The biggest complaint one hears about productivity in small business is the overwhelming amount of email that comes in during the day. Short of asking people to stop, there’s little you can do to stem the incoming tide. However, there are ways to configure your email client to help deal with email effectively. [...]
Many of the posts here shed some light on how to use our Leads Manager to increase business. It’s a great tool for making contact with potential customers and keeping track of contacts made or needing follow up.
In this post I’d like to share the secret of how to NOT need our product. [...]
Let me say this upfront: I’m a fan of spreadsheets.
Not a big fan mind you and certainly not a fan of the stranglehold that Microsoft has on the spreadsheet market with Excel, but a fan nonetheless. The usefulness of spreadsheets has been proven over the years when used for budgets, numbers modeling [...]
How’s business?
You probably hear that a lot. I know I do. When asked where most business comes from, many mortgage brokers answer “referrals” – with what I sense is a relief that they’re not making calls anymore. Good for them. A steady stream of clients without working to get [...]
People who know me from my days at Fortune 100 companies probably aren’t surprised by the shift to writing software for small businesses. After all, the companies themselves have been trying to find a way to sell their expensive software to the small to mid-size business market for years, usually with little success. Not [...]