HireEzy Updates
Apple’s Air Print
1Has it Printed Yet? Will be a Thing of the Past with HireEzy and Apple’s AirPrint
HireEzy – Hire & Rental Management software for MAC and Windows will be enriched with the launch of Apple’s software upgrade iOS 4.2 which includes ‘AirPrint’. After just a few touches of the screen you could potentially be printing a hard copy of an invoice, terms and conditions or brochure directly from the HireEzy software. What makes this new iPad application most impressive is that it doesn’t require any downloads, cables or drivers to install.
To set the scene, your constant “I’ll email that through when I get back to the office” has now become obsolete as your iPad, set up with the HireEzy software, allows you to print the necessary document directly to your customer’s compatible HP printer. So the next time you are in your customer’s office or even at the event, you have the ability to send all your important documents straight to the nearest printer.
Eliminate time wastage, customer confusion and loose paperwork and develop the most time effective and productive procedures available. Furthermore, Apple claims both the iPad and HP printer is so smart you can even print walking from one room to another on the other side of the house and by the time you finish reading this sentence, one page could potentially have already popped out of the printer.
Not only does AirPrint work with HireEzy, it works with other applications also, including Safari, Mail, Photos, iWork as well as other recognisable applications. So don’t stress when you have forgotten the paperwork for the client, or you are full up with tasks on a Friday afternoon, just hit print, it is fired off and you can continue working on your other tasks whilst AirPrint works in the background of your iPad.
AirPrint is available for download to your iPad now through iTunes . For more information and a list of compatible printers check out http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/airprint.html.
HireEzy plans to release the iPad & iPhone version of its Hire and Rental Management software in the early months of 2011. Click here for more info.
HireEzy is an innovative hire and rental market software program with the ability to revolutionise your entire day! It’s packed full with numerous tools for everything from creating quotes and invoices, management of the products and services, deliveries and collections, a full accounting package and a marketing campaign creator plus more. On top of all that all aspects are totally integrated and completely internet friendly.
Disconnect from the stress of having loads of programs open and consider integrating with HireEzy!
Click here for more information www.hireezy.com
Hire Software & Rental Software for Mac and Windows
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HireEzy is believed to be the World’s only true full function business management software system for Rental and Hire Companies using MAC computers providing the full functional business requirements needed to provide all rental and hire management needs
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HireEzy is a full business management hire software and rental software for Mac and Windows operating systems.
Our Software provides Apple Macintosh business users as well as Windows operating system business users with not just a fully functional standard hire and rental management software program.
It offers far more with inbuilt POS and accounting, and the tools to BUILD YOUR BUSINESS, including
* A Web-online Store;
* Web Content Management
* Digital Marketing Tools
* Social Media Integration Tools
* Inbuilt Mass SMS and Email.
Expect more from your hire software and rental software business management systems regardless of whether you use Apple Mac or Windows.
Replace your hire and rental management package, web site building, web content management, accounting, marketing systems and more with just one Fully Integrated Easy to Use business management software for your rental or hire business.
For more details contact us.
We believe that Hire Software should not just help manage your business it should help grow it AND HireEzy does
Managing Different Trading Brands
Many Rental and Hire companies offer more than just one product or service.
In many cases they can offer a range of services each of which may be seperately marketed.
A company may in addition to its basic equipment rental or hire offer services such as planning, consultancy, event staff etc. Some even go further and provide complete solutions, a mix of products and services.
Often these can be traded and marketed under one brand, but this is not always the case. For various market reasons companies may elect to trade these services under different brands. For example:
Product Rental or Hire – traded as MLE Equipment Rental or Hire;
Services – eg event planning services traded as Ronji Event Services; or
Solutions – major event management solutions – traded as MEMS
Managing Separate Business Units
Each business unit if marketed separately will need:
• Trading names;
• Logo’s;
• Web addresses;
• Booking Management;
• Products or Services offer; and
• Bank Accounts.
HireEzy – Allows Up to Five Business Units
HireEzy enables you to manage up to five differently marketed services. Each marketed business unit is able to send documentation etc out under its own distinctive brand, with the name, logo etc all included.
Bookings can be made and managed for each marketed business unit.
Inventory whether a product or service can be restricted to one business unit or shared centrally some or all business units.
About Us
HireEzy is the complete business management solution for hire and rental companies. Not only does it include digital marketing, web integration it also includes social media marketing tool integration. For more information email us sales@makinglifeezy.com.au
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Hire and Rental Software with integrated web content management
Hire and Rental companies are increasingly finding that the web is a primary source of new sales inquiries.
In fact over 55% of new hire and rental leads now come from the web
Major Business Issue
The business issue though is ensuring that the virtual (web presence) and the physical (actual shop or store) are aligned! Such that whether a customer “walks in” or “clicks in” that get the same up to date accurate information.
This may sound simple but as most rental and hire companies know it is not!
Why!
Because the data for each item (description, category, images etc) is maintained both in the rental or hire business management system and separately in the web database.
Cost
This imposes a real cost on Rental and Hire companies.
As each time they update their inventory, either adding a new item, or new images, or even new descriptions – they have to pay a web developer to make the changes.
One client stated that this cost was running in to thousands of dollars per annum
A cost imposition just to simply update basic information!
Eliminate the Cost and Take Control
Eliminate this cost, make the change once and have it update the web automatically with one click!
You can with HireEzy 2.1!
Go Beyond!
Why not also update your specials, your promotions etc – in fact why not take control of your web content yourself.
Hire and Rental companies can now manage their web content, including hire items, images, pricing and promotions through the one single application. Even update your own terms and conditions with one click.
On-line Requests Let customers browse, select and place an order request on line – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year!!!!!
You can with HireEzy 2.1 and our web option.
We make the web an integral part of your business as it should be in this day and age.
Read more about the benefits of the integrated SMS and how it can reduce booking cancellations or no shows by 25%. Link to article
HireEzy 2.1 also includes an inbuilt range of web 2.0 productivity tools, Social Media integration and digital marketing tools (such as mass email, SMS, high graphic catalogues etc). All easy to use by YOU!
No wonder HireEzy is the world’s most innovative Hire Software and Rental Software .
About Us
HireEzy is the complete business management solution for hire and rental companies. Not only does it include digital marketing, web integration it also includes social media marketing tool integration. For more information email us sales@makinglifeezy.com.au
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Hire and Rental Real Time Availability Checking
Rental and hire companies often have multiple stock items.
However knowing whether you have enough items in stock to satisfy a customer order can often be an issue. This issue is compounded by the need to ensure that the stock is available for whole period of the order. And if not, which other customer orders will be effected?
HireEzy with its Availabilities System and inbuilt over booking facility directly linked to cross hire management, any short falls in stock can be efficiently and effectively managed!
About Us
HireEzy is the complete business management solution for hire and rental companies. Not only does it include digital marketing, web integration it also includes social media marketing tool integration. For more information email us sales@makinglifeezy.com.au
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Hire Software and Rental Management Software Just Gets Better
HireEzy is taking the world by storm, finally a hire software and rental software solution that meets the needs of smallest to the largest companies.
Not just in managing bookings, but in marketing, sales it even has on inbuilt online store!
HireEzy made by Making Life Ezy is World’s most innovative leader!
As one client in recently put it, “we have been looking for twelve months to replace our old system, your software is years ahead of anything else on the market”
So why is HireEzy so far ahead of the rest!
Companies now have three domains that the need to manage the:
- Physical site – managing rental and hire sales on site including point of sales;
Web site – managing rental and hire on line leads and bookings; and
Mobile
sites- albeit sales staff operating off site or people working from home or remote offices.
HireEzy provides one fully integrated solution to enable this to happen!
This is the reason why we are growing so fast globally. Businesses want a fully flexible solution that meets there real business needs. HireEzy does that! It is not just about the flexibility but the true cost saving, by eliminating mulitple systems and replacing it with one.
Many customers cite savings in excess of 30% of related operating costs. Plus because of the inbuilt digital marketing and sales tools, many claim to have substantially increased sales.
So even if you are on older platforms, dont worry we regularly migrate customers off older systems to ours so that their historical records are transferred across in to your new HireEzy system.
Here is a short overview of some of the functionality included in HireEzy.
Marketing- Customer relationship management
- Customer transaction history, including damages
- Customer contact records
- SMS marketing and reminders
- High Graphic brochure production
- Integrated web content management option
- Integrated online catalogue option
- Product Marketing brochure production
- Product Combination brochure production
- Inbuilt email for brochures
- Lead Source identification and analysis
- Management Marketing Reports
Sales and Bookings- Equipment Sales
- Equipment Hire
- Equipment Availability
- Calendar view of equipment bookings
- Sales lead management
- Process credit card payments
- POS integrates to most hardware
- Professional high quality quotes
- Licence Scanning to customer record
- Quote to Invoice conversion
- Deposits and Bond management
- Damages and waivers processing
- Long term hire and Cross hire
- Hire Item Packages suggests and manages sub component hire items
- Existing Customer discounts
- Management Sales Reports
Inventory- Bookings generate warehouse pick slips
- Stock purchasing
- Service and Maintenance scheduling
- Service and Maintenance history
- Inventory levels by product
- Bill of Materials for combination hire items
- Management Stock Reports
Delivery and Collections- Bookings generate delivery requests where delivery requested
- Delivery schedule planning
- Complete integration with Google Maps for delivery planning
- Integrated collections planning with delivery
- On-site servicing or inspections requirements can be integrated in to route planning
- Deposits and Bond management
- Damages and waivers processing
Finance and Accounting- Bookings create accounting transaction records
- Payroll option
- General Ledger
- Profit and Loss Statements
- Long term hire monthly/ period payment processing
- Links to Ezidebit for 3rd party collection of period payments
- Financial Management Reports
Technical- Operating systems Windows XP, Vista and Mac
- Minimum requirements Pentium III 500Mhz
- Network up to 250 users
About Us
HireEzy is the complete business management solution for hire and rental companies. Not only does it include digital marketing, web integration it also includes social media marketing tool integration. For more information email us sales@makinglifeezy.com.au
HireEzy is the innovation leader for the global rental and hire industry!
Finally – a business solution for Franchise based Rental and Hire Companies
Over the last 6 months we have been investing heavily in developing a complete business solution for Franchises businesses in the rental and hire sector.
Working with a number of high growth franchises, we developed a complete business solution that addressed the competing needs of:
1. Providing a Corporate Level solution that provided the functionality they needed to run the franchise
2. Improving automated data collection for more accurate and timely management reports
3. Yet still providing a business solution to franchisees that was affordable and fully met their operational needs.
The other key business factors solved were how to:
1. Provide franchise systems training and support effectively, and
2. Minimize business risk, by ensuring key franchise operations documents were maintained and distributed such that only the latest most accurate document was being used.
3. Provide a franchise corporate web marketing standard, yet still enabling franchisees to have their own maintainable web presence.
One recent client with a rapidly growing 40 store operation, said that the lack of a complete solution was constraining their business growth.
We had spend substantive sums trying to contract developers to build and modify existing rental solutions, but with out any success.
We could not believe just how comprehensive the HireEzy franchise solution is, the benefits it delivers were way beyond what we were even planning.
About Us
HireEzy is the complete business management solution for hire and rental companies. Not only does it include digital marketing, web integration it also includes social media marketing tool integration. For more information email us sales@makinglifeezy.com.au
Rental and Hire Software for Macintosh Users incl. iPhone & iPad integration.
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HireEzy is believed to be the World’s only true full function business management software system for Rental and Hire Companies using MAC computers providing the full functional business requirements needed to provide all rental and hire management needs |
HireEzy includes the following features:
- Marketing ( includes option to integrated your catalogue directly with your web site)
- Sales
- Bookings
- Inventory
- Delivery and Collections
- Accounts
It even includes the most powerful range of inbuilt marketing tools, SMS, POS, Google Maps the list goes on.
To make it even more attractive to the dedicated Apple Mac Business community, HireEzy will sit accross mixed networks of Macs and the Windows.
HireEzy is ideal for a wide range of rental and hire companies in Canada, USA, UK, Australia and NZ for the following sub segements:
- Party Rental and Hire
- Event Rental and Hire
- Audio Visual (AV) Rental and Hire
- Tool Rental and Hire
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Next Generation Hire Software & Rental Software for Construction Rental & Fencing Rental Hire Companies
2The next generation of natural business flow software for Temporary Fencing and Construction Rental and Hire businesses has been released. It now also enables you to control your own website content and catalogue.
Construction hire and rental companies, particularly temporary fencing have some unique hire and rental requirements specific to their business sector. Previously many such companies have had to rely on multiple systems to manage their businesses.
Not so any more!
HireEzy v2.1 has been released with all the specific needs of Construction hire and Rental companies, particularly temporary fencing. Such companies need specific functional in addition to normal hire and rental functional requirements.
HireEzy 2.1 includes all standard hire and rental functionality PLUS
1. Estimation tools to support quotes
2. Management of services to support rental or hire solutions
3. The need for staff and contractor management
4. Issuing and tracking of safety data to meet safety requirements
5. Flexible payments and recurrent billing options.
HireEzy is a complete business solution for temporary roofing, scaffolding and fencing hire/ rental companies.
Natural Business Flow
HireEzy is a natural business flow software, part of the next generation of software solutions that are easy to use but also fully integrate with the internet. Natural business flow software follows the natural way businesses operate.
The natural flow in general terms construction rental and hire companies, specifically scaffolding, fencing and roofing rental and hire follows these broad business processes.
1. Market to create leads
2. Quotes supported by simple estimation tools and booking availability.
3. Convert quotes to invoices and confirmed bookings.
4. Manage and allocate materials and labor resources – (either internal or contractor).
5. Delivery, Assemble, Inspect, Dis-Assemble and Collect.
6. Account for the money.
7. Manage existing clients to generate new business.
HireEzy assists you to manage each of these processes with not only the tools you need, but some you may not even have thought of. Each of the processes will now be briefly discussed.
Marketing
The primary purpose of marketing is to create sales leads. HireEzy provides a full range of in-built marketing tools to enable you to produce your own high quality brochures, catalogue, e-mailers and newsletters. Most importantly it enables you to control your own marketing from one location.
Marketing – Integrated Web Option
The internet is now increasing the primary source of lead generation for most businesses. However for it to work for you it must have a high search engine ranking. That is if “scaffolding hire Melbourne” is typed by a prospect, your company web site must appear at a minimum on the first page of listings. It is worth noting, research has shown that prospects will click on a search result (organic result) over a paid ad appearing on the same page.
HireEzy’s web integration option can significantly help here. By integrating your hire or rental catalogue to the web site, any changes you make in the catalogue are published to the web site. Such changes ensure more frequent web site changes. This in turn means a higher search engine ranking, increasing the chances you will appear on the first page.
HireEzy is the only known system in the world to offer this fully integrated functionality – a critical business tool.
Quoting
HireEzy has some simple inbuilt tools to support your quotation process, such as:
1. An inbuilt length estimator,
2. Contractor resource availability,
3. Inventory availability for a given date range, and
4. Discount rate for approved clients
Such tools simplify the quotation process, meaning all information is at your finger tips. Once a quote has been produced, a simple high quality quotation with graphic images can be produced, and emailed to the client or printed and handed to them.
Invoicing
Quotes are turned to invoices with one click. Or allow quotes to be adjusted to reflect any changes in the original quote. Industry payment terms and conditions are included, such as recurring billing for long term rental or hire, part de-hiring of long term rental or hire items, even allows for adjustment of payments for stand down days.
Manage and Allocate Resources
There are primarily two resources you need to manage, your inventory and your staff/ contractors. With HireEzy you can effectively manage both of these key assets.
The inbuilt inventory management tools enable you to manage your inventory purchasing, receipt, maintenance and dispatch to a job. Accurately providing you with real time information on your stock on hand. If you have depots, no problems, HireEzy can manage your inventory at each site.
Your staff and contractors are essential to your service delivery. HireEzy provides the tools to improve your management of your most valuable asset – people.
Like an item, the availability of staff and contractors is managed in HireEzy. Both can advise of leave periods, other jobs etc and these can be added to the system to provide accurate forecasts of availability. Got a new job and want to confirm a contractor availability then just click SMS, and an SMS is sent straight to the contractor with the job details and dates.
Delivery, Assemble, Inspect, Dis-Assemble and Collect
HireEzy comes with the inbuilt transport planning tools to enable you to schedule deliveries and collections, including assigning tasks to drivers and co-drivers such as:
• Assembly/ disassembly tasks,
• Payment collection,
• On-site period inspections, and
• Collections.
It even includes full integration with Google Street maps to provide directions. On site conditions, limitations including access times etc are also included.
Accounting
Most accounting packages rely on data being transferred from business operations. HireEzy accounting package is driven by your hire transactions, saving enormously on double handling of data and the associated risk of errors. For example, creating an invoice in HireEzy immediately creates an Account Receivable record. If you still have other accounting packages then we could provide data export to those systems. HireEzy accounting module has a full range of financial reports needed to run your business. HireEzy accounting module is included with your purchase.
Manage Your Clients
The old adage is that it is 15 times harder to win a new client than to retain an existing client. HireEzy’s inbuilt management tools, such as contact management, newsletter productions and customer discounts etc, ensure that you have the tools at hand to support your on-going client retention.
HireEzy is the ideal solution for temporary roofing, scaffolding and fencing hire/ rental companies who want to grow their business whether in the USA, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom or New Zealand.
If you are interested in more information or an online demonstration then please contact us or book a demo on line at www.makinglifeezy.com.au
About Us
Making Life Ezy developers of HireEzy and AgencyEzy.
HireEzy is the complete business management solution for hire and rental companies. Not only does it include digital marketing, web integration it also includes social media marketing tool integration.
How to Use Social Media Tools
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Marketing Problem
Hire Rental Advertising Considerations
Why Traditional Marketing Fails
Yellow Pages Versus SEO
Creating a Digital Marketing Platform
Creating a Digital Marketing Foundation
Hire Rental Web Lead Statistics
Marketing via Twitter
How Rental Hire Company can use Twitter
Business Reason to Use Twitter
Marketing via Facebook
Using Facebook for Business
They worried about Social Media in the 1930′s
Marketing via YouTube
How Rental and Hire Companies can use YouTube
Big List on How to Use Social Media
Marketing via WordPress
Why Blogs are Effective for Small Business
Why Small Businesses Should blog
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Complete Hire and Rental Software solution for Party Rental, Party Hire, Event Rental and Event Hire Companies!
1The latest version of HireEzy for Party Rental and Party Hire Companies has been released.
Reduce Operating Costs by 30% – we have clients who have reduced operating costs and in some
cases doubled revenue by using HireEzy.Option for a Fully Integrated Web Site – in which you can update and control the web content from
HireEzy with two simple clicks.Protect your Cash by renting HireEzy – a small installation fee is charged to install HireEzy on your
premises.
The SMALLEST to LARGEST companies use HireEzy because of its affordability and scalability.
WHY CAN WE DELIVER SUCH PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS!
Natural Business Flow that cuts costs: HireEzy is a complete hire business management solution, designed to follow the natural flow of your business.
The natural flow starts with creating and managing market leads and ends with banking the cash. This is an extremely important difference and one that makes us the emerging market leader. Why have separate un-related systems and processes for marketing, for your web site and for brochure production, for hire operations, for servicing, for delivery and for accounting, when HireEzy provides one complete solution. Even the simple things save time and dollars like one click conversion of quotes to invoices that also updates the accounts with a new Account Receivable transaction.
Marketing- Lead Generation
Differentiate yourself as a leading professional company with the most incredible in-built Entertainment
Agents and/ Entertainment Manager marketing tools. Full range of in-built easy to use digital marketing tools.
- Control your web content yourself, updating news, events etc (option)
- Inbuilt SMS functions
- Promotion Cataloguing system for products
- Produce High Quality Marketing Documents
- Produce your own full color Product Catalogues and full color marketing PDF’s
- Produce your own Fliers and E-mailers
Full Agent Marketing Relationship Management System
A specially adapted customer relationship management system for the Hire and Rental
Companies.
- Contact Details, Contact history,
- Standing Pricing Agreements/ Discounts/ Financial and Contract history
Event or Project Planning
Plan and manage events for your clients with the inbuilt event and project planning tools.
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- Project manage events professionally.
- Reduce project risk.
- Full visual graphic reporting.
- Even includes sub-contractor management.
Bookings/ Inquiries and Availability
Manage Bookings professionally with the World’s most powerful booking management system. Respond quickly and easily to sales inquiries with accurate and timely information:
- Email or print off quickly tailored high graphic quality product information and pricing specific to their inquiry.
- Check availabilities, reserve bookings by status and confirm bookings.
- Track Bookings with Daily, Monthly, Weekly views. Bookings are color coded depending on their status.
- One click conversion of quotes to invoices.
- Send reminder SMS to clients, a method shown to reduce no shows by as much as 25%.
Inventory and Logistics Management
Manage your inventory and logistics with a completely integrated business solution.
- Schedule and record stock maintenance.
- Improve inventory utilization.
- Produce pick lists for warehouse staff.
- Produce detailed delivery and collection schedules with route planning and directions through Google Maps; or tasking instructions such as set up, on-site inspections or disassembly.
Accounting and Contracts
A fully integrated accounting package that is driven by your bookings.
For example creating an invoice automatically generates an Account Receivable transaction, it also includes:
- General Ledger and Profit & Loss,
- Cash book accounting,
- Central Contracts store,
- Easily manage and calculate complex financial payments/ splits/ commissions
Collaboration and Workflow
Clients have stated that they have been able to cut as much as 30% of their operating time and costs by the use of through the in-built workflow tools. A major fallacy is that your whole system must be web based in order to collaborate with partners. Not only is this not true it is in fact a major business risk to you. As a number of recent clients have stated when the internet went down, we could not trade, we could not access our own information – we were completely at a loss.
MLE eliminates this business risk, but also provides you with the tools to collaborate effectively with your partners.
Other
- All you data is stored on your site, we do offer back up data services.
- Eliminate the business risk of not being able to trade or conduct business when the internet is down.
- Set staff access level s to data or functions by role or by person.
- Comprehensive range of management reports
Have a problem, then click live help and we can help you!
Works on Apple Macintosh or Windows based systems
Interested? Then book an obligation free on-line demonstration, go to www.makinglifeezy.com.au
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Staff and Contractor Management
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It is often argued that the most effective asset any business has - is its people.
This is particularly the case for hire and rental companies.
Staff Deliver your Brand Promise
The biggest differentiators in the hire and rental industry is often service.
Staff play a critical role in this service delivery. If you have a brand promise of for example “ going the extra mile”, it is staff (or even contractors) who actually deliver this promise through their actions and attitudes.
Yes policies, procedures, processes and systems all help deliver a brand promise, but ultimately it gets down to people to people interaction. That is the interaction between your staff and your clients.
Effective Staff Performance Management
Effective management in a small to medium enterprise though is often more difficult than in a large corporation.
The reason is that managers and/ or owners of the business just don’t have the time to be able to undertake detailed human resource management. Everyone managers and staff included are fully engaged in the days operational activities.
Despite not having the time and resources, small to medium business managers still need to ensure that they effectively manage staff.
However most HR systems to support this though are complex and require significant investment of time to use.
Time that is not available to small to medium business owners.
The Nature of Small to Medium Business Staff Management
Understanding the real nature of small to medium business daily HR management is the key.
Small business staff management is pre-dominantly task driven. Things need to be done and trusted that they get done.
- Staff tend to know what routine tasks need to be done, they just need to know the where, when and what.
- Adhoc tasks though need to be identified and allocated to staff, once allocated all the manager needs to know is that they are done or what stage they are up too.
Using Task Management
The benefits of using task management to compliment Staff Performance management can be divided in three areas:
Risk Management
In the unfortunate event that a staff member does not work out for a business, industrial relations laws in many countries require that you as the owner can prove it. The best measure of proof is to be able to demonstrate a failure or inadequacy to perform tasks. To do the allocated tasks to the person and their completion or performance need to be captured. The problem is most small businesses simply haven’t got the time to record and document such tasks. Hence if forced to go to court the small business owner can spend extra-ordinary amounts of time gathering the information.
Self Performance
On the upside many small business staff are incredibly committed, reliable and trustworthy. They don’t need to have intense supervision they know what tasks need to be done, they just need the information. For example if they are sales staff they know the sales process, they simply need to know what leads have come in, what stage a sale is up too and when it needs to be followed up.
Good staff management practise though would be to give them access to self monitoring their performance against sales targets. This approach of trust and providing the information and self performance monitoring both improves staff performance whilst reducing demands on management time.
Management Focus
If the first two aspects are provided, then a manager can gain time. Some of this time can then be focused on managing the business – even having time to spend on the business.
Our Solution
HireEzy our hire software and rental software integrates task management with the HR system. This enables:
Routine Tasks
Routine tasks are those tasks staff perform regularly. Ideally you want staff just to do these tasks when they are required. To do this staff need to know when they need to be done. For example warehouse staff need to know when items are expected to be collected or returned. If they know this they can plan accordingly. As a manager or owner all you want to know is that staff know about the routine task and have got it in hand. HireEzy provides this information to all staff from the ability to allocate sales leads to sales staff to enabling the logistics staff to know what deliveries/ installations/ dis-assemblies and collections are due on a given day and all requirements for each of them.
Adhoc Tasks
Secondly you want to be able to allocate adhoc tasks to staff and then monitor the progression of that task. In fact in some cases in small business daily demands may lead many managers forgeting that they allocated a task or staff may forget that they were given one. HireEzy enables adhoc tasks to be recorded, allocated and monitored – in fact it does this very well.
Focus On Performance Management
Enabling tasks both routine and adhoc to be more easily managed and monitored means that as a manager you can spend more time on monitoring performance. Having a simple overview of all tasks means that you can quickly identify tasks that are not being completed and take corrective action. record of issues
Self Performance Management
This applies particularly to sales staff. Sales staff in many companies have a sales quota to meet. They want to know as much as you do if they are meeting those quota targets. HireEzy also enables this, providing both sales staff and managers with a all their booking quotes and actual sales. This data is automatically captured from each quote raise or booking made eliminating double entry whilst providing greater visibility of performance.
Personnel Records
The most common administrative problem facing small to medium businesses is the management of personnel records. HireEzy enables all personnel records to be recorded and stored against each staff member file. This means that documents from letters of engagement, contracts, recognitions and records of performance counseling are stored in one place. Even payments to and payments from a staff member are recorded in many cases automatically, hence eliminating duplicate data entry.
About Us
HireEzy is developed by Making Life Ezy and is available in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and NZ
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Press Release: Economic Value of Hire and Rental Industry
The following link is to a highly popular press release that discusses the economic value the hire and rental industry, to national economies.
Recession proofing your business – the IT perspective
Information Technology costs are always a concern for small to medium hire and rental businesses.
Here is a very good article looking at how you can look to reduce your IT costs.
We are all well aware of the faltering economy and it is no secret that a lot of businesses are looking to rationalise their expenditure on staff or equipment. Reports from media sources, such as the Australian Financial Review, estimate that the full brunt of the ‘recession’ is not expected to hit until the second or third quarters of 2009 [AFRPg. 55 Jan 23-26, 2009].
But tell-tale signs in the market as early as mid 2008 indicated that IT managers in many SME’s were told to scale back or, at least, review telecommunications and IT expenditure with a fine-tooth comb.
This time consuming and frustrating exercise can often bare little fruit when so many small-to-mediums are still ‘cap ex-ing’ computer hardware and software. With the little money spent on already thinly spread IT resources, where does one look to improve the IT department’s bottom line?
What is the Next Generation of Business Software for Hire and Rental
In answering the question, it is worth reflecting back on the History.
First Generation Hire Software and Rental Management Software
The First Generation of Rental and Hire Software really began depending on who you believe in the 1980′s. Certainly there may have been earlier versions written for mainframes, but the packaged software started with the development of the affordable desktop. The packaged software market, first generation, emerged from the development of point solutions for specific early adopting customers.
These early versions focused on the basic process of managing bookings. Providing no more than a simple process of managing inventory, bookings and client records. However their effectiveness in bring business value should not be under-estimated.
Second Generation Hire Software and Rental Management Software
The Second Generation of Rental and Hire Software could be argued to have emerged with the growth of Windows, inparticular Win 95. This generation of rental and hire software built upon the popularity of Windows. Utilizing the look and feel of Windows, these systems began to emerge in the mid to late 90′s.
This second generation of hire software and rental software systems expanded the affordability and popularity amongst hire and rental companies.
These second generation systems grew to expand connection to useful business devices such as Point of Sales (POS), License Scanners, Bar Code Scanners and Cash Drawers etc. Second generation companies stress connectivity to these devices as their main selling point. Whereas as you will read Third Generation systems include such connectivity to devices as standard functionality.
However a major limitation of these older second generation systems was their reliance on interfacing to other critical business systems, in particular Accounting Packages and Customer Relationship Management Systems. Not having fully integrated Accounting and Marketing meant that hire and rental company managers were unable to truly and quickly analyse the true performance of their business.
The final death knell for the second generation hire and rental software systems was the maturity of the web. The web has grown from a novelty in the 1990′s and a ridiculous new financial business paradigm shift in the early 2000′s (dot.com boom) to a maturing business tool as we approach the end of the decade.
The web is now the primary source of leads for the best performing rental and hire companies.(most cite the web as providing over 50% of new business leads). In effect the web has created a second shop front, a virtual store that operates 24 by 7. This virtual store is as much a part of a hire and rental business as is the physical store.
Furthermore the web is also a primary source of incredibly useful business tools, such as Google Maps, On-line Bank reconciliation, Colloborative Event Planning, Contractor Management, Document Storage and Access, as well as communication tools like Email etc.
The old second generation hire and rental software systems were aimed at providing a solution for the physical store . Most such systems because of their under-pinning technical architecture and technology were in the main incapable of being stretched any further to enable the web to become an instrinsic part of a Hire and Rental business.
This led to the rise of the Third Generation Hire and Rental Systems.
Third Generation Hire Software and Rental Management Software
The third generation systems are Hire and Rental software products that instinsically include the web store and access to web business tools within the software package. This generation of software enables hire and rental businesses to trade in a physical store and a virtual store all with in the one package.
Furthermore they enable the use of high value business efficiency tools such as Google Maps, outlook email integration to with client records and on-line collaboration etc.
Finally they are an all inclusive business software system that includes critical business functionality such as Accounting, CRM and Digital Marketing. This inclusion ensures that hire and rental businesses can finally analyse in detail their businesses. Such things as profitability by customer or by product, forward cashflow forecasts based on actual bookings etc in near real time.
Third Generation systems reflect the business need of hire and rental companies. Affordable, easy to use and complete business functionality, the third generation systems are growing rapidly. One key driver of this growth is the Global Recession, as hire and rental companies seek solutions that both contribute to sales growth whilst reducing operating costs.
Second Generation systems are still available on the market and will be for some time. However these systems are increasingly being replaced by Third Generation systems. As this trend continues to gain pace, many hire and rental companies on older second generation systems could be left exposed, not only to business risk but the potential for declining market share.
HireEzy is the Global Leader in the Third Generation Hire and Rental Software Market. As one recent client who converted from a Second Generation system said
its like going from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age – it is incredible!!!!!
Want more information or an on-line demonstration, then contact us at sales@makinglifeezy.com.au
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Your Web Presence Should be a fully integrated part of your rental software or hire software
Download PDF Brochure: hireezy Online
Research shows that most rental and hire companies nowgenerate the majority of their new business from the web, estimated at over 50% of new leads.
But the problem is most companies maintain a seperate database or system for their on-line store and physical store.
This separation not only unnecessary costs, which can be substantive, but it also can inhibit your search engine page ranking. The lower your page ranking, the lower your sales inquiries – it is a direct correlation.
Furthermore with the growth of social media marketing, a by product of web integration is the ability to integrate social media marketing into your workflow.
HireEzy, the hire software and rental software solution for growing companies, has solved this problem!
HireEzy can provide you with a fully integrated on-line and in-store solution! And integration into Social Media Marketing!
This solution is incredible because it not only eliminates unnecessary costs, it can also improve your page ranking, leading to improved sales!
For more information download the attached brochure!
HireEzy the Global Innovation leaders in the hire and rental industry!!
Available in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK
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Why Use Twitter for Business
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Hire and Rental companies have been slow to adopt Twitter as a marketing tool.
This post points you in the direction of a couple of great articles as well as a free advisory service for Hire and Rental industry companies considering using Social Media marketing.
Hire and Rental companies would benefit substantially from using Social Media as a lead generation tool, starting with Twitter.
How to Use Twitter for Business
5 Reasons Why Twitter’s Growth Cannot Be Stopped
As a service to the Hire and Rental industry we provide a free advisory service to Hire and Rental companies considering using Social Media marketing.
To make use of the service email our Globally Recognized Social Media Expert – Cam Gleeson
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