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A look at the software needed to run a small business.

Geek Tool – 01:21

• UVSunSense UV Detecting Wristbands
• Oregon Scientific UV Monitor

Webapps – 06:30

• IsParade – See a parade of your twitter friends
• Create My Chocolate – Make your own personal chocolate bar

Business Software – 12:26

• CRM
  • What they do?
  • Phone messages
  • Mass mailings
  • Store customer info
  • Address
  • Phone number
  • Customer type, Retail/lead etc.
  • Notes
  • Emails
  • Order information
  • Shipping information
  • Schedule appointments with customers
  • Post calendars for other employees to see
  • Paid
    • Salesforce
  • Free/Open Source
    • SugarCRM
    • Gist
• Accounting
  • Quickbooks
  • Less Accounting – Ep 61
• Support Request Trackers (ep 75)
• Asset management
  • Keep track of all the assets around the business
  • Useful for planning hardware life cycle and aids in financial business decisions
• Email Appointment Scheduling / Calendar
  • Google Apps
  • Outlook / Exchange
• Email mass mailing
  • Mailchimp
  • Campaign Monitor
• Snail mail mass mailing
  • Ep 71 Mailfinch
• Online Meetings
  • GoToMyPC
  • Logmein express – Ep 54
• CMS
  • Magento
  • Interspire
• Google Analytics
• Social Media Management
  • Cotweet