How local business professionals are using lead generation techniques to turn their websites into their top salesman

Most local professionals or business owners will be only too familiar with the concept of feast or famine when it comes to securing new clients. Traditional approaches such as networking, referrals or advertising are very time consuming and take professionals away from earning their fees. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you fed up with Spam?

SystemAssure have launched a new hosted email management security and compliance service. For just £1.00 a month per user you need never be bothered with Spam again.

But Wait There’s More – complete email management solution

At £1.00 a user for Spam Management it’s great value, but we are also including several other options to make this a complete email management solution. Included in the package is:-

• Email Signatures
• Email legal disclaimers
• Scanning for email Viruses
• email continuity service

SystemAssure provides a complete hosted email management service for business of all sizes. Whether your business uses an SBS Server or a hosted email solution our email management service represents great value.

Optional email Archive

There is an optional email archive module to round out the email management solution. This is  hosted service which provides an archive, for regulatory compliance purposes.

email management solution

Find out more about the email management service from SystemAssure.

Capsule – Small Business CRM

If you are running a Small Business and are thinking about looking for a Small Business CRM solution look no further than Capsule CRM. Capsule is a Cloud Service, so there is no software to install or data to backup, your data is stored securely in the Cloud.

What does Small Business CRM do?

Just like any other business  Small Businesses needs to manage their sales pipeline, contacts and accounts. Capsule CRM will help you do just that, so you never loose track of  customer or sales opportunity again. More at http://www.computerspot.co.uk/get-crm-on-the-move-on-with-capsule-crm-mobile/

If you would like to be able to have customer details entered direct into your Sales pipeline from your website Capsule CRM can do that for you with its Web-to-Lead option. It can even trigger  a set of tasks and reminders for you, to ensure that web leads, and other Sales opportunities are correctly followed up.

Mobile CRM

Capsule have recently added a mobile application,which will let you update contacts etc whilst on the move. So you will never be without the contact details for a customer, and can even lookup their address on Google Maps direct from the application.

The mobile option is included at no extra charge and works with iPhone, Blackberry and Android Devices.

Free Trial

Try Capsule CRM for Free for 30 days by singing up now at www.capsulecrm.com

Come along to our Visitors Day on 1st February and take the first step towards accelerated business growth.

The last Fortress Fareham visitor day was very well attended

We will show you a warm welcome and introduce you to lots of new business contacts. You will experience the power of the BNI formula and see for yourself how networking really works.

We meet for breakfast which means you get your working day off to a great start.

“If you believe that most business comes through networking with whom you know – then BNI is for you.” The London Times

If you’re interested in attending then either call Raglan Tribe on 0797 3337372 or leave your details in the reply forms at the bottom of this post.

Business Continuity for Small Businesses Did you, or any of your customers, lose business last week because of the weather?

If you weren’t able to answer the office phone, or were unable to respond to email then the chances are that you lost business. Just because you can’t get to the office it doesn’t mean that you are unable to answer the phone, work email and send out quotes.

How would you like to be able to work from anywhere, and bring the office to where you are?

Using Hosted IT Services, you can do just that. Hosted Services costs less than you might think, with Exchange at £3.50 a user and VoIP at an average of £4:00 a user per month. All without the need for capital investment.

Business Continuity for Small Businesses, in practice

Planning for Business Continuity for Small Businesses should be part of any IT Strategy. It will help improve the flexibility of your IT Systems and give your business more options for home workers,without costing you any more money.

To find out more about how you can make your IT Systems Disaster proof read my blog ‘Business Continuity for Small Businesses’ at ComputerSpot.

BNI LinkedIn

Details of the weekly Fortress Fareham meetings can now be found on LinkedIn.

How to find Fortress Fareham on BNI linkedIn

If you are interested in attending one of the regular Fortress Fareham meetings please go to http://events.linkedin.com/BNI-Fortress-Fareham-Visitors-Day/pub/543077 and let us you that you plan to attend.

(Link updated for the meeting 1st February 2011)

Unfortunately the event link from LinkedIn does change on a weekly basis so either keep coming back here to check the link, or search for Fortress Fareham within the Events section of LinkedIn.

The Fortress Fareham Chapter officially launches on Tuesday 28th September. Visitors are welcome.