I wrote this for the Tower Systems blog yesterday and share it here as it’s relevant to newsagents, regardless of the software they use.
The goal of the resolutions is to encourage using software more than it hard been used. The list is like a menu, choose the ideas (resolutions) that appeal, one, two, or as many as you like.
TWENTY-FIVE 2019 POS SOFTWARE RELATED SMALL BUSINESS RETAIL NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.
- Maintain better quality business data.
- Order based on actual sales data rather than gut feel.
- Spend more time away from the shop by managing remotely.
- Eliminate manual processes.
- Take action on employee theft.
- take action on customer theft.
- Reduce dead stock.
- Eliminate more paperwork.
- Engage in more data based business planning.
- Declutter my business data.
- Declutter the shop based on the business data.
- Delegate more.
- Set KPI goals, measure, track and engage.
- Learn more about the software.
- Learn something new from the software every week.
- Start believing the business performance data.
- Only sell products with a barcode.
- Establish new rules designed to protect data integrity.
- Deal more with suppliers that make doing business easier and less with suppliers that don’t.
- Leverage more control over the business.
- Manage staff performance more.
- Engage in more free training from Tower Systems.
- Ask Tower to tell me what they see about my business in my business data.
- Get more from the software.
- Treat data as an asset and not as a chore.