How your business can save money
Cutting your software costs
I want to help you save money and I am never going to ask you for anything in return.
Every year I save thousands of pounds by not spending any money on software. I wanted to find a more economic way of getting systems for my business - a move inspired by the NetSuite pricing in a quote I had received. I have learned that I can do most of the day to day tasks efficiently using tools that cost me nothing. So here is a skill they won’t teach you at business school. Even the most savvy of small business people know very little about the methods I am give you here.
Do these 3 things right away to start saving money.
- 10 minutes/day search on one term ie free wordprocessor.
- Capture the detail of everything you find (and your experiences) on Evernote.com ($0).
- Spend 10 mins. everyday giving your findings a very quick try.
I recommend you do this for one month to establish a list and implement all of the tools you might require to runn your business. To get what I am talking about here try these tools now, I use then all the time and they work well.
The software listed on the left is free and in some cases there is an upgrade to a paid version but don’t let this daunt you I get by with the free version most of the time (to help you easily identify what each tool does I have listed their “paid” for equivalents on the left hand side – I hope this helps).
Here we go:
Just type the name of the free product to the search engines
One system to manage customers and accounting
salesorder.com pricing: free NetSuite pricing - really expensive
Sorry I couldnt resist this one…
Creating and writing Documents
Google Docs pricing: $0 Microsoft Office pricing - at least $100
Or
OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org)
Sharing ideas online
Bubbl.us pricing: $0 Mindjet pricing - at least $200
Making videos
Jing pricing: $0 Camtasia Studio pricing - at least $300
Teleseminars
DimDim pricing: $0 AdobeConnect pricing - at least $200/month
My thanks to the NetSuite pricing incident for the inspiration to write this up and help you out.
More soon…
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