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What can you do today with edocr.com?

Published by ManojRanaweera on February 7, 2010

To help our customers maximise the use of edocr.com, I am in the process of preparing a check list. The key question asked here is what can you do with edocr.com today (not tomorrow!)? Create your account Claim and update your company profile – at this point, you become a customer of edocr.com under edocr Essential or edocr Managed pricing plans Manage employee accounts by adding/removing accounts to company profile Upload documents Distribute documents Interact with documents Join Groups Run marketing campaigns Respond to prospects Use API for auto publishing where it makes sense Use support desk in regular basis…

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Salesforce.com Integration Options

Published by ManojRanaweera on January 7, 2010

Sales leads – new revenues for you! It probably does not come as a surprise to those who are misfortunate enough to follow my tweets, that we, at edocr.com have embarked on a major programme to deliver real measurable value to an existing asset you have, but probably was never trully aware of its full potential until now. Yes! we are speaking about the documents (pdfs) you produce daily, weekly, monthly and/or annually to communicate with prospects, customers, suppliers, shareholders, government, authorities, and anyone else that you need to communicate with, without dilvulging confidential information. Among these documents are the…

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The Wrong Pricing – Missed Opportunities

Published by ManojRanaweera on January 7, 2010

As edocr.com continues to grow, it has become essential for us to adopt the right tools that will make our lives operationally little bit easier. Now is the time for us to leave spreadsheets and move on to products that will bring structure to a very chaotic environment. Two tools will be key to this strategy of operational simplification. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) We have adopted Contact Manager from Salesforce.com, which is affordable and versatile enough for our needs. And we know that as edocr.com grows, we have a path for increasing the CRM functionality to match with our future…

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Goodbye Insightory.com – Opportunity for a management consultancy?

Published by ManojRanaweera on December 31, 2009

Insightory.com was soft launched two months after edocr.com through TechCrunch. As TechCrunch put it, they wanted to be the Wikipedia for Management Knowledge. I was drawn to Insightory.com as they offered a document publishing, distribution and interactivity platform, albeit focusing on a niche market. Their plan was to approve every publication before displaying on the site. Not the best approach unless you crowd source the approval process similar to wikipedia. See the email below this post in which Avneet Jolly explains the reasons for the pending shut-down. Instead of arguing about the rights and wrongs of their strategy, I am…

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MB1 – Play 8 – Work only on What is Important

Published by ManojRanaweera on December 29, 2009

Marc adopted similar principles to me in getting the product to market as quickly as possible. As he says in his book, “do it fast, simple, and right the first time”. Based on my discussions with another tech startup from the north, they have rewritten code number of times to get it right. I do not see this as a problem, as you evolve and your goals change, so should the code, unless you can read the future. At edocr.com, we had another consideration, how to build without spending money! We achieved this through using open source products as much…

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Forthcoming knowledge share blog posts against Marc Benioff

Published by ManojRanaweera on December 29, 2009

Having met Marc Benioff on 8th Dec 09 in London and having finished reading his book, “Behind the Cloud” recently, I will be sharing my experience against Marc’s through a series of blog posts. In his book, there are 111 plays. I will be picking plays randomly and would like to invite you to do the same by leaving you experience as comments against my posts. But before I can start, here is a reality check: Marc was well connected, influential, secure and financially stable before he setup salesforce.com. In addition, he lived in the epic centre of technology, San…

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Planning tools – removing duplication – plan for 2010

Published by ManojRanaweera on December 24, 2009

As I am in the thinking mode, one thing I am not good at is sticking to one tool for planning instead of using multiple tools. Just to get my head straighten, I thought it would be better to write it down, so here goes. 1. iGTD (1.4.5.6) from fasticon/James Wondrack – great little GTD tool for Mac. It synchronises with iPhone app Todo (1.6.1) through Appigo Sync (0.9.6 Beta) and Mac’s own to do items displayed through iCal and also on iMail. iGTD2, the replacement to iGTD caused problems in the past with synchronising. With my intention of keeping…

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Options for charging for leads – fixed or per lead basis

Published by ManojRanaweera on December 22, 2009

Since the soft launch of edocr.com in Oct 2007, we have been delivering value to our users and customers. The value delivered right now can be categorised into “exposure” leading to “prospects contacting you”. We are now entering a phase where our customers will have the opportunity to access “leads”, delivering further value. We now need to figure out the best way to commercialise the new value addition, “leads”. The two options available are: 1. Charge per lead 2. Charge a fixed fee I am a great believer of simplicity and keeping all things as simple as possible. Charging a…

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Payment Solutions beyond paypal and others

Published by ManojRanaweera on December 22, 2009

I have a problem, both as a buyer and seller on payments using credit cards. I am convinced this problem is not unique to me. As a buyer – mailchimp as an example My HSBC credit card was recently cancelled due to two fraudulent transactions in the US. While I am waiting for a replacement card, my subscription to mailchimp has been halted. This causes a number of difficulties: 1. I cannot use the service to communicate with edocr user and customer base through monthly newsletter. 2. I could use my personal credit card, but this becomes a menace from…

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New flyer for edocr.com highlighting our focus on sales leads generation

Published by ManojRanaweera on November 17, 2009

As part of our preparations for exhibiting at Technology World 2009 on 23rd and 24th November 2009 at Coventry, UK, we have produced a new leaflet highlighting our current focus on sales lead generation through documents and the priced options we currently promote. Embedded above is the new flyer on the left hand side followed by previous flyers. The middle one was prepared for Internet World held in April 2009 in London. Below is the full document, A5 size in terms of print. Why should you consider edocr.com? This section highlights 5 benefits we provide: 1. Maximised Exposure – We…

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