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 needed a better deal and systems for my business, I was evaluating NetSuite pricing which left me cold and inspired me to write this article. I know that I can do most of the essential tasks in my business on high quality software that costs $0. This education you wont get in just about every business course. The majority of small business people I come into contact dont know anything about this subject and thats a tragedy.
Follow this approach to copy me and start saving money.
- Take 10 mins everyday and carefully search for each category of tool you need.
- Remember your findings and what you think on the free evernote.com service.
- 10 minutes each day evaluating your findings.
By the end of a month you should have all of the tools you will ever need to run your business. Start by looking at the tools listed below just to get a feel for the stuff I work with on a regular basis.
Just to be clear what I have done below is listed the software you will have to pay for on the right hand side of the page (these are names you will have definitely heard of, the point here is to make your understanding of what each tool does) and on the left I have listed the free software.
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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