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Effective Cash Management For Firms Operating in the Construction Sector

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Job Sheet Software for Drainage Companies

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Top 5 Ways to Make Your Business More Efficient

If you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for ways to make your business more efficient. I speak with small and medium business owners on a daily basis, and I find it’s something even the best companies can improve on. Our 5 top tips for making your business more efficient was recently published on Fresh Business Thinking. The article generated a lot of interest as improving efficiency is…

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10 Tips to Make Your Work Day Easier

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  Doing what you love makes working easier.

However, even if you love your job, no day is the same and it’s not always easy to enjoy your work.

So, how can you work day in, day out with the same enthusiasm? How can you keep your customers and employees happy? And how can you have more time for other activities?

  Here are 10 Tips to Make Your Work Day Easier:

  Pri…

Viewing Jobs Done by Employee

With AutoAlert, you can easily generate reports to see what jobs have been done by customer, by employee, or what jobs have been done over time.

To view jobs done by an employee over a period, select Reports, Jobs and then Jobs for Employee.

    You can then select the time period and the relevant employee to view all their completed jobs.

        For further information

To find out about…

How to get paid quickly and on time

As the owner of a busy electrical contracting business, getting paid on time is nearly always the biggest bug bear. Late payments, or worse, missing payments can have serious consequences on cash flow, and has even been responsible for the demise of small businesses.

The problem

When we speak to electrical contractors, about the challenges of running a business, eliminating or reducing the…

View Your Jobs By Day, Week or Month

Following on from your feedback, you can now view your pending jobs in a simple day, week or monthly calendar.

    You can view the details for each job by clicking on the job. You can also add a new job from the calendar by clicking on the relevant day.

Each job is colour coded so you can see at a glance which of your employees, the job relates to.

  Selecting Your Calendar View

To view your…

George Osborne Demands Increased Productivity

  George Osborne has unveiled his budget today with one of his key initiatives being an increase in productivity for UK businesses.

Great Britain has a woeful record on productivity with statistics showing UK workers producing a lot less per hour than workers in many other industrialised economies. This doesn’t bode well as economic growth is heavily determined by productivity, even more so…

Have you got what it takes to take on more business? Receiving a job order is not just about being on site and getting the work done. There are more things to consider although a lot of it seems to be just common sense. Check out the below advice we’ve learnt along the way to manage our own business as well as what works well for electrical and plumbing clients.

 1) Store your Customer Key…

Facebook Beware, A New Kind of Network is Forming

  Where social networks have dominated in the last 10 years, market networks are expected to dominate for the next 10.

But what is a market network, why are they expected to be so popular and how could a market network affect your business.

  What is a market network

A market network is a cross between a marketplace epitomised by the likes of Uber and Etsy,  a social network such as Facebook,…

With AutoAlert Job Management, it’s easy to see what is happening with all your jobs.

You can quickly focus on the exception rather than having to worry about the status of all your jobs. Any job which is running late will be automatically flagged up.

But what if you’re the engineer who is actually doing the job, and you would like to set a quick reminder.

Setting reminders is also very…

AutoAlert #JobManagementSoftware Update, Find out more at

  We released a big update to our job management software over the weekend of 6th/7th June.

The aim was to improve the performance of our software and make your data more secure. We added a new server with much more power and also added encryption to the logged in part of the site.

To ensure the page is encrypted, look out for the padlock in your browser bar.

    Encryption was already…

Missed Appointments Costing Small Businesses Millions Per Year

  It’s a fact that simple administration tasks consume around a third of the overall working week for most small to medium-sized businesses including electricians, plumbers, facilities managers. Paperwork wastes time and can hinder the potential growth of a business.

Across the 1.1 million businesses that work on an appointment basis, there is an awful lot of time wasted due to managing bookings…

AutoAlert Job Management Newsletter

  We are proud to launch our first AutoAlert Job Management Newsletter ‘What’s new in the Q‘ which provides quarterly updates on any new features, exciting news in the company and any tips which we believe could add value to your business.

Our mission is to provide companies with Real-time Visibility over their Field Workers and Jobs. Allowing you to streamlining your operations whilst freeing…

Check out our Instant messaging demo to see how AutoAlert can help you improve communications with your engineers, sub-contactors and customers.

Check out our quick demo video which gives a brief introduction to our web and mobile based instant messaging application.

      Find out more about AutoAlert Instant Messaging or Sign…