Cut Software Budget With Google Apps

September 24, 2008 · Filed Under Google, Small Business · 7 Comments

For small to medium size business, sometimes we take hard route to save company cost. It also included to company’s software cost. Even many of those small office use pirated software. For me, it’s absolutely not a solution. Believe me, it will cost you more in the long term!

You can still use good and reliable software without add your IT expense budget. Yes, you can use open-source or free licensed software. Google Apps comes with nice offer which you can test it before searching for other free or cheap office application software.

With Google Apps, you can provide your employees’ demands of fast and secure communication software. Custom email address, calendar, spreadsheet, document tools, presentations, and more.

What is Google Apps?

Google Apps are a set of online application program that design to encourage co-operation and collaboration among cyberspace users. Main reason of Google Apps is to make all information in internet well organized and easy to access. Numerous small business firms, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations have benefited immensely from Google Apps service. In fact Google Apps are particularly projected to help small businesses and non profits in their endeavor.

Google Apps service consists of Google Mail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites. There is no software or hardware installation and maintenance so no more extra cost for your company. You only required to have Google page and you can make get benefit from Google services for free.

GMail Allows to send and receiving mails. Gmail’s storage capacity is very large. Huge number or mails archived, attachments or mail address can safely kept without worry you will running out of space. Gmail’s also has virus and spam protection.

Gtalk provides instant messaging facility. Text message as well as voice message can be sent worldwide instantly.

Google calendar can be used to share events, fix up meetings and organnize any schedules. You can even publish your company events on the web.

Google docs allows your employees to collaborate online over spread sheets, documents and presentations. Now every one can create, edit and share their documents and presentations. And ou can publish your document so anyone can access your contents. You also have option to restrict access only to your team.

Free or Premium Google Apps

Google Apps provide their service with some limitation. Although for most small companies, the free version will be adequate. You can consider to use upgraded version when your organization become bigger and more complex. See Google Apps comparison table for free edition versus paid edition.

If you use free edition, you probably need extra work to find good support. You can download free report for case studies of using Google Apps. It will save your precious time. In this report you’ll read how both companies have benefited from Google Apps, a suite of applications that includes webmail services, shared calendaring, instant messaging and voice over IP services, with results including:

Reduced strain on IT due to streamlined operations and lower costs
Greater business scalability through easily-deployed services
More productive and efficient employees with best of breed communication tools

Setting Up Google Apps for the first time.

Setting Google Apps is very easy. All you have to do is follow the instruction from the screen. In case you need some help, you can watch this video. The video shows Google Apps in action and also how to tweak your application to serve you better. Go here to watch Google Apps video help.

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Free Forex Tournament Are Still Opened

September 13, 2008 · Filed Under Forex Trading · 8 Comments

While searching on free trading contest on google, there’s not much forex broker run free competition. What I mean by free is participants are not required to make any deposit to enter the contest. Opening a real account is okay since the prize will be transferred to winner’s account.

Benefit of Free Trading Contest

So what is the benefit of participating in trading contest? Some pro traders will probably say that’s a pretty good way of wasting time. I think it’s only apply for novice trader. Dooh..
While many of new trader looking for a way to make decent money on forex or stock trading, the free trading contest will definitely help them to sharpen their skill. And if they got lucky, who knows, they can win nice amount of money to start their real trading experience.

Jumping on forex trading contest or stock trading contest is different with trading in demo or virtual account. Not in platform or virtual money because usually contest trading use demo account for the games. But the feeling is different. In virtual account without contest, you will use the technique to seek most stable performance for your trading style while in contest account you put your extreme engine to win the tournament.

Tips to win free forex trading contest

Start early.
It’s better to enter the competition on the first day of the tournament. You will have more days to trade. That’s mean you will have more time to collect profit.
Trade only profitable opportunity.
Main goal for forex/stock trading contest is to achieve highest profit for the contest period. It’s useless if you open trade 20 times a day but most of them are losses
Stake big.
This is probably is your best weapon but it comes with consequences. If you are in profitable trade you can ended up in top position but if you loss your account will burned out immediately.
Using robot to automate your trade.
You can go to forex forum to grab the best robot. It will trade your account with no emotion involved and you can trade full day as long as you keep your box on.
Don’t quit too soon.
When you are not top position, don’t quit too soon. Usually, traders are desperate when see they are not in top position. Guess what.. the stats is only for closed positions only. You never know if the persons in top position are holding open loss in their trade.

Free Forex Competition are now still open

If you are looking for broker that open a contest for free, you can try this. Do you know other forex trading competition or stock trading competition which has no entry fee and give real prize? Please let me know.

Etoro
Etoro is forex broker with innovative platform. I think this platform is designed for beginner in forex trading. You can look at their platform, it’s just like a flash game.Contest detail:
Period: Open weekly
1st Place gets $500
2nd Place gets $300
3rd Place gets $200
4th to 6th Places get $100 each!
7th to 10th Places get $50 each!

Read more detail for rules and regulations.
InstaForex
Instaforex is new broker. Competition will begin at September 29 until October 31. This contest likely as their promotion tools to get more trader to open account with them. Registration is free.Contest detail:
Period: 29 September 2008 – 31 October 2008
1st Place gets $5000
2nd Place gets $2000
3rd Place gets $1000
4th Place gets $500
3 random Extra-prizes gets $1000 each ($3000 summary)

How to register:
First, you need to open a real trading account. Go here!
Then you can register for the competition.
GTL Trading – Free Demo Contest
Traders are ranked based upon the highest percentage increase in equity during the Contest Period. This will be evaluated based on trading activity over 30 day duration. Contestants can start trading immediately on registration.
Price #1 : $ 1,500
Price #2 : $ 1,000
Price #3 : $ 500
Registration page: http://www.gtltrading.com/contest/gtl-challenge.asp
More information about the contest: GTL-Trading