sage software

Cutting your software costs

I want to help you save money and I am not going to ask you for anything in return.

Every year I save hundreds of dollars by not spending any money on software. It was the Sage Software that pushed me over the edge one afternoon and drove me to look for a better deal for systems to run my business. Just like me You can now do most of the key tasks in your business using software that costs zero. This education you wont get in just about every business course. I am constantly suprised by the people I talk to who work in small businesses and dont know about what I am imparting here.

Just follow these simple steps to find the free tools that are out there.

* Spare ten minutes every day to search on the term for the tool you need.
* Remember your findings and what you think on the free evernote.com service.
* Just ten minutes at the end of each day exploring the features of your findings.

I would do this exercise for about one month to get a list together and implement all of the software you nedd. This are some of my favorites just to get you started and help you discover what is possible.

If you are about to purchase any of the basic software you need for your business, the chances are you have looked at the software I have listed on the right hand side of the page, on the left you will find their free equivalents.

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…