How to cut your business expenses

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. You may not have heard of them but it was NetSuite pricing (a system to run your business) that drove me to start looking for better deals on the web. Just like me You can now do most of the key tasks in your business using software that costs zero. You wont find this taught at business school. The facts I share with you here are not things that most business owners would know about.

Like me you can reap the rewards by sticking to these rules.

• 10 minutes/day search on one term ie free wordprocessor.
• Record everything you find on the web using Evernote (free).
• Just ten minutes at the end of each day exploring the features of your findings.

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. To get you off to the right start, here is a selection of the software I use everyday.

Chances are you have heard or are using the software tools I have listed on the right, I have done this to help you easily identify the tools you may want to evaluate as replacements which are listed on the left.

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…