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Front Office Box Makes My Nexus S the Complete Mobile Tool

CRM

So it turns out Front Office Box CRM and Sales Pipeline Management works great on my new Android phone.. For the last 3 weeks I’ve gradually been getting used to the Android phone. After 4 years with an iPhone this is more difficult than I expected I’ve been really impressed by the hardware which knocks [...]

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And Tonight’s Dram is Aberlour

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Being a snooty sort of guy, and living in the proper Highlands, I’ve tended to look down on the Speyside malt whiskies.  Glenmorangie is closest to where we live, Clynleish is just up the road, and Dalmore not 20 miles away. In the circumstances who would want to drink something from Speyside? Well it seems [...]

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Is A Blog Your New Business Card

Internet Enabled Business

A blog gives sales executives an opportunity to stand out from the crowd – a way to explain who and what we are, why we’re special, and why others should do business with us. Have you got a blog as your personal business card, yet? The sales guys personal blog can be a multi faceted, [...]

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Google Will Win and Facebook Will Lose

Internet Enabled Business

In the battle between Google and Facebook, Google will win and Facebook will lose. And so will Foursquare, Evernote, and anybody else you might think of. And Google will lose in the end too. I don’t know who to, because they haven’t started yet, but if I were a betting man, and I’m not, I’d [...]

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Blogging for Your Business

Internet Enabled Business

Learning to blog for a business can appear a daunting prospect. It certainly did the first time somebody suggested it to me. What would I write about? Who would be interested. How would they find my stuff? And anyway school was a long time ago. Maybe my command of the language isn’t all it needs [...]

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Front Office Box User Blog

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Announcing the latest innovation for Front Office Box Users. Do you have something to say – about anything?  Want to announce a new product or service?  Want to post a job you need to fill. Or maybe just share a good joke? It couldn’t be easier now.  All you need to do is send an [...]

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The end of dumb software

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It seems the world is turning toward simple software that just “does” and stays out of our way. We’ve been bleating about this for a couple of years now. The combination of Gareth building software for the financial community wanting to use it “tomorrow” and my experience of selling complex stuff people would never use [...]

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Keep Software Simple, Stupid

CRM

We’ve all heard the phrase “Keep It Simple, Stupid” and in our own spheres I guess we understand what that means, but then tend to forget the principle when entering somebody else’s territory. We probably just accept stuff is complex, because we don’t know how it could be simple. At Front Office Box we know [...]

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My Top Ten Business Tools

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Which business applications do you use?  Are they web based, or local?  Here”s our list. Top Ten Google Search – what else? Google Mail – works anywhere, great archive capability, unlimited capacity (virtually) and the best Spam management.  Perversely it’s biggest weakness is Search, because of those awful “conversations. WordPress (Self hosted) – I love [...]

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