Make 2013 a Breakout Year with These New Business Tools

I love this statement from an article entitled “Big Idea 2013: The Year Small Business Goes Big”: “Digital technology has been promising to boost small businesses for years… Now, though, we’re seeing a constellation of technologies coming together to level the playing field between the biggest and the smallest consumer-facing companies.” (emphasis added) This statement is great for two reasons: 1. It’s exciting to live in a time when technology is advancing and giving small businesses all the tools they need to compete on a large scale, and 2. Many of these high-tech tools that companies can use are found in a single place: The Fishbowl Marketplace! In addition to being the provider of the No. 1 inventory management software for QuickBooks users, Fishbowl is partnering with many third parties to provide a variety of business services for affordable prices, including:

• Server Hosting
• Merchant Services
• Custom Reports
• Shipping
• Data Migration
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Shopping Cart
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• File Management
• Point of Sale
• And many others

Visit the Fishbowl Marketplace to learn more about each of these products and services, and see how they can help you turn 2013 into a breakout year for your business. By the way, the article I mentioned at the start also has this pearl of wisdom that I would like to echo: “These innovations won’t make starting and running a small business foolproof – failure will still be an option, especially if your service and products are lacking – but they will remove some of the most pernicious barriers.” (emphasis added) Exactly. Business tools are great, but they don’t replace hard work and smart decisions. They just make work a bit easier and give you the information you need to make wise decisions.