June 2008 Archives

Táve Studio Manager lets you subscribe to your calendar, and in the future receive to-dos and reminders, with your favorite calendaring application.

In this tutorial, we'll see how to publish a calendar and subscribe to it with Apple's iCal, Microsoft's Windows Calendar, and Google's Calendar.

One of our users asked a good question.   The question was essentially:

At which point should you start entering data into Táve Studio Manager?

There are three choices here:

1. Only enter in new leads, looking back at your legacy system for previous or current clients.
2. Entering in all clients and job that are open in some way.
3. Going back and entering in any client or job done since a certain point in time, for instance; the start of the year.

Clearly there's a conundrum here.  The easiest choice, the first one, is also the least helpful, while the most helpful is also the most time consuming.   The choice is yours, but I definitely recommend putting in as much as you're willing to do.

The more data you enter into Táve Studio Manager, the more useful it will be for you.   There are several reasons for this...

Reporting
Our reports will be more valuable with more data, especially some of the reports and analytics we haven't released yet.   You want to see trends, especially when it comes to planning for your future.

Marketing Campaigns
As we add campaign functionality to the system, you'll benefit with more effective lists for email blasts and postal mailings.

Persistent Memory
Do you remember all of your previous clients?  Will you remember all the details if they call again now or in a few years?  Táve Studio Manager will, and that means so will you!

The fourth option

I didn't mention it earlier because we're still working on an interface for this that meets our standards, but there is in fact a fourth option:

Importing your legacy data from a CSV file. 

If you do have a CSV file, or you can create one, you can wait to do it yourself when we release our import/export system or you can go ahead and email the CSV or Excel file any time to support@tavestudio.com and we'll import the data for you (give us a few days though!).

We're slowly going through the beta registration list and hand selecting studios to send early access invites to as we put the finishing touches on the product.

If you aren't one of the studios that received the early invite code, and you really really want one and you just can't wait, contact us!  

We're verifying all studios prior to sending an invite, so please include your website address and phone number in the message.