Archive for June, 2009

One, Two, Three Screens

Having mupltiple screen on your computer increase productivty. So much so there is a maths sum to sum it up.
number x screen = increases in production.
Put simply the more screen you have the more production you staff can acheive. For example on one screen you can have e-mails, another screen you can have [...]

Tea Money

Making staff pay for tea is a bit of joke in counties like England and India. Due to the reliance of tea from a young age in England and India staff that don’t have tea in the morning and break will work slower and produce poor quality work.

Recently big brother presenter Davina McCall was [...]

Search Engine Promotion

A good way to promote your business is by promoting in the search engines such as Dog Pile, Alta Vista, Ask and the popular Google.
To get to the top of the rankings all you need to do is add content related to the search you want to come up for. Then get people to [...]

Office Conditions

Office conditions are very important to staff happiness and production levels. A poor environment means poor levels of work both volumes and quality. For example, if your chairs are uncomfortable then staff will have to stand up and stretch their backs, less time at the computer.
Too hot and your staff will be going to the [...]

Ride to work Scheme

In the UK there is a scheme called the ride to work. It promotes the use of people cycling to work rather than getting the car or using public transport. It means that you pay for your bike over a period of time and have a VAT reduction making the bike cheaper.
It’s a great way [...]

Whiteboards create ideas

Getting ideas out of staff is hard, often your staff will have tons of ideas about new products changes to procedures which can earn more money but then don’t have an output. A great way to do this is to have whiteboards with pens ready at any time to place ideas on. It’s something that [...]

Reward Your Staff

Some people like their work some people don’t like their work. For the people that don’t like their work your need to keep them motivating but you don’t want to ignore the people who are comitted, they might burn your building down if you ignore then.

To start most staff are only at work to [...]

Footers in Outlook

Following on from my other post another great idea with Outlook is to add in a custom footer promoting your business. It’s something that many companies do but many companies don’t use footers to their potientail. First you need to have your name and sign off, having this will save time as you won’t need [...]

Create Custom Forms in Outlook rather than HTML templates

You may have several process’s in your business for sending forms from one department to another. It might be the case for a request for a holiday or an order for stationary. Often people set up html templates or html stationary that outlines the data needed.
In the example of a holiday order the details would [...]

Welcome to the new site

Taxing Business is a small website with tip about how you can make Business less taxing. This can really help you and your business grow and make sure you don’t get too stressed. If you would like to contribute leave your details below in the comment box. We’ll then get back to you and you [...]