Relenta is a new CRM (customer relationship management) tool for small business. This hosted (on-demand) software includes email, contact manager, shared calendar, and email newsletter marketing -- all within "one elegant Web 2.0 application." They employ a (now familiar) "Less is more" approach. They call it the "90/10 rule": "Designed for usability and efficiency, Relenta CRM achieves 90 percent of the functionality commonly required by small business users with only 10 percent of the application weight."
Relenta is a winning combination of the power of salesforce.com and simplicity of Highrise from 37signals. It also includes one killer feature that none of us can live without but yet no other CRMs offers -- good old email:
"The majority of sales and customer service work is conducted via email. In case of traditional CRM systems, most of the business knowledge assets are trapped inside email messages within individual user accounts. Relenta CRM solves this problem by associating email history with customer records and making it accessible to all team members."
Relenta extends my website into the sales process by letting me automatically capture leads from webform, and assign them to sequential email followups/autoresponder, like Aweber.com or VerticalResponse.
More at:http://relenta.com/
Monday, May 28, 2007
Top Temporary Mailbox services It Will Help You.....
Mailinator is one of the best and top rated disposable email services that gives you a temporary mailbox on the following address format e.g. something@mailinator.com
MyTrashMail is another good temporary mail service that gives you a mailbox in the address format e.g. something@trashymail.com and also gives you secure temporary mailbox if you signup
MailExpire stands out in the crowd by giving you the option to have a temporary inbox ranging from 12 hours expiry to as long as 3 months
TemporaryInbox is yet another simple and easy to use temporary email service that gives you an email address in different formats
MailEater gives you a free temporary email inbox in the format e.g. something@MailEater.com
Jetable not only allows you to set the life span of your temporary email inbox but also allows you to forward the mails in your temporary inbox to your real email address
SpamBox gives you a temporary email address in the format e.g. something@spambox.us and also allows you to set the lifespan of your inbox
GuerillaMail lets you generate a temporary email which expires in a time of 15 minutes and also tell you how to offer a temporary email service on your site.
SpamHole provides you a 2 hour long temporary email inbox at the address format e.g. something@spamhole.com
10MinuteMail generates an easy 10 minute email inbox for your temporary email needs .
More at:http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/05/27/top-20-temporary-and-disposable-email-services
MyTrashMail is another good temporary mail service that gives you a mailbox in the address format e.g. something@trashymail.com and also gives you secure temporary mailbox if you signup
MailExpire stands out in the crowd by giving you the option to have a temporary inbox ranging from 12 hours expiry to as long as 3 months
TemporaryInbox is yet another simple and easy to use temporary email service that gives you an email address in different formats
MailEater gives you a free temporary email inbox in the format e.g. something@MailEater.com
Jetable not only allows you to set the life span of your temporary email inbox but also allows you to forward the mails in your temporary inbox to your real email address
SpamBox gives you a temporary email address in the format e.g. something@spambox.us and also allows you to set the lifespan of your inbox
GuerillaMail lets you generate a temporary email which expires in a time of 15 minutes and also tell you how to offer a temporary email service on your site.
SpamHole provides you a 2 hour long temporary email inbox at the address format e.g. something@spamhole.com
10MinuteMail generates an easy 10 minute email inbox for your temporary email needs .
More at:http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/05/27/top-20-temporary-and-disposable-email-services
Resources For Entreprenuers
Two weeks ago, The New York Times published a nice introductory article on how to get started with a small business. Author Barbara Whitaker notes that about ten percent of small businesses fail each year:
Success comes with education, careful planning and adequate cash flow, specialists say. And it has never been easier to lay the groundwork for starting a small business. Many tools are available on the Internet and at libraries to aid aspiring entrepreneurs. Whole magazines are devoted to the subject.
Whitaker’s article lists a number of web-based resources for would-be small business owners, including:
The U.S. Small Business Administration web site
SCORE (the Service Corps of Retired Executives) offers business advice to entrepreneurs.
The Small Business Development Centers provide “management assistance to current and prospective small business owners”. For an example of the assistance available, visit the San Joaquin Delta College SBDC web site.
Work.com offers a variety of how-to guides for running a small busines.
e-Venturing bills itself as “the entrepreneur’s trusted guide to high growth.
For advice about entrepreneurship from others who have been there before, visit StartupNation.
Bplans.com features business plan software and free sample business plans, along with other expert advice.
CCH has an amazing variety of ready-to-use templates and documents, as well as links to official government forms.
The U.S. Library of Congress offers The Entrepreneur’s Reference Guide to Small Business Information.
For more about these resources, and for an extended discussion, please read the entire article.
I’m under the impression that the failure rate for small businesses applies to those with employees. If you follow Andréa’s advice and become a consultant, or if you take the route I’m pursuing and work as a wholly independent freelancer, I think the survivability rates are much higher.
Obviously, this is more information than you’ll need if you’re simply trying to make money from a hobby. But if you have bigger dreams, if you’d like to boost your income by starting your own business, these sites are a good place to begin your research.
[The New York Times: Small Business 101: How to Get Started].
More at:http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://gk.nytimes.com/mem/gatekeeper.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26URIQ3DhttpQ3AQ2FQ2
Success comes with education, careful planning and adequate cash flow, specialists say. And it has never been easier to lay the groundwork for starting a small business. Many tools are available on the Internet and at libraries to aid aspiring entrepreneurs. Whole magazines are devoted to the subject.
Whitaker’s article lists a number of web-based resources for would-be small business owners, including:
The U.S. Small Business Administration web site
SCORE (the Service Corps of Retired Executives) offers business advice to entrepreneurs.
The Small Business Development Centers provide “management assistance to current and prospective small business owners”. For an example of the assistance available, visit the San Joaquin Delta College SBDC web site.
Work.com offers a variety of how-to guides for running a small busines.
e-Venturing bills itself as “the entrepreneur’s trusted guide to high growth.
For advice about entrepreneurship from others who have been there before, visit StartupNation.
Bplans.com features business plan software and free sample business plans, along with other expert advice.
CCH has an amazing variety of ready-to-use templates and documents, as well as links to official government forms.
The U.S. Library of Congress offers The Entrepreneur’s Reference Guide to Small Business Information.
For more about these resources, and for an extended discussion, please read the entire article.
I’m under the impression that the failure rate for small businesses applies to those with employees. If you follow Andréa’s advice and become a consultant, or if you take the route I’m pursuing and work as a wholly independent freelancer, I think the survivability rates are much higher.
Obviously, this is more information than you’ll need if you’re simply trying to make money from a hobby. But if you have bigger dreams, if you’d like to boost your income by starting your own business, these sites are a good place to begin your research.
[The New York Times: Small Business 101: How to Get Started].
More at:http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://gk.nytimes.com/mem/gatekeeper.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26URIQ3DhttpQ3AQ2FQ2
Illumio is bringing you all the web information content you care about and delivering it to you quicker than you’d ever imagine
Illumio is bringing you all the web information content you care about and delivering it to you quicker than you’d ever imagine. Stop manually checking your social networking websites, your blogs and other content providers, let illmio update you on all the RSS feeds you belong to, and furthermore, let them discover new content for you that you’ll love. Illumios unique alogorithym for new content discovery and user matching. They search through your documents stored in My Documents, sent emails, contacts from Outlook and Thunderbird, what you have added as favorites, bookmarks, and general browser history. Illumio cares about your privacy, which is why they conduct research all from your PC, so you are protected. You can join communities of others who love the same web content that you love, and initiate a Q&A on any given feed to connect with other subscribers.
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“illumio is a new way to stay informed and connected in a web world that is exploding with social networks, blogs, news, and other content. illumio frees you from manually tracking everything you care about on the Web: instead, illumio monitors the feeds you choose and groups you join and delivers to you only what's important to you. Because illumio runs on your PC, illumio can privately determine what information matches your interests and then alert you directly on your desktop.”
More at:http://www.illumio.com/
Home Commission
HomeCommission.com is uniquely designed to save both home sellers and buyers sales commission cost when buying or selling their home.
There are two type of auctions sellers and buyers can create:
Listing Commission Auction: Listing Commission auction created by sellers invites real estate agents to bid the lowest listing commission on the sale of their home. Lowest bidder wins, and is able to contact sellers to get their business.
* Cash Back Auction: Cash Back auction created by buyers invites real estate agents to bid the maximum cash back on the commission from the sales transaction of their new home. Highest bidder wins with this type of auction.
More at:http://www.homecommission.com/
There are two type of auctions sellers and buyers can create:
Listing Commission Auction: Listing Commission auction created by sellers invites real estate agents to bid the lowest listing commission on the sale of their home. Lowest bidder wins, and is able to contact sellers to get their business.
* Cash Back Auction: Cash Back auction created by buyers invites real estate agents to bid the maximum cash back on the commission from the sales transaction of their new home. Highest bidder wins with this type of auction.
More at:http://www.homecommission.com/
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