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26 Apr How eCommerce Sites are Attracting Search Engines and Growing a Dedicated Fan Base

Posted at 07:57h in Amazon, online applications, Web 2.0, web apps, Web Development & Design 0 Comments

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In my previous post, I talked about how sociability was likely to be one of the reasons that the online ecommerce shoe store Zappos was a success. This got me thinking about ecommerce sites that have been popular among search engines and visitors by implementing...

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24 Apr Is Your Website Anti-Social?

Posted at 17:58h in online applications, Web 2.0, web apps, Web Development & Design 0 Comments

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Social media is the big buzzword on the internet today.  Not just because it’s the latest “fad,” but because it taps into the one of the core purpose of the internet itself, connecting with other people.  Social networking sites have seen a 47% growth over...

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23 Apr Why Businesses Aren’t Buying Prepackaged Software Anymore

Posted at 13:47h in Software Outsourcing, web apps 1 Comment

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An interesting post on the Tectonic blog tells supports something that we’ve known for quite some time. Prepackaged software is not in high demand in the marketplace. The post quotes Rishab Ayer Ghosh, a free software researcher at the University of Maastricht in...

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18 Apr Will Google Beat Microsoft in the Application War?

Posted at 13:55h in Google, Microsoft, online applications, Web 2.0, web apps 1 Comment

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Word broke on Tuesday that Google had purchased Tonic Systems, a software company with an online web app similar in functionality to PowerPoint. Google execs say that the new spreadsheet application will join the Google Docs & Spreadsheets suite this summer. Google’s...

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18 Apr Own or ‘Rent’ your Business Software? Software as a Service Vs. Software Ownership

Posted at 13:01h in CRM, CRM Software, online applications, Salesforce, Web 2.0, web apps, Web Development & Design 0 Comments

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Salesforce.com is very proud of the fact that it is NOT software. In fact, the word “Software,” encircled by the red Ghostbusters circle and slash is its logo. But isn’t software a “good” thing? This leaves many people wondering… if it’s not...

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17 Apr Politicians Finally Learn What Businesses Have Known For Years… You’ve Got to Understand Your Target Audience

Posted at 12:31h in CRM, CRM Software, Google, online applications, Salesforce, Web 2.0 0 Comments

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Salesforce.com recently launched CampaignForce, a new type of CRM app designed specifically for politicians to manage their campaigns.  The new app gives campaign managers a slew of benefits including, a web based single point of access to campaign-related and a view of important info such...

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16 Apr Cool Web Apps for Growing Your Business

Posted at 12:29h in online applications, Web 2.0, web apps, Web Development & Design 0 Comments

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If you really stop and think about it, there may be a lot of things that you’re “settling” for each day when running your business.  There are probably countless little irritations and problems that cause your business not to have the swiftness and dexterity it...

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13 Apr Will “Software-as-a-Service” Work for Content Management?

Posted at 16:11h in CRM, CRM Software, online applications, Salesforce, Web 2.0 0 Comments

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Salesforce.com recently announced that it will be moving into the content management space.  Gartner.com says that this move is “evidence of the growing interest in basic content management delivered through the software-as-a-service model.” So far, SalesForce has had succeeded either because of or despite its “software-as-a-service”...

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11 Apr If You’re In Over Your Head with Your CRM, You’re Not Alone

Posted at 09:12h in CRM, CRM Software, Software Outsourcing 0 Comments

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A lot of people come to us for Sales Force implementation solutions after trying to do it themselves without much luck. I mean, Sales Force seems like a simple enough CRM right? There are tons of tutorials, lots of documentation, a support line—what’s...

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10 Apr Hire the Brain, Not the Monkey

Posted at 09:09h in online applications, Software Outsourcing, Web 2.0, web apps, Web Development & Design 0 Comments

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I knew a freelance software engineer once that just blew me away—but not for positive reasons.  The guy was smart and could produce masterful code, but watching him run his business was like watching a train wreck.  There was no way to stop the destruction...

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