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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. It was the NetSuite pricing that pushed me over the edge one afternoon and drove me to look for a better deal for systems to run my business. I am lucky enough to be running most of my key business activities using software that cost me nothing. This education you wont get in just about every business course. I know for a fact that most folk that work in small businesses dont know or practice the steps I share with you here.

Perform these three simple tasks to start saving money.

• Use ten minutes of your day looking for the free software tools.
• Record everything you find on the web using Evernote (free).
• Give yourself just ten minutes each day to evaluate what you have found.

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 you going here is a small sample of the tools I use every day to get the job done.

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…