Desktop Genie

How we can help

Desktop Genies training gives small businesses the skills necessary to design and implement their own business solutions, hence ensuring the need for minimal support, once the training programme is complete. For example, you may need help in designing and implementing an effective database; you may wish to create an easy to use spreadsheet to keep a record of expenses, invoices, profit & loss sheets, etc

Our training

Training is flexible, is delivered in slots of approximately 1 hour per session, and is delivered at a time, place and pace that suits your busy schedule.

Topics covered include:

• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Microsoft Project

at all levels from introduction to advanced, on all versions of Microsoft from 2003 to 2010

Desktop Genie also hosts a programme of half-day workshops, which involve hands-on development of small business solutions.

These workshops are popular with community organisations, helping them to apply best practice processes, as they move from a funded organisation to a financially independent community business.

Our workshops

All our workshops are designed for those with minimal IT knowledge. The programme of workshops includes:

1. Creating a Company e-newsletter and monitoring email campaigns
   Get your business in-front of potential clients at minimal cost and effort (MailChimp)
2. Client Database - minimising effort spent in gathering funders figures
   Taking your beast of a database and making it work for you!
3. MS Outlook as a Contact Management tool
   Keep in touch with business contacts and keep a record of contact activities (incl. mail merge)
4. Essential Spreadsheets for Financial Tracking
   How to create simple spreadsheets to record money in/money out, quickly and efficiently
5. Websites - Where to Start!
   What works, what doesn't! What should be included and where to find it
6. Tools to monitor online marketing campaigns - looking at Google tools to help focus marketing strategies
7. Social Media - how and why to get started with and make the most of Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn
8. Keeping Kids safe online - for parents rather than organisations - how to monitor and restrict primary school kids computer use

Other services

Desktop Genie can also:

• take you through our small business health check
• Draw up recommendations for improved business efficiency
• Help you to implement business improvement solutions
• Take on implementation of business improvement solutions on your behalf
• help with web design, hosting and domain name registration

Desktop Genie collaborates with a number of strategic associates, ranging from HR & IT, through to Finance and Marketing, thus enabling us to provide a full suite of business advice and solutions implementation.