Give your Team the Right Tools to get the Job Done! 

Do you suffer from any of the following?

• Huge attachments that kill your email downloads?
• Numerous versions of company documents?
• Lack of centralised data?
• Inablity to share and collarate between team members?
• Paper based invoicing which takes forever to get signed off?
• Project schedules that seem to differ between teams and clients?
• Unable to centralise, track and automate your sales, marketing and customer support processes?

The chances are you do..., especially if you are a startup or small business who have not had the time to go through the often painful maturing process other larger organisations have undergone.

How can you provide your team with the right tools to do the right job at a cost that will not kill your business before it has a chance to get going? Easy... Go Zoho!

What's all this fuss about Zoho? Who are these guys and what on earth does that name mean?!

Zoho - a pseudonym for "Small Office, Home Office" is a US based company specialising in small-medium business solutions that utilise web 2.0 technology to provide a suite of extremely affordable online business solutions that rival the likes of Google Apps; namely, Google Docs, Google Mail, Google Chat and also virtual meeting solutions like those offered by WebEx.

Some of the key online solutions from Zoho are as follows:

Zoho Writer
Online word processing, access documents from anywhere, store documents centrally, collaborative editing, share, don't attach.

Zoho Show
Online presentations, great for demonstrations, training, promotions etc., allow your clients/leads to access your presentations from anywhere and even embed them on a website page or distribute them using links, see an example (our Zoho CRM presentation) below.

Zoho Sheet
Create, edit and access your spreasheets from anywhere, share with colleagues and publish for public viewing, centralise accounts and corporate data.

Zoho Projects
Create and share your project plans, assign tasks to team members, track time, collaborate in project-related forums and calendars, share project-related documentation.

Zoho Planner
Online organiser, to-do lists, reminders and notes.

Zoho Invoice
Create elegant invoices & quotes online, manage payments and recurring invoices, powerfule business performance reports

Others include a wiki app, virtual meeting solution, people and recruitment solution and online candidate testing app.

Zoho CRM
In the area of Customer Relationship Management or CRM (a business solution designed to centralise and improve your marketing, sales and support processes), Zoho offer 'Zoho CRM'. Zoho CRM has functions that rival the likes of world leaders Salesforce.com, yet they provide them to the business owner at a cost of almost 80% less than their competitors!

Many businesses we work with using Zoho CRM are amazed at how fast the solution can be implemented, in as little as a day or two in some cases, for businesses with just a few people involved, to 2-4 weeks for medium sized companies including full customisation. In addition, they love the ease of use and intuitive user interface, which comes with a lot of cool 'web 2.0' functions like drag and drop screen elements, real time charting and so on. Many see this as a key benefit over other CRM applications as their team members actually enjoy using it!

The main advantage Zoho has however is the all important price. Just 12 USD per user per month for the professional edition, compared to 65 USD for Salesforce.com. In addition, it does not have the annual committment that Salesforce.com has, meaning you simply pay as you go, monthly, quarterly, twice a year etc., as much as you are comfortable with. This pricing structure gives Zoho CRM a tremendous competitive advantage over its competitors and it's no wonder that they have experienced such growth.

Couple this with the fact that Zoho offer an entire suite of business solutions, from online spreadheets, word processing and presentation publishing applications, to virtual meeting and poll solutions, and it's no surprise that Zoho are rapidly making a name for themselves in the global marketplace.

"It's not often I get excited by adoption numbers but the fact Zoho has passed the million user landmark represents an outstanding achievement and a cause for celebration."

Dennis Howlett, ZDNet.

In 3 years the number of Zoho users has risen from zero to one million plus. This is an important milestone for Zoho the road to this milestone has certainly been exciting and shows great potential for the future when taking on the 'big boys' like Salesforce.com and Netsuite.

Zoho started slowly but picked up momentum after adding more and more online business solutions and as the applications improved week after week, growth has continued exponentially. It took 1 Year to get to the first 100K users. As of last July there were 300K users and one year later on Aug 1, their millionth user registered for Zoho CRM.

So, good luck Zoho for the future, we wish you the best of success and are proud to be Thailand's first Zoho Alliance Partner!

CRM Asia Solutions offer Rapid CRM Implementation Packages including 4-5 users for one year, plus basic customisation of key sales, marketing and support modules - all for as little as 500 USD. Get expert, knowledgeable advice and have your CRM up and running in a matter of days, not months!

Larger, custom Zoho CRM implementation projects undertaken according to your needs and budget.

For more information on Zoho CRM and other business solutions from Zoho, please contact us here or via email on info@crmasiasolutions.com.

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