Rising Stream, LLC

Managing email is one of the more frustrating technological challenges my clients have. Whether it’s administering accounts, ensuring reliable delivery or worst, dealing with spam, it’s a chore.

As a small business myself, I’ve migrated to Google Apps for Business, primarily for the email support. I now rely on Google to handle delivery and spam control for all of my business mail. I have IMAP support set up, allowing me to work offline and while its not 100% reliable, there have been only a few short instances where delivery was delayed. The spam control is wonderful - I check it every day and average 100+ spam emails and I can only recall one false positive in the past year.

With that in mind, I share with you this recent notice I received from my host:

Next week is National Small Business Week, and to celebrate, the Google Apps Team is going on tour. From April 21st through April 24th, we’ll be visiting the most entrepreneurial city in each of the four regions of the U.S.*: Washington D.C., Charlotte, NC, Kansas City, MO, and Phoenix, AZ.

Come by to meet members of the Apps team, find out what’s new, and connect with other businesses using Google Apps.

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Event information for Kansas City, MO:
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Date:
Thursday, April 23, 2008

Location:
Kansas City Live
Corner of 14th Street and Grand Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64106

Time:
10:00am - 3:00pm

For more details, visit http://www.google.com/apps/citiestour .

We hope to see you there!
The Google Apps Team

If you’d like to learn more about Google Apps, contact me and I’ll demonstrate my personal experience with the tools available.

Rising Stream Associates is an organization focused on partnering with our clients to provide Sales and Marketing expertise on a project basis. Whether you are attempting to penetrate new markets, jump start your existing sales effort or you just need short term assistance, we have the experience you need to achieve these objectives.

Do you need to introduce a new product or service this year? Have you struggled with increasing sales to existing customers by identifying new services to offer them? Rising Stream Associates can help you identify, develop and deliver services that help differentiate your firm in a crowded marketplace. Improve your relationship with your customers by delivering solutions they need.

Are you losing too many sales to competitors? There are many factors to consider, from your teams ability to differentiate your products and services in the marketplace to your ability to deliver on the promises you make on a cost effective basis. Developing a consistent message and the processes associated with identifying a suspect, moving them through the sales cycle, and then delivering the solution can be a costly effort. Rising Stream Associates can help you increase the effectiveness of your staff while reducing the cost associated with capturing a new client.