Your New Year\u2019s resolution was to expand your small business in 2013. How is that resolution going? If you\u2019re struggling to improve your small business\u2019 revenues so far this year, it may be time to head for your IT department. That\u2019s right: Your IT department provides the technical expertise to make your business more efficient. That, in return, can raise your employees\u2019 productivity and grow your business\u2019 bottom line. Here are a few tech projects that Small Business Computing.com suggests for small business owners who want to see their businesses grow in 2013.<\/p>\n
OnsiteWi-Fi<\/strong><\/p>\n Maybe you permit your employees to use their own tablets or laptop computers on the job. This doesn\u2019t mean as much if your office doesn\u2019t have its own Wi-Fi network. Small Business Computing.com points out that Wi-Fi networks today serve a wide variety of devices, everything from tablets and smartphones to laptops, printers and cameras. If you want your employees to be as productive as possible, whether they are researching new business alternatives or sending proposals to potential customers, you should provide them with access to a reliable Wi-Fi network. This is a task, obviously, that is ideal for your business\u2019 IT department.<\/p>\n Invest in Ultrabooks<\/strong><\/p>\n Your employees can do more when they can tote laptops to meetings with customers. Traditional laptops, though, are too clunky. And small Netbooks are often too slow and limited. Ultrabooks, though, are a different story. These laptops are both small and light enough to be portable, and powerful enough to allow staff members to display multimedia demonstrations and reports to prospective customers. One way to see your business grow is to provide your employees more options for snagging new clients. Ultrabooks are one of these options.<\/p>\n Wipe out Windows XP<\/strong><\/p>\n A surprising number of companies still have computers running the Windows XP . This is unproductive. For one thing, Microsoft will no longer support this 10-year-old operating system as of April 8, 2014. Which means that Microsoft will no longer be sending monthly security updates for the software. At the same time, newer versions of the Windows operating system, especially Windows 7, are just more efficient. Give your employees a better chance of finishing their projects faster \u2014 upgrade from Windows XP.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your New Year\u2019s resolution was to expand your small business in 2013. How is that resolution going<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-technology"],"yoast_head":"\n