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Manage And Schedule Appointments With TimeCenter

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Marie had been running a web development shop nicmar media since 2002, and had developed an online appointment scheduler for two of Sweden’s biggest companies in 2005. TimeCenter is developed by Sweden-based Niclas Marie and Daniel Ellenson. While the applications were very successful, it was never suited for small businesses.

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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

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This would inspire him to start GoodBuzz in 2005, a free web-based peer-to-peer referral network that would allow artists, bands, associations, public organizations, event promoters and organizers to help promote each others’ events.

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Want To Boost Yourself On Media? Avoid These 11 Fatal Mistakes

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by Paul Blanchard, author of founder and principal consultant of Right Angles and author of “ Fast PR: Give Yourself a Huge Media Boost “ Here’s the surprise about PR: getting great media coverage is as much about knowing what not to do than it is about knowing what to do.

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e-Commerce: Why You Need It And How To Do It Right

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And remember that, even though all your customers may no longer be in front of you when you close a sale, you can use internet forms and social media reviews to learn what they think of your e-commerce sales experience. Test your marketing channel options to see which will be the most effective driver of your new online sales.

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Be Shareable

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As millennials raised on smartphones turned away from television to more original and outrageous content on the internet, a new generation of self-made media stars was born. Ask the Ayzenberg Group, the firm that delivers the Ayzenberg Earned Media Value Index Report. Millions of dollars were spent trying to make ads go viral.

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Why Business Relationships Take More Than Texting, Friending, And Online “Connecting”

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It’s official: Email, texting, and social media are no longer just helpful supplemental business tools. Social media and technology do have their place, but they are not, and never will be, a substitute for in-person interaction. They’ve taken over the whole game. Trust is at an all-time low.

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[Interview] Pekka Viljakainen, Author Of “No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age” (Part I)

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In 2004-2005, I found out we were recruiting thousands of people I started to realize that many of these people who are coming in, those born after 1985 – they are behaving differently. People get the impression that those who are in social media are Digital Cowboys, but it is not an automatic thing.