Given that the life of our teaser site is drawing to a close it felt like an appropriate time to write a quick post about a few important lessons it taught us. Lesson 1: How changing a few words can dramatically increase conversion for double opt in registrations Many companies have some kind of registration …
How we found our developers
This is the first in a series of behind-the-scenes posts about the inner workings here at Resource Guru. We know there are lots of budding entrepreneurs out there who have great ideas for web apps and need tips on how to get off the ground. So we thought it would be useful to let you …
Are you treating your staff like robots?
Do people in your office work from 9am to around 5.30pm with a short break for lunch? They probably work much later than that, but let’s just take that as an example. So, when you’re doing your resource planning, you can book them for around 7.5 hours per day, right? Wrong! Let’s work this out. …
What color is resource allocation software?
A lot has been written about color theory and it’s a pretty complex subject which uses lots of difficult words like, gamuts, trichromacy, additive, subtractive, complimentary, primary, secondary, tertiary, saturation, hue, shade, warm, cool… the list goes on. A fair amount has been written about meaning in colour too e.g. red stands for action, confidence, …
When Apple had resource scheduling software
There’s something slightly creepy about this video from Apple – a demo of the Apple Lisa from 1983. But it shows how, even then, there was a need for a resource scheduling tool. The Lisa came with 7 software programs including one called LisaProject. It was the first graphical project management software. It had some pretty …
Solving the resource scheduling problem
What is Resource Guru and why are we building it? If you work in a company that uses a spreadsheet for resource scheduling then you will understand the problem we are trying to solve. Before co-founding Resource Guru, I used to work as a digital project manager in various marketing and digital agencies. One of …
Video overview of business cloud computing
A quick video overview of cloud computing for business. We’re working hard to bring you fast, simple resource scheduling in the cloud. Stay tuned …
The Buzz Begins
We’ve just been mentioned on Smashing Magazine as having a best-practice viral launch page. We haven’t really started our marketing yet so this was a nice surprise. The original idea came from a brilliant article on Campaign Monitor. We just decided to strengthen the viral element by adding an iPad prize draw. So far, we’ve …
Our blog is live!
At last, The Guru has a voice! Watch this space for news and info on the launch of a brand new web app – Resource Guru. We plan to revolutionise the way companies schedule their resources and we will keep you updated with our progress on this blog. Come back soon to see what we’re …
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