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Bonding with Bond Solutions

I have 8 ambitions for this year. 4 are related to 1DayLater, 2 lifestyle, and 2 personal/professional development. I pin the list to the wall behind my desk helping me instill each point into my day-to-day efforts as I repeatedly mull them over.

Here’s a little peek at the first 4:

1. Get world wide recognition for 1DayLater
2. Become market leader for activity tracking software.
3. Integrate 1DayLater with Sage
4. Host a charity based event
5. ……..

Being featured in Lifehacker last week let me cross off no.1 and now I can happily say that 3 is officially underway too. The brains of 1DayLater met this week with the brains of local Sage reseller - Bond Solutions to work out how to best integrate with, and compliment their popular Sage offerings.

As far as business alliances go we really couldn’t have asked for better. The 8-year-old company is headed up by Derek Curtis, one of the most likeable guys you’re likely to meet. And as the biggest Sage reseller in the North-East and North-West of England they really know their onions.

My bro David King (1DayLater), Derek Curtis (Bond Solutions) and me

It looks likely that we should be able to integrate 1DayLater with the popular Sage CRM system - Sales Logix and Sage Accounts as a useful add-on, which will then be available throughout the Sage reseller network. If all goes to plan it should make entering data into these complex systems easier while out ‘on the go’, greatly saving admin time later. More on that to come soon.

Lastly big congrats to Derek and his new family unit, as he’s just taken on some foster kids. Great stuff

Take it easy

Paul

Our Ambitious Vision for 2010

1DayLater have enjoyed a great 2009, and look forward to celebrating this Christmas and New Year. But before we go, here are a some exciting things to look forward to in 2010…

• A Full feature set — with outputs including invoicing, mileage claims, export, more in-depth analysis, and 3rd party add-ons.

• Mobile phone & desktop app development — you’ll be able to log your activities on the move, and our handy desktop app will remind you to log them while you’re working at your pc.

• The launch of our market intelligence campaign — by London-based firm, Kingpin Intelligence. That means MORE FEEDBACK which essentially means better end service for you

• Development of an Outlook application for 1DayLater — A useful Outlook ‘skimmer’ being created by our friends at local Centre for Digital Innovation - Codeworks as part of their new Dev scheme.

- check out David doing ‘The Proposition’ pose, perfect for corporate photos!

Aaand if none of that other stuff tickled you, we’ll also have…

• Integration of 1DayLater with Sage Sales Logix (CRM) & Sage Accounts — Using the expert guidance of our friend Derek Curtis & his company Bond Solutions, the leading NE supplier of Sage software products

• A ‘secret charity based project’ — supported by our friends at Sunderland Software City, Newcastle’s Culture Lab, Codeworks & Bond Solutions - more info to come soon!

• A discounted ‘Time Recovery Tool’ for 1DayLater members — A tool to help you save time which has been created by time-management coaches, Cadenza associates.

Wow!

Writing it down like that just made me realise that next year is going to be epic. I don’t know about you lot but I can’t wait :)