Recent content by ChrisR

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    Hi all, so who's the busiest UKBF user tonight?

    More thoughtfull than busy... how to get more users... Chris GHR Software, ZIIA, free Enterprise Information System
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    Anyone here doing...

    Hi, Is there anyone here whose business is selling/setting up/installing computers (and networks) in SMEs (or for individuals)? Basically, people come and see you and by some PCs and you go and install them and link them all up to the network? Chris, GHR Software, ZIIA EIS, free Enterprise...
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    IT Recruitment

    I've done some IT recruiting for my company. What's the prob? Chris,
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    Bottom Line Profit

    You seek discouts, but for example, do you seek optimising your internal business processes (better use of IT, ...). Of course, this depends what your activity is, but for example do you use any ERP type software to manage your business?
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    Bottom Line Profit

    We work a lot in IT. IT can increase revenue by two means : "internal cost reduction (for example with Business Process Optimisation/improvement/Reengineering)" or "new opportunities (for example E-Commerce/B2B/B2C/...)". Most often we find ourselves spending much time trying to convince people...
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    Would you use affordable Translation services to target international markets?

    Thanks for the info. I'll investigate that too as soon as our message DataBase is stable enough (still quite some work to do).
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    Would you use affordable Translation services to target international markets?

    It could be interisting, as we wish to internationalise (translate) our free ERP (ZIIA EIS, www.ghrsoftware.com). This would be a message data base (stuff like "open file", "search entries", "enter product code", ...) which would need translating to lets say German (we have French and English...
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    Relationship between ownership and investment

    Hi, You say you'll bring around 10%, meaning the investor will bring around 90%. I don't see why an investor would do that without having a large share of the ownership. Unless... When you say 10%, you mean in money. Isn't there any way you could capitalise some knowledge/blue...
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    Advice on new company

    You'll probably never get a better opportunity to start your own business... If you want to start your own business, go for it, you've got two years visibility, which is enormous these days. You could even employ someone to do the job while you look for other clients, and get something bigger...
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    Born into the Market!!!

    For sure, you should start by figuring out what you want to do. Either take something you've got a good opportunity for (if you have freinds in the market, or you know it's really fast growing, or you know some potential customers, ...) or something you really like (passion, hobby, ...). Once...
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    I would like to know how to get people to visit a particular website

    Hi, If you've got some free software to download, then you can quite easily get your site registered and referenced by free software download sites. Depending on how it goes, that can bring you a few hundreds a day when you have new stuff (or new versions) to offer. I've done this once for...
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    I would like to know how to get people to visit a particular website

    Want kind of traffic? Hundreds a day, thousands/day or millions/day?
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    Need to convert word doc to .pdf - best free program?

    Word 2007 does it native (a plugin for MS)
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    How to start a business from scratch?

    From what I gather, you're shoes won't be high standard or anything, you'll be competing to be the cheapest (against "enormous" companies). (Otherwise you's be doing R&D trying to event new shoes, new designs, ...) Large distributors will buy from you if your shoes are cheaper. You should try...
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    What PDA do you own?

    HTC TyTN Windows Mobile 6. I like it because it has standard Microsft stuff : Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Zip, PDF Reader, ... It's easy to use and in fact I write a lot of stuff on it during lunch breaks, travels and stuff. It synchonises agenda, contacts, tasks, ... with my...