There’s almost no-one nowadays who doesn’t have a computer — it’s more-or-less a given that you’ve got a computer in your home office, and that you use it almost every day. But are you getting as much out of it as you could be? Here are some things your computer can do that you might not have thought of.
Keep Track of Customers in a Database.
Once you start to get some customers, you’ll need to keep track of their contact details, as well as making sure you know who they are in case you forget. You have a choice: you can keep a file for each customer in your filing cabinet, or you could enter their details into a computerised database.
The good news is that if you have some office software, then you should already have a database package. Starting a database of your customers isn’t too difficult to figure out, and lets you do all sorts of things — you can sort them by the area where they live, or list everyone who’s bought one of your products but not another, for example.
Graph Your Sales.
Once you’ve got your database telling you what you’ve sold to who and when, you can use...