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Information Technology on a tight budget?
By plrprousers | September 26, 2009
Cutting your computing costs
I want to help you save Cash and I am not going to ask you for a penny in return.
Every year I save a lot of euros by not spending any money on software. This article was inspired by Sage Software (an accounting software vendor) whose costs drove me to look for better economic alternatives for my business. I know that I can do most of the essential tasks in my business on high quality software that costs $0. You will not learn this trick on any business course. Every small business owner I have talked to in the last three weeks didn’t know about the mass of free software available on the internet.
Follow these three simple steps to start cutting costs now.
* 10 minutes/day search on one term ie free wordprocessor.
* Get yourself a copy a free copy of Evernote to record what you find.
* ONLY spend ten minutes every day trying out what you have found.
Spend just one month on this task and at the end you will have the free software you need and loads of ideas on how you can make your business more cost efficient. OK, fast start for you a small selection of the tools I use everyday that work well and you should take a look at.
Below in the right hand column you will find the software that you probably have purchased or recognize and on the left you will find the software that will not cost you a thing.
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 inspiration!motivation to blog this and help you out.
Come back soon as I will be adding more insights here…
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