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Cutting your computing costs

I want to help you save Cash and I am not going to ask you for a dime in return.

Every year I save hundreds of euros by not spending any money on software. I needed a better deal and systems for my business, I was evaluating Sage Software which left me cold and inspired me to write this article. Amazing – I am easily doing most of my work using software tools that cost nothing. Only the Lord knows why this stuff isn’t evryday knowledge for most business folks. I am constantly suprised by the people I talk to who work in small businesses and dont know about what I am imparting here.

Follow this approach to copy me and start saving money.

* Ten minutes every day searching for a specific type of tool.
* 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 one month from now you should have found a really good list of free tools to help you cut costs and run your business. To get you off to the right start, here is a selection of the software I use everyday.

To help you start saving money immediately my list is divided into two columns, on the right I have listed the software programs you may have purchased or are already using and on the left I have listed the free software.

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 write this up and help you out.

Come back soon as I will be adding more insights here…