Announcements
1. Each month, a testimonial from a figg client is chosen, to distribute in our
Newsletter as well as our Facebook page and blog, sister blogs and preferred
supplier listings etc.
2. This publishing offers our clients a value add for exposure of their own
businesses. The testimonial chosen for April is from one of 3 clients who
purchased the figg Small Business Accounting System on the day of the
figg launch almost 1 year ago. Thank you Beth, we continue to work
for you and all our clients to live up to your testimonial.
This is what Beth had to say:
The figg accounting system has been brilliantly designed for sole proprietors and small businesses where it is not always possible to separate out business from personal expenses. I have saved an enormous amount of time since using it. While I have always used my own Excel system this takes my financials to another level and saves hours of manual input of data. The support and help I have received from figg has been outstanding. Not only with videos but prompt Skype and email help when I needed it. I can now generate my own income statement and trial balance if I need to. I really like the checks and balances that have been built into the system so that you can see if you’re doing something wrong. I feel that my business is on a sounder level and that I can grow with confidence knowing that my financial systems are well-managed.
Owner at Beth Horner & Associates
South Africa • Professional Training & Coaching
http://za.linkedin.com/pub/beth-horner/4/870/a24
3. The figg website www.figg.co.zahas been upgraded and we are very proud to present it. Please refresh the website a few times to activate the updates, if it is already in your browser.
4. The figg video tutorials are new and improved on the You Tube channel FIGGEXCEL
5. We are very proud to announce that figg is now the preferred supplier of Accounting Software for Guest Houses with Guest House Accommodation of South Africa, GHASA. http://www.ghasa.co.za/resources.aspx. Over the past 19 years, GHASA has become well known as experts in quality guest house accommodation, offering many benefits, assistance and valued advice to members, as well as booking opportunities for travelers.
6. Congratulations to Chantel Collings, the winner of the 1st prize (the figg Small Business Accounting System valued at R999.00, soon going to be selling for R1499) figg competition run on Facebook. Yasmina Steyn was our second prize winner (the figg Household Accounting System currently selling for R149.00 soon going to be selling for R349) Keep a close eye on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/figgexcelaccounting for more competitions to win a figg product!
7. Gaynor was awarded figg Dealer of the Year. Well done Gaynor and thank you
8. Jackie joined us in April to lead Operations and Support, welcome Jackie, your attention to detail and commitment to figg is already being experienced by the team.
9. Thank you to all who joined the figg live Facebook chat held on Friday 30 March 2012. I enjoyed answering your questions and chatting with you all tremendously. Notice will be sent to you shortly of our next live Facebook Q&A session.
10. Join us for our figg Demo Webinar on 4 May 2012 at 10am SA time, where you can interact with the figg team, watch the products working live and find out more. Send through a Skype Contact request to the figg Skype address: info_figg and please be sure to tell us on the Skype invite that you would like to join the figg demo Webinar. We'll be making use of www.screenleap.com for the visual and Skype for the audio to conduct the session.
Overcoming Challenges
The challenges for figg to grow through have been enormous. “Finding a way” and pushing through and over challenges leads to an even stronger position for figg to support customers with their challenges through our own experience:
- Shocking service from Telkom, Vodacom and MTN.
- Attempted customer credit card fraud.
- Some suppliers just disappearing has been to the extent of it being hilariously funny that there are people like this who exist.
What would we do without a sense of humor!?
Into the near future
- figg products available in retail in box packaging on CD
– take a look at http://www.figg.co.za/products.htmlto view photos of the boxes.
- Much more aggressive online marketing when the formal licensing of products development is ready (May 2012)
- Converting all small business entrepreneurs into figg’s!
- Keep a close eye on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/figgExcelAccounting/ :
- For more competitions to win figg products!
- For the schedule of webinar sessions to be arranged to see the products in action live with Q&A’s.
- For the schedule of live Q&A sessions.
Until we speak again, thank you to everyone supporting figg to lead us to (using Beth’s words) “growing small business, with confidence knowing that the financial systems are well-managed”. And remember; “Now everyone can go figgure!”
Many thanks,
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