Grow Your Small Business into a Big Business in The Cloud

Small business is the place where innovation usually happens. Small business can make changes on a dime. Small business is agile.

It’s agility that allows small business to become big business.

But are small businesses quick to use new technology? Not so much. If you are a business running with one, two, or 10 people, you don’t really have time to investigate and make changes to what you do today.

Cloud services change that.

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More is possible for small business

So much of what the cloud offers is ideal for small enterprise.

If you want to grow, there’s never been a better time to jump into the newest technology.

And as more business services are added to what the cloud offers -beyond mail and social media – it’s small business that benefits most.

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Everywhere on Anything

Cloud services let you do your work - wherever you are- on any device

Work no longer follows you back to the office.

It’s perfect for any mobile business, such as field services.

• A great example is an accounting service. It used to have to happen back at the office. Now, with the right service, you invoice your client and your records are up to date immediately. That means there’s no more catching up on billing.

That means you get paid sooner.

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An Inexpensive Way to Grow your Business

Cloud services are easily expandable. A cloud app scales to your business needs.

As the number of people you work with grows, your service can expand to accommodate them.

You pay just for the service you need.

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The Range of Services Includes All Business - Large and Small

Now computing power doesn’t need to hold back your business. The features and the hardware needed to run what used to be big business software is available to everyone.

This includes more than just the business functionality. With most services, time and resource consuming tasks like hardware maintenance and creating backups come along with your cloud services.

As a small business, you and your team can spend more time growing the business and less time acting as IT technicians.

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Nothing can stop your business

All businesses have to plan for emergencies, but now disaster doesn’t mean having to pick up the pieces of your business.

Since there’s nothing physically on site, if there’s a catastrophe, you can be up and working with your computing and all of your data intact immediately.

More commonly, day to day business includes some user error. Even if you delete information by accident, most cloud services provide features to restore lost data.

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Online is Great, but…

The cloud is great for all of these reasons, but what happens when you can’t connect to it?

It never hurts to have your data stored locally as well. Depending on the app, you may be able to have the best of both worlds. You can be in the cloud and on the ground at the same time.

Some services store data on your device and sync with the cloud when a connection is available. These let you work just as efficiently offline, and are smart alternatives where a connection isn’t available where you do your work.

This also helps in regions with expensive data plans, such as when travelling away from your home network. Wifi may be far more cost effective.

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When is There Too Much Cloud?

There are a lot of different services out there.

Starting out in the cloud you may find you and your team are using many different services to run your business. It’s not uncommon to find people flipping between file sharing, business management, client services, social media and other communications to get the job done.

Once you know what you need, it’s a good idea to look for a solution for your business that addresses your needs with the fewest number of pieces. The fewer the pieces, the less there is to manage and the better the communication is between them.

Don’t forget to check references online – make sure you are picking the right service

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Cloud Support

Whatever services you choose for whatever size of business you have, make sure you have support.

When settling on a solution, do your research.

Read reviews. Look at the developer’s history of supporting their products.

Make sure help is available, reliable, and excellent. Remember that you’ll be basing your business decisions and activities on the service you choose.

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It’s Time to Make the Move

In the cloud, your small business will work more efficiently.

You’ll run your business better.

You’ll spend less time configuring and managing software and more time using the business features that help you understand how your business is doing.

And, you don’t want to be left in the dust by your competitors. If you decide not to move to the latest technology, keep in mind that your top competitors are probably there.

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