http://www.saasu.com online accounting Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:41:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Friday before Silicon Beach drinks I had a catchup with the other Webciety companies that will be at CeBIT Sydney over the next 3 days along with Saasu. The Webciety pavilion focuses on web-based society. It features SaaS web applications like Saasu, mobile web, wikis, web communities, blogs, microblogs ... http://www.saasu.com/2009/05/11/webciety-2009/ I often get asked how a business can minimise the time spent (and thus money) "doing" their accounts. The first step is to get online to create access, convenience and remove tasks that you otherwise have to do such as backups, upgrades and installs. Secondly, and more importantly, you need to ... http://www.saasu.com/2009/02/20/generate-your-accounts/ One consequence of the Global Financial Crisis or as they now are calling it the Global 'Economic' Crisis is that Foreign Exchange (FX) rates are now very volatile. 10% movements are now common replacing 1% movements. This brings about interesting opportunities for consumers. This was highlighted recently when I was looking ... http://www.saasu.com/2008/12/13/wild-fx-rates-online-vs-offline-shopping/ We have launched a new Saasu Product Blog in order to help our customers and followers get the specific content they want from Saasu. You can find the Product Blog at productblog.saasu.com (subscribe). Our soapbox opinion and ideas around business, technology and simplification in life will still be found in ... http://www.saasu.com/2008/12/10/new-saasu-product-blog/ I attended a fantastic EOTW conference in Perth, Australia last week (Twitter hash tag #EOTW08). I met some inspiring people like Derek Featherstone the FurtherAhead.com accessibility Gu (A leading Guru) who is also a keen triathlete. I also did a workshop with Google JS/jQuery Gu Cameron Adams (aka The Man ... http://www.saasu.com/2008/11/13/edge-of-the-web-by-awia/ Saasu was one of the Top 10 Web 2.0 businesses mentioned in Smart Company magazine and website. It's always always nice to get a mention but when it's along side some great companies we look up to like Atlassian and RedBubble it feels great. The article points out Saasu's strong ... http://www.saasu.com/2008/10/29/saasu-makes-smart-company-top-10-web20-entrepreneurs/ What things can you do in your business to make it fun for your customers? Back in 2000 we drew up some plans to make an accounting system a bit like a Monopoly board. The idea being that as your business assets grew you would see an image of you factory ... http://www.saasu.com/2008/09/22/gaming-and-accounting/ If you're a business owner I recommend attending conferences. The trick is to pick the eyes out of them. I only go to about three a year as either a speaker or a sponsor. So ruthless choices are required. My picks are Barcamp, Edge of the Web and CeBIT. Edge of ... http://www.saasu.com/2008/08/28/edge-of-the-web/ There is a short-sited view in business that over servicing customers is bad business. Service is a cost is often the cry from management. Some of the behaviours around optimising customer service even aimed at sending customers away to your competitors that fell below your cost of servicing hurdle. Other ... http://www.saasu.com/2008/08/08/5-reasons-to-over-service-your-customers/ I was going through my e-mail this morning and noticed that I use the "Starred" feature in Gmail to remind me when I promise something to a customer. At Saasu we have started tracking promises using Saasu activities. I guess as business people we all probably have some room for ... http://www.saasu.com/2008/07/04/promise-tracking/