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The Great Office Supplies Caper

Small Business Online, Digital Marketing & Local Markets

by Ian M. Elliott | 11/12/15 10:00 AM

We're conditioned from a young age to believe bigger is better but really, is it?

Over time I've become more skeptical of the true benefits of scale in business. Of course, my skepticism has no impact on the inevitable so, rather than risk acquiring...

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Topics: Business Transformation, Inbound Marketing, Information Technology, E-commerce

The Evolution and Implementation of E-commerce

by Ian M. Elliott | 9/1/15 4:38 PM

INTRODUCTION

When widespread access to the internet became available back in the mid 1990's our ability to use it for improving business was limited. Bandwidth (speed) was poor and you had to be a software (programming) expert to build anything....

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Topics: Business Transformation, E-commerce

Creating & Preserving Enterprise Value for Office Supplies Dealerships

by Ian M. Elliott | 9/1/15 3:43 PM

INTRODUCTION

For a small office supplies business focused on day-to-day tasks and simple survival it’s quite easy to neglect longer-term objectives directed towards creating and preserving enterprise value. However, without a strategic plan...

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Topics: Business Transformation, Inbound Marketing, Social Media, E-commerce

E-commerce or "out"!

by Ian M. Elliott | 8/31/15 12:00 PM

INTRODUCTION

In a small business environment e-commerce is often thought of as no more than an online catalog and shopping cart with little to no effort made to transition an existing base of business onto an e-commerce platform. 

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Topics: Business Transformation, E-commerce

Infographic - Software for Digital Platform & E-commerce

by Ian M. Elliott | 8/28/15 3:02 PM

It used to be that an integrated information technology platform was restricted to the realm of big enterprises with budgets available to support multi-million dollar implementations of mainframe based enterprise systems such as SAP, Oracle, etc.

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Topics: Business Transformation, Information Technology, E-commerce

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