Running a Good Business, Book 6: Choosing Technology - High Tech or Low? - Running a Good Business, #6

One in a collection of short, hands-on guides to managing the ins and outs and ups and downs of starting and growing a small, micro or one-person business driven by personal values and offering the unique lifestyle of self-employment. This volume offers a detailed process and specific criteria for choosing appropriate technology to make your office hum. Table of Contents for this VolumeChapter 1: When is Technology Right for Your Business?Chapter 2: Equipping the Low-Tech Office- Typewriters* Features* Costs- Phone Answering Machines* Key Features* Optional Features* CostChapter 3: Equipping a Higher Tech Office- How Much Of My Income Should I Spend On New Technology?- How to Choose- All-In-One Printers* Will it reduce my expenses?* Will it increase my income?* Will it save time or increase my output?* Is this a new technology, or has it been around a while?* How much will supplies and maintenance cost?* How long will it take me to learn to use it?* Will I have to continue to use the old manual system too?* What about additional costs?* What is the real life of the equipment?* So, should I buy an all-in-one printer?- Computers* Decide what you want to do.* Find the software that does that.* Buy the hardware it runs on.
Chapter 5: Evaluating Your Computer Choices- Will it reduce my expenses?- Will it increase my income?- Will it save time or increase my output?- Is this a new technology, or has it been around a while?- How much will supplies and maintenance cost?- How long will it take me to learn to use it?- Will I have to continue to use the old manual system too?- What will be the additional costs?- What is the real life of the equipment?- Printers are another matter.- So, should I buy a computer?- Guidelines for buying a ComputerResources- Software- Feedback Loop Software- Time Saving Office EquipmentAbout the Authors