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Plenty of businesses now realise that taking on board more environmentally friendlier practices positively effects their bottom line - because conserving resources by cutting down on waste saves money!

And it doesn't have to be difficult. Below are 5 simple things your business can do now to immediately to conserve energy and resources, and start saving money.

1. Before considering recycling, first look at how you can reduce your business' energy and resource consumption.

2. Turn off equipment when it is not being used. Start by turning off computers, printers, photocopiers, room lights, etc. overnight. When staff are away from their computer during the day, have them turn the screen off or put the computer into 'sleep' code, rather than use a screen saver.

3. Only print documents when absolutely necessary, print on both sides.

In New Zealand paper use per annum averages equivalent of 14.2 reams/person, and in Christchurch about 80,000 tonnes of waste paper and cardboard are generated every year.

4. Choose office supplies with a recycled content. Switch to 100 percent recycled paper.

5. Mine your office for paper than hasn't been used on both sides. Reuse it for internal printing or for memo/note paper.

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So many different things go in to making your company run and be successful. One thing that is very important in making your company successful is making sure that you are running your company efficiently. Running your company efficiently is a important tool but at the same time you want to make sure that you are not increasing your cost, but instead try to lower your costs. Here are some tips on how to increase efficiency while lowering cost.

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Computer Aided Selling

According to expert opinion the best way of increasing sales efficiency is to introduce computer aided selling. Computer aided selling opens up a myriad of opportunities: sales area optimisation, turnover planning, client analysis, sales department assessment system, order status analysis, electronic mailing system, competition analysis, tour planning, etc.

After introducing computer aided selling, sales department productivity increased by up to 40% and increased sales-active time by up to 50%. Determine which sections and/or tasks are to be targeted before you introduce computer aided selling.

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Email subjects: Always include a descriptive subject line. Important emails often get saved. People normally search through old emails by the description in the subject line. For example, "Important Update" would be too vague but "Attendance Numbers For Las Vegas Sales Conference" is an example of a perfectly descriptive subject line.

Voicemail messages: Always leave your name and phone number at the beginning and end of all voicemail messages, especially if you are cold calling. The easiest way to not get a call back is to leave your name and phone number at the end of a five minute voicemail. What if the recipient of your message gets distracted just as you are saying your phone number. Do you think he will sit through the entire five minute message again just to hear you phone number? NO!

Hire a personal assistant or concierge service: Personal assistants can do you menial tasks while you do your important day-to-day work. Personal assistants can do tasks such as booking meetings, making travel arrangements, event planning, car washes, laundry, taking messages, etc.

Use Google Alerts: Google Alerts can email you news on topics that interest you or are important to your business or industry. This way you get the right news right away. Best of all, Google Alerts is free.

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Improvements in efficiency are not that easy to obtain. For instance managers may find workers resistant to changes such as introducing new machinery or new working practices. This is because workers fear that changes will lead to redundancies. It can also take a long time for any new strategies to feed through into the form of increased efficiency. In addition, there can be a conflict between productivity and quality. Increasing productivity by its nature implies increasing the speed of production, and if managers are not careful this can mean that workers focus solely on quantity and not the quality of their work.