030: Interview with Ryan Powell of iLifestyle Consulting, plus Bonus Rants
/Recorded live on December 10, 2013
Topics:
- special guest Ryan Powell of iLifestyle Consulting discusses some cloud-hosted apps he uses to help run his consulting practice
- looking at the per seat recurring/subscription pricing models of cloud software as a predictable cost of doing business
- Wufoo for forms
- LiveChat for website live chat
- RingCentral for phone system
- Highrise for CRM
- Basecamp for Project Management
- Echosign for agreement signatures
- Timely for scheduling and automatic appointment reminders
- Xero for accounting
- Zendesk for support
- Mailchimp for email marketing
- HootSuite for social media
- Google Apps for email hosting
- Robot Cloud for client monitoring and policy management
Plus:
- Joe's rant about Yahoo Small Business
- Joe's rant about Apple Store
