An article posted on the US site SoftwareAdvice caught my eye today. What with world leaders meeting in New York to discuss climate change I thought it might be an opportune moment to look at the green credentials of web-based software and shamelessly re-work some of the numbers the original...
Earlier this year I attended the Business Startup Exhibition in London. They were running an event based on the Dragons Den format.
Someone was pitching an idea for a web-based personal finance application. One of the “Dragons” tried to humiliate him and told him there was no demand for that...
It seems SagePay have been having some technical problems over the past day or so and the problems are ongoing and varied.
If you run a traditional ecommerce website and use SagePay (formerly ProTX) as your payment gateway then potential customers will have been getting to your checkout page...
With all the hype surrounding Twitter at the moment, it’s easy for people to overlook some of the other very useful sites out there. Especially if you’re new to business and/or social networking
One I’m determined to start making more use of is LinkedIn. They have this to say about...
There was a thread on UKBF recently asking for recommendations on PR companies. Someone suggested the money would be better spent on SEO - a debate ensued over what was best, PR or SEO.
My opinion is that they’re two different things and ideally you should use both (sitting on the fence for a...
I blogged 6 weeks ago about a series of events that caused me to put in place new growth plans for KashFlow. One of the important steps was moving our office from Basildon in Essex to central London. And now we’ve done it.
We’re now in our great new office at Magdalen House on Tooley St, SE1...
With KashFlow, you have one set of log-in credentials that log you in to the system and give you full access to everything. It’s not currently possible to have sub-users with defined permissions (ie, only create invoices). This suits the vast majority of our customers.
But inevitably some do...
Over the years I’ve ended up on so many mailing lists and newsletters, most of which just get deleted as soon as they hit my inbox. At some point I really should go through the unsubscribe options.
There’s one list I’m on that always gets read (or at least skimmed) as soon as the email lands...
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1. How did you start your company?
In 1995, I knew the web would be the next big thing. I had moved to...
When you’re running a small business, it makes sense to engage with the media. They help get your story out there and can give you valuable free coverage in well-read publications.
The last few years has seen the rise and rise of the blogger - a variation on the traditional journalist but they...
We interviewed someone the other day for a role as an office junior. The interview went well and we discussed the silliness of the “no experience” situation - you’ve got no experience so you can’t get a job, you’ve can’t get a job so you can’t get any experience.
She was duly offered the job...
One of the many things I love about KashFlow, as a business, is that the billing side of things is totally automated. So we don’t have to chase customers for payment.
I’ve been involved with businesses like that before and it can be really exhausting. So here are some tips to help you get paid...
TechCrunch have just published an article with 15 things to do whilst Twitter is down.
I’ve gone with #8 - Write your own blog post about Twitter being down.
As much as Twitter has become a part of my daily routine, so has the TechCrunch Europe site. It’s where I inevitably up whilst quickly...
With our upcoming office move, one of the many things to sort out is moving our broadband.
We have two broadband lines - one is your traditional broadband-over-a-phoneline from BT and the other is Virgin (formerly Telewest/NTL) cable broadband. We have two lines for two reasons. The first is...
We’ve got some huge positive changes happening here at KashFlow - and it’s all because I was asked one question.
We’ve had lots of interest from Venture Capitalists over the past year or so, and a few months ago I thought it might be fun to have a chat with some of them to see what was...
Sift Media have recently updated a few of their websites, including AccountingWeb and BusinessZone.
They look really good - a lot better than they did, but there’s something they’ve introduced that I think is a big mistake.
Continue Reading...
It’d be fair to say we court controversy here at KashFlow when it comes to marketing and this blog. Setting fire to boxed software, implying the over 60’s are over the hill, saying designers are all crap at business, a public dumping letter to Vodafone, Being evangelical and preachy about...
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so rather than a lengthy blog post I’ve put together a video to illustrate my point.
It’s also perhaps an analogy for the future of traditional software companies that don’t embrace SaaS. Turning to dust and blowing away in the wind.
I find the...
Dennis Howlett blogged today that Sage may never get SaaS. Ultimately he offered the same proposed solution as I did back in May: that they should spin off a new company - seperate from the current management - specifically to work on the SaaS problems they face.
What I loved about the post...
I’ve blogged before about how I started KashFlow with the help of the Prince’s Trust. I’m eternally grateful for the help I got from them and I’ve since been involved in number of fund-raising events for them and been lucky enough to meet some pretty high-calibre, ultra-successful people...
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