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'Restructuring' or Cost-Cutting For Small Business Enterprise With WinWeb OnlineOffice.

October 24, 2009

Restructuring – a word used by BIG Business to lower cost, fire employees and squeeze suppliers. The small business owner was at a clear disadvantage – until now!

WinWeb OnlineOffice allows small business owners to look at their cost-structure and then start a small business ‘restructuring’ program. Here are a couple of examples:

• Business Cost Planning – using the built in cash-flow tool, small business owners can see where their money is going and make strategic decisions about their expenditure
• OnlineOffice – using all OnlineOffice modules will allow you to consolidate many fragmented supplier relationships and associated costs into a much more efficient and cost-effective IT package
• Cloud Computing – WinWeb OnlineOffice is a cloud computing business intranet solution for small business, this allows for potential cost savings in various ways:
  • have some staff working from home, with OnlineOffice it’s like they are working next door
  • collaborate online with virtual assistants or use WinWeb Online Business Services to outsource when needed

These are all examples how any small business can save money and become more efficient during this recession, with the Three Step WinWeb Small Business Restructuring Plan:

1. Analyze Cost
2. Consolidate Cost
3. Eliminate Cost

It is that easy for small business owners to ‘restructure’ their small business with confidence. All these tools are available inside WinWeb OnlineOffice, at no extra cost. You should use these competitive advantages, others do – no other small business solution can offer you a better and most cost-effective way to run your business.

Find out how your business can restructure @ WinWeb – Your Business Intranet.

Why Buying Accounting & Bookkeeping Software Is A Big Mistake!

Many people start their business and at some point they need to think about administration of their small business start-up. That is the time when the decision to buy accounting software is made – and a big mistake.

If you as a business owner consider all your internal and external business software and IT needs, you will very quickly come up with a long list of things your business needs, here a few:

• accounting & bookkeeping software
• business planning software
• invoicing & estimate software
• domain name for your business
• website & online shop
• software backup software
• secure online disk to share files
• email, calendar & address book
• document management
• and more…

All of these features and more are part of WinWeb OnlineOffice, at a price level lower than ‘accounting only’ software would cost you. In fact many accounting software products are far more expensive, but not better than our online accounting software by any means.

All businesses are struggling during this recession, you need to save money with every decision you make – comparing prices will help you to make the right decision. Even better, with all of these functions in one application you not only save money but time too.

Find out how WinWeb OnlineOffice can save you money AND make your business more efficient.

Working Online With WinWeb To Benefit Parents

October 23, 2009

Flexible working or working from home can be a daunting prospect for many parents.

Those parents who spent the majority of their careers working from offices are used to having all of their IT and many of their admin tasks completed for them.

Using an online office solution can help parents cut the hassle from IT problems associated with working from home and provide them with many other benefits along the way.

WinWeb OnlineOffice helps parents by providing them with a complete small business infrastructure, allowing them to act as flexible independent free-lancers or simply provide a more professional image when dealing with larger organisations. Whether they are backing up or sharing files through the Online Disk, building a website to represent their skills or planning their income and overheads with the cash-flow plan, OnlineOffice helps parents by providing an integrated IT solution, without having to spend a large amount of money. Using an existing internet connection, parents can access OnlineOffice via their home computers, so child care won’t be the only large overhead they will be reducing.


Best of all, OnlineOffice can allow parents to collaborate with other parents, providing businesses with a more complete solution to their projects.

Try OnlineOffice free for 30 days @ WinWeb OnlineOffice

New Campaign Releases 'Pool Of Talented Parents' To Business

October 22, 2009

A new campaign has launched to encourage businesses to tap into the massive pool of talent that is available from parents looking for flexible work.

The Supporting Parents In Business campaign highlights to businesses that many highly skilled professionals have chosen to spend more time at home raising their children – but still want to earn an income in a flexible working environment. The campaign is being run by the parents’ association hiremyparents.com and is partnered by WinWeb, providers of online business software and services to small businesses and home workers.

Supporting Parents in Business encourages businesses to access the skills that parents can provide by posting flexible jobs and projects online, free of charge. Parents are then able to assess those tasks they are best placed to fulfil and apply to the business involved.

“The big idea is to let businesses get very high quality work done by parents working from home,” said Steve Pritchard, co-founder of hiremyparents.com. Many people put their careers on hold to bring up children, which can be a huge waste of the skills they have spent years acquiring. This campaign encourages businesses to offer their projects to talented people who will do a great job; they just need to work flexibly.”

Stefan Töpfer, chairman and CEO of WinWeb, added: “WinWeb is about enabling people and businesses to maximise their potential. “Home working parents represent a huge pool of talent that businesses are under-utilising, meaning that both the parents and the businesses are working less efficiently than they could. It is right that many parents decide that raising their child is their major priority, however, this campaign offers those parents a flexible way to earn an income as well as maintaining their career skills. At the same time businesses can tap into a talent base that they haven’t previously been able to access, giving them top quality skills at economic prices.”

Throughout the campaign businesses can post full time, part time, casual, job share, temp/contract, freelance and work at home jobs, along with home based business and self employment opportunities, all at no cost. Businesses taking part will be able to display the Supporting Parents in Business campaign badge on promotional materials.

Find out more @ WinWeb – Supporting Parents in Business

Automatic 30 Day Cash-Flow Forecast With WinWeb OnlineOffice Accounting Software

We all know cash-flow is king, meaning having enough money in the bank to pay the bills you have to pay. Running out of money can be a nasty surprise for business owners.

Planning cash-flow is something not that many small business owners do on a regular basis, even so it is the best tool to see a cash-flow crisis coming a long time ahead. While WinWeb OnlineOffice has a complete cash-flow planning tool with automatic comparison of your actual cash-flow figures, we can do one better, with our automatic 30 day cash-flow forecasting tool inside our online small business accounting module, we can give you an accurate cash-flow forecast for the next 30 days..

Providing you keep your bookkeeping up-to-date we will give you

• worst case cash-flow
• average cash-flow
• best case cash-flow

for the next 30 days. These predictions are based on your due supplier invoices, payments due from your customers and historical data. Giving you the edge and helping you to focus on your cash-flow throughout the month and acting accordingly. This will enable you to meet your payment obligation on time, every-time.

The best part of this is, it all happens automatically, so – no extra work for you, but extra benefits for your small business.

Try free for 30 days @ WinWeb OnlineOffice – Online Accounting Software

Plan Your Business Start-Up With SWOT

October 21, 2009

During the planning phase of your new start-up business, you have to consider many different aspects of your business idea, yourself and your business environment.

We would like to introduce you to a simple and effective tool to start planning your business pre-start-up online – “SWOT”.

While WinWeb OnlineOffice is primarily designed to help you run your business, it is also the right tool for your pre-startup business planning. One of the tools included to help you plan is the SWOT analysis – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats – of your business start-up idea.

• Strengths & Weaknesses – these are internal considerations:
  • Strengths – you write down what you and your team, if you have one, are good at, your daily activities should be centered around these strengths
  • Weaknesses – these are the areas of work you may want to outsource as soon as you can, to a WinWeb virtual assistant for instance using our pay as you go business services
• Opportunities & Threats – these are external considerations:
  • Opportunities – represent the areas where you think it will be easy to generate business & revenue and you should play on those opportunities
  • Threats – will list your challenges in comparison to your competition and you may want to improve on these or adjust your business model accordingly

You may want to use this and other business planning tools inside WinWeb OnlineOffice to enhance your business chances. As usual we have plenty of help text and our online One2One tuition to help you to get started.

Try our business planning tools for free @ WinWeb OnlineOffice – Business Planning

Benefits of a Business Website Hosted By WinWeb

October 20, 2009

Even today over 70 % of SMEs don’t have a business website. At the same time over 60 % of all high street purchases are researched online. If you don’t have a website and a ‘potential’ local customer, looking for your service or product, will not be able to find you.

You don’t need the best and greatest website, but your business should be on the web, so you can be found. WinWeb OnlineOffice has a very simple to use web-builder that works like your word-processor – you could have a website in under one hour. We have even included some sample text for you, and you can select one of hundreds of design combinations.

Lets talk about some of the benefits your business will experience by having a WinWeb business website:

• Your customers can find you online and contact you
• It is cheaper than having paper leaflets for your products and services
• Your information is available 24 hours everyday
• You can change the information on your website in minutes
• Global reach for your business
• It is very convenient for your customers to ‘online-shop’ vs. window shop
• Improve credibility of your small business
• Keep your customers engaged and updated
• Helps you to run an eco-friendly business
• Allows you to market your business even when you have no leaflets with you, just ask them to go online

Whatever your business, products or services, your business should have a website, more than that, your business needs a website. If you are still worried about setting up your own website, our support staff will help you to do it in a free One2One tuition session.

Read more or try 30 days for free @ WinWeb OnlineOffice Website

Email Basics For Every Small Business

Email is the most powerful business branding tool in your online marketing arsenal, providing you get the basics right.

Everyday we receive them and send them, within the last 10 to 15 years it has become the primary communication tool for any business. Especially in a time when we in the UK are faced with another wave of industrial action by the Post Office. We send messages, files, pictures, product information and much more.

In many instances we have become so used to email, that we often underestimate the importance of email for online marketing and business branding. Getting the basics right will insure your business gets the maximum benefit from using this business tool, WinWeb OnlineOffice Mail will help you to do so:

• Host your own domain name
• Allow you to access your mail on the web world wide
• Allows for multiple email accounts in one place
• Works with Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail and many other email clients
• Automatically keeps back-ups of not deleted emails
• Allows you to receive your fax messages by email
• Allows you to receive your voicemail by email
• Allows you to receive new orders from your online shop by email
• Incorporate different signature files for better business branding
• Sorts all correspondence inside WinWeb OnlineOffice Contacts with a built in document management function automatically
• Send out email newsletters to your customers using Groups inside the address book

Sending emails is always an opportunity for a new ’sales & marketing conversation’ – you can’t afford to miss.

Find out more or trial for free @ WinWeb OnlineOffice Mail

Online Marketing Starts With A Domain Name.

October 19, 2009

More and more money is being spent on online advertising. But before you start with any online marketing activity you need to get the basics right – you need your own domain name.

Your own domain name will give you a unique name for your business on the internet. Everything you will do online will be associated with your domain name:

• Email – every-time you send an email, your domain name will be seen and remembered, don’t use third party domain names for your business like googlemail, yahoo, etc, you will be advertising other peoples brands.
• Website – this is the obvious one – we all know the google.com or apple.com websites. Having you own website without your own domain is almost an oximoron.
• Online Shop – selling online continues to become more popular, doing it with your own domain name helps build your brand.
• Business Card – have your own domain used on your business card when you give out your email and website. This will reinforce the brand awareness of your potential customers.
• References – if your business is being referenced on other web-sites or even in print, your brand will be seen by many readers and should only have your own name associated with it.

Whatever your online marketing activities, your own domain name will help you to get maximum exposure from any of these activities. That is why we include a FREE domain name with all our WinWeb OnlineOffice subscriptions, so we can help you to build your brand online.

Read more @ WinWeb OnlineOffice Web Services.

Business Process Outsourcing WinWeb Style A World First.

October 18, 2009

Focusing on what is important in your business is easier said than done. WinWeb OnlineOffice helps you to achieve the perfect balance of business process outsourcing for your small business needs.

When you start your business you have less need for this type of service. You can save money by doing most of the admin work yourself. Not only do you save money, but you gain valuable insight into your business processes, knowledge that will be important once your business starts growing.

Once that happens you will have to make the important decision when your time is too valuable to spend on mundane business tasks like bookkeeping, doing your website, and many other tasks. This is where our OnlineOffice will help you in two ways:

1. Working with outside service providers, like your accountant, bookkeeper or a virtual assistant, using OnlineOffice makes it easy to ’share’ your work around. Helping you to save time and concentrate on the important things in your business, while still maintaining the necessary level of control and flexibility.
2. WinWeb Pay-As-You-Go Business Services – many routine services are ‘built in’ to your OnlineOffice. You can use them whenever you need them, no contracts, cancel anytime, providing you with the most flexible business service offering from any software vendor in the world. These services include bookkeeping, web-site design, payroll service, and many other virtual assistant services.

Succeeding in business is as much about good products and services, as it is about focusing on what is important in your business, not losing control of the really important issues and not getting side-tracked by easily delegated tasks. Our OnlineOffice will help you to achieve both goals with maximum flexibility, great products/services and business focus.

Find out more @ WinWeb Business Services inside OnlineOffice