You know you need a database when...
- you have people in multiple locations and are trying to get much of anything done that requires coordination of effort
- two different people end up doing the same task
- you've got an engineering spec in front of you, but you're not sure if it's the latest version
- you are behind in shipping orders, and you're not sure why
- you'd like to test some marketing promotions but don't have a way to track response
- you're trying to run your business on Microsoft Excel (and sticky notes)
- you're paying someone to file and fetch customer folders
- You have your customers' contact info in multiple places, and some of those places are out of date
- you want to take your business to the next level
- you don't know how many of your prospects become customers
- you don't know how many of your customers become repeat purchasers
- you are trying to keep up with your accounts receivable in Microsoft Excel
- you are trying to keep up with marketing promotion results in Microsoft Excel
- you are trying to keep up with sales team performance in Microsoft Excel
- you are trying to keep up with production needs (customer fulfillment needs) in Microsoft Excel
- you are trying to manage inventory in Microsoft Excel
- you have team members in multiple locations who need simulataneous, real-time access to the same info
- you have over 30,000 customer file folders (or are headed that way!)
- you want to easily be able to send your custmoers an email newsletter or promotion
- you want to easily be able to send your customers a print letter or promotion
- you want to know how that promotion performs
- you are doing time clock / time sheets with paper and pencil or Microsoft Excel
- you want to track how long various projects take to finish
- you'd benefit from allowing your customers to access some parts of your company
- you'd benefit from allowing your vendors to access some parts of your company
- you don't know which customers are your best customers and which ones you should fire
- most of the knowledge about your company's practices are in the heads of you and your employees
- most of the knowledge about your company's customers are in the heads of you and your employees
- most of the knowledge about your company's current customer fulfillment needs are in the heads of you and your employees
- you keep track of employee time off and vacation requests on a paper calendar
- you have more than zero employees including yourself (who DOESN'T need a database?!?)
- you'd like to automate manual, tedious processes
- you need to let everyone know about a peculiar facet of a particular customer, including employees who haven't even been hired yet
- you need to store computer files associated with particular customers, and have everyone on your team be able to access them
- you need to store computer files associated with your marketing, and have everyone on your marketing team be able to access them (digital asset management)
- you want to be able to quickly see how your business is doing while you are vacationing in Hawaii
- you have an employee who would really benefit from being able to work from home every once in a while
- You're becomming convinced that your business should not depend upon what's inside of any individual's mind/memory, especially your own
- you have a production/operations process but sometimes orders fall through the cracks
- you have a production/operations process but sometimes steps get skipped causing problems later on
- you want to be able to link UPS or Fedex tracking numbers to your orders and send those to your customers
- you'd like real-time reports at your fingertips about which products are selling best at your fingertips
- you'd like real-time reports at your fingertips about which marketing promotions are selling best
- you'd like to segment your customer list based on a number of criteria, and see stats for each segment
- you'd like your computer to tell you what needs to be ordered from your suppliers
- you'd like all your information in one easy-to-access place
- you'd like a company calendar that everyone can access but only a few can add/edit
- you want to move to an "open books" business
- your company's contacts are in your MS Outlook
- you want everything in one system
- you find yourself logging into 6 different system to get your work done, none of which talks to another
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