How to reduce your technology costs

NetSuite Pricing

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. I was evaluating a system to run my business and I was really disappointed to find NetSuite pricing was going to leave me with no money to spend on the essential tools I need to get the job done. Just like me You can now do most of the key tasks in your business using software that costs zero. So here is a skill they won’t teach you at business school. The facts I share with you here are not things that most business owners would know about.

You need to do three things to make this strategy work for you.

• 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).
• Just spend about ten minutes every day trying out your findings.

It took me about for weeks on and off spending max twenty minutes a day to discover all of the tools I am ever going to need. To help you get a head start here are some of the tools I have found and use on a regular basis.

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…

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