May 2008
 

In this issue

Welcome!
Summer Discount - 20% off your first month/year upgrade
Functional Methods uses DeskAway to grow its business
Upcoming Enhancements
Follow us on Twitter
Contribution
Closing

Welcome!

Hello there!

Welcome to this months edition of the DeskAway newsletter. As the summer beats down on us, we thought we should end this month with a summer upgrade discount of 20% (valid only until May 31st, 2008) and also to let you in on what we have in store for you once its starts getting a bit cooler.

Recently, we setup an account on Twitter. One of us will be monitoring the twitter feeds daily - answering questions, sending promotions, announcements, and just keeping in touch.

Stay cool!

Best Regards,
Sahil Parikh
Founder, DeskAway.com

Summer Discount - 20% off your first month/year upgrade

Our very first discount is here! If you are thinking of upgrading, this is the best time. Get 20% knocked off from the first months/years payment on any of the plans.

Just login to your account, click on the 'Upgrade Now' link at the top and follow the steps ('Outside India' option) as if you were upgrading the account normaly. Finally, when you reach the 2Checkout page (they handle payments for us) just key in 'SUMMER2008' in the 'If you have a coupon code enter it here:' text box. That its, just follow the rest of the steps to submit your CC number.

Your new upgraded account will be activated immediately!

This offer is only valid until 31st May, 2008 (4 more days...).

Functional Methods uses DeskAway to grow its business

"With DeskAway, everyone is on the same page - that results in transparency, accountability and clarity. Partnering with DeskAway to deploy Functional Methods online client workspaces is one of the best business decisions that we have made."
Chris Peters,
Managing Director, Functional Methods

Chris's company, Functional Methods, uses DeskAway as their primary online workspace, both, for their internal team as well as with their clients. DeskAway helps them manage and track project engagements with clients, store internal and external project plans, templates etc., and maintain an internal company blog. Interestingly, they also use DeskAway to help manage milestones and tasks related to building their company, Functional Methods.

Chris tried many other popular tools but chose DeskAway because of its short learning curve, responsive and personal customer support, speed of the application and a rich feature-set.

For Chris and his team, they like paying a flat yearly fee so that they can add as many users as they like - not worrying about how much an additional user would cost as the team and business grows.

Chris and his team will be releasing an in-depth casestudy of their engagement with DeskAway. Stay tuned!

Upcoming Enhancements
We have re-scheduled the release of the Personalized Email Reminders to June as we feel we should spend more time testing it before taking it live.


Personalized Email Reminders - each of your team members will be able to turn on the automatic email reminder facility. This will enable DeskAway to email each and every one of them a list of their projects (and milestones, tasks, issues) that are Overdue & Approaching Deadlines.

Some other cool features that we will be working on are:
1. Revamp of the Project Overview Page
2. SSL
3. Creating Project Templates
Follow us on Twitter

Yes, we are officially on Twitter - the popular micro-blogging platform.

http://www.twitter.com/deskaway

We will be using Twitter as another Support/Customer Service channel where we will be happy to help you with questions or concerns. If we have something new to say or announce, you bet its going to be on Twitter as well. :-)

So, if you are on Twitter, do follow us...

Contribution

Are you a current DeskAway user and want to share your experience? We'd like to feature your story.

Click here to send us your email and we will get in touch with you personally

Closing

Thank you for being a part of the DeskAway community.

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