Small Office, Home Office Information

It’s not uncommon for small businesses to give discounts to attract new work. Some small businesses give discounts to attract work when they are first starting out in business.

But beware!

There’s a hidden trap in giving discounts. Once you give a client a discount it’s very hard to take that discount away when the client comes back to you for more work in the future.

Have you ever noticed how manufacturers often allow the products to grow in size over the years? Car manufacturers start off with a model that is small and compact and over the years the car gradually increases in size until they have to go back and launch another small, compact car to take it’s place.

Laptops are the same. They were originally designed to be light and portable but over the years they have turned into back-breaking monsters that no one would really want to carry too far for too long.

Over the weekend I was in one of the Office Works stores down in Brisbane and saw the Fujitsu LifeBook P7120. There is no doubt that it’s small - the screen size is just 10.6″ and it weighs 1.38 kilograms. It will run on battery power for over 7 hours.

Now with specs like that you would have to think that it would be a serious contender for any small business or home based business that was looking for a laptop to go on the road with them. The only problem is that it’s a tad expensive.

But if you’re interested here is the link to a brief review of the Fujitsu P7210 laptop