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Are you making the most of your Tire Power software?  Keeping abreast of new or not so obvious features can enhance your experience with the software, and make you and your employees more efficient.  In this continuing series of blogs, we will shine the spotlight on these features in order to help all our users make the most of their software.

As software developers, our job is to design and build applications which are easy to use, work reliably, adhere to industry standards and are intuitive to use.  In the Tire Power suite we try our best to keep it simple!  But it is not always easy to make clear all the choices available for the end-user.  This is why we work so hard on creating great documentation!  No matter where you are in Tire Power just click the F1 key to get context-sensitive help.

Wow!  The beginning of a new year already?  The nation, our industry, and each of you have survived a trying and turbulent 2009, and with the turning of the calendar, we all reflect on the year and its results.  I too look back in appreciation on each of you who either chose TCS as their partner this year, or continued with us as your technology partner in 2009.   I personally thank you for entrusting TCS to help assist you in running your business with its suite of solutions.   

(Cookeville, TN, January 7, 2010) — Today TCS, software provider for the tire and automotive industry, further sharpened their competitive edge, rolling out their latest technology service for the tire and automotive service industry:  Utilizing the soaring growth of social media to enhance the bottom line for their customers and clients.  This expansion of services comes as a result of the recent partnership between TCS and JTMarCom, a Nashville-based social media marketing firm co-founded by John Taylor – a longtime tire industry PR executive.

Now that the New Year is here you may be have your 2010 marketing plan on your mind.  We hope that internet marketing is part of that plan and social media is on the top of that list.  Social media will have many positive effects on your marketing strategy from improved customer service to getting your website showing up higher on Google search results.

Studies and surveys show the lack of appreciation and encouragement among the top reasons employees leave a job. In an economy going through rocky times, it is very important for everyone in the workplace to recognize and look for opportunities to encourage one another. Webster describes encouragement as: The rising of one’s confidence especially by external agency or to spur on. Motivating employees requires providing support and feedback to let them know the company values their efforts. Unfortunately, employees may only get negative feedback on a day-to-day basis. Supervisors tend to focus on what an employee is doing incorrectly, and miss opportunities to let them know what they’re doing well. All too often, the annual review is the only time an employee gets positive feedback.

We have added many new features in ePower to give our customers even more flexibility and encourage their customers to buy from them over their competition.

One of the things we at Tire Company Solutions really want for our customers is for them to get the full experience, or ‘power’ if you will, from their Tire Power software.  As I mentioned in my last blog, it can be fun discovering and using some of the lesser known features in the software.  With that in mind, here is an overlooked feature, this time for you accounting people.

The internet is continuously making it easier to both access, and promulgate information.  The costs of communicating and sharing one’s ideas, thoughts, feelings, opinions, and experiences have never been lower; all that’s required is desire, a computer, and an internet connection.  And with further advances in communication technology, this trend is only likely to continue. 

The phrase doesn’t always mean “low profile tires”.  In business software this refers to the time it takes to get the data you request to your screen. This is a key factor in customer satisfaction, as well as your satisfaction with Tire Power desktop software or our ePower websites from Tire Company Solutions.