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You’re always looking to reduce costs by squeezing efficiency out of every corner of your business. At least you should be. Market fluctuations, employee turnover, shipping costs, gas prices…it never ends. These factors are difficult for you to control and you need to look elsewhere for efficiency nirvana.
Your employees complain about how their hour long commute and the prices at the pump are killing them. They need raises to cover their loss of income to their friendly neighborhood oil company. You would do anything for your employees but how can you solve a problem caused by factors that you can’t control?
Your energy costs are out of control. Your employees leave the lights on all day and night even when they’re not around. You’re out of town and your office manager constantly forgets to check everything before she goes. One employee is too cold, another is too hot and the battle for the thermostat has turned into a war.
Your sales team in Atlanta has no way of demonstrating from your showroom in Cleveland. It’s too expensive to build a new showroom in a new market because you’re worried about all of the other costs that come along with opening a new market. Sales aren’t growing as quickly as they should be because your national ambitions are stuck in a regional sandtrap.
Stop and take a breath. These same factors affect our day-to-day business just like they affect yours. We’re in business to do business and business can’t be done if you’re stuck worrying about the details instead of looking forward and following your vision. There are many details of your business that can be automated or eliminated entirely through the use of technology. Worry about basic problems as described in the scenarios above becomes the perverbial monkey on your back and stinky monkey at that. You need simple, clean and efficient solutions to your problems. Bye bye monkey.
Your employees are struggling with their commutes. Good employees need flexibility. Offer them the option to telecommute. Equip them with the tools they need to do their job from home thereby easing their money woes and making them more efficient all at once. Give them a laptop, an Internet connection in their home and a VoIP phone on their desk and call it a day. They can now work more efficiently in their pajamas from their dining room than they could have in a suit and tie at the office.
Your energy costs are out of control. You ask us how we can help cut your energy costs and keep your sanity. We’re not psychiatrists but we know energy savings. We show you how your office can automatically control all lighting loads around the clock. We install motion sensors to monitor room occupancy and automatically turn lights off when a room is empty. We program your office to turn lights off and on based on a schedule. We lock down your thermostats and program them to regulate the temperature as you see fit. You login to your customized web portal from home to check up on things and see that all lights are off and the temperature for the night has been set to 65 degrees. You breathe a sigh of relief.
Your sales team in Atlanta is cut off from your showroom. We sit down and come up with a solution that combines high-resolution cameras, a crystal clear plasma monitor and an automation control system controlled remotely via the Internet. Your sales team is in heaven. They can invite prospective customers to their virtual showroom and wet their whistle to close the sale. The capabilities that allow your sales staff to show off your showroom remotely give the customer a priceless demonstration of what your company can do locally. Your national ambitions remain intact.
Reducing costs can be accomplished in many different ways. We like to think that our methods are a some of the easiest.
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