How Google Drive Can Make Your Local Business More Efficient
Your local business is always seeking new ways to operate more efficiently, and Google Drive can offer some great resources to aid you and your employees in doing just that. In fact, there are three key ways Google Drive can benefit your local business and how you share information.
As I begin to further explain how you can increase efficiency in your local business with this tool, it's helpful to mention Google Drive recently replaced Google Documents.
Google Drive creates a specialized 'shared drive' often reserved for larger organizations with several Information Technology resources. Specifically, with Google Drive, your organization can:
Foster collaboration. Often in marketing efforts, especially in the creation of social media content, multiple employees need to collaborate on a document or series of documents. Google Drive can make this collaboration easier and more efficient in terms of time. Often having multiple individuals working on one document means emailing a document back and forth.
Further, multiple people can be in a document at the same time which can lead to true collaboration. Now, remote team members can easily be looking at the same document at the same time even as the document or content evolves. This step alone can save valuable business time and perhaps even a meeting or two.
Create a central repository of local business information. If your local business has ever lost an employee and then discovered not only did you not have that person's expertise available, but also lacked the content they had created while employed by your business, you know creating a central source to store information is important.
When employees can modify an existing document or use previously created document as a source of inspiration for a new one, they are able to generate more new content more quickly. Further, this central repository of information can maintain an important backup of your current website and other promotional accounts.
Make documents accessible from a remote location. It's beneficial to have a central repository of information that can be accessed from virtually any location. This repository can come in handy in many types of situations. One of the most common situations you or your employees may find yourselves accessing documents remotely is during an offsite client meeting.
It's not un-common during client meetings to find you or one of employees needs access to a document unexpectedly. Having the ability to access information in these types of last-minute situations can increase efficiency and maybe even sales.
However, perhaps even better, should a natural disaster befall your area or local business location, you won't lose all the documentation and materials you have worked so hard to create. Having this resource has a back-up could in this type of situation mean your local business is able to get "back in business" faster.
If you're seeking more information on how to integrate Google Drive into your business and how to use this resource, Google itself provides many helpful local business resources available on its site.