I finally decided to use Business Contact Manager in Outlook instead of using SalesForce. com.  The SalesForce policy of annoying the living hell out of trial members made this an easy decision.  I got bombarded with voice mail and email from some guy named Mike from SalesForce who wanted to talk to me about the trial.   I am perfectly capable of evaluating software on my own.  Ugh.  I can only imagine how much they would have hassled me after I signed up to try to get me to update to a more advanced membership.  It’s like when you donate to a charity.  After you’re on their list they send you an incessant amount of postal mail pleading with you for more money.  They should spend their postage and printing fees on the people who benefit from the charity and leave me the hell alone.</tangent>

Gromit

We’re babysitting this little puppy today.  He looks much bigger than he really is in this photo.

I’m looking at using Business Contact Manager in Outlook for CRM. I’m also tempted to use SalesForce.

I’m not going to continue to do daily updates about freelancing, but I will post when something relevant comes up.

My Snazzy Work Area

I have work for two clients that I HAVE to have done tomorrow, but it’s not going to be terrible.  I have a third client that I need to get some work done for and I need to start on a proposal for a potential client.

One day next week I’m going to vegetate.  I think I’ve earned it.

My new phone and headset are setup and work.  I don’t have any problems with the sites I’ve mentioned previously.  Everything is fine so far.

I’m trying out a CRM site called TactileCRM.  So far so good.

Other than ordering things I did some research for a potential client and a little bit of work for an existing client.

I still need to build a website that promotes my niche service of building websites for credit card affiliate publishers.  First I should probably redesign my main site at BarryBoggs.com.

For my invoicing I’m using Freshbooks.  For my accounting I’m using a service that you can tie into Freshbooks called Outright.

For my todo list I signed-up for a service called Toodledo.  You can sync this to Outlook with Toodledo Outlook Sync.

For time tracking, I signed up with Toggl and I highly recommend it.

I’m getting the foundation laid the will help me spend more time on working and less time with minutia.  I’ll let you know in future posts how these services work out.

Next week I get to file for unemployment benefits!

Currently I’m sitting on the train heading to work where I should find
out this morning if I’m getting laid off or not.

Should be an interesting day.