The Business Intelligence module in Sage 200 allows you to quickly get key information about your business to help you make informed decisions. This in turn allows you to make decisions based on facts and not ‘best guesses’ or ‘gut feelings’. Read more
Sage Helpsheet: Distribution Journal Posting
The new helpsheet from our Sage 200 Support team will help you to learn how to create journal templates in Sage 200 based on a percentage split between other accounts. For example, if you have costs which get posted to a main account and you want these to be split using a given percentage over several cost centres then you can set up Journal Templates to do this for you. Read more
Category: Helpsheets |
Less Than a Month till educate2011! Book Your Place for Sage Related Seminars now
Have you remembered to book your place at educate2011? Taking place on the 18th November, there will be many free seminars such as a Sage 200 Hints & Tips session as well as a look at how you can improve your cash flow and save yourself time. Read on for a list of Sage related sessions and visit our educate2011 site to register your place… Read more
Category: FREE Seminars & Training Sessions |
Six Simple Tips for Social Media
Getting your social media marketing right is not easy. There are so many sites to join, so many people to follow and so many potential opportunities to promote your business that you may not know where to start or, if you have started, where to focus your attention.
As relative newcomers to social media at the HBP Group we’ve put together some tips which we’ve found have helped us get to grips with using sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
1) Don’t Do It All
I know we made this mistake and I’m sure lots of other people have too. When you decide that social media is the way forward you set off and set up a Facebook business page, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn profile and countless other pages which you think will give you excellent coverage. A week down the line and you’re wondering how on earth anyone has time for all of this. Be realistic – if you’re short on time then just set up one of the three (whichever you feel is most appropriate to your audience) because it’s better to manage one social media campaign properly than to lots of them badly.
Category: Social Media |
Sage win at SSA 2011!
Sage 200 was one of the big winners at this year’s Software Satisfaction Awards, scooping the Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management prize. The award was received at a sparkling awards ceremony, compered by Alastair Campbell, on 18th October in London.
Category: Sage 200 |
educate2011 Preview: How To Achieve an Effective Marketing Mix
At this year’s educate2011 we are delighted to have secured a speaker from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. From the very basics, right through to the advanced the Chartered Institute of Marketing set the standard when it comes to professional marketing accreditations and in Gillian Shepherd we will be joined by a Chartered Marketer who was one of the first on the CDPD scheme. Gillian has been a member of the CIM for over 20 years and served for several years on a local CIM committee, setting up links with Hull’s Bondholder scheme and latterly as their Education Ambassador.
Category: Marketing |
Need help with Sage 200?
Did you know that the HBP Group support staff regularly produce help sheets for Sage 200? These help sheets offer step by step guides on how to carry out tasks which we’ve had questions about on our support desk or that we know are often problems for users. Read more
Category: Sage 200 |
Cash is King at educate2011
We are delighted to add Draycir to the list of companies joining us at educate2011 on Friday November 18th which we’re sure will be of interest to any Sage 200, Pegasus Opera II, Pegasus Opera 3 and IRIS Exchequer users. Richard Haywood will present a session based on the Credit Hound product which has been designed to automate and streamline the processes in good credit management. Read more
Category: Financial Software, Sage 200 |
Marketing and the 7Ps
On Friday November 18th at educate2011 we will be joined by Gillian Shepherd from the Chartered Institute of Marketing to present ‘How to Achieve an Effective Marketing Mix’. This will gives you the basics of how to use the marketing tools at your disposal to best effect.
It will look at how to identify your stakeholders and you need to tell them to make sure that they remain ‘on side’, which will help you to build up a clear brand. To achieve this Gillian will guide you through the wide variety of marketing methods available to you – from advertising and PR to the web.
The Chartered Institute of Marketing  are the leading body in the UK when it comes to marketing best practice and their certifications and qualifications are recognised by marketing professionals in every industry.
In their guide to ‘Marketing and the 7Ps’ a brief summary is given of the basics of marketing and the 7Ps which make up the marketing mix. Traditionally there were 4Ps – Product, Price, Place and Promotion but as theories have developed and marketing has become a more sophisticated discipline additional Ps were added – People, Process and Physical Evidence.
These are now known as the 7Ps of marketing, or the marketing mix.
Download ‘Marketing and the 7PSs’ to get further details about the marketing mix and how it works.
To register for ‘How to Achieve an Effective Marketing Mix’ at educate2011 on Friday November 18th register at www.hbp-group.co.uk/educate
Category: Marketing |
educate2011 Interview with Gary Ging from Sage
At educate2011 Gary Ging and Catherine Willis from Sage will join us for a presentation on the upcoming PAYE reform and the changes to pensions. Their seminar begin at 11am in Room 1 and we expecting a busy turnout as the changes affect so many people regardless of the Payroll software they currently use.
We spoke to Gary to find out a little more about the upcoming changes and about their presentation at educate2011:
Hi Gary. For anyone that has not heard about the upcoming PAYE changes could you give us a quick overview of what will be changing?
Category: Financial Software, Payroll |