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Storage
Ø Accounting
software stores your payroll information, tax records and specialized data for
your business
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Once you’re acquainted with a program, you won’t
know how you functioned without it.
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You can
eliminate much of the physical storage at the office by using information
technology to scan and store old personnel and payroll files, tax files or
client files.
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You may need less square footage with information
technology.
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Marketing
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You can have a Web presence, take orders, buy
merchandise, sell excess or even operate some businesses entirely online.
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A
marketing tool that uses information technology is the Quick Response or QR
Code that looks like a bar code but is square.
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You can use your business management skills to
direct employees or contractors to do your Internet marketing, or you can
choose to learn a new set of skills in information technology.
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Information
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The Internet is a wealth of information to keep
you current with trends, techniques, software and human resources.
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You can draw on online databases and websites to
locate potential employees, compare insurance proposals, tackle employee issues
or check out the competition.
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Managing
your business with information gleaned from the Internet keeps you
knowledgeable and on the cutting edge.
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Communication
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Information technology allows you to organize
email file folders by client or by type of communication, such as orders or
billing.
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You can
drag and drop your email files to closed folders as your company completes
projects.
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Your communication files become closed files,
placed in storage on CD or on a hard drive with a duplicate copy or backup
automated by a program
