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In this section of uknowbiz Community we are presenting business tools that could hold great value for your business and life. They deserve your attention and time to be reviewed or evaluated.
 
QuoteWerks
QuoteWerks by Aspire Technologies


Providing quotes is an important step for almost any business. More quoting you need to do, bigger the importance of it.

One of the greatest tools we have seen for this is QuoteWerks. It has hard to find flexibility, features and ease of use you may need from a quoting tool.

Here are some of its key functionality points:

     > create hundreds of quotes quickly and easily
     > professional look of your quotes
     > different pricing models
    
> quickly create revisions of the quotes
     > easy to find and retrieve previous quotes
     > create your own product bundles
     > have your own product price lists
     > taxes management and automation
     > track commissions
     > share quotes among team members
     > integration with CRM packages
     > integration with accounting packages
     > support for multiple currencies

List of features is extensive. We have outlined few we think are very important.

In summary, QuoteWerks’ ability to quickly provide comprehensive quotes is just GREAT.

The product comes with 30-day free software evolutions licenses. Try it out!


   


Customer Relationship Management

Act! by Sage

Customer Relationship Management, sales management and client communication are the most important areas of any successful business.

Act! has done great work in making implementation of all this very simple and fast!

Within few hours you can see all of your sales opportunities, records all customer activities, group clients and potential customers into many ways to send them e-mail flyers, print labels for mailers or do mass faxing.

Real time reporting of your sales funnel and activities is at your fingertips. Easy and simple!

Payoff from implementing Customer Relationship Management solution is significant and immediate.
 



Accounting

QuickBooks

Accounting is one of the most important software applications you need in your business.

Being able to accurately track all sales orders, customer invoices, your purchase orders, inventory, employee payments, expenses, cash flow are few things to mention.

Intuit with QuickBooks has done a great job in simplifying all accounting matters!

There is a dashboard where you can see your business real performance at any point of time. Revenue, expenses, profits and money at your disposal.

Payoff from implementing QuickBooks is immediate. You gain full control over your business financials.
 



 

 
Online Customer Surveys
QuestionPro

Knowing what your clients think and want is worth pure gold.  To get this input it is not all that hard nor expensive. Within 10-15 minutes you can create and send an online survey to all of your clients or prospects.

Get to know:
- what your clients want to buy
- how are they satisfied with your products/services
- how can you serve them better

Your imagination is the only limitation.

Beauty of online survey tool is that you can instantly see reports of what your clients are saying. And act upon that.

Many survey templates are available for free.
Conducting basic surveying is free of charge. We have enjoyed power of QuestionPro in many ways. 

Payoff is almost immediate. Enjoy! 

 



Business Planning
MindManager by MindJet

MindManager is a very unique product that let's us  quickly map out our ideas, concepts, plans, layouts, strategies, presentations and so on.

Effective planning is a first and the most important step in any success. This is where MindManager would provide great value!

People at MindJet did a great job at preparing many templates that you can use right a way and they are free.
 
Learning required for this product is minimal. It is self intuitive, visual, feature rich and easy to use.

Try it out, MindJet offers this free of charge.
 
   
 
 
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