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Shortening The Small Business Software Selection Process

YoungUpstarts

Many of these tasks – accounting, billing/invoicing, marketing – can be streamlined and, in many cases, automated with the right software. We practice what we preach by leveraging our own business software review platform for valuable research and customer testimonials and it has saved us time and money.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

SAS software was doing an excellent job of keeping up with customer needs. Rather, they did these things because a) SAS software really was doing a terrific job, and b) getting the word out to their peers helped the customer champions build social capital. The company was having a noticeable customer retention issue several years ago.

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Why Video Marketing is Underrated (and How to Use it to Your Advantage)

Duct Tape Marketing

Video product reviews on Amazon nearly always appear at the top of Google’s rankings. . Takeaway : Video content is also easy to share via social networks, and software developers have prioritized video integration in site creation. Referral Marketing Small Business Marketing Web Marketing YouTube David Preston'

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5 things that suck (about hiring new employees) and 10 things companies can do about it

crowdSPRING Blog

Among those places, both on and off the web, are highly trafficked jobsites like Monster.com or careerbuilder , and specialty sites like TheLadders.com which appeal to certain niche populations of job-seekers. Try to leave the job posting up as long as you can manage and harvest as many applications as you can. This moment.

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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

But until then, individuals should, at minimum, have read, write and export rights to the data they have created around the web. Camtasia doesn’t own the screencasts I use their software to create. One day soon I hope that everyday people will be able to manage their data the way they would their health or their wealth.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. I’m the CEO of Palo Alto Software. A lot of people have asked about the software. ” You’re reviewing this each month. This is Sabrina.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. We can guess our brand terms and product keywords, but the wonderful harvest of category-type, and beyond, keywords is gone.

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