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If you are interested in saving money for your small business, church, community group, or non profit organization, this blog is here to help you. We feature articles, reviews, and information about companies that offer goods and services that you can purchase online.
We list only well known, trusted companies and we look for those that offer on-going promotions to their customers. Not only can you save money but you can also save time. So look around and come back often to see what’s new and let us help you find what you need and do so economically.
Best,
Mark Holmgren
Add comment November 19, 2008
Vista Print – Quality, Reliability, Affordable
We run three businesses and for all of them we do business with Vista Print. We use them for business cards for our 15 employees, brochures, posters, post cards, letterhead, hats, and other promotional items. We like this company because we can build our products online, using their templates or by uploading our own designs. The convenience and the company’s excellent and reliable technology, along with great pricing, makes Vista Print our printing vendor of choice.
As a bonus, Vista Print continually offers promotions that save us even more money and they keep adding services too. For example, they recently added a design service, so you can use their graphic artists and they now will sell mailing lists and do the mailings for you to selected zip codes. We have looked at their pricing for both and they are competitive. While we won’t use their graphic design services ourselves (we do everything in house), we are currently exploring with Vista Print the possibility of extending our partnership with them to include mailings. If we do that, we will update our review.
We feel safe and secure using this company because they have been around for a good amount of time and have 16 million customers. Such volume helps to guarantee good pricing and such a sizable customer base gives us the assurance that they will be around to serve our needs in the future.
You can sign up your business for free at Vista Print and then look around at what they have to offer. We suggest you sign up when you have a project in mind, so you can see what it is like to build it using their software.
If you require assistance in learning how to use their software, we can help you with some online training. It takes about an hour and then you will be good to go! Contact us if you need more info: 813 326 7511.
Current promotions at Vista Print:
30% Off Plus Free Shipping on Orders over $50 at VistaPrint.com!
Add comment November 23, 2008
Stamps.com – Forget the postage meter
Stamps.com is the best way to manage all your mailing needs. You can print postage stamps right to your printer, printout mailing labels, and get discounts with UPS and FedEx as well. You can upload your mail list so you can print out labels if you wish and store all of that info online. You can even get some great deals on a weigh scale, if you don’t have one.
What’s really cool is that, you get all of Stamps.com services for a monthly charge of $15.95, with no contract to sign, which means you can stop anytime. Compare that to the higher fees of a postage meter, all the hidden costs that aggravate you, and having to lock yourself into a contract.
You can sign up for a free four week trial and get $5.00 in postage just for doing that. That gives you time to explore the site, and see if the site really is right for your business.
Add comment November 22, 2008
Zoomerang – Easy to use online survey tool
Zoomerang online survey software is the market leader since 1999 with over one million satisfied customers and a 97% customer satisfaction score. Zoomerang is an easy-to-use, customizable web-based survey tool which provides rapid results.
Why Recommend Zoomerang?
Zoomerang is the easiest way to ask and the fastest way to know. Zoomerang has brought the powerful tool of insight via online surveys to students, educators, non-profit volunteers and a wide range of businesses. As the leader in online surveys, our customers can quickly and easily create custom online surveys and receive fast feedback. Zoomerang’s full-featured Professional version provides free telephone support, unlimited surveys and responses, expert guidance, powerful features and much more. No wonder Zoomerang is the market leader!
I have used this online tool numerous times to create and analyze online surveys. You can even email the survey to your email list right from Zoomerang. If your organization is looking for a robust yet easy tool to use to survey your donors, customers, students, or others, this is the tool for you.
Zoomerang- Easiest way to ask, fastest way to know. Learn more about Zoomerang
Add comment November 22, 2008
123inkjets.com
123inkjets.com offers printer ink cartridges and laser toners for all major printers such as HP, Cannon, Lexmark, and Dell.
They make the shopping experience easy and fun, offering high quality products to meet every household’s needs. The company also provides a 1-year risk free guarantee for consumers, and free shipping on purchases of $55 or more.
Add comment November 22, 2008
ReStockIt.com
If you are looking for discount office supplies, electronics, janitorial spplies, restaurant and kitchen supplies and more, ReStockit has more than 200,000 quality brand name products at 40% below retail. They sell brand name products, so you don’t have to worry about what you are getting. They ship from 57 warehouses around the nation, which means delivery time is excellent.
Add comment November 22, 2008
FranklinCovey
FranklinCovey is the global leader in productivity tools and training for individuals and organizations. The company offers a wide variety of high-quality products to suit the up-and-coming as well as established business professionals of today.
Their deluxe day planners and leather binders; uniquely designed business bags, handbags, and accessories; award-winning planning software and the latest handhelds are all designed to eliminate stress and help you achieve success.
Add comment November 22, 2008
Capital Supply
Capitol Supply is an industry leading company that focus on selling consumer goods, office supplies, electronics, hardware and more online.
With over 1.5 million products available to ship, there’s almost nothing that Capitol Supply cannot provide. Besides having a vast catalog of in-stock products, Capitol Supply also offers FREE SHIPPING on almost every order!
With more than 25 years of experience, Capitol Supply is in the business of helping you do business. Check them out. Compare what they offer to Staples, Best Buy, etc. You might be suprised.
Add comment November 22, 2008
RingCentral – Affordable Call Management
RingCentral, Inc. puts businesses and professionals In Touch and In ControlTM by unifying and intelligently managing all their phone, mobile, fax and email communications with a single phone number and an easy-to-use online control center. The company developed the first virtual phone system designed specifically to meet the needs of small businesses and mobile professionals.The company is leveling the playing field for small businesses by offering voice communications capabilities available only to large corporations — until recently. So far, more than 40,000 businesses have tapped into the power of RingCentral, and thousands more are signing up each month.
RingCentral combines a toll-free or local number with advanced call management, PBX, voicemail and Internet fax, enabling customers to set up multiple extensions with voicemail, automatically screen, forward and place calls, take voicemail, send and receive faxes, and receive message alerts. With RingCentral, businesses never miss an important call, or waste time on unwanted calls. RingCentral is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., and is funded by Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures.
Get your own Toll Free or Local Number with voicemail for as low as $9.99 per month.
Current Promotion
Includes 300 FREE Fax Pages per month
Add comment November 22, 2008
Business Card Scanner Increases Productivity
CardScan is a small desktop device that quickly and accurately reads the printed information from business cards, email or internet contact data into the fields of a powerfully searchable, highly compatible contact database.
Contact Management System for Windows
There is a personal card scanner but the executive version is great for the power user. This solution features a desktop scanner and full-featured software that scans in color in about three seconds. It synchronizes with Outlook®, Windows® mobile devices and smart phones plus ACT!TM, Lotus® Notes and GoldMine®.
Add comment November 21, 2008
Blue Tie: Email and Online Collaboration
As an industry leader in Software as a Service (SaaS), BlueTie offers a best-in-class solution that includes email, shared contacts, shared calendars, and more providing small to medium sized businesses with the tools they need to strengthen their business, all at a fraction of the cost of more traditional solutions.
Only BlueTie offers email with the Web’s most useful services, allowing users to access a comprehensive and innovative solution anytime, anywhere. Not only do BlueTie users get a comprehensive email and collaboration suite, but they also have access to tools such as integrated travel planning, email marketing and electronic faxing – all from right within the BlueTie application!
Click this for Business Class Email with integrated Spam Protection, Shared Calendar, Contacts & File Storage for just $4.99 a month!
Add comment November 21, 2008
