Hybrid meetings - meetings where some part of the event is broadcast to attendees tuning in remotely become more and more popular right now! There are few technical requirements for Skype conferences, video calls and so on which need to be done. First rule - try to communicate before the actual event, check up the sound, try to make a plan, what if smth fails. Second rule - less music and live video. People are using different devices to connect with you, so you cannot be sure everyone can get all the audial part of the presentation clearly. Third rule - speaker issues. We should remember speakers are not necessarily bringing the sound up to the listener just as you say it. There might be some glitches, the sound may delay, sometimes you need to check if the audience have heard everything clearly, or you need to repeat several things.

In this article a very interesting way of advertising is discussed from the side of a writer - Jeff Kagan. In times of tech revolution you don't need to wait for years to write, publish and sell your book, you don't even need to print it, everything can be done online! Book can be a great marketing tool for many businesses, as it adds prestige, respect and tells your story to millions of potential customers! Of course not everyone can tell a story which would attract people, but you can take a famous co-writer or pay for somebody unknown to write instead of you. What you need is to tell others some tips of your success and how you become who you are now. The websites are changing everyday, but your book is forever. This non-aggressive approach can be very useful and now it is much more real then few years ago.

Fiji is working on its tourist-attracting image. There are a lot of countries where tourism is the main financial sector of economy, so when the good tourist image is lost the economy of the whole country goes down. That's why Fiji now is trying to find a way out after the events of 1987 and 2000 which cost them their reputation and the country lost a lot of potential tourists. The main goal now is to provide security travel advisory to tourists and provide a safety service to them. By now this policy resulted in the rise of tourist arrivals. "According to figures released by the Bureau of Statistics tourist arrival figures rose from 631,868 in 2010 to 675,050 in 2011"

I do agree with you but in my opinion not all countries have enough finances for building the perfect service.

This article tells us about an alternative to PMS an ERP. The software for hospitality is upgrading and developing everyday, and the requirements for them became more differentiated, strict and variable. The Hospitality industry is spread all over the world so hotel properties are getting larger and need to be managed easily. The number of services offered in the industry is enormous as well so hotel owners need to have appropriate software for all those multiple tasks as maintenance, payroll, CRM, accounts payable, front office and so on. So ERP can be a good thing to invest in with its cloud based management solutions. What can it offer to us? - consistency and accuracy of information - simplified coordination between departments - easier goal settings - new infrastructure that can easier and faster solve problems - really cost effective

There are several ways for small business to track income and expences. At first checking with a business accountant is an important step of choosing right accounting software. Checking business forums also can be a good idea of finding best solutions for owners of small enterprises. If the business owner is into service business he needs accountung software which can track time and billing but if he is the owners skill level must also be considered. Some accounting applications in the internet offer trial runs, so trying them can be a good way of finding whats best for this particular business. Cloud applications can also be very helpful, avaliable and accessible anywhere, anytime and very mobile, because you can use them from phone, pc or a tablet. You don't need to buy servers to host the software hosted in icloud. For sure it has some disadvantages like privacy, security, and fees, if any problems in the system occur the owner will need to wait for vendor to resolve it. Choosing the best solution for accounting of small business enterprise owner will have to weigh all advantages and disadvantages in order to find what is the best solution for its business.

This article represents an idea of replacing plastic loyalty cards by electronic smart phone system which will save all your shopping information. The system will offer you an online map with places of your interaction, When shop you will open this map and see all places where there are some points or savings just for you, So since you have this system the business owners will show you their loyalty but a the same time economize on not producing those plastic cards. The Pay Cloud system will also save you from holding all those cards.
Other idea offered in this article is making a special code to each customer something equal to merchant account. It can be used instead of credit card, so you don't need to take it off your valet. But you will see all your expenditure online and you can get points or savings for attending new places. As well as a merchant account this article provide an idea of using tablets in the restaurant which can add some mobility, security as well as increase spontaneous food and beverage purchases.

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Yield management is the way of influencing consumer and getting more profit by manipulating the prices according to what season, month or weekday. The price of the room and the value of night is zero if this date passes. The owner must be very careful when changes the prices when its time to populate empty rooms, rates cannot be dropped dramatically. Customer can learn it and will always book at the very last day when the prices are the lowest but if your hotel focus on business travel weekdays make more revenue, if its more a leisure travel hotel holidays and weekends should bring more profit. The prices can be higher in peak season and holidays. The software for yield management might be afforded in order to get best results in price management, bookkeeping, human resources, customer service and what not. If you don't have enough resources you should subscribe this software and not risk with creating your own software for same purposes.

When the Valentine's day is so close e-business gives us a new way out if you have forgotten to buy a gift and yet have no time to do it. The main feature - speed. E-commerce start up is going back to basics with the oppotunity to order flowers online. This website is an international venture working 24/7, partnering with thousands of local suppliers all over the world. Flowers as a product of daily need when widely distributed with no time boundaries can be a good deal for you and a segment of market which still has a lot to innovate. At the same time the website has an oppotunity to be dedicated not only to various plants but to gifts of all kinds which is fantastic because every day of a year is a holiday for somebody.

Hi Melissa, it was very interesting to get your comment and I actually would also be interested in knowing the differences between those to companies. Probably the best way to know is to order flowers by both of them, and compare the charges and service. Do you think that there still are some more useful ideas with this particular business (flowers) ? Have you ever ordered flowers online?

Actually while browsing the website I couldnt find any information about the guarantee... And the prices are unexpectably high which shows that this business has yet a lot to improve. I ve never ordered flowers online and your information, Melissa, was really helpful for me.

As you might know there are three learning styles - Visual, Auditory and Kinestetic. People use all three modalities to receive and learn new information and experiences. However, one of these styles is normally dominant and it defines the best way to remember new information. More then 90% of information we get by vision so visual effects are a great way to receive higher productivity in your business. Basicly, the consumer is searching for two things: an escape from routine and new experiences. So if you use more unusual, bright, vivid pictures, videos and/or 360 tours to show on your website and other visual effects which will imply on idea of new, unexpected experience the customer will be surprised and really attracted by your service. The results can be enormous. « -- Total unique visitors to the hotel website will increase an average of 13%. -- Rich content click-through (to booking engine) rates 4 to 5 times more than static images. -- Rich content generates post-impression activity (return visits) rates twice those for non-rich content and 46% more sales for those activities compared to non-rich content. -- The bounce rate (number of visitors abandoning site after viewing only one page - homepage orlanding page) improves by more than 5 percentage points.» And all of the above is not just statistics it's a power of psychology and online marketing.

While a few hundred years ago a life of an average person in a small town could consist of two or three events as a war in his country, governor's marriage and a crime in the neighborhood. In today's world the same as centuries ago every moment is full of things which happen somewhere but now we have a unique opportunity to know about them almost few seconds after they happen. Technology can make a huge difference in a small business when an employer finds a right time to use innovation, as Miki Nishihata and Joey Garza did. Their companies got an advantages of using card readers. Mobile systems are transforming the environment of sales and payment processing. A thing which simplifies the prosess of transaction is a benefit because a lot of consumers prefer FAST and EASY shopping when every minute may cost. Assuming all this information a Square company was created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and glass artisan Jim McKelvey. Nowadays almost everybody has a mobile phone and credit card and combining those two things with an innovative technologies of online sales is a fantastic invention!