Software on a shoestring

Cutting your computing budget

I want to help you save Cash and I am not going to ask you for a penny in return.

Every year I save thousands of euros by not spending any money on software. I discovered there was a better way as a result of being frustrated by Sage Software being out of my range. I know that I can do most of the essential tasks in my business on high quality software that costs Most MBA’s will not know this. In fact I would be suprised if many experienced business owners know what I am about to share with you. Just follow these simple steps to find the free tools that are out there.

Ten minutes every day searching for a specific type of tool.

* Go to www.evernote.com and sign up to this free “memory” service.
* Set aside ten minutes every day to experiment with what you find.
* In just one month you should not only have a fabulous list of tools, but have learned a great deal about what free software you have on hand to do a better job.

To get you going here is a small sample of the tools I use every day to get the job done. 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.

More soon.

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

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 inspiration!motivation to blog this and help you out.

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Software on a shoestring

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