Newsletter

Greetings from teamr and Synchronous Technologies
Volume 4 :: Edition 2 :: 16 Feb 2009



 





Showing you love this Valentine's Day

And we're not talking about the standard flowers or chocolate.  We'll leave those gifts up to someone a bit closer to you...or at least someone who wants to be closer to you!  Consider us more like that jelly of the month club...the gift that keeps on giving!  Every month we are adding new features that benefit you and your organization, and in honor or Valentine's Day this month is no different.

If you haven't taken advantage of our new online storefront, now is the time.  With our new download feature and exciting new email templates, this is your perfect opportunity to launch an online store or fundraiser.  Build a store, send out a bunch of really slick emails promoting your store, and make lots of money.  You can't afford not to do it!

In This Issue



Technology Update
* 50MB extra storage for Premium Pro
* Selling files and software through your storefront
* Projects Gantt Chart
* Email templates

On The Burner
* See what we are working on for next month.

Showing more love to you

Extra storage for Premium Pro accounts.  To help encourage and reward our Premium Pro upgrades, we have increased the total file storage for those accounts to 100 MB.  That's a lot of space!

Use the new electronic sales function to sell files, e-books, pdf's, and even software with your own online store.

Contact us for more details or sign up on the My Account Screen

Technology Update

Selling documents, music, software, e-books, and other informational / data products through your store.  Sell your own writing, data, music or software.  Here's how it works.  We will use Lars' store as an example.  You can see the final product at http://simpletraveler.teamr.com


Set your download parameters here

Set up your item like any other item in your store.  At the bottom, you'll see a new optional area for your product, as pictured above.  All you need is the URL where your file is stored and the number of times you want a purchaser to be able to download the file.  You can easily store your files in your Media section and have them downloadable here.

Once a purchase has been made, the buyer will get an email with a link that will let the buyer download that file.  The URL of the file is always hidden, so no one will have access to your source file!  One more way Teamr ensures your experience with our store is the best it can be.


A whole new way to see your Projects.  Our new Gantt chart helps make sense out of all of your projects. 


Project management never looked so good!

The project manager now shows you graphical interpretation of all your active and completed projects.  The different colored bars represent the percentage those projects are complete.  And it shows you a line representing today, so you have an idea of how much time you have left to complete each project.


Email templates.  Premium accounts can use email templates to build really nice looking emails to send to your teams and groups.  In fact, if you want to use a special group just for emailing newsletters, you can now do that in the Team Setup page.



The new email sending area on the Home page

With email templates, you can use our existing templates (we custom made 40+ sweet looking templates just for you!), or you can build your own messages and save them in your Media section as templates.  These saved templates can then be recalled at any time!

Email templates have the same access control permissions as your other Media files.  You can share your emails with your team members or visitors to your public website, and you can make them available to all of your teams, or just the team you wrote the template for.  Total flexibility - it's what you're used to with Teamr!

Email templates are only available to Premium accounts - yet another reason to splurge that $4.95/month!

On the Burner

  • As part of our store upgrade, we are working on a central marketplace where people can find your store, team, or group.  Stay tuned - if you want our 25,000+ teamr users to be able to find your store or public site, it's coming very soon! 

Sell it online and deliver it over the web:

MyTrainerLink.com
The perfect solution for personal trainers to manage their clients and schedule.  Set up your own online store to sell workout routines and training videos.  Clients pay online and download the file from your site.

teamr Sites:

Be sure to tell your friends about teamr's sites. Everyone knows someone that could benefit from our free tools!

  Eliminate the Ads from Your Website and Email Messages:
We think we do a pretty good job of keeping our advertising out of the way, but we also understand there are times when you don't want it there at all.

Upgrade to Premium Pro and you never have to see an ad again!  Plus, emails are much easier to work with once you are using the whole width of your screen.

Join the Teamr Inner Circle

Doug, our VP of Operations, has officially launched a blog site using our website builder.  It is a great place to see how your public site can look, and if you have any article suggestions or best practice ideas you want to share with others, let us know and we can post them there.  Visit the site at http://management.teamr.com and be sure to request to join the team when you get there.

We would also like you all to welcome our newest staff member, Marlyn, who will be assisting with support issues and working with our users to maximize their enjoyment of the site.  You may be hearing from her in the next few weeks so don't be afraid to tell her what you think! 

Know someone who could use teamr?

Forward this email to a friend or colleague who might be interested in using a state-of-the-art team management software platform.

As always, we appreciate any feedback you have and hope that you are enjoying teamr and our family of sites! Stay tuned for more upgrades coming soon!

A history of previous upgrade announcements is available on our Technology History page.

Until next time,

Lars, Doug, Marlyn and Rocky
Founders, Synchronous Technologies Group Inc.
The teamr Family of Group Management Sites