Big Ideas for Small Businesses
Industry experts offer tips on using your software and managing every aspect of your business from sales and marketing to human resources and payment processing.
5 Website Design Mistakes SMBs Must Correct in 2021
Your website is more important than your brick and mortar (if you have one) to establish your brand identity and market credibility, generating a steady flow of leads and...
Think Your Spreadsheets Are Ready for the Digital Economy?
While fax machines, spreadsheets, memos, emails, and back-of-envelope projections were plenty good enough to get you this far, they’re simply not up to the task in 2021 and...
8 Signs You’re Using the Wrong ERP
How do you know if you’re using the wrong ERP for your business? In this blog, ECI will Identify 8 signs that you may be using the wrong ERP.
What’s Your Management Style and Is it Right for Your Employees?
Here, we present the four basic management styles, which can apply to leaders at all levels of the organization. You may find that you are a combination of styles, or that...
How to Throw a Virtual Holiday Party Your Employees Will Love
Ingenuity has led to a just-in-time reinvention of the holiday office party, and you’ll be surprised at just how engaging and enjoyable an event you can hold in the midst...
10 Steps to Building Optimized Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
10 examples of new types of thinking and approaches companies are taking to reconfiguring supply chains to comply with new regulatory requirements and meet the demands of...
3 Easy, Yet Powerful, Ways to Build Customer Loyalty
Growing customer loyalty is essential to building a profitable and sustainable business.
How to Minimize the Threat of COVID-19 Spread in Your Workplace
There are several ways to minimize the threat of COVID-19 spread in your workplace. Read the blog to learn tips and resources.
5 Best Practices for Building Your Business through Social Media
Using social media, people can form connections and build communities with people who have shared interests, need your expertise, products, and services, and can promote...
Digital Transformation Brings Changes in Marketing Skillset
SMBs need marketing executives with broad and up-to-date skills, as well as communication and leadership capabilities to unify marketing and sales.
After COVID-19: 10 Business Lessons for a Profoundly Different World
In this ECI blog we offer 10 tips to help businesses begin to reopen and to reimagine what their futures might look like in a post-COVID-19 world..
Software Product End of Life and Why It Is Good for Your Business
In the blog post, you'll learn about why software vendors EOL a product and why they are actually good for you and your business.
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