Cutting your software costs
I want to help you save money and I am never going to ask you for anything in return.
Every year I save thousands of pounds by not spending any money on software. It was the quote containing the NetSuite pricing that caused a friend to call me up and ask if I could help me get a better deal on software for his business – hence this article. I am now confident that I can reliably do most of things I need to do in my business on using software that costs zero dollars. Only the Lord knows why this stuff isn’t evryday knowledge for most business folks. It really annoys me that someone hasn’t shared the knowledge here with small business owners.
Just follow these simple steps to find the free tools that are out there.
- Take just ten minutes each day to search for just one tool type.
- Go get yourself a free copy of Evernote (it’s free, just serach Google).
- Put aside roughly ten minutes each day to give what you find a test drive.
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. This are some of my favorites just to get you started and help you discover what is possible.
The software listed on the left is free and in some cases there is an upgrade to a paid version but don’t let this daunt you I get by with the free version most of the time (to help you easily identify what each tool does I have listed their “paid” for equivalents on the left hand side – I hope this helps).
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 NetSuite pricing – really expensive
Sorry I couldnt resist this one…
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 NetSuite pricing incident for the inspiration to write this up and help you out.
Come back soon as I will be adding more insights here…
Tags: NetSuite pricing
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