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30 Money Saving Tips For Your Business

Up and Running

Use Open Source and Cloud Computing. Sourceforge.net has an index of open source options. For most things you need to do, you can find an open source and/or cloud version of it. Chris Hoyt of L angua Travel has used this method to great effect with his business, using trade for B2B compensation.

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Twitter Link Roundup #235 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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How to Use Social Media to Drive Traffic for B2B Companies – crowdspring.co/1nPz9An. 67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications | Datamation – crowdspring.co/1yevQN7. How To Think Like an Entrepreneur: the Inventure Cycle | by Steve Blank – crowdspring.co/1wkTR3b.

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Twitter Link Roundup #286 – Ideas for Small Business, Startups, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

Open source typeface “Hack” brings design to source code crowdspring.co/1JPW7C3. Logo for B2B buying group crowdspring.co/1UxyZgU. Stylish Geometric Clutches Are Made From Folded Paper crowdspring.co/1KsIoXE. Every Music Video Should Feature A Light Painting Machine crowdspring.co/1LVxRBo. McWhopper crowdspring.co/1LVydrP.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

mashable.com

[INFOGRAPHIC] How Agencies Are Spending Online Media Budgets [INFOGRAPHIC] Global Internet Traffic Expected to Quadruple by 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Advertising on Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] What Makes the Modern Media Agency [INFOGRAPHIC] How Does the iPad 2 Compare to the Tablet Competition?

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

It is the B2B advertiser’s Mecca, but it is an undeserved market when it comes to user experience and consolidation of services. Yair Margolin: Php, MySql (built for scalability on servers) and open source (you can add any API very quickly abd it’s also cheap). C onferences are big business. Is it big enough?

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Startup Tools

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interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM? Thanks for a Great Post.