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By Susan L. Reid

Earlier this week it was reported that the U.S. economy is primed to slump into a three-quarter recession. What will you do? What action will you take to recession-proof your small business this year... or any year, for that matter?

What if there were a simple, effective solution to ensure your business productivity and growth, no matter what the economy does? Would you want to learn more? What if I told you there are ways to increase productivity no matter what the economic climate - not just by a little, but by 20 percent? Would you be interested?

Seven Sure-fire Ways to Boost Productivity

1. Be known for delivering great products and services. Now, more than ever, this oft repeated maxim is true. Your products and services are a reflection of you, are the frontline calling card for your business, and are the number one way to make your customers trip all over themselves referring others to you.
2. Stand out by offering an astonishing guarantee, one so amazing that others in your industry would balk at offering it. Delivering on your astonishing guarantee distinguishes you and gets your business noticed.
3. Add value, not price. Continuously adding value to your products and services makes you look rich and attractive to your customers and prospects. Adding price without value makes you look cheap.
4. Cultivate business with customers who have similar beliefs and interests. This eliminates having to work with jerks.
5. Connect to give; don't connect to get. Cultivate mutually beneficial win-win relationships with emphasis on the "give" part. Ask not what your customer can do for you, but what you can do for your customer. Then deliver.
6. Command time and space this year and create what you see for yourself, not what someone else sees for you. Meet your own sales goals, provide your own growth incentives, and keep abreast of the markets so you can remain on the cutting edge, rather than waiting for someone else to do these things for you.
7. Forget about last year. Whether you did well or not, forget about it. Create a new voice. In the words of T. S. Eliot, "Last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice."

What makes these seven steps so special? How will they recession-proof your business? These seven steps focus exclusively on strengthening your business from the inside, at its core. They are not dependent upon outside sources or resources to function or sustain them. They focus on actions you can easily and effectively take now. No long-term planning is required to implement them. They are things that everyone - from solopreneur to company of 20 - can do right now.

Do yourself a favor. Don't stand idly by with a wait-and-see mindset. Recession-proof your business to ensure increased productivity and growth this year. Take these seven steps now. Make 2008 your best year ever. You'll be glad you did!

Reproduced with permission from Tibits & Stuff

While Priority Express and Priority Archives is in the business of making the lives easier for their customers through innovation and technology, the concept of green is continually being recognized in and out of the office.

While on monthly basis, enough paper is wasted on invoices that are thrown out to replace all the trees in the city of Philadelphia. This is only representative of the invoices in North America, every single month!

In addition to invoices, the energy consumed to print, produce, discard, pay and document such a transaction is energy wasted in our universe. Hence, everyone at Priority is ready to make our contribution, one small step at a time.

Priority’s extensive technology allows you to receive you invoice electronically. Not only will you be doing your part for the environment, you will also be saving your company time and money. Your efforts will translate into making our firm closer to our goals of becoming competitive in our own industry on the front of being green.

Priority also allows you to use ACH to pay your invoices. Automated Clearing House (ACH) is the name of an electronic network for financial transactions. Similar to electronic deposits of your paychecks, typically using the ACH process, Priority’s system allows you pay your invoices electronically, making your business more efficient. Your invoices will be paid quicker, tracked much easier and create an entire electronic ‘paper trail’, reducing the time consumed at year end and tax time.

To learn more about Priority’s Electronic Invoicing or ACH Deposits, please call us at 1.800.526.4646 and let us know you want to sign up for electronic invoicing and ACH.