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Free Software Died Today

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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Waving to Myself – Am I Really That Sad

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Image by avlxyz via Flickr Google Wave Matures, or does it? Has Google Wave come of age as a business tool? Does it have a role in Customer Service and CRM applications. Will it be a natural component in any company IT architecture? We’ve been trying it out again to find out the answers to [...]

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This is what you get, and all you get – Stuff that just works

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It’s no wonder they don’t trust us says Seth Godin – (see the text of his post below). There’s an opportunity in telling the truth, because lots don’t. Following Seth’s advice, I’m happy to keep saying what I’ve always said. With Front Office Box All You Get “All you get with our software is what [...]

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Integrate Voicemail with Sales Management

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Voicemail can be a big help - recording messages when we’re busy, or when we just need a little peace. But it’s a problem too! Inevitably transferring information from phone to computer, or paper notes is a pain in the rear – an extra step when we need to get on with responding. Now there’s [...]

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Small Business Goes Global

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In business the question “where are you based” used to be fundamental. Being local meant buyer and seller could meet across a desk. Products and services could easily, and cheaply be supplied. References could be checked. Being “somewhere” meant quite a lot – but not anymore. The Internet has changed all that. Our small business [...]

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Free Front Office Software

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Free Front Office Software 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 [...]

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A New Style of Business Software

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Front Office Box looks, feels, works differently to all the others. Here’s brief explanation as to why we’ve done it differently, followed by an overview of the enhancements we’ve included in the soon to be released FOB3. Our next effort will be embracing Google Wave as a means to helping users work together. If you [...]

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But How Do I Use Front Office Box?

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“Our Getting Started tutorial suggests new users make a start with a simple ToDo list. It only takes a couple of minutes and the user easily learns the main functions through this simple set up”. This question needs to get asked more often, because there are people who sign up for an account but never [...]

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A Free Idea for Big Box Retailers

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Update to this post – I see Tesco now has an iPhone app which does this, and more on top. It helps you find the nearest store, and stuff in in it. Smart – huh? They never told me it was anything to do with this post, but it’s certainly would be nice to think [...]

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