How ICT Can Benefit Small Businesses In Nigeria

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The Benefits of ICT To Small And Medium Businesses 

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services can provide numerous benefits to small and medium businesses and more to Big Organizations. These technologies encompass a wide range of tools and services, including hardware, software, and digital communication, all of which can help small businesses streamline operations, improve productivity, and enhance their overall competitiveness.

Here are several ways ICT services can benefit small and medium businesses:

  1. Efficient Communication:

ICT services enable small businesses to communicate effectively with customers, suppliers, and employees. Email, instant messaging, and video conferencing make it easier to connect with stakeholders regardless of their location. This can lead to quicker decision-making and problem-solving.

  1. Enhanced Productivity:

Automation tools, project management software, and cloud-based applications help small businesses streamline their processes. This leads to increased productivity as employees can perform tasks more efficiently and collaborate effectively on projects.

  1. Cost Savings:

ICT services can reduce operational costs. Cloud computing, for example, eliminates the need for on-site servers and reduces IT maintenance costs. Additionally, businesses can save on travel expenses by utilizing video conferencing for meetings. 

  1. Data Management:

Small businesses can efficiently collect, store, and analyze data using ICT services. This data can provide valuable insights into customer behavior, market trends, and business performance, helping companies make informed decisions. 

  1. Online Presence:

Establishing an online presence through websites and social media platforms is crucial for small businesses to reach a broader audience and attract new customers. ICT services can help create and maintain these digital channels effectively. 

  1. E-commerce:

Small businesses can expand their customer base by selling products or services online. E-commerce platforms and payment gateways facilitate online transactions, allowing businesses to reach a global market. 

  1. Customer Relationship Management (CRM):

CRM software helps small businesses manage and nurture customer relationships. It tracks customer interactions, manages sales leads, and provides insights for better customer engagement and retention.

  1. Security:

ICT services also play a critical role in protecting small businesses from cyber threats. Antivirus software, firewalls, and data encryption tools help safeguard sensitive information and maintain customer trust.

  1. Scalability:

Many ICT services can scale up or down to meet the evolving needs of small businesses. This scalability ensures that businesses can adapt to changes in demand and growth without significant disruptions.

  1. Market Research:

ICT services provide access to online research tools, competitor analysis software, and data analytics platforms. Small businesses can leverage these tools to gain insights into market trends and consumer preferences, helping them make strategic decisions. 

  1. Remote Work:

In the wake of global events like the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has become increasingly important. ICT services facilitate remote work setups, allowing employees to work from home or other locations while maintaining productivity. 

  1. Competitive Advantage:

Adopting the latest ICT services can give small businesses a competitive edge. Being tech-savvy and agile allows them to respond quickly to changing market conditions and customer demands.

Scimitar Global Services Limited (SGSL) as an ICT services company offer a wide range of solutions and services that are of huge benefit for small businesses like yours, from improving communication and productivity to reducing costs and enhancing competitiveness. Embracing these technologies can be a valuable investment for your business as we partner together looking to thrive and grow in today’s digital age for more market share.    You can sign up for our Customer Connect 360  our All-In-One ICT services designed for Small and Medium Scale Businesses.

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The entrepreneur and ICT

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Basic Tools And Services An Entrepreneur Needs for His/Her Business!

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As an Entrepreneur, it is expedient that you set your business on the path that guarantees productivity by leveraging technology that ensues trust, supports collaboration with continuous improvement; As you must have to stay connected with both your employees and clients whether you’re working remotely or onsite.

So are you:

  • a Start up business in Nigeria with no online presence and registered business name?
  • An existing Small & Medium and Enterprise Business (Professional services etc.) still using free email service and cracked office applications?
  • a Mid-market Business (Micro-finance Banks, Insurance, Pensions, retail, Securities, travels, fashion, big shops, etc.)?

You need a budget friendly bundled business  strategy and applications that includes some or all the following :

  1. A business name registration with CAC (sole proprietorship, Limited liability company) within 4 weeks
  2. Your Website ( domain registration and email hosting: www.yourcompany.com )
  3. Business class email : yourname@yourcompany.com
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  5. Collaboration and file sharing from anywhere, any device anytime
  6. One Terabyte of 99.9% money backed secure Cloud Storage for all your documents, pictures etc.
  7. Social Media Engagement
  8. Calendar Management
  9. Contact center For Small Business (Optional)
  10. Customer Relationship Management (optional)
  11. IT Management (Required but also optional)

 

We understand that small, medium and even mid-market businesses don’t always have the luxury of a massive budget focused solely on technology like  the  bigger Enterprises. They are  focused on the perceived more important technologies for their core business and processes and manually trying to run the business profitably and meeting all the numerous tidbits that require attention.

The truth is that manually managing businesses is actually more expensive and cumbersome because your business is lacking in some key areas somehow, if you don’t have any of the above listed tools. That is why we are encouraging you to sign up for our affordable modern business solution for small business.

These are smart business tools that are tailored to meet the demands of small and medium businesses, giving them the leverage to use same technology big enterprises are using with same results but at very low cost compared to the latter.

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Using modern business applications from Scimitar Global Services Limited (SGSL) tells potential customers that you’re serious about business. For example, you can impress your prospects by inviting them to a collaborative online meeting where you can review your latest proposal with them instead of incurring cost of going to their office. With our state-of-the-art but easy-to-use collaboration, mail, and messaging services, you can set yourself apart from organizations that use free or ad-supported services. A custom domain name further enhances your branding, and includes design tools to easily create a professional, public-facing website in minutes.

With Office 365, you get pay-as-you-go pricing options that give you predictability and flexibility for your business. Office 365 also offers great flexibility by allowing you to easily provide users with only the services they need, cost-effectively adding value to your business.

How about improving the way your business runs with Microsoft 365 . You will have access to reliable Office apps with advanced security option with the ability to communicate with both your employees and your customers through Chat, call; You can host online meetings, and collaborate in real time, whether you’re working remotely or onsite. You will be able to secure your documents in your OneDrive cloud storage, all at a price that’s right for your business.

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Connect with us immediately for your affordable technology for small businesses so that we can provide you with information and options of comfortable technology solutions within you budget that meets your business needs.

 

Scimitar Global Services Limited (SGSL) is a Microsoft Partner for Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 in Nigeria.

 

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Contact Center As A Service. An Affordable Lease Service Option From Scimitar Global Services Limited(SGSL)

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Do you need a standard contact center solution and worried about the high cost of implementing one for your organization with all the nice features without breaking the bank? Are you still using PBX and GSM phones and boxes as a Contact center solution ?

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Do you want first Call Resolution at your call centers so that your customers do not have to always repeat their complaints from the start to new agents every time they call your business?

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Do you want an Omnichannel solution that can record and track all the interactions of your customers for faster complaints resolution?  Do you want to automatically connect with your back office team that supports your customer facing teams for quick service delivery? How about historical data and reports with business insights about the voice of your customers and their interactions?

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Scimitar Global Services Limited (SGSL) has some good news for you, no more Dead on Arrival Budget Presentation as you can now a case with our Contact center as a Services offering; A Cloud and an OPEX model for mid-markets that gives you all the features of a robust contact center at reduce cost.  All you need to worry is one your internet requirement and how to use and maximize it, which of course you will be trained to do so.

So sign up for our Contact center lease Service to own your Contact center with all the whistles and bells; without breaking the bank due huge investment in implementing your own contact center solution

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Drop your details here so that our solution consultants can connect with you for a best fit analysis and solution. You will be live in 3 weeks all things being equal within our terms and conditions.

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How To Simplify Your Business Processes From Quotation To cash Without Switching Applications. #Microsoft Dynamics 365!

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Contact us to show you how easy it is to simplify your business processes when you can go from quote to cash without switching applications. Set up customers or vendors, create quotes, process orders, and submit invoices without leaving your inbox.

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Top 10 Benefits of Microsoft Office 365 for your Medium and Small Businesses!

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Use same Technology like the big enterprises! Sign up for our Microsoft® Modern business solution( Office 365). It is an easy-to-use set of web-enabled tools that let you access your email, important documents, contacts, and calendar from almost anywhere and any device—including PCs, Macintosh computers, iPhones, Android phones, and BlackBerry smartphones. Designed to meet the needs of a diverse range of small businesses, Office 365 lets you choose which tools to use. It works seamlessly with the programs you already know and use, including Microsoft Outlook®, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel®, and Microsoft PowerPoint®. It’s easy to try and simple to learn, and it works with your existing hardware. Office 365 also offers improved collaboration capabilities, including a password-protected portal to share large, hard-to-email files both inside and outside of your organization. Powerful security features from Microsoft help protect your data, and when the service is released for general availability, it will be backed with a 99.9-percent uptime guarantee.

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Add Video to your contact center engagement and relationship management channels at no cost to your customers!

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Would you consider adding Video to your contact center engagement and relationship management at no cost to your customer?

Would you want to add a personal touch to relationship management and contact center operations to elevate customer-agent/relationship officer & manager’s interaction at no cost to the customer?

Have you considered that with the trends and advent of budding cashless market, digital and omni-channel service delivery season that some customers may be more comfortable with a face to face alternative without visiting your branch or store or office location?

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If Yes, Scimitar Global Services Limited (SGSL) in partnership with our OEM partners is offering a reliable and easy to use video engagement solution both enterprises, mid-market businesses as an additional channel to customer engagement. This adds a human face to the calls and chats!  and we believe it will benefit all even our fellow citizens in diaspora who may need to access products and services  like financial , retail , legal etc

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Video engagement provides a personal touch to relationship management and contact center operations to elevate customer/agent/relation manager’s interaction. With communications and understanding improved through the use of video, agents and relationship managers can resolve tickets quicker, increase net promoter score and effectively meet other KPIs. The ability to share desktop applications from both sides of the conversation improves up-sell opportunities, all while delivering an added level of collaboration to high value customer and agent interactions. It transitions a voice, chat, and webpage interaction into a true Omni channel experiences at no cost to the end customer.

This experience is easily accessible from one of the following scenarios: webchat escalation of video, voice escalation to video, and click to video chat from webpage or mobile applications. Unlike other solutions, our delivers a high quality end user experience, regardless of available bandwidth. Providing content sharing, and the options to begin a video chat directly on a webpage without downloads or plugins, including multiparty video conferencing.

We now believe that a lot of consumers prefer self-service and can even pick up their phones and call their account managers, but when they need assistance, seeing and dealing with a person face-to face is best especially when the person is not within reach. Facial expressions and body language increase understanding to move quickly through a Simple sales process, and video conferencing is the most efficient way to achieve this goal.

Our video based customer engagement solution is designed  to service e clients and manage interactions  directly over video, thereby

  • improving net promoter scores
  • will Improve customer satisfaction,
  • increase revenue, and
  • reduce customer churn with high quality video Benefits

Vidyo helps agents, relationship officers and managers do their jobs better. Service organizations are able to add personal touches to high value requester and as fulfillers are able to escalate to video straight from contact center portal and other different forms with single click. This results in quicker first call resolution times, from visual trouble shooting and improved understanding through video. Plus the ability to multiparty video chat with an expert increases accuracy of calls, and streamlines issue mitigation.

With a Video enabled contact center agents can support customers with a “See What I See” experiences for field service technicians or home consumers using network resilient video from smart phones, smart glasses and tablets. The agent will see the Video call displayed in the familiar application and will be able to easily manage the video interaction, while also maintaining cases and incidents on Video-based interactions.

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The results of video-enabled field services are numerous:

  • a visual connection develops deeper customer relationships,
  • drives higher First Call Resolution rates (FCR),
  • reduce Average Handling Time (AHT),
  • increases operational efficiency and
  • provides a tangible competitive edge.

Thanks to a Vidyo’s API integration, it is now possible for Video enabled contact centers, help desks portals and other applications to leverage market leading solutions and value-added services.  Video calls will be seamlessly integrated into the audio recording system, allowing the same monitoring, training and analysis applied to other communication channels to be applied to video engagement.

So if you are interested in adding video to your customer engagement. Kindly drop your details here  and schedule  demo with our team in Lagos , Nigeria.

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Request for our Predictive Dialer solution that automates outbound calling procedure while managing multiple campaigns and leads. With our predictive dialer, the productivity of any contact center can be increased by more than 300% over manual dialing. Ameyo Predictive dialer from SGSL is a smart communication device that can detect answering machines, SIT tones, and busy tones; eliminate dialing, redialing and response time, and forward only the live connected calls to the customer service agent. This helps minimize agent idle time and thus garner optimal efficiency from the business resources.