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News from eBridge Software - June 2009 / Issue #4

In this month's issue our focus is on your customer data and tips on improving cash flow for your business. I hope you enjoy these articles, remember you can always use our company blog to post or comment on the various aspects of data integration.

 
Regards,
Dave Malda.
eBridge Software.

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It's Not The Size of Your Customer Data, It's How You Use It

Companies used to think data was just bits and bytes of facts to be fed into silos. Now it is the collection of facts attributable to a single breathing customer that is key to business survival. The old adage has doubled around: If you don't know the Whos in your customer data base, you've got nothing at all.

Read the full article at CRM Buyer here >

 

 

Tips on Managing and Improving Cash Flow

Cash flow is typically defined as the movement of money into or out of a business. But looking at it in a slightly different way, as the amount of time between a business paying its bills and getting paid for its services, ideas for better managing cash flow can be seen.

One tip is to take more time to pay if possible. If suppliers will give 30 days to pay, wait for the 30 days; not only does this reduce the amount of time between payment out and payment in, but it will also keep your cash in the bank longer, allowing it to earn interest, albeit a meagre amount.

Second, and in a similar vein, using a credit card to pay on the due date will let you push back your actual payment to your credit card due date, which gives you up to 30 days more before you pay out cash, and helps you manage cash flow further.

Read more at Practical eCommerce here >

New Connections Deployed in the Cloud

Here are the new connections deployed on the eBridge ePortal in June: 

  • Each and every day we continue to build and deploy connections for over 35+ accounting packages to our eBridge ePortal in the cloud.  There connections include EDI trading partners, CRM, Webstore and Supply Chain Management integration points.  Why not take a look to see if there are new connections you could use?  If you do not see your connection, give us a call at 1.800.755.6921 or email us at info@ebridgesoft.com  and we will create it.

    Click here to view all available connections >

    Highlights

    June 19th, 2009

    For an informative and resourceful EDI resource site click here>

    eBridge Team supports the Heart & Stroke Foundation in 2009 raising over $1185!  Click here to read all about our adventure >

    A fantastic site for small business advice and tools  Click here to go to BizAssist.com >