NetBooks moves enterprise suites downstream

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Of course, your job isn't to make NetBooks investors happy, your job is to run your business. If your work flow processes look like many small businesses, you're one lost Post-It note or garbled spreadsheet from disappointing customers and losing business.

Growing up and following best practices for business processes isn't easy, but it is necessary. Companies that don't “grow up” in their internal processes don't grow and often wither away and die. If you're happy at the size you are now and don't want to grow, that's fine. Many small businesses are happy where they are.

If you do want to grow, you need better processes than you have now. “We support lots of different modes of production for different businesses,” Evers says. “But we put into place best practices to fit the production modes. We say if you do it this way, it will be right.”

Complete business management software doesn't lend itself to a 15 day free trial like a drawing program, but NetBooks offers personal online demonstrations. It also has plenty of information online to help answer your questions and get you to sign up for that demo.

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