I’m excited to announce that Bizroof CRM, our brand new web application is live!

We are proud of the contact management system we’ve built, which gives small and medium sized companies a simple and powerful way to store, organize and share the useful information collected from interactions with customer.

I would like to express my thanks to the Bizroof Crew and all of you who constantly support us!

We see our business from customer’s perspective and build easy-to-use web based applications for you!

Jason

1. Transparency across the entire business, no matter small or big operation
2. Avoid duplicated data entries, and save precious time for more creative stuff
3. Productivity and collaboration on top of accurate performance measurement and trends analysis
4. With full access to customer contact histories (notes and events), the sales team will be much more focus and provide higher quality services
5. Management is all about managing exceptions, and which can be prevented with early precise decisions beneficial from critical operational data
6. Substantial cost reductions, and more competitive pricing
7. Real-time data updates enables all the staff to have a better understanding of what’s happing in the business right now, no matter the team members are in the same building or from different countries
8. Marketing process becomes smooth and pleasant. Think it this way, you and your targeted clients are literally a few clicks away
9. Absolutely no need to worry about data backup and computer crash
10. Manage your business online is just the future. If you don’t make the move now, you will be behind your competitors. Seriously

The new calendar is in iCal format which is a standard for calendar data exchange with apps like google calendar, yahoo calendar, MS outlook, MAC iCal and lot more. We use AJAX wherever possible for this design, and keep improving on the usability.

The Current features include:

1. Customize “first day of week” (i.e. week start on Monday, Saturday and Sunday)
2. Support multi calendars (coloured labels) for each user
3. Drag and drop events to make changes
4. Quick add events (just one click)
5. Translate human language to computer readable language. i.e. “Lunch with Jason 3pm tomorrow”
6. Auto detect “Time Zone” and “Daylight saving time” on the user’s computer
7. Support multi languages
8. AJAX auto-completer to add guests to events
9. Feed for events
10. Export in iCal and MS Word formats
11. Filter events by tags

Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any suggestions.

If you ask anybody in the software industry to tell you some creative ideas, most of them could give you a big list of ideas fairly easily. However, the ideas themselves won’t bring you any success but the execution of the ideas will. Any failure of delivering ideas is rooted in the bad team design, in another word, you don’t have the right person working on the project at the right time.

If you have all the same team members working on the project during the entire development stage, you are in a dangerous zone for the cost-effective sake. I would like to share my experience of building a good team for web apps:

Development stage of a web app: (Usability and infrastructure)

• 1 full-time Graphic designer (core skills needed: css, html, usability, sense of style)
• 2 full-time Developers (core skills needed: Object-Oriented PHP / AJAX / Javascript / MySQL / server administration)

Close to the end of the development stage: (Start public relationship)

• 1 full-time Developer (core skills needed: OO PHP / AJAX / Javascript / MySQL / Unit test)
• 1 full-time SEO (core skills needed: professional writing / in-depth understanding of search engine and backlinks)

Beta lauch stage: (all about PR)

• 1 full-time SEO focus on public relation articles (core skills needed: professional writing / in-depth understanding of search engine and backlinks)
• 1 part-time SEO focus on blog and forum (core skills needed: professional writing)
• 1 part-time developer for ad hoc functions

Remove beta label: (PR and partnership)

• 1 full-time SEO focus on public relation articles (core skills needed: professional writing / in-depth understanding of search engine and backlinks)
• 1 part-time SEO focus on blog and forum (core skills needed: professional writing)
• 1 part-time developer for ad hoc functions
• 1 partership builder (core skills needed: building partnerships across the web app industry)

I’d be a fool if I thought I knew it all. So, please don’t hesitate to share your ideas with us.