How to save money in your business
Posted by Reinecke Jesslyn on June 28th, 2009 filed in ProductivityCutting 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. You may not have heard of them but it was NetSuite pricing (a system to run your business) that drove me to start looking for better deals on the web. I am now confident that I can reliably do most of things I need to do in my business on using software that costs zero dollars. You wont find this taught at business school. I am greatly saddened by the number of people in small businesses who are not aware of this approach.
Like me you can reap the rewards by sticking to these rules.
- Only spend 8 to 10 minutes per day searching for software tools that cost nothing.
- Get Evernote to record your findings ($0).
- Just spend about ten minutes every day trying out your findings.
In just one month you should not only have a fabulous list of tools, but have learned a great deal about what free software you have on hand to do a better job. To get what I am talking about here try these tools now, I use then all the time and they work well.
On the left you will find software that in most instances is free (with the exception of a few which have upgrades with more features to paid versions) and on the right to make it easier to identify their mainstream equivalents I have listed the software you will definitely have to part money for.
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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