Comments on: Have You Seen This Before? http://www.michaelmcderment.com/2006/08/25/have-you-seen-this-before/ Canadian Entrepreneur Currently Adding Value in the Web 2.0 Space Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:33:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: venera http://www.michaelmcderment.com/2006/08/25/have-you-seen-this-before/comment-page-1/#comment-26325 venera Mon, 28 May 2007 09:18:08 +0000 http://www.michaelmcderment.com/2006/08/25/have-you-seen-this-before/#comment-26325 "Hello! Our company develop the synchronization between FreshBooks and MS Outlook. GrabSync FreshBooks plugin makes it easy to import and invoice your clients and customers from MS Outlook without having to re-enter their data into FreshBooks. I hope that it would be useful for you. To learn more, please follow the link: http://www.grabsync.com/freshbooks/ or you can Email me personally: venera@grabsync.com Thank you " “Hello!

Our company develop the synchronization between FreshBooks and MS Outlook. GrabSync FreshBooks plugin makes it easy to import and invoice your clients and customers from MS Outlook without having to re-enter their data into FreshBooks.

I hope that it would be useful for you.
To learn more, please follow the link: http://www.grabsync.com/freshbooks/
or you can Email me personally: venera@grabsync.com

Thank you

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]]> By: Extraordinary Miscellany » Transitional services… http://www.michaelmcderment.com/2006/08/25/have-you-seen-this-before/comment-page-1/#comment-23257 Extraordinary Miscellany » Transitional services… Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:13:47 +0000 http://www.michaelmcderment.com/2006/08/25/have-you-seen-this-before/#comment-23257 [...] I just came across this blog entry from Freshbooks founder Michael McDerment (if you do any billing or client management and want something a little cleaner and lighter than QuickBooks, check it out). The push of the piece was how there’s a potentially lucrative business model in providing a bridge between traditional physicalized services and newer virtualized ones. The example from the post being Freshbooks’ serving up invoices in both the email and snailmail varieties. [...] [...] I just came across this blog entry from Freshbooks founder Michael McDerment (if you do any billing or client management and want something a little cleaner and lighter than QuickBooks, check it out). The push of the piece was how there’s a potentially lucrative business model in providing a bridge between traditional physicalized services and newer virtualized ones. The example from the post being Freshbooks’ serving up invoices in both the email and snailmail varieties. [...]

]]> By: Mike http://www.michaelmcderment.com/2006/08/25/have-you-seen-this-before/comment-page-1/#comment-10812 Mike Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:32:39 +0000 http://www.michaelmcderment.com/2006/08/25/have-you-seen-this-before/#comment-10812 True and true Dean. As someone who has long had real estate clients from my consulting business, I am acutely aware of how the web is disrupting their industry...I think agents and brokerages are going to have to think long and hard about where and how they can add value. My cousin for example has already decided for himself that you don't need an agent to buy residential property - only to sell it. He has bought and sold a number of homes like this. If his model holds, the market for agents just got halved. True and true Dean.

As someone who has long had real estate clients from my consulting business, I am acutely aware of how the web is disrupting their industry…I think agents and brokerages are going to have to think long and hard about where and how they can add value. My cousin for example has already decided for himself that you don’t need an agent to buy residential property – only to sell it. He has bought and sold a number of homes like this. If his model holds, the market for agents just got halved.

]]> By: Dean Landolt http://www.michaelmcderment.com/2006/08/25/have-you-seen-this-before/comment-page-1/#comment-10809 Dean Landolt Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:24:30 +0000 http://www.michaelmcderment.com/2006/08/25/have-you-seen-this-before/#comment-10809 I've got one for you -- the real estate industry, both residential and commercial. They're in dire need of transitional services. Much of their work has always been done virtually, via phone or fax, and increasingly over email, but physical presence is an inevitability for almost any transaction. Of course there is some irony in that as information brokers, much of the value they bring to the table is diminished as the industry moves online. The more savvy of the bunch will increasingly find ways to make themselves relevant, but in order to do so, transitional services will be required as a bridge between old and new business models and practices. I’ve got one for you — the real estate industry, both residential and commercial. They’re in dire need of transitional services.

Much of their work has always been done virtually, via phone or fax, and increasingly over email, but physical presence is an inevitability for almost any transaction.

Of course there is some irony in that as information brokers, much of the value they bring to the table is diminished as the industry moves online. The more savvy of the bunch will increasingly find ways to make themselves relevant, but in order to do so, transitional services will be required as a bridge between old and new business models and practices.

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