Andrew Wallace

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To be fully compliant with email marketing regulations for anti SPAM purposes you need to allow recipients of your email marketing campaigns to be able to unsubscribe. This needs an unsubscribe form.


If you do not yet use email marketing software, which often has this built in as standar...

07.04.14 08:35 AM - Comment(s)

We are pleased to say we will be attending the Technology for Marketing & Advertisers Event on Feb 25 2014 at Earl’s Court in London.

Zoho will be at booth at H26 at the event, which is designed to showcase all manner of cool IT solutions and technology for, as it says, marketing and adver...

24.02.14 12:42 PM - Comment(s)

Zoho, true to their belief that small businesses should have access to affordable business software and resources, have recently announced an increase to the numbers of free emails available in Zoho Campaigns, their powerful online email marketing solution for small businesses.

Now, with an ev...

23.02.14 09:46 AM - Comment(s)

It is now possible to recruit new staff via LinkedIn with the new Zoho Recruit to LinkedIn integration.

Zoho Recruit is the powerful online applicant management solution from Zoho that effectively helps businesses to manage job openings and track job applicants.

This latest integration will allow y...

13.02.14 07:56 PM - Comment(s)
We’d like to draw your attention to a really cool, but perhaps little known function in Zoho CRM called ‘BCC Dropbox'.

It has nothing to do with Dropbox, the document management/sharing app, but rather is a neat function to bcc a unique email address, which then gets inserted into Zoho CRM against ...
11.02.14 09:41 AM - Comment(s)
Bringing Cloud Computing to SMBs in Wales!

We're please to announce we have just had our first magazine article published in a regional magazine here in (not) so sunny Wales!


Abergavenny Focus published our "Cloud Computing for Small Medium Businesses" article in their latest edition. Our initial aim was to basically explain what c...

25.01.14 08:28 AM - Comment(s)

Many businesses use a website form such as a Contact Us or a Get a Quote form to engage and capture leads via the web; it is an affordable and effective means of getting new customers. Web forms can be used for special offers, newsletter signups, quotation requests and general contact requests.

Her...

16.01.14 09:55 PM - Comment(s)
Zoho Projects Extension for Google Chrome

If you have not yet noticed it, we recommend trying out the Zoho Projects Google Chrome extension!


Using this extension you can view the feeds from your project portal without having to log into Zoho Projects. This is perfect for team members of PMs who are working on other stuff but who still need t...

17.12.13 09:45 AM - Comment(s)

You may have seen lately in the 'news bulletin bar' in Zoho CRM an alert about the newest features that have been released by the Zoho CRM team. There have been quite a few - first and foremost the latest Zoho CRM releases are excellent and will definitely appeal to a wider variety of business of al...

04.12.13 09:27 AM - Comment(s)
Improve Productivity with Zoho Projects Mobile App

Make it easy for you and your team to stay on top of tasks and time sheets, using their mobile devices.

We recommend team members use the mobile Zoho Projects app, which is excellent and is free and which can be used to log:

  • Tasks and Status
  • Comments
  • Log timesheet time on Tasks
  • Upload Documents
  • And more!
13.11.13 06:39 PM - Comment(s)

In today's hyper fast, hyper connected world of mobile devices, apps and a mind boggling array of communication channels it's easy to become overloaded with communications from all of these channels, not least of all our old friend, email.

Even with the advance of so many communication apps, email c...
12.11.13 09:47 PM - Comment(s)

Zoho have just announced the live release of their long awaited integration between Zoho Projects, the online project management solution for small businesses and Zoho Reports, their powerful online business intelligence tool.


Zoho Projects allows you to create internal (team based) or external (clie...

30.10.13 09:28 AM - Comment(s)

Zoho have recently introduced a great enhancement to their online document management solution, Zoho Docs.


The Zoho Docs desktop addon allows you to synch all of your desktop folders and files to Zoho Docs.  Once synch'd you can share and collaborate on files any time, anywhere.

Easy File Synchr...

29.10.13 05:14 PM - Comment(s)
Zoho CRM Analytics - Better Sales Performance Information and Sales Visibility

Improved Reporting Means Better Sales Performance Information and Sales Visibility

One of the primary advantages of cloud CRM software is that it allows you to build and access data anytime, anywhere. There is one centralised version of your sales data and performance information that is available to...

27.09.13 05:57 AM - Comment(s)

Zoho have for a while now entered the arena of social CRM and have now branched into that of social software for business, with their online collaboration platform, Zoho Pulse.

Zoho Pulse is cloud based collaboration software that works rather like Facebook, but... for business. The format is very si...

11.09.13 02:05 PM - Comment(s)
Updates to Zoho Projects Mobile App

I have been really getting into the Zoho Projects mobile project management solution lately, from managing my mounting tasks list for moving house, to managing the team online, on my mobile device, when and where I can; even log time on billable client meetings and other work that I may have forgott...

07.09.13 06:11 AM - Comment(s)
Send Repeat Email Campaigns to Readers who Missed the First Campaign

Tip of the Day: Zoho Campaigns online email marketing software allows you to quickly send repeat email campaigns specifically to those recipients who did not read your original campaign. Here's how.

So, in the example above:


- The email was sent to 86 people.
- 26 people opened the original email.
- 60 ...

02.09.13 11:25 PM - Comment(s)
Adding Multiple List Options to a Subscribe Form

It's often a good strategy to allow users to subscribe to more than one list in a newsletter subscribe form, a kind of 'upselling' of your other email lists if you like.


Here's how to do it in Zoho Campaigns.


Click the Contacts tab, then...

Mailing list.

Select the list you want to add more options to, ...

02.09.13 11:20 PM - Comment(s)

The Zoho Invoice (and Zoho Books) teams have introduced a new synch process that allows you to automatically create a Quotation as soon as a sales potential is created in the CRM.


Youmay have decided to use Zoho Invoice rather that Zoho CRMs own invoice module due to its powerful invoicing features, ...

02.09.13 02:38 PM - Comment(s)
Sales Activity Reporting on a Whole New Level

OK... so you use a CRM solution like Zoho CRM that allows you to track activities per month, activity status and so on... You have insight into what your Sales members are doing on a weekly/monthly basis...  Great.  Now what?


Zoho CRM, the award winning sales and marketing solution from Zoh...

02.09.13 02:26 PM - Comment(s)