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| Sell Your Expertise Online With CrossLoop Posted: 27 Sep 2008 12:00 PM CDT
I’ve talked in the past about the secure CrossLoop client and the CrossLoop Marketplace as a means to promote your business, but some recent updates have made it an even more compelling place to advertise your services and acquire new clients. Since we last wrote about CrossLoop they have not only added PayPal integration and a communications console to facilitate easier messaging, but today a direct chat function was also introduced. This handy features allows potential customers to connect and communicate with you in real time. From marketing and customer acquisition, through the service process and ending with payment and review, the suite of tools and services provided by CrossLoop can be an integral part of a successful and profitable remote support business. The marketplace listing favors those who are currently available and those who have higher numbers of completed support sessions, so getting involved early and building a history could be an advantage moving forward. Crossloop is also getting some significant press lately so it might be a good time to set up a profile and take advantage of folks who might be hearing about and investigating it for the first time. For the time being, CrossLoop isn’t charging any listing or transaction fees, so other than the time you inves to create an account and get your profile set up, there is no charge to test the waters and see if it might be a good solution for you. Do you offer remote support to your clients? Would CrossLoop work for you?    |
| MacLibre: One Download Wins You Many Free Mac Apps Posted: 26 Sep 2008 06:00 PM CDT A few months back I wrote about PortableApps.com, a site where you can get a whole slew of useful software applications–most of them open source–in one free download. This site has become especially popular with people who like to tote a lot of applications on a USB thumb drive. For now, though, PortableApps.com delivers Windows applications only. For the many Mac-based readers here, MacLibre is an equivalent site. At MacLibre, one free download gives you a bushel of free open source applications for Mac OS X. You can view the various download options here, and you’ll see from the footprints of the downloads that you can easily put your applications on a portable drive. The list of applications you get with MacLibre is impressive–some of the best open source applications around. You get GIMP (graphics), Adium (IM), Firefox, Thunderbird (e-mail), Cyberduck (FTP), AbiWord (word processor), ClamXav (anti-virus), and many more. The MacLibre distributions are under the GPL public license. Since I use a lot of open source software applications as part of writing for the OStatic blog, I’m particularly fond of a few of the applications. AbiWord is a great, lightweight word processor with an interface very much like Microsoft Word’s. Adium is also the instant messenger of choice for many Mac users. In the case of both PortableApps.com and MacLibre, you may or may not favor the applications you get as your primary ones, but there are lots of other ways you may find these applications useful. If you have a notebook with limited storage, these applications take up very little space, and it’s nice to have a bushel of productivity applications on a USB thumb drive if you happen to carry one.    |
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