October 16th, 2006
Off Shore Experts Blog is open an ready for business. Our area of interest is exclusively the Software Development Business. New tools methodologies, skills, languages are good topics as well as business management, employee management, software to run your business, selling, marketing, even quality assurance and metrics are good.
In order to keep the quality of content worthy to read we will moderate at a minimum by approving posts. In general we will only remove blatant sales presentations or posts unrelated to our mission.
You must first register and then you can comment on items of interest in any of the following categories.
- Integrated Development Environment
- Business Management
- Sales Skills
- Marketing, Promotion and Distribution.
- Metrics and Quality Control
- Security and Licensing
- Software Development and Tools
Posted in Software Development, Marketing, Sales skills, Security and Licensing, Metrics and Control, Management, IDE | 4 Comments »
October 14th, 2006
Off Shore Marketing Experts Launches Business Resources Site Just for Software Developers
http://www.osmxp.com
Off Shore Marketing Experts is keenly aware of the pressing need for information about business management, marketing and sales for emerging software developers overseas. Buyers need to know the vendors are using best practices and vendors need a resource for business management information. All resources are free though some do require registration.
To assist those very talented and creative programmers and application developers we created a single location with many free resources which include information on critical issues like:
- How to effectively market themselves in a competitive global economy.
- How to close sales.
- How to turn customers into word-of-mouth and referral sales agents.
- How to use a website as a passive sales agent.
- How to promote development services.
- How to use the job boards.
- How to write white papers which prospective clients will read.
- How to promote papers and technical expertise.
But there is much more. On OSMXP you will find:
- A place to submit Question and Answer to an expert in software sales and marketing.
- A blog to find information on development tools such as Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
- A place to submit papers (promote your products) on software development and IDE’s.
- A newsletter on topics related to managing and selling as well as trends on development.
A forum for discussion on a series of topics such as:
- Managing software developers (employees)
- Scheduling
- Quality Assurance
- When a customer doesn’t pay
- When a customer disappears in the middle of a project
- Handling project creep
- Marketing
- Writing papers
- Distribution of papers
- Email campaigns
- Sales
- Ideas for promoting services
- Closing business
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