We finally got our Wave invitation and have spent a few minutes fooling around with it today, meeting and chatting with guys in Israel and India – kinda like a three way real time Twitter.
Lucky people already using Wave can find us at stevensreeves@googlewave.com – please connect.
For us Mac people there are some things which just don’t work (apparently they need Google Gears or Chrome, neither of which are available on my configuration. There are also some things that hav... Read Full Story
If you haven’t been managing sales for thirty years
If you haven’t managed 50 people selling $000,000 systems
If you haven’t worked at getting other people to implement systems
If you haven’t fought the battle against the beancounters
If you haven’t struggled to build software to help people do it properly in ways they can accommodate
If you read all that crap published by marketers, commentators and consultants and think it means something
Go and screw up you... Read Full Story
Can I steal your ideas, or can you steal mine? While you wouldn’t do that, I know, there are people around who would. How can we protect our work?
Some weeks ago I got wound up when Zemanta offered me a link which sounded familiar. In fact it wasn’t like something I’d written it WAS a headline I’d written. This did not please me.
I headed straight over to the site and, happily, found somebody had reposted one my articles, but with full accreditation. This is a ... Read Full Story
Interested in promoting your business in a video interview – to Front Office Box users and everywhere else?
I’m keen to feature FOB User businesses in our Knowledgebase and this video is a pilot to see how it turns out.
The conversation was conducted over Skype and recorded on my screen using Screenr. I could have embedded the html code from Screenr which would have given us a better quality movie here. But instead I downloaded the .mp4 file from Screenr, then uploaded it to You... Read Full Story
They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, in which case I should be pleased.
Strangely it doesn’t feel like that. Maybe I don’t really believe my interpretation of what we’ve seen? Maybe I’m just pissed off at my ideas being stolen? Maybe I’m disappointed at my own failure to exploit our vision?
But there should be no surprise. We’ve combined front line experience in sales and sales management with first hand experience of software design... Read Full Story
Owner/managers are busy people, far too busy to spend time sifting through social networks to sort the real business guys from the spammers and scammers.
But there are real benefits to connecting with like minded entrepreneurs to swap stories, get help or find partners. – Providing a network to help them do that is central to our ambitions for Front Office Box. That’s our goal.
It looks as if Google is going to offer a stream of enabling technologies to help us do that. It’... Read Full Story
It seems to me the hardest thing to sell at any time is a new idea!
We have more than our fair share of these challenges. Happily social media provides a new platform on which we can get those ideas some air time. It still isn’t easy but it’s a heck of a lot easier than door knocking or working the phones.
Our main challenge at the moment is developing a business for a new science -worse – a new science in medicine. Health care is a sector which adopts new ideas at the pa... Read Full Story
Google Wave was featured by the BBC recently. Here’s a video of the article.
If you don’t spend your entire life watching what’s happening on the Internet you probably won’t be aware of the excitement generated by the release of Google Wave.
Reports from those who got the earliest invitations to use it are a bit [...]
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