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Switching from iPhone to Android – Only for the Brave !

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Changing from iPhone to Android turns out to be a painful process – for me at least. I should have expected it really.  Google does some good stuff with its free software, but is definitely short on the User Experience dimension, when compared with Apple.  Things never quite work the way one expects, and generally [...]

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3 Simple Tools For Small Business Success

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A sales management process and the right tools for small business selling will increase your chances of succeeding as an entrepreneur. We’ve talked about a number of philosophies and concepts to help small business owners make the most of their opportunities in this blog. But there are 3 which stand out as simple to understand, [...]

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Why Do Smart People Insist on Using Dumb Software

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Image via Wikipedia Why is it smart people find it hard to use smart software. If that sounds a dumb question, please stay with me here. Trust me it’s true. The smarter people are, the less likely they’ll use really clever software – software which is designed to do the heavy lifting, so they don’t [...]

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Business is Simply a Process But What’s a Process?

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Image via Wikipedia Is business simply a process, or is there more to it than that?   Can software be a series of templates to suit any process? Does that work for small business? It seems to me any activity which starts one place and ends up somewhere else is a process, and certainly the [...]

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11 Ways We Solve Your Business Information Problems

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Managing a small business involves solving a constant stream of information problems we didn’t know existed, or at least didn’t expect. It does for me, and probably does for you? One problem we don’t need is organising our information so we can find it when we need it. So we don’t forget important tasks, so [...]

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Solving My Problem With Sales Plans

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Do you have a sales plan for every deal? I do, but more of that later. OK I know some deals you can take to the bank, and others are just punts. There’s no need to plan the certainties and no point in planning the ones you don’t expect to get. Or that’s the way [...]

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How to Stop Email Interrupting You

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Image via Wikipedia Email drives my workflow, instead of interrupting it, so I save time and get more things done. We solved the problem with it hurting our productivity and saved hours every day. Is Email a problem for you? Is it constantly interrupting you with incoming messages which need something done, but not necessarily [...]

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How To Manage Your Business Mashup

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How do you manage your business software and services on the Internet? With applications and connections spread across tens of sites it’s easy to get lost in a muddle. We manage our business combination of software and services using a front page in Front Office Box. What’s in it? Planning and operations management (in FOB [...]

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Free Software Died Today

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Free business software seemed a good idea at the time. We had all these clever ideas about the cost of software dropping close to zero, and knew that would change the market for enterprise software. We wrote about our strategy and its experiment, finding out what the new business model would be for software. At [...]

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