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Boost Employee Collaboration With Document Management

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Communication and collaboration go hand-in-hand, document management makes it easier. Webster.com defines collaborate “to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor.” Let's explore the third of the 4 Cs of document management benefits – collaboration ( …

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5 Useless Excuses to Avoid Implementing Document Management

Trust me, I've heard them all - any excuse is a poor reason not to impliment Document Management for your SMB

Everyone has excuses for not doing something they know they should do better. An excuse is “a reason or explanation put forward to defend or justify a fault or offense.” I'm too tired to go to the gym today. If I don't eat this bag of chips, it's going to go bad and I don't want to wa …

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Scam Alert! 19 Ways to Avoid and Sink Toner Pirates

Shiver me timbers, toner pirates are at it again. This sounds like a funny office joke or a Saturday Night Live skit with the “Makin' Copies” guy. It's not. A bunch of our customers are reporting that these scammers have been calling them. Here's how the scam works, how to spot a tone …

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3 Things to Know BEFORE You Lease a Copier - BEWARE!

A lot of my time is spent dealing with end-of-lease questions. Existing customers sometimes choose to go a different direction and need to terminate a lease with us. We also acquire new customers and help them end their current contract. Based on my experience, I have changed the end …

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Quick Tips to Calculate ROI From Document Management

Check out these quick ways to calculate ROI on Document Management for your SMB.

How will my business benefit? If that's the first question many companies ask themselves when considering an IT implementation, the second is almost always “what's the return on investment?” Sometimes, that's hard to answer as there might not be direct financial benefits – better coll …

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5 Ways Costs Shrink With Document Management

It's no secret that a good Document Management program can help you cut costs.

What is the cost of out-of-control information to your business? There are real costs to your manufacturing business when you don't manage your documents. There are also opportunity costs as well – an inability to react quickly because your business moves at the speed of paper. Let's …

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Why Document Management Is Better Than Paper: 6 Videos Explain

Reading got you down? Check out these Document Management videos instead.

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a video has to be worth 10,000 right? I've written about document management – frequently – in the past few months. The right DM software can save you time, help to automate business processes, and save on storage costs – to name a few of the benefit …

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How to Get the Best IT Help Desk Support

Do you know how to get the best help desk support in any situation?

There are few things worse than reaching out to your IT help desk and then not getting the help you need and want. Expectations are important though – you won't always get immediate action on low-priority IT issues. Here at Coordinated, we do everything we can to ensure that our IT he …

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A Simple Glossary to Help You Understand Document Management

This Document Management Term Glossary may be just what your SMB needs.

This layperson's guide to document management will help you understand the often unfamiliar words and concepts you'll discover when you begin to consider DM for your business. The IT world has its own vocabulary that is confusing to many – even IT pros! While this post won't help you …

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