Keeping Track

Selling your product or services to the government can be one of the best ways to transform your business from average to successful. The government is the largest buyer of products and services in the world with the added benefit of being mandated to pay you on time.

Of course, it’s not easy. There is a lot to keep track of. And while success ultimately depends on a great many things, there are two things that are absolutely essential – one: do everything on time, and two: do everything on time.

If you’re like us, there are simply too many individual tasks to do to keep it in your head. You need to write it all down some place. You need to keep track. While we know that there are as many ways to “keep track” as there are things to keep track of – all of them are essentially just a list of tasks.

We’ve just released an update to Bidspeed that promotes “keeping track” to a first class idea. Here’s the important changes:

• There are now 3 types of tasks –
  1. Opportunity tasks: related to items on your watchlist
  2. Contact tasks: related to contacts in your contact list.
  3. Stand-alone tasks: general purpose tasks
• The top-level tab “Tasks” shows you a list of all of them, grouped by the type of task. If you’ve related the task to a contact or an opportunity, you can click on the link and see a link directly related to the item the task applies to.
• You can now create tasks from 3 places:
  1. The main “Dashboard” (Click ‘Create a New Task’)
  2. An item on your watchlist (Click ‘New’ on the list of tasks)
  3. A contact in your contact list (Click ‘New’ on the list of tasks)

We’ve spent most of our time trying to keep it simple because we know that no matter how clever a list of tasks gets, if it isn’t used then it isn’t helpful.

The other major change is that you can see your tasks on a calendar and even move them around on the calendar. This makes for a very easy way to rearrange your day / week / month.

If you’d like to give it a try then you should try Bidspeed and start creating your tasks. It won’t cost you anything for the first 30 days and after that it’s less than $0.63 a day.

Hey, there is a lot to keep track of. Get out there and start keeping track.