{"id":172,"date":"2010-08-31T02:29:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T02:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-08-31T02:35:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T02:35:58","slug":"what-business-software-do-you-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/what-business-software-do-you-use\/","title":{"rendered":"What Business Software Do You Use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my more procrastinatively-inspired moments, I reflect on the online business management tools I currently use and whether there are any all-encompassing tools that can help me reduce overall expenses.\u00a0 Maybe someone out there will have a suggestion.\u00a0 So here goes my list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Project management<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/basecamphq.com\/?source=google-ad-basecamp&amp;gclid=CISVr9zT4qMCFV195Qod7yPskw\">Basecamp<\/a> &#8211; the interface feels natural and customers love it<\/li>\n<li><strong>Organizing daily schedules and tasks<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartsheet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SmartSheet<\/a> &#8211; Draws just the right features from Excel and then adds in collaboration, attachments, reminders, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sales leads<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoho.com\/crm\" target=\"_blank\">Zoho CRM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Email marketing<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icontact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">iContact<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Webinars<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dimdim.com\">DimDim <\/a>and sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/Connect\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Connect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeping up with news via RSS Feeds<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Reader<\/a> &#8211; Fantastic, and that&#8217;s all I have to say about that<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conference bridge<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpletollfree.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simple Toll-Free<\/a> &#8211; 800 number, $0.06\/min, pinch me, I&#8217;m dreaming.\u00a0 Great service and quality<\/li>\n<li><strong>Toll-Free Phone System<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grasshopper.com\" target=\"_blank\">Grasshopper<\/a>.\u00a0 Outstanding product for small businesses looking to become big businesses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Web Hosts<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eboundhost.com\" target=\"_blank\">eBoundHost<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediatemple.net\" target=\"_blank\">MediaTemple<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webhost4life.com\" target=\"_blank\">WebHost4Life<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfchosting.com\" target=\"_blank\">LFCHosting<\/a>.\u00a0 I know, why four.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had great experiences with each, even with service calls (some better than others) and sometimes it&#8217;s easier to leave things be than to squeeze every nickel out of things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my more procrastinatively-inspired moments, I reflect on the online business management tools I currently use and whether there are any all-encompassing tools that can help me reduce overall expenses.\u00a0 Maybe someone out there will have a suggestion.\u00a0 So here goes my list: Project management: Basecamp &#8211; the interface feels natural and customers love it\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/what-business-software-do-you-use\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}