When it comes to online file sharing, companies such as Box, FilesAnywhere, and our own online file system, TrueShare.com, there are three limits that can be found within each service: file size limit, disk space limit, and user limit.  The file size and disk space limits are fairly obvious, but the one elusive limit we will be talking about today is the user limit. 

What exactly is a user and why is it important? 

Well, a user is someone who has access to a file sharing account.  There is always at least one user, and this first user has full access to all features of the account.  This is the person who originally opens the account.  Depending on the service you are using and its user limits, adding additional users may be an option. These extra users are set up and managed by the original user or that task can be assigned to a new user. These new users can be set up to have any level of permission from very limited access up to full access. 

The option of extra users in TrueShare is powerful, especially for businesses, but also for personal or family use.  With unlimited users you can assign all of your employees a folder for remote access to their work, you can give customers and clients quick access to project folders and files they need as well as collect files from them, you can also utilize multi user features such as reporting, user groups, work groups, versioning, and forums for superior online teamwork. These extensive user management options and collaboration tools make unlimited users indispensible for a business or work environment.

TrueShare's unlimited users versus the competition

Honestly, we feel there is no competition.  With any TrueShare business account, no matter the disk space, you get unlimited users.  You might be saying "I only need 10 users because I only have 10 employees."  I would counter with "How much disk space are you looking to use?" If you only want to share word documents with your employees, you would not need to pay for much space.  But looking at Box.net, they do not offer packages with 10 users for less than $150 a month regardless of the disk space needed.  And while FilesAnywhere's additional users are more reasonably priced in the neighborhood of $3 monthly each, you get charged for every one.

The reason these services become so expensive is that they charge by the disk space and per user, so that the price looks good for the amount of space you get, but ends up skyrocketing per user you add, which is why having only 10 users costs so much.  If you are looking to more efficiently share your computer files with your employees for a reasonable cost, Box and Files Anywhere are not for you.  For just $25 a month (annual rate), TrueShare offers businesses 5 GB of storage with unlimited users, which is perfect for business documents sharing needs, but TrueShare is so much more than that.

If you are a large business or enterprise looking for a file sharing service, you may require a lot of disk space, so the above scenario doesn't seem to affect you.  But the problem is Box and Files Anywhere still charge you for every user in addition to disk space, so you will be overpaying hundreds if not thousands of dollars for the additional user accounts that come free with all TrueShare Business and Enterprise packages.

Get more for your money

Here at TrueShare, we believe that you should only have to pay for what you need, which is why we offer unlimited users, and charge only by disk space.  We also provide premium features such as Send-a-Link, Direct Link, file and photo widgets, auto transfer and dropbox applications, and HIPAA and SAS 70 compliant security.  Whether you're a big corporation, small business, have a large extended family or just a few close friends, take advantage of TrueShare's unlimited users and get more for your money.  In fact, take a test drive on us-sign up for the 7 day free trial and experience a full featured TrueShare account today. 

Business	Unlimited Users       5 GB Disk Space - $30/mo
	10 Users	20 Users	30 Users	40 Users
Web Basic	$3.30/user/mo 5 GB total $33.95/mo	$3.00/user/mo 5 GB total $59.45/mo	$2.84/user/mo 5 GB total $84.45/mo	$2.75/user/mo 5 GB total $109.45/mo
Business	$15/user/mo 10 GB/user 100 GB total $150/mo	$15/user/mo 10 GB/user 200 GB total $300/mo	$15/user/mo 10 GB/user 300 GB total $450/mo	$15/user/mo 10 GB/user 400 GB total $600/mo

Advance the Future of Medical Transcription with TrueShare and AHDI

TrueShare is pleased to announce its affiliation with The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity, or AHDI.  The association is dedicated to the development of healthcare documentation standards, regulations, education, and technologies.  With its paperless and time efficient service, TrueShare is proud to unite with AHDI to provide medical transcription professionals with the perfect solution to environmentally friendly healthcare documentation.

Using the TrueShare Online File System with features such as Auto Tran, a medical professional can easily transfer their audio files to a transcriber, who will then transcribe the files and send them back, all with a simple and quick online method.  Not only does TrueShare provide a HIPAA compliant and paperless answer to electronic health records, but also global connectivity, because files are stored online and can be accessed from anywhere.

Ray Hill, Director of Business Development for TrueShare.com said, "The affiliation between TrueShare and the AHDI organization creates an extraordinary opportunity in the Medical Transcription industry for both the individual transcriber, and transcription companies."  For those transcribers, the opportunity comes in the form of a seamless transition to an electronic and online system, which is looming in the near future of all medical transcription services.  AHDI also commented in regards to upgrading electronically that, "TrueShare fits naturally and easily into most transcription businesses without requiring change."

As part of its affiliation with The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity, TrueShare is providing AHDI members with a 10% discount off of the monthly subscription rate.  Transcribers can also try TrueShare for free with a 7-day Free Trial.  To see how TrueShare can benefit the medical transcription community, and how simple taking healthcare documentation fully electronic can be, take a look at the TrueShare blog post "How To: Use TrueShare to automate Medical Transcription processes."  For more information about AHDI and their affiliation with TrueShare, or to try out the TrueShare Online File System, head to www.TrueShare.com or www.ahdionline.org.

Go Green with TrueShare, and help advance the future of Medical Transcription.

About the TrueShare Affiliate Program

TrueShare's affiliate program extends its services to businesses and associations that are looking for the one stop shop for their customers' file sharing and storing needs, while earning revenue and perks for their efforts.  To learn more about the affiliate program or how to get involved, contact Ray Hill at rhill@trueshare.com, or navigate to www.TrueShare.com

A Recycling Blast for TrueShare.com at the Kansas City Irish Fest

The TrueShare team had a blast at the Kansas City Irish Fest this year, as we were the official sponsors of the recycling program as well as the band sponsor for Hot House Flowers on Friday and Saturday night of Labor Day weekend.

Some of you 95,000 good people attending may have seen the TrueShare recycling street-stickers around, and hopefully they pointed you in the direction of the nearest recycling bin. Mitch Matt, president of TrueShare said of the 2009 KC Irish Fest, ?It was so much fun, and everyone was very receptive of a local green company trying to help make a difference.? Of course we?re all happy to hear our efforts really did make a difference.

The Irish Fest reported that this year, with the help of TrueShare, they recycled 248 bags of bottles, cans, and cups. At an average weight of 9 lbs per bag, that equals 2,232 lbs of plastic recycling. That?s more than a ton of plastic that we helped to keep out of our streets and landfills.

Along with sponsoring recycling at the Irish Fest, we also wanted to raise awareness about the ease of going paperless with the TrueShare Online File System. So during our band introductions, we threw TrueShare ?Go Green? t-shirts out to lucky people in the crowd. ?They were so excited,? said Mitch, ?and if we persuaded one person to go paperless, it will have been more than worth it.? Overall it was a great weekend of music, dancing, meat pies, and recycling.

Check out our pictures of the festival and some of the TrueShare ?Go Green? t-shirt winners below in our PhotoShare app (another way to go paperless.) We?ll see you next year at the Kansas City Irish Fest, and don?t forget to recycle!

 

TrueShare Marketing: Reseller Rally

In the first half of 2009 we increased our TrueShare marketing efforts in working with our Reseller Partners. We have learned much and have made many changes as a result of good people providing great feedback.

Throughout these changes we've had to balance our decisions between consideration of viability and value to TrueShare and opportunity and value to our Resellers.  It has been a pleasure to make these decisions and shape our Reseller Program with top priority given to creating an offer and an opportunity that enables our Reseller Partners to be successful and profitable.

We have learned that our Reseller Partners are ideally positioned to promote the advantages of TrueShare to their circles of influence.  Businesses around the world have a compelling need for TrueShare features like online file storage, online backup, and simple file sharing on a daily basis. Learning of a solution like TrueShare through a trusted business partner helps them see the value very clearly.

We have also learned that businesses love PhotoShare - the photo management feature of TrueShare - for secure photo sharing online and for easily embedding rich media into blogs, websites, and newsletters.

But the one thing we have learned above all else is that our Resellers are invaluable and insightful and we thank them and appreciate them any time and in every way that we can.

Follow this link for more information about the TrueShare Reseller Partner Program