the file to reside. However, if the designated gap of free space is smaller in size than the file in question, the excess part of the file spills into the next available piece of free space. This creates increased fragmentation and therefore signifies the need to defrag.
Let's take a look at how fragmentation affects downloads over the Internet. We'll use a popular web browser, Internet Explorer®, for our example.
When a user downloads a file from the net, such as a software package, it is initially copied to a temporary location on the computer before being transferred to the intended location once the file download process completes. Now, depending on the current level of fragmentation, the time necessary to actually download and copy the file to the appropriate location can be dramatically increased. Thus, we can easily see how fragmentation can slow down Internet downloads.
The very same phenomenon hinders file transfers over a local network as well. With the immeasurable number of internal file transfers that occur daily in corporate America, the effects of fragmentation can be staggering.
Today, many small businesses depend on a single file server to handle the workload of their entire organization. In such a scenario, fragmentation soon occurs on a large scale due to frequent local file transfers and modifications. As you might expect, this puts a damper on production and, in some cases, can bring it to a halt completely.
Of course, there is hope. System performance software, such as Diskeeper® 2007 by Diskeeper Corporation (www.diskeeper.com), addresses these concerns entirely.
While a broadband connection can definitely increase production, fragmentation can make routine downloads feel like dialup. Without system performance software, a business can end up stalled on the Information Superhighway.
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