I am passionate about our product (OpenCRM - hosted CRM Software solution) and what we do, but when it comes to other manufacturers and communities, I am not a real advocate one way or the other, except when it comes to my browser!
Its been a long held debate "is Firefox more or less secure than Internet Explorer" - well if you have kept track with the Symantec reports that have been released over the last few years, whilst IE 5, 6, and 7 were on release and Firefox 2 and 3, there has been some bad press for the Firefox camp! Read More....
Something that I here a lot is "we know we need a CRM software solution, but we need to consider ERP as well, so the mainstream CRM products won't cut it for us". In truth I have just had a really interesting conversation with an American business owner, and that (once he knew what I did), was his opening gambit. Read more....
One of the questions that gets asked from time to time, when looking at projects is "Who should take ownership of the CRM software project, in particular the roll out phase?" On the surface, surely this should be the CRM Project Consultant, but as I discuss here, this is not entirely true, let me explain. Read more ....
We are a company that unashamedly admits that price is one of the reasons why potential clients come knocking on our doors, and that's great (for both parties), without being a bore, that's because we are able to leverage Open Source projects to deliver a product that has no client licenses, so you spend your project budget in the areas that have the most impact, for you. But, price alone is not the reason why clients sign up and indeed stay with OpenCRM (CRM Software providers), in fact price often becomes so less important when offset against Customer Service, and that's my point really! Read more ...
Now I know this is all a bit 'techie' (or nerdy as I am often told), but TraceMonkey is going to have a major influence on all OpenCRM crm software users and I thought I might just take a few minutes and comment on what it is, why its going to be so interesting and how you can actually get it! It is going to be available through the latest releases of the Firefox web browser.
TraceMonkey was released to the Firefox developer community on Friday (that's the 12th December 2008 if your watching this rerun on Dave :-) Read more ...
Now, I don't often make a clear and direct punt for your business, but one aspect of my work, through our associate company Inspiring People (http://inspiringpeople.eu), is business development and coaching.
One seminar that I am passionate about and have given, on a number of occasions, (particularly to smaller business owners - that's people who own businesses that employ between 2 to 25 people, not people who are under 4' 6"), is called "Discover how to make your business more profitable today and more valuable in the future … by cracking the CONSISTENCY code.†Read more ...
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