Big Ideas for Small Businesses Industry experts offer tips on using your software and managing every aspect of your business from sales and marketing to human resources and payment processing. + Page 24
How to Help Your Employees with Pandemic-related Mental Exhaustion
Left unchecked, a state of chronic exhaustion leads to cynicism and detachment, feelings of ineffectiveness, and lack of accomplishment. Read the blog post for...
How to Reopen Your Business Safely During the Pandemic
Are you considering reopening to employees, the public, or both during the pandemic? Here are some of the most important steps you should take as part of your reopening plan.
In a Post-Pandemic World, ERP Becomes Even More Strategic
As the world adapts to the post-pandemic reality, businesses need to rethink their ERP strategies to stay ahead of the curve. Learn how.
Keeping a Clean Workplace
In this blog post, ECI summarizes the CDC’s guidelines into an easy-to-follow sequence of steps so that you can include them in communications to your employees and site...
Ten Tips for Battling the Blues
Ideas little pick-me-ups for battling the blues during difficult times.
6 Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Current Business Software
Many of the tools that startups and small businesses use to get their operation off the ground are perfect for their needs.
Maintain Business Continuity and Peace of Mind through Electronic Payments
Social distancing makes it less likely to shop goods and services in person, payment processing software plays a critical role in helping businesses maintain revenue and...
Building Culture and Community for a Remote Team
Some small, fun, ways to socialize and connect with teammates to help humanize each other, improve our communication, understanding, and ability to mesh as a team.
Tips for Better Virtual Presentations
Tips to consider before your next virtual presentation
Four Tips to Ensure Business Trust and Stability
Below are four tips for ensuring the trust and stability that remote employees need to alleviate even a little of the worry so they can focus on work.
Finding Calm in the Chaos
Dealing with working from home, the economy, social distancing, having your partner and or your kids with you ALL DAY LONG, it's enough to drive you crazy. With no end in...
Meet the Team: Mary Haskell, Senior Consultant, MarkSystems
Before joining ECI as a Senior Consultant for MarkSystems, I owned and operated an Information and Technology (IT) consulting company that focused on small businesses for...
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