Archive for December, 2007

It was a very good year….

Monday, December 31st, 2007

We would like to thank all of our subscribers for the help and assistance that they have played in making TravelManager the success that it has been in 2007. We couldn't have done it without your help. We relish your feedback (both good and bad) and look forward to implementing your ...

Remote Control - Internet style

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

I'm currently sat on my balcony overlooking the sea on the algarve coast of portugal (yes, as I type this). Every New Year the festival in Albufeira is fantastic (they have live bands playing on the beach and local dishes cooked and served up in a makeshift restuarant ...

Some statistics…

Friday, December 28th, 2007

We pride our selves on being a transparent business. So here are some statistics from the Travel Manager platform. In the last 3 months of 2007 we have had :- 1894 customer accounts created 264 employees detailed entered 165 vehicles entered 61 MOT's / services scheduled 735 private hire quotes generated 1019 defect sheets created 263 bus services ...

Why do we give all our ideas away?

Friday, December 21st, 2007

We have had a number of subscribers ask us recently why we give all of our ideas away in this blog or why do we offer so much information that competitors could easily just read this and copy us or beat us to market with their vesions. The answer is fairly ...

Growing your business with smart technology

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Our industry is known for not being the most technology led market place there is.  For a start its expensive (in terms of both time and money) to be at the cutting edge of technology all of the time and its damn confusing most of the time what with all ...

Merry Christmas

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Merry Christmas from everyone at TravelManager. Regards Mike

More FREE training sessions

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Now we have the hang of this webex solution :-) we are planning on offering many more free training sessions. In the New Year we will be offering training sessions on Wednesday & Thursday, again at 11am on topics that interest you guys. So if you want an hour on Duty ...

New Home…

Monday, December 17th, 2007

This is the new home for the TravelManager blog. We don't anticipate moving again as we now host our own blogging software and have full control over what types of functionality we can implement into this blog. Many Thanks Mike

Interesting stats from Learn Direct

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

There are over 130,000 drivers working in over 6,000 UK bus and coach companies today. The majority of these companies are owner / driver businesses with less than 10 employees.Also re-iterates the point about new EU directives coming into force:-"A new EU Directive comes into force on 10th September 2008, ...

Improvements to the look and feel coming in the New Year

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

We are always looking at ways to improve our products & services and who better to ask than you guys? Thats why we launched the "functionality voting" tool. In the first 12 days we have had 47 ideas generated and 252 votes cast. Excellent! We also thought it time to spruce ...