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Cutting your computing budget

I want to help you save money and I am never going to ask you for a penny in return.

Every year I save hundreds of dollars by not spending any money on software. It was the quote containing the Sage Softwarethat caused a friend to call me up and ask if I could help me get a better deal on software for his business – hence this article. It is now possible to perform most of the key business tasks using the software that costs nothing. Only the Lord knows why this stuff isn’t evryday knowledge for most business folks. The facts I share with you here are not things that most business owners would know about.

Stick to this approach and start saving money.

* Use ten minutes of your day looking for the free software tools.
* Remember your findings and what you think on the free evernote.com service.
* Ten minutes at the end of each day trying out what you find.

By the end of a month you should have all of the tools you will ever need to run your business. Here is a short cut for you, a list of the great software I use everyday to get the job done.

To make this simple to understand I have listed the zero cost software on the left and the software you will have to pay for on the right, the chances are you have heard of the software on the right because they spend a large proportion of the money they take from you on marketing.

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 Sage Software – really expensive and only does Accounting

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 Sage Software incident for the desire to write this up and help you out.

Come back soon as I will be adding more insights here…

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Accounting is for accountants and what’s more infuriating is they want it to stay this way, so it’s hardly suprising that people similar to me who run a small business and cannot and don’t want to spend money on an accountant discovered the shortcut I want to share with you here. Most professionals I know in startups want to devote their time to finding customers and selling as opposed to doing bookkeeping. Accounting is a ‘chore’ that many people enjoy doing but must be undertaken on a consistent basis to avoid problems.

I asked my bookkeeper for help and he convinced me I should use Sage Software which turned out to be a small business accounting software package. I just went out and purchased the application without even considering if it would suit my needs. This was probably one of the biggest mistakes I made as the application turned out to be really difficult to understand and use. OK my first piece of wisdom is that whenever you see the words accounting software go carefully as it definitely means the developer is making the assumption you know a great deal about accounting.

Just like me small business managers know about their craft and the product or service they sell and not accounting but in my situation I was driven to devote time to finding a system that would work for me. The second piece of advice I want to share with you is my discovery of a really useful and free web application called salesorder.com.

Arguably the best software I have come across, salesorder.com works on the internet and is really well designed and of course lets me work anywhere I can connect to the web. And here is the best bit I want to tell you, the people at salesorder.com know their stuff, just like their system they are easy to work with and better still are happy to spend quality time with their users (even the free ones) helping people like me to solve real issues in my company and to top it off they have tutored me in the accounting I need to know.

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