Sage Summit 2011: CRM at a Crossroads
I’ve known Sage since before they were Sage so to speak. I was a SalesLogix Technology Partner back in ‘99 – in other words when men were men and cocktails were hooch (I don’t know what that means.). When it comes to CRM, they are, without a doubt, one of the most enigmatic companies I’ve [...]
Square: It’s All About the Momentum, Baby!
Reading about Square’s latest $100 million in capital raised at a $1 billion valuation, it’s tempting to write another Bubble Story. While it’s undeniable that it would be hard to do that financing in the wake of the recent Sequoia RIP Good Times era, there’s something more interesting to think about here. First, let [...]
Small Businesses Need a Minimum Viable Marketing Strategy
I’ve taken to thinking that marketers should view marketing on the web as a product. As I said in my post on the Pitfalls of Free Content and Inbound Marketing: Marketing is a Product that has a UX and Competes Like Any Other Product It’s easy to forget because we don’t charge for it that [...]
E-Invoicing — Is the 80% Solution Enough?
There’s another thought provoking post over on Purchasing Insight that suggests we may need to settle for the 80% electronic invoicing model rather than what many of us no doubt would aspire to. The piece argues that “Adopting a h…
How a Market Maker Sees Software Firms/Entrepreneurs
Is your software firm growing at an acceptable rate? Why can’t it grow more? Check out this expert interview into the dynamics of growing a great software company and getting the liquidity event you’ve dreamed of.
Salesforce and Intuit in Partnership
Salesforce made its second major announcement of the week today when, along with Intuit, it announced a partnership between the two companies to deliver an integrated front and back office solution for small companies. Salesforce will integrate its SaaS based CRM technology with Intuit’s very popular QuickBooks. The price point for the integrated solution was [...]
This Product Roadmap Kerfluffle is Getting a Bit Silly
In case you’ve missed it, there’s a big Kerfluffle on right now over whether SaaS companies should share a product roadmap with customers or not. The charge against is led by Kashflow CEPO Duane Jackson, who says sharing your roadmap is flawed because: – Reduces agility – Creates expectations that make it harder to delight [...]
2011 ERP survey: New IT failure research and statistics
A new survey of small business ERP projects sheds light on project success and failure.
Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books
This morning Zoho, known for SMB focused SaaS offerings in the areas of productivity, collaboration, business processes launched an Accounting app: Zoho Books. I typically don’t do detailed product reviews, when I see the first good ones, will link to them – just a few points here and then let’s discuss how it rounds out [...]
America: Built by the Little Guys, Not the Big Ones
I correspond with quite a lot with friends in the Manufacturing world, as one of my big interests aside from software is building things. Come to think of it, that’s really my interest in software too! For a long time there has been a great hue and cry about the demise of Manufacturing in the [...]
