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Top TEN products for the Entrepreneur
Check out our Top Ten list of products that are game-changing and indispensable to our business life’s health and success. These recommendations are not lightly made.
1
Outsourced Accounting
“Bookkeeping and BS” is what AccountingDepartment.Com does for Luhring SurvivalWare, Inc. We’re almost all electronic now with only occasional snail mail invoices to scan. AccountingDepartment.Com provides weekly cash reconciliations, credit cards are paid 3 days prior to due date, and tax filings are no longer a worry. At about $1,000 a month, we consider it money well spent. They take care of the BS so we can do the fun stuff.
2
Issue Tracking
Understanding our service costs and usage rates is critical to our success. IssueTrak tracks help-requests systematically, keeping us on our product development toes. This is the tip of the iceberg for what you can do with IssueTrak. And, we’re only paying $127 per month for the service running on IssueTrak’s servers.
3
Website Analytics
Google Analytics: What an incredible product! And it’s free! Just add a snippet of code to every web page, and Google Analytics does the rest.
It tracks visits, traffic sources, page views, and country of origin, among other interesting tidbits.
Good graphics and export capability.
4
Franchise Opportunity
If you decide to go the franchise route, we can’t think of a better managed franchise company to deal with. They do an impeccable job of putting the proper tools in place to facilitate their franchisees’ success.
Yes, they are customers of ours but we are also their biggest fans in the printing business!
5
Virtual PBX
We found this gem early in the year when we realized we needed a central number for new customers and prospects to call. For about $35 a month, we get a toll free number plus a standard number with up to 10 extensions. You can even set it up so that a call is transferred to a cell phone in a foreign country when the extension is selected.
6
Cheap Web Meetings
“How could I conduct business without GoToMeeting? As indispensable as a cell phone!”
We use it for demos, meetings, distance learning, and webinars. Occasionally we’ll use it for customer support to allow us to peek at a customer’s screen when a problem occurs.
With GoToMeeting, you get unlimited usage for meetings of up to 50 people for only $49.95 per month. Plus, webinars of up to 1,000 participants at only $99.95 per month.
7
Sending Large Files
You can send files up to 100 MB in size and up to 100 downloads per file, for free.
We signed up for expanded service at only $9.95 per month, allowing convenient packing of files up to 2 GB. Great for software, high def videos, and large documents. The paid service gives you 500 downloads per file.
8
Website and PPC Management
Wpromote re-designed our website, moved it to a dedicated server for us, moved the blog to the same server, and somehow made it all work. What an awesome job they did and continue to do! They are a California based company with a young staff and a brilliant CEO. Highly recommended.
- #1 Ranked Search Engine Marketing Firm by TopSEOs
- #1 Search Engine Marketing Firm on 2007 Inc. 500
- #34 LA Business Journal Fastest Growing Companies 2008
- PWC Entretech Entrepreneurial Award 2008
9
Understanding Cash Flow
If you can only read one book when you are first starting out as an entrepreneur, this book has got to be it. Philip does an incredible job of explaining the difference between profit and cash flow, and why it matters.
10
Managing Cash Flow
SurvivalWare Pro with the Fort Knox model is an essential tool we use for managing our cash flow. That and the Daily Flash Model help us anticipate problems and turn on a dime when we have to. Put your fingers on the pulse of your business with our easy to use analysis and cash flow software.
We have no direct financial interest in selling these products and services except as noted:
SurvivalWare Pro – We use our own product frequently and highly recommend you do the same!
IssueTrak – CEO, Hank Luhring, and brother of Rusty Luhring, founder and CEO of Luhring SurvivalWare. Rusty Luhring serves on the board of IssueTrak. IssueTrak Inc. is a customer of Luhring SurvivalWare, Inc. and LSI is a customer of IssueTrak.
AlphaGraphics is a customer of Luhring SurvivalWare. We’re their biggest fans!
Philip Campbell is a long time business partner of Rusty Luhring and Luhring SurvivalWare.
Testimonials
“I signed up for it because it had a free trial.”
“So, I found SurvivalWare on the internet and signed up for it because it had a free trial. It had high recommendations. Seemed to be a tool that would work for what I wanted it to do—so I signed up for the free trial and began to use it.”
“By the time my 30 days were up, I realized that it was something that was absolutely imperative for me to have to do this work and it worked really well.”
“And If I had had to do that with the spreadsheet, I would have been crazy. It would have been absolutely insane.”
“To take it from the raw data, from the company and put it into their spreadsheet would have been massive collating and sorting process because it had to be done 60 times. And while we were analyzing and trying to figure out how to put their projections into a future basis, there would be lots of changes that were happening during this analysis process. And If I had had to do that with the spreadsheet, I would have been crazy. It would have been absolutely insane.”
Terry Armstrong
Financial Analyst
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