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Transforming the Sales Proposals Process

We’re big fans of working with customers through a combined buy/sell process. This software looks as if it could extend that team work right through to the proposal itself.
That sounds a great idea to me. Of course the concept of commercial collaboration needs to be sold, replacing the traditional commercial tension.
That takes a [...]

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Do It Yourself Brand Management

Brand Management and Inbound Marketing are concepts every small business can apply with these do it yourself tools.

Every Business Needs Brand Management
We all have a brand, and manage our market’s perception of it wherever we can. Our problem has always been reach – finding prospects and delivering our messages to them. Brand Management has [...]

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Beginners Guide to Blogs and Blogging

My 79 year old mother wrote a blog about the time she was evacuated from London, as a child during World War 2. Reading it is a rich experience, not because of the writing but because its a first hand account – real life untainted by editors and publishers.
Have you seen the BBC Click [...]

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What Would Life Be Like Without Windows? Roll On the Day Please

This guy is a typical turkey denying Christmas. No surprise he’s published in the PC World blog. That company is just another cog in the Microsoft ecosystem of businesses owing their existence to the cost and complexity that company turns out. For my part the world would be a better place without Microsoft. [...]

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Building a Business Social Network

Business Owners Don’t Buy It
For a couple of years now we’ve been trying to engage business owners in the business oriented social networks.
Advice from the marketing gurus suggests hanging out in on-line forums, and helping, chatting, swapping stories with the folks there. This, they claim, is the new approach to selling. Engaging [...]

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Global Scots Making Scots Global

Until recently the GlobalScot membership site has carried all the attraction of cold rice pudding, with Grandma telling us to eat up – it’ll be good for us.
To be fair there are some welcoming people there – Scottish Enterprise staff charged with making it work I guess. But generally it’s seemed a very poor [...]

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ToDo Lists Don’t Work

Or they don’t for me at least! My ToDo list is a bit like the laundry basket – we never quite get to the bottom
It’s a combination of things:
* Over ambitious expectations of myself – I’m not as diligent as I make out. * Events – as Macmillan [...]

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Free Front Office Software | Front Office Box

By now most people who would use Search to find articles in blogs will be familiar with the the concept of FREE, but most will still wonder how it can ever make money.
For some years now we’ve been trying to explain to the world our own strategy for competing on the business Internet which we [...]

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What Would You Expect from a Cell Phone Co

Our Front Office Box software has an uptime of 99.97% measured since January 2007.
When Google Mail goes off line for an hour there’s complete mayhem and their engineers have to post apologies like crazy explaining they got the load balancing wrong.
But nobody ever loses data.
So how come these cowboys managed this disaster?  My guess is [...]

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