How to reduce the costs in your business

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 wanted to find a more economic way of getting systems for my business – a move inspired by the NetSuite pricing in a quote I had received. I am now confident that I can reliably do most of things I need to do in my business on using software that costs zero dollars. Only the Lord knows why this stuff isn’t evryday knowledge for most business folks. The tragedy is that just about 90% of small business owners don’t know the facts about the amount of free tools out there.

Follow these three simple steps to start cutting costs now.

Search for ten minutes max per day for each type of free tool.
Get Evernote to record your findings ($0).
Spend just ten minutes on every day on trying out one of the packages you find.

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. Here is a short cut for you, a list of the great software I use everyday to get the job done.

On the left you will find software that in most instances is free (with the exception of a few which have upgrades with more features to paid versions) and on the right to make it easier to identify their mainstream equivalents I have listed the software you will definitely have to part money for.

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

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