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3 Ways To Get Smart With Sales Operations

Sales Manager

Sophisticated sales management software tools for building a small business are hard to find, but we have some you might find interesting. When you’re on top of the 3 Simple Tools for Small Business Success it’s time to get smart with implementing your sales strategy. Getting smart requires a quantum shift in thinking, because the [...]

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Why Do Smart People Insist on Using Dumb Software

Front Office Box

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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CRM Isn’t About Customers

CRM

The term CRM, the strategy of customer relationship management and the software system to support it, all leapt into business thinking at the start of the 21st. century. It was a misnomer then, and has been ever since. But it has been a very effective way of persuading big corporations to buy more software. By [...]

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How To Manage Your Business Mashup

Front Office Box

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

Front Office Box

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

CRM

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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Consultants CRM for Smart Professionals

Front Office Box

Consultants need smart, intelligent CRM software to match the way they work. Creating value for clients depends upon insight to understand problems, imagination to design solutions, and flexibility to implement them – no two jobs are the same. Creating value for themselves on the other hand depends upon organisation of resources and efficient operations. CRM [...]

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Planning and Task Management for Getting Things Done

Front Office Box

Our Planning and Task Management software could be just what you need if you find people forgetting to do things, or struggle to keep everybody in the loop with email and shared calendars, If those project management systems are more complicated and expensive than you need for your planning and task management, but you still [...]

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Jump Start 2010 With a Sales Pipeline

SPPM

This a great time of year for setting goals, and planning how to achieve them. Somehow we’re all refreshed and invigorated as the new year starts Bring it on! The new Front Office Box has some neat features to help you start the year in the best way, with plans, objectives and actions. Maybe the [...]

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