Have you ever found the need to make CAD drawings available to architects? Or perhaps specification sheets available to sales people? Distributing those in an organized way and keeping everyone on the correct version is no easy task. A convenient place to put those resources would be with their respective products in SellingPoint, since SellingPoint already takes care of the distribution and versioning of you products now. Now you can, by attaching them directly to your products. You will find that this new feature is available in SellingPoint Management Studio version 5.0.2318 and newer. Simply open your SellingPoint catalog of products, choose a product, and notice the "File Attachments" tab across the bottom. Clicking that will give you the opportunity to attach as many files as you need, no matter what their type. Your SellingPoint users will then be able to download these files right off the web site....

Version 2 of the OnTime System introduces a concept of rebranding the system to better fit the expectations of your business. Customization is an important thing when it comes to encouraging your users to be comfortable with the system. In OnTime version 2, nearly everything is customizable including the terminology. What is the common term in your company for customers? Some use the term shippers, some clients, while others simply use customers. But using the right term for your business makes the system comfortable for your users and OnTime makes this possible. Simply follow these steps: Open OnTime Management Suite. Go to the Tools menu and choose General Options. Select the Terminology tab. While we offer some common terms in this area, you are free to change these to whatever best fits your business. After clicking the OK button to save the changes and then performing a Synchronization, everyone in your organization will start seeing your new terms appear throughout...

Vesigo Studios has released SellingPoint Sales Edition, build 5.0.723. This new version makes it possible for manufacturers using the SellingPoint System to distribute their catalogs and SmartQuote Interviews to dealers, sales people, and other high volume customers. This Windows application can be installed on a laptop or other computer where there may be intermittent Internet connectivity. This allows order entry and quoting to be accomplished offline, in the field with no loss functionality. The latest version of SellingPoint Sales Edition can be downloaded from here....

Technology has dramatically altered the expectations of your customers; they have become accustomed to having real-time information at their fingertips. Technology is also enabling carriers to manage their resources more efficiently than ever. If your company is not taking advantage of the technology available today, you are losing significant business opportunities, and profits.  But which technology is right for your business? The Internet is the backbone of any connected system. This communication channel enables real-time information about your entire operation to flow between  management, drivers, dispatchers and customers. Having this information means you can provide unparalleled service and benefits to your customers; benefits that will guarantee your customers loyalty and your company’s continued growth. To this end many have promoted the so called “web application.” A web application is just a fancy web page, and while it does have a great many advantages over a traditional...

Improve productivity with technology that empowers your users to collaborate effectively Easily manage the use of files among users without losing the integrity of your documents Simplified navigation and views minimizes the learning curve and gets users productive in minutes Use Self Site Creation to instantly create new custom sites tailored to your business processes or sets of tasks Quickly create a team website without a web master, just a couple clicks of a mouse Reduce the complexity of securing business information with easy to set permissions, memberships, and storage limits Provide sophisticated controls for securing company resources such as document or item level permissions Share your files with document storage and retrieval features, such as, check-in/check-out functionality, version history, custom metadata, and customizable views Manage every site and administrative setting using a web browser, without the need to install additional software Windows SharePoint...

Ever have a hard time finding the document, spreadsheets, or presentations you need to work with since you don’t know who has the file or which computer it’s on? Do you ever wish there was a lightning fast way to search every document in your organization no matter where they are? Do you ever need to work on the same document at the same time as a colleague? If you said yes to any of these questions you need Windows SharePoint Services. You will be surprised at the dramatic improvement in productivity when your team uses SharePoint as an internal portal for collaboration. Finding documents is a snap with the ability to search across files like searching with Google across the internet. SharePoint is designed from the ground up for sharing documents and even working on them at the same time with other team members, as if you’re looking over your colleague’s shoulder. And since it’s integrated directly with Microsoft Office, users will be up and running in no time all within the environment...

Easily manage documents and quality control - Enhanced features include the option to require document checkout before editing, the ability to view past revisions and restore to previous versions, and the ability to set document-specific security. Help your team stay on task - A variety of communication features let users know when actions are required or important changes are made to existing information or documentation, such as announcements, sophisticated alerts, surveys, and discussion boards. Stimulate creative interaction - Forums for brainstorming, building knowledge bases, or gathering information in a format that’s easy to edit with templates for implementing blogs and “wikis” (websites that can be quickly edited by team members without special technical knowledge). Get your users up to speed quickly - Integration with familiar tools, especially programs in the Microsoft Office system, makes it easy for users to get up to speed quickly. For example, users can create workspaces,...

You’ve emailed the new brochure you’ve been working on back and forth at least a dozen times. Now you’ve lost track of the version that has the latest revisions. It’s time to start over - so much for collaboration! There is a better way to collaborate - a way that enhances productivity. Windows SharePoint Services takes file sharing to a whole new level. Windows SharePoint Services provides your team with a single workspace to coordinate schedules, organize documents, and participate in discussions. Users can find and share data, with the added assurance that this data will not be lost. Read the Windows Sharepoint Overview to learn about the benefits for individuals, teams and managers....

CRM software is in demand by businesses of all sizes. Hosted solutions enable businesses of all sizes to access sophisticated customer relationship management tools for a reasonable price that includes technical assistance. Choices in the hosted CRM market have been somewhat limited to generic one-size-fits-all solutions without the functionality to support unique business requirements. In contrast, Vesigo CRM offers a broad scope of architectural options to provide a holistic platform for communication and collaboration. IT costs can place a real burden on your business. Vesigo is dedicated to providing their customers with quality solutions that eliminate unpredictable IT expenses. This allows you to redirect IT resources, reduce unanticipated support costs and accurately plan your budget. For a complete cost analysis, contact Vesigo Studios today. You may be surprised at how much we can reduce your current IT spending while providing you with the latest business solutions.  ...

Many companies are concerned about the perceived complexity of implementing a CRM system. Vesigo CRM enables organizations to take advantage of sophisticated customer acquisition by providing integration and customization that will adapt to your business. IntegrationVesigo CRM will integrate with Microsoft products and services that you use daily such as Outlook and Excel, as well as Microsoft Business Solutions ERM applications. Vesigo CRM also includes the ability to integrate with third party applications giving you total flexibility. Our experienced and certified developers are here to offer you the technical assistance to adapt CRM to the way you need it to work. This can include integration with existing software such as QuickBooks, Great Plains Accounting, Act!, and SharePoint. CustomizationSince no two businesses use the same processes or track the same customer data, the ability to customize is essential. With Vesigo CRM forms, relationship links, customer views and more can easily...

CRM or Customer Relationship Management isn’t a product, it’s a business strategy companies use to manage their relationships with customers. CRM software gives companies the necessary tools to provide exceptional one-on-one customer service. In today’s competitive business environment, mistreated customers can easily find other vendors or suppliers that are eager to replace you. If you can offer your customers a consistently personalized experience, they are much more likely to value their relationship with you and continue dealing with your company. As you business grows, CRM is a important ingredient for keeping your customer’s experience just as pleasant and personal as when you were smaller. As its name implies, customer relationship management is designed to make each and every customer’s experience better. It also recognizes that a customer’s relationship is not generally a onetime thing, but something that spans months and years. Since a typical customer might interact with your...

In the past it used to take a considerable amount of time to find answers to questions in general. But with the Internet, people are now finding answers to questions in less than 5 minutes. Take advantage of this trend by posting your support documents and other articles in a knowledgebase. Using knowledgebase makes it easy for your business to publish documents, articles, or frequently asked questions you want to share with customers and visitors to your site. As the knowledgebase grows, it will become an invaluable resource to both customers and employees who need to find answers to questions that have already been handled. You can get a knowledgebase implemented on your web site in no time with a powerful knowledgebase add-on from Vesigo Studios. Contact Vesigo Studios today to get this feature setup on your web site today....

Live Support from Vesigo will greatly enhance the customer service you provide from your website. When visitors come to your website they will see a live support button on your site, reassuring them that they will have easy access to a real person. Your ability to provide your customers with answers to their questions in real-time will increase their level of satisfaction. You can provide sales information and support for your customers instantly via your website with Vesigo's Live Support option. Live Support allows a customer or potential to instantly text message personnel in your company and request information or support. This is an important part of any company's website and is becoming an expected feature by many users. Vesigo Live Support features the following: Users get a clean, fast chat window without any messy ActiveX controls to install. If no one is available to chat with a visitor, they can leave a message using the contact form. Employees are alerted to visitors and...

In recent years, web sites have become much more interactive. Instead of just displaying static text and images, sites now interact with users and in the case of business sites have brought the visitor much closer to real-time company resources. For instance, it’s very common to log into your account, get an answer to a support question via a knowledgebase, and reach someone for live support. The value of having these interactive features on your web site extends beyond just saving your business time and money on support calls. This engenders confidence in your company as a whole and drives traffic to your site as visitors begin to trust your site as a good resource for knowledge and support. Vesigo is happy to offer such add-ons that will instantly add these rich, interactive features to your site....

Would you like to see how Vesigo Hosted Exchange works? More information on the features and benefits of Vesigo Hosted Exchange is available on our website including a demonstration account utilizing Outlook Web Access. Feel free to contact us with questions or to get your Exchange account set-up today....

Yes if…you want to work from anywhere at anytime.Vesigo Hosted Exchange gives you full access to all of your e-mail folders, contacts, calendars, and files from Microsoft Outlook or your Internet browser anywhere, anytime. Any changes made to your e-mails, contacts, calendar and files in any medium are kept up to date when accessed. Take advantage of Windows Mobile–based devices to stay on top of things while away from your computer. E-mail messages, contacts, schedules, and attachments are at your fingertips when you utilize Vesigo Hosted Exchange with your wireless device. Yes if…you want to increase your productivity. Exchange allows you to share your calendar with your coworkers so meetings can be scheduled within seconds. Administrative assistants can update appointments on other users' calendars which then will be automatically synchronized whether the users are in the office or not. Unwanted junk mail can cause a loss of productivity. Exchange from Vesigo comes with an advanced...

Exchange is being used by businesses large and small to increase productivity and collaboration. Instant 24 hour access to e-mails, contacts, and calendars has become crucial to the day-to-day operation of business. Exchange has given workers the ability to be more productive and in control of when and how they communicate. Workers regularly utilize Exchange to work at home, in satellite offices, at customer sites, or anywhere else with Internet access. This is especially helpful for business travel. For example, when on the airplane business travelers continue working offline until their next opportunity to reconnect and then the latest data is instantly synchronized. Exchange enhances collaboration between co-workers. Assistants have access to updated calendars that they can add, change, and delete appointments on. Across the company files, e-mails, contacts and calendars are easily shared through MS Outlook....

Ideally, your web site will be much more traffic if you can successfully get it to appear in the top 10 results returned by a search engine. But with so many web sites out there battling for your visitors, how can you improve the chances that you will start to appear at the top of the list? Each search engine, such as Google and MSN, are a little different in how they catalog and rank your web site. Here are a few suggestions: Be specific. The worse thing you can do on your site is be like everyone else. That makes you blend in, instead of standing out. So use words and phrases that are very specific and peculiar to your site’s content. Be sure to mention the local names, such as the state and city you’re located in. That will ensure you get pushed to the top if someone includes the name of your town in their search query. Be smart with keywords. A well designed web page will have hidden in the HTML a meta tag that contains a list of keywords to which search engines can look. This list...

With fraudulent, inappropriate and offensive emails being delivered in vast quantities every day, an anti-spam solution is vital to your company. Spam wastes time and resources, and can also be dangerous. Vesigo Studios filters all mail traveling through our server and eliminates the need to install, update and constantly tweak anti-spam software on each desktop. Vesigo Studios spam filtering requires no configuration on your part, and very low false positives through its automatic whitelist. We constantly tune the system to be able to adapt to current trends and improve spam detection. Vesigo Studios spam filtering also detects and blocks dangerous identity theft phishing emails. In addition Vesigo Studios offers a number of email management tools such automatic disclaimers, email list server, server-based auto replies and downloading of outside accounts to your Vesigo Hosted Exchange. Contact Vesigo Studios for more information....

The reason there is so much junk email is simple - spam works. Unfortunately, there are those who buy products advertised in junk email which just encourages them to send more and more and more. Junk email is cheap to send. By utilizing spam-friendly ISPs, spammers can send their emails out very inexpensively. Nowadays, the risk of getting caught is substantial and expensive, however so far it doesn’t appear to be enough to offset the profitability of sending spam....

Use a Separate Email Address - If you are going to be giving out your email address to unknown organizations, some have found it beneficial to have a separate email account with a provider such as Hotmail or Yahoo and use that secondary email account when handing out their address to strangers. That way any junk mail stemming from that will not clutter their primary inbox. There are also services that provide “disposable” email addresses that when disabled will bounce all spam back to the sender instead of your inbox. Report it - One of the best things you can do about spam, is to complain about it. Spammers can lose their Internet access and pay for breaking their ISP's acceptable use policy. Free services such as SpamCop can help. They will analyze your unsolicited email messages and send complaints to the right authorities on your behalf. Beware of Checkboxes - When you sign up for something on the Internet, there is often text at the end of the form saying something like: "YES, I...

It can be frustrating to get a constant stream of junk mail, especially when you did nothing to solicit it. Unlike the junk mail you might get in your postal mail box, there are few rules regulating how spammers get your address. So just how do these people get your email address when you never gave it to them? There are a multitude of places such as newsgroups, mailing lists, chat rooms, social networking sites (such as MySpace), and the phone book. If you have a web site, you might advertise your email address as a way for people to contact you. Spammers often times employ programs, called bots, which canvas the internet and newsgroups in an automated way looking for any and all email addresses. The bottom line is that if you have used the internet for any period of time, chances are your email address is out there and thus easy to obtain. Even if you don’t give your email address out at all, it’s just a matter of time before you start getting junk mail. Automated programs can send messages...

Many email systems and programs will block a file attached to a message. This is usually done based on the potential that the file could be a virus or some other malware that could screw with your computer. In the past, email programs made it easy to even accidentally open these attachments without thinking of the consequences first, leading to the computer getting infected. As a result, most email programs, including Microsoft Outlook, will block attachments to protect you. The problem is that sometimes this protection is too good and can cause your recipients grief when they try to open a file you sent them and the email program blocks it. The easiest way to ensure that your users will be able to open the attachments you send them is to put it into a ZIP archive. In Windows XP or Vista, this is very easy to do. Simple locate the file, right click on it and choose Send To: Compressed (zipped) Folder. This will create a compressed version of the file which can then be attached to your...

Most of us understand the danger of computer viruses and have installed antivirus software. However, this in and of itself does not offer complete protection. It takes time for antivirus vendors to analyze, create, and deploy security updates and by that time it could be too late. That is why it is important to be proactive and make wise choices when it comes to opening email attachments. Start by understanding the nature of your attachment. Any executable type attachment has the potential to be infected so should not be opened unless it was specifically requested or expected. You might assume you are safe if you know the sender, however email worms are sent to addresses found on infected users' machines. So often times the email worm will arrive from someone you know and the sender is unaware of the viral email being sent from their machine. Again the best advice is not to open an executable type attachment unless it is expected. This is definitely an instance where it is better to be...

You’ve spent time and money creating a website and now you’d like to see results. Search engine placement is a critical component in attaining results and effectively marketing your website. Why? Because it captures customers at the moment of their interest in your particular product or service. Studies have shown that search engines are a primary method used by online consumers. Submitting your website to search engines can be fairly straight forward. However, a listing without good placement is not very useful. Research recently conducted by Jupiter Research found that 62% of search engine users click on a search result within the first page of results, and 90% of users click on a result within the first three pages of search results. Take practical steps to improve your ranking....