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Any business comes to a point when keeping a list of clients in an Excel file becomes counterproductive. Getting an expensive CRM system, like SalesForce, which costs $60 per user per month is out of the questions. A number of great free opensource CRM systems are available, but this option is limited only to those who have strong coding skills. Otherwise you'd have to pay $50-$100 an hour to an IT guy to set it up properly for you. A free hosted CRM is the only option available. A hosted CRM, as the name implies, is a customer relationship management system that's being hosted by someone, usually in the cloud. All you have to do is go online, log in and you have access to all your client data. No deployment, no set up, no coding. And advantage of this service being available for free - well, I take it you can figure it out on your own. Companies offer free online CRM not out of their good will. For them it's a 'recruiting' strategy. Every free online CRM has with s...

http://icontact.com Icontact.com is a website that was made to facilitate the needs of people wishing to get into email marketing. Icontact simply provides the tools that are necessary to initiate an email marketing campaign, track its effectiveness as the emails are sent out to customers and last but not least improve on your campaign so as to attain better results. The degree of ease that you will experience when using icontact may make you believe it is a tool for beginners. However icontact is more than that and will provide more than enough to satisfy even the needs of the more experienced email marketers. First and foremost icontact simplifies the process of designing your marketing campaign. It's step by step process allows you to utilize plain text, HTML, templates or a web page in the creation of your campaign. Icontact also allows you to create an email that matches your website. This is especially useful if you would like to maintain a certa in theme in your products. Sh...

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Hot Tips - The Best Free Enterprise Social Network (Probably) Don't Know About. https://frontdeskhq.com/ There's this new startup, called Front Desk, that aspires to become the next Zillow or Expedia. In today's technologically-driven world, as long as you possess guts, talent and a winning strategy, that doesn't come as a surprise, usually. But what's interesting is that this Zillow/Expedia wannabe has very little to do with vacations, airline tickets, apartments and real estate. As a matter of fact, Front Desk is a software-as-a-service platform that takes care of customer signups, scheduling and billing for companies engaged in personal services (also, see Bitrix24 review and TribeHR review for more SaaS startups). Before Front Desk, Jon Zimmerman and Nicki Violetti managed Crossfit gyms. Because spreadsheets, paper and pencil, some clunky outdated desktop software, and even Square, weren't enough to take care of their back-office needs, they decided to cre...

Crazy Startup Of The Day - PickyDomains.com http://www.q4intel.com/ For Kevin Trokey, who spent 17 years as an insurance broker, Obamacare has been a double-edged sword. The new law, which requires states to launch their own insurance exchanges on which businesses can directly buy insurance or enroll in public programs, leaves little room for traditional insurance brokers. But there have been new opportunities created as well. In April 2009, Trokey launched consulting firm Q4intelligence, which helps insurance brokers diversify their offerings so they aren't solely dependent on health care. The St. Louis-based firm teaches brokers to advise clients on such issues as corporate communications, employee retention and job performance. So far, the firm has signed on 35 insurance agencies nationwide and is on track to generate nearly $1 million in revenue in 2013. "While the Affordable Care Act threatens the future of independent insurance brokers, it also gave me an opportunity to ...

Crazy Startup Of The Day - PickyDomains.com http://www.freshbenies.com/ Fears that out-of-pocket costs would skyrocket as a result of Obamacare had Reid Rasmussen looking for ways to offer consumers discounts on their health care needs. The former insurance broker came up with Freshbenies, a subscription service that sells non-insurance concierge-like medical services. For $10 a month per family, Freshbenies gives members access to six bundled services, including 24/7 access to a doctor on the phone, discounts on dental, vision care and prescription medication, and access to medical billing specialists. "If you're uninsured, the benefits of our service are obvious," said Rasmussen. "If you already have insurance, our 24/7 call-a-doctor service can still still save you time and money because it doesn't require an additional co-pay." Launched in October 2009, the service has 20,000 households as members. That quantity allows for bulk discounts, which helps kee...

I came to believe that Bitrix24 and not Yammer or Chatter is the best Jive Software alternative with a bit IF - if, being that your company is under 1000 employees and you need ESN not just as 'corporate Facebook', but as a social productivity environtment (sounds confusing, but I will explain). Before I get to explain my reasoning, let's start with same basics, there are actually two different enterprise social networks called Bitrix24. One is 100% free(mium) hosted enterprise social network that comes with free CRM , free PM and free DocManagement , available at http://bitrix24.com. It also comes with some HR and Enterprise tools in the paid plans. Paid plans are $99 and $199 a month with UNLIMITED users. Yes, this is not a typo - you can have 500 employees and it'll cost you only $199 a month (until you run out of 100 GB of disc space, after that you'll have to pay additional $50 a month for extra100 GB). This makes Bitrix24 SaaS insanely cheap when compared...

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