On Monday, June 25, we added a sign up window for anyone interested in helping us test the beta version of Team Solution Software.  We’ll be using TSS ourselves, of course, in the management of our team at KISS Computing, Inc., but we hoped others would want to play along with us – - quicker feedback, and likely to be more comprehensive than if it were just us geeks.  After all, it would not be new to us, and we wanted fresh and untainted observation and use.

In the two full work weeks since the sign up window appeared, we’ve had 14 companies volunteer, including a private, non-profit organization with 9 users; a CPA firm of 15 at three different locations within Massachusetts; a company with offices in Germany, the UK and the US; an Internet marketing company with offices in the US (Texas) and Canada (Calgary); and other smaller companies like ours.

We thank them all, and look forward to working with them shortly when the beta becomes available for testing.  There’s always room for more, though, so if you are interested, we’d love to have you join us.  There will be special introductory benefits for those who beta test with us, so signing up helps you, too.

As we’ve reported here, this Team Solution Software web site was launched on Friday, June 8. Our blogging and promotional efforts, however, did not begin in earnest until the week of June 18, as you’ll see from previous posts. Today, we want to share with you the saturation results from just those first two weeks of search engine optimization work.

We submitted the URL to the major search engines beginning that week, June 18. We did so for five consecutive days, and then backed off to weekly thereafter. We’ve added content to the site each day since then, also, in the form of blog postings. We’ve maintained that frequency of content growth, making sure the appropriate keywords were included in the copy, and we’ve watched for the search engine robots to visit the site and index its content.

According to www.pagerank.net, one of the online research resources we use for our SEO work, Team Solution Software has 31 pages indexed in Google’s data base; 10 pages indexed in Yahoo!’s; and a few each in MSN, Alta Vista and AOL. We’re very encouraged that it took only two weeks for this web site to make it to the search engine DBs, and we’ll begin refining our efforts now for keyword density and rank positions for the keywords that will result in increased visitorship.

We will not be expecting such quick results there, as the competition is very keen for rank position no matter the keywords. This site is young, also, and search engines do favor maturity. Our networking promotional efforts will fill in the gap here, as it has over the last two weeks, and we’re happy to report, also, our traffic continues to grow. Our pages viewed per visit over the last 10 days is approaching 5, suggesting visitors are finding something of interest here.

Efforts continue, and we’ll be reporting results again in another week.

Although we’ve concentrated so far on discussing the commercial version of Team Solution Software for the small business market, we do have a second version being developed concurrently – - for municipalities. We’ve been calling it CRMunicipal, and in this instance the CRM stands for, among other things, “constituent relations management.”

Some of a Town Manager’s or Town Administrator’s time is spent each day assigning citizen complaints to various department heads for resolution, and the municipal version of Team Solution Software will include a tracking mechanism for those tasks as they make their way down the chain of command for resolution, and then back up again to be marked as resolved.

Not all town agencies and departments work out of the same building, and many of a town’s agencies are part-time or volunteer. It’s not dissimilar to a small business composition of in-house and telecommuting staff members. Team Solution Software’s municipal version will enable everyone to stay in touch and remain current on projects and tasks.

The file/document storage and sharing component is perfect for budget development as it is passed from department to department for everyone’s contribution. Project and task management becomes that much easier with the centralized and shared features of TSS, along with the shared Calendar feature. It’s just as important for all town agencies and departments to be on the same page as it is for small businesses, and Team Solution Software is that perfect tool for inter-departmental communication and accountability.

When completed, the municipal version of TSS will be the first of its kind, designed specifically for towns in any state. We’ll continue reporting on progress and features of this version as it moves to release shortly after the small business version.

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Team Solution Software sales site. Team Solution Software is a robust and feature-rich tool available to small and medium businesses to help manage the company team, share all task and project data, share a common calendar, share documents, stay in touch through an internal messaging system, and so much more. Today’s workforce is becoming so much less office-centric, as team members telecommute or spend part of their week working from home, and this trend is likely to increase. Team Solution Software is designed to help that decentralized office stay in touch, and to foster that team concept by keeping all members on the same page.

Over the course of the next month, we’ll be posting our development progress on the system as it moves from Alpha to Beta, and those companies who have volunteered to be our Beta testers hammer on the platform and help us debug. As progress postings are made, we’ll be adding screen shots of the system to the site, and explaining more of the system’s features. This will lead to a longer list of FAQs, and more Release information, as we get ready to begin offering accounts in the system.

Please check back often to track our progress. Our entire team will be posting as we complete a task in the development process, so there will be programmer notes, production notes, copy writer notes and designer notes. We’re excited about giving you a peak over our shoulders into the development of rich Internet applications, and we’re going to maintain a two postings per week schedule over the next month for that peak.

Team Solution Software – - so much more than a CRM system.