Sadly, unexpected disasters can strike your area and business in numerous ways. While there’s no way to completely prepare for every type of disaster, having contingency plans and needed tools readily available can help you navigate through tough times.

Part of a disaster plan should address how you’ll communicate with your customers, clients, and employees. It may not be feasible to individually call each member of your team or expect team members to have access to their normal work environment. Instead, you may need to set up a communication system that can be accessed by employees once they reach safety. Including a virtual phone system with automated attendant, call forwarding, and hunt group features into your disaster plan can minimize service disruptions. Read on…

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems such as Salesforce.com have become the defacto sales and support tool for large enterprise and government organizations worldwide. The idea is pretty simple: manage your business interactions in a central database so that your sales and support organization can leverage that knowledge for increased sales and more effective customer service.

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As the demand for toll-free numbers has grown, the combinations available with the 800 prefix have dwindled. To keep pace, several new prefixes were added to the mix. Now, numbers with 888, 877, 866, 855 are also toll-free.  Even with these, many of the desirable 7-digit combinations for vanity numbers using these prefixes are taken.

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Sometimes an app comes along that’s named so perfectly, so very on the nose that it’s hard to imagine anyone ever making the mistake that it could do anything but what the name implies. Find My Car Smarter is just such an app.

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Ask just about any small business owner what one of the toughest parts of tax time is, short of writing the check itself, and the issue of “tracking mileage” will likely come into play. But with MileBug Lite, the process is about to get quite a bit simpler.

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One thing that every business traveler needs, in no uncertain terms, is gasoline. While there are many places to get the substance at any given time, for those who prefer Exxon Mobil, it’s not always easy to find such a dispensary. With the Exxon Mobil Fuel Finder app, however, finding Exxon Mobil is about to get a lot easier.

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Increasingly mobile operations, as many businesses are discovering, require greater numbers of mobile solutions. That in turn requires quite a bit of proper mobile management, and ZP MDM is out to give businesses a better way to manage their mobile devices.

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Business travel is seldom easy, especially when it involves going to a completely new place for the first time. But it may be easier than some would expect with the added power of Point Inside to help newcomers get around most anywhere.

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Mobile technology of all stripes, from tablets to smartphones, is a vital part of business throughout the world. But one great failing of mobile technology is the ability to print documents created on same. Print Agent Lite is out to fix that particular discrepancy for good.

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Finding your way around is the kind of thing that any small business needs to succeed, but when there’s no Internet connection around, what’s to be done? Accra Genius Map is ready to help with an offline mapping system that mostly does the job.

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