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Small Business Technology By Bill Simms

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Small Business Technology
It was an ordinary Thursday evening in suburban Richmond, Virginia. 7PM. Bill Simms makes a right turn on to the expressway ramp in a bid to make it on time to meet his wife for his daughter’s ballet recital. He was happy that his new painting business was beginning to thrive. After being laid off, it came as a big relief that private home and small business clients were starting to find him. Though he always had a general affinity for painting, owning a painting company is not what he imagined doing for a living. Still, it was a blessing that was now manifesting as a provident financier of ballet slippers. Although Bill’s background was in corporate marketing, he experienced a major learning curve when it came to pitching and selling business services. He soon realized the impact of not having experience as a painter or small business owner. At the start, he received most of his assistance from friends, family, and his wife. Everyone would pitch in to keep up with the back office operations and work flow. As the company grew and became successful, his makeshift team became overwhelmed and thinned out into a two-man team. His wife, a local teacher, assisted as best as possible with paperwork while he was in the field servicing clients, but after only a short period of time, both were overwhelmed with generating proposals, quotes, revisions, and invoices. The paperwork portion of running the business became a full-time job in and of

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