OpenDrive Scenario – Small Business Startup
For years, Susan has been growing the most beautiful flowers. She shares them with her family and friends, and eventually ends up providing arrangements for a few weddings and funerals, sometimes for a small fee. She loves what she does, and eventually, she decides to open her own business to be able to live that dream. Although this provides an opportunity to do something she enjoys, and hopefully make enough money to live off of, it is a frightening step. Owning and running her own business isn’t going to be easy. At the end of the day, when the fun is over, it is time to do paperwork. It is time for her to sit down and organize her business affairs for the day, the week, the month and later the year.
Years ago, this would have involved recording, organizing and filing tons of documents, in paper form, into boxes and filing cabinets. Some people who aren’t too familiar with digital technology still prefer to do it that way, even though there is a far more convenient and less time consuming way. Since the inception of personal computers, the technology has gradually advanced to the point where most data that is processed today is done in a way that not a single sheet of paper has to be used. This not only saves a great deal of time, but it saves space and it is also environmentally friendly, saving countless trees per year.
Susan has decided to manage her business affairs digitally. She figures that if she records her sales data on a spreadsheet and scans her documents, she will be able to place a beautiful floral arrangement display behind the cash register where a big, ugly filing cabinet would have gone. But what will she do to make sure her important business data is safe in the event of a fire, theft, hardware failure or other catastrophe? Although storing data digitally has many advantages, one little thing can cause it all to be lost. As a result, she has realized that the answer is to back her data up in the cloud.
So Susan has chosen OpenDrive. With her business still being small and doing it all by herself in the beginning, she is the on;y one who will need to access her OpenDrive account. So she registers for the Business Unlimited plan for only $29.95 per month. With that $29.95, she gets to brand her OpenDrive account with her flower shop’s name and colors, which will look really nice when sharing documents with vendors and other business contacts and associates. She also gets unlimited storage across unlimited devices, so if she is home at night and suddenly remembers something, she can open a document on her iPad, update it with a note and then have it there the next morning when she needs it. The unlimited storage ensures that no matter how much her business grows, she will never run out of space to store and access her records.
OpenDrive’s Business Unlimited account has everything Susan needs to manage her business quickly, efficiently and conveniently. It is only going to be tougher to manage as her business grows and will it will take more time to do it, but with OpenDrive’s set of convenient tools, such as online document editing, collaboration, sharing and statistics, it will always be easy.
Whether you are a small business owner, a grandmother sharing pictures of her family or a corporation with thousands of employees, OpenDrive has a package to suit your needs.
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