How I save hundreds if not thousands of dollars on software
Cutting your IT budget
I want to help you save money and I am not going to ask you for a penny in return.
Every year I save a lot of pounds by not spending any money on software. You may not have heard of them but it was Sage Software (an accounting system) that drove me to start looking for better deals on the web. Amazing – I am easily doing most of my work using software tools that cost nothing. It amazes me why they dont teach this stuff in business classes. The facts I share with you here are not things that most business owners would know about.
Follow this approach to copy me and start saving money.
* Spare ten minutes every day to search on the term for the tool you need.
* Record your findings using the free service from evernote.com.
* Ten minutes at the end of each day trying out what you find.
In telling other business owners about my cost cutting I have found that it generally takes a month to find what you need and get up and running. OK, fast start for you a small selection of the tools I use everyday that work well and you should take a look at.
OK, this is easy on the right I have listed the paid for equivalents to the free software tools you can start using immediately at zero costs (please note that some of these may have “upgrades” that offer more features at a cost).
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
Or
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 desire to write this up and help you out.
I will be publishing a long list here in the near future…