The WhIP Journal
July 2005 Power Your Practice – THE WhIP JOURNAL [What Helps In Practice]
This is an Opt-In No-Fee monthly ezine/newsletter from Debra Dowdell. You are receiving this because you have subscribed to it. As always you may easily unsubscribe or update your email address, using the link at the bottom.
Please forward – without cutting - to any colleague or associate you feel would be interested. Welcome to any new subscribers!
____________________________
In This Issue:
- LAZY, HAZY DAYS OF SUMMER – Who has time for it?
-THAT IS SUCH A GOOD THOUGHT…
_____________________________
LAZY, HAZY DAYS OF SUMMER – Who has time for it?
Ah, those lazy, hazy days of summer you always hear about. The pace is slower moving, there is a gentle breeze in the air, with distant sounds of children laughing. The clink of ice in tall glasses, or the feel of a sweating beer bottle in hand. Blue skies with a few puffy white clouds. Pool splashing sounds are not too far away.
Deep sighs. Peace. Relaxation.
OR how about the real scenario that many of us lives with?
A full workload, visiting relatives, too many BBQ invitations (to host and attend), the kids need extracurricular summer activities, you really want to get a few golf games in, and you’re picking up extra duties before your own vacation to accommodate other vacation schedules.
Deep sighs. Stress. Burnout..
Most of us want to find more TIME and not just in the summer months.
What we want to do with that time will vary greatly.
Some of us will want to find more time so we can enjoy, we can relax, and we can golf more or go to the cottage more. Generally we want a life and we want it abundantly. That’s not to say we don’t enjoy our work, many of us thoroughly enjoy our work, we just believe that the reward of our hard work and dedication should be the privilege of more balance in our lives.
For some of us, the need and drive for more time is so we can improve our productivity and chargeable hours. We need to get more done in the limiting 24 hours allotted each day. We have too much to do and not enough time to do it in. Working IN our practice takes time away from working ON our practice and we don’t have time.
Well I can’t give you more than 24 hours in the day (it’s beyond my powers of wishing and making it so) but I can discuss one area of your practice that is probably taking a lot more time than you know or realize and costing you more money. Your information technology!
The time that you and/or staff and/or outsourcing technicians spend on maintaining, updating, backing up and purchasing your systems is probably a lot higher than you know, even if you detail these costs. Some of the costs are easy to identify, others are not. Most people do look at many outgoing costs on their IT, but not the loss of revenue from time spent with viruses, spam, crashes, updates, backups, etc. Every hour (or part of) that you or your staff spend on these technology issues, you are not charging a client or building your practice. That’s a real cost!
Also, according to Symantec Canada’s recent survey on PC Etiquette and Security, Canadians rank viruses, low performance or system crashes, and spam as their top causes for unruly stress.
IMAGINE if you eliminated ALL of these stresses from your firm?
IMAGINE if you and everyone else didn’t have to worry about viruses, crashes, spam, maintenance, updates, hardware and server replacement, backups, etc., etc.
IMAGINE if you could operate from anywhere in the world with internet access or from home or the client’s office.
How efficient would your firm be?!
How productive?!
How much more could you gain in chargeable time?!
How much less in staff and/or outsourcing costs?!
How happy and productive would your staff be?!
How well would you be able to attract new professionals with such a state-of-the-art technology partner?!
How impressed would your clients be?!
And all with a return on your investment!
INFREON can offer you all of that.
INFREON can become your ‘partner’ in IT managed services.
They will be your IT department.
They will be your IT specialist.
They will be your dedicated IT support and security 24/7.
They have state-of-the-art equipment and security ready to have your name on it. They will maintain, update, secure, and manage your IT every day and you don’t have to ever again!!
PLEASE READ SOME CLIENT TESTIMONIALS:
Sue Martin, partner, Gaviller & Partners:
“Infreon has been an excellent business decision. Our ongoing costs, which were unpredictable, are replaced with a set fee that represents significant savings. We saw an increase in IT staff member billing by 25%. That staff member has since left the firm which would have been an IT nightmare before Infreon.”
Paul Grossi, of Cziraky Grossi:
“We used to update several machines a year and everyone was on a different operating system. There should be no issue with cost. It’s very good value.”
Rolland Edney, of Morley Sanderson & Millard:
“Partners did not know the amount of time spent on maintaining IT. When they found out they were shocked about how much was lost in potential billing revenue.”
It’s the lazy, hazy days of summer. What about relaxing, and enjoying the fact that someone can take care of all your technology 24/7/ or even better 24/365?
Please contact me for more information and a 15 minute web presentation about Infreon.
You CAN enjoy one area of your life with deep sighs, peace, and relaxation all year!
THAT IS SUCH A GOOD THOUGHT…
Thoughts worth reading, thinking, repeating and embracing.
“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.”
Mark Twain
I hope you’ve found value in this month’s copy of THE WhIP JOURNAL.
My best regards to you,
Debra Dowdell
For more information, or to share your firm’s story please contact:
This is an Opt-in No-Fee monthly ezine/newsletter from Debra Dowdell. You are receiving this because you have subscribed to it. You may unsubscribe or change your information at any time at Details@PowerYourPractice.com. Your information will never be given away, sold, or rented. Ever. Thank you.