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DataServ on Thursday unveiled a redeveloped corporate website that showcases their Software as a Service (SaaS) for Purchase-to-Pay (P2P), Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) and Hire-to-Retire (H2R) solutions in corporate finance and administration. Partnering with St. Louis based web design firm,...
The Dealer Services Group of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) today announced the launch of new Social Media / Reputation Management solutions for dealers. Delivered as a comprehensive service, ADP’s Social Media / Reputation Management solu...
DocuSign is the seamless eSignature solution allowing Salesforce CRM users to quickly manage and send contracts for e-signing from a single workspace. Contracts can be conveniently signed in the cloud and returned within minutes. The contract signing process is even easier and faster t...
In the wake of the financial crisis and its attendant repercussions across the global economy, the U.S. Congress stands poised to address the issue of patent reform. Much debated and long anticipated, patent reform legislation is back under consideration with the bill possibly coming u...
When I started my high technology career in 1982, we had an unemployment rate of 10%. Doesn’t this sound familiar? It was a brave new time in computing and no one was even sure where it was all going. Doesn’t this also sound familiar? I probably didn’t realize it at the time since I wa...
DataSync, a provider of integrated small business software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, and SugarCRM, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, have announced a strategic partnership to deliver an integrated suite of small...
A new web site enabling agencies and the public to review the detailed financial performance of federal IT investments using dashboards. The home page offers a quick glance into the overall investment portfolio while also allowing you to go deeper into specific IT investments. The s...
Whether the ball is old or new, it doesn’t matter. It feels right. Something goes off in my brain where all of my memories of pick up games and balls thrown or chased down come rushing back. And memorable smiles that showed up in buckets. Smiles from friends, family members and even pe...
Over the last few weeks, I presented a lesson or two a week for my readers. For your convenience, here are all seven of the martial arts lessons that I believe you can apply to business. Lesson One: Laying a Foundation – Hapkido is a building program that relies on previous steps along...
Brickfish, the social media platform, has announced its expansion into the business of licensing its patent-pending and award-winning social media tools to the broader online publishing community. These partnerships will enable other Web publishers, large or small, to leverage Brickfis...
Microsoft’s share of U.S. searches jumped 22.1% in August to 10.7% of the market to Google’s 64.6%, up 2.6%, and Yahoo’s 16%, according to Nielsen. Yahoo was down 4.2%. Microsoft was up from 9% in July. That’s a sequential leap of 22.1% for Microsoft’s newfangled Bing search machine, b...
CloudTrigger in partnership with Advanced Image Direct have created a new Customer Relationship Management solution, Cloud2Mail that enables SalesForce.com users to send real mail with just a click of a button, it's as easy as sending email. CloudTrigger LLC (San Diego, CA) in conjunct...
There are different opinions on these sites, but I focus on raw functionality not hype. By working daily to learn the nuances of how these social media tools work together, I have been contacted by professionals I would have never met through my own network. All of these tools are i...
MDC Partners announced today its investment in Attention Partners LLC, a social media and marketing communications agency based in New York. Attention is differentiated by its data-driven approach to earning media. Its services encompass measurement, consulting, engagement, and communi...
In the case of Ulitzer, as a writer I am focused on getting readers from within an existing audience. There are already thousands of readers coming to the Ulitzer site, so if they are interested in my topics such as marketing, they will find my articles as well as others. Ulitzer all...
Lee Novak, a Sales Management Executive for 25 years, uses a proven people-first, client-first philosophy. He has a reputation for building teams that not only are high-performance groups but also that do business the right way, at the right time and for the right reasons. He received ...
This clear energy focus can be the difference between a high performer and someone with a job at the individual level. At the company level, the difference can show up as profit.
In Q2’09, the total notebook PC market posted strong Q/Q and Y/Y growth as units surged past the 38 million mark, as reported in the DisplaySearch Q3’09 Quarterly Notebook PC Shipment and Forecast Report. The mini-note PC (netbook) market was particularly strong, growing 40% Q/Q, which...
The growth of Web 2.0 has lead to far greater opportunities for such retail giants outside to the obvious sales growth. With more of us sharing personal information online through sites like Facebook, Linkedin, MeettheBoss and Xing, companies can monetize online investment through anal...
It will take you twenty times to learn this move – New students come into class and see all of the Hapkido techniques on sheets on the wall. The list is intimidating to say the least. Korean terminology, foundational moves, nuanced techniques and sometimes small notes written in pen on...
Business leader, best-selling author and Hall of Fame speaker Scott McKain joined Ulitzer with his blog syndication at http://mckainviewpoint.ulitzer.com. Scott McKain is the Co-founder and Principal of The Value Added Institute, a think-tank that examines the role of the customer expe...
Twitter is a communication platform that helps businesses stay connected to their customers. As a business, you can use it to quickly share information with people interested in your company, gather real-time market intelligence and feedback, and build relationships with customers, par...
Quiet the voices – While in training, I like to sit in a lotus position, close my eyes and drift inward. There is usually some kind of a striking class like Karate being taught before Hapkido and it can get quite loud in there, but no matter. When you learn to go inward, you are able t...
More proof that blogging is smart business. Just make sure that whoever is blogging is a good writer and is committed to being consistent. Otherwise, it will be a waste of time. You can either have your developers include a blog in your web experience or use free tools like Wordpr...
This is Lesson No. 3 of a Continuing Series on How Martial Arts Skills can be Applied to Business. There are no short cuts – a Hapkido master told me this and thank goodness there are people in the world who still believe this. Stop trying to be clever and instead focus on earning real...
This is Lesson No. 4 of a Continuing Series on How Martial Arts Skills can be Applied to Business. A million lessons everyday – Everyone you meet, everything that happens to you is a lesson. In Hapkido, every class brings either someone who knows more than you or someone who has taught...
Are marketing and sales sending email messages relevant to your prospect's interests? Find out how messaging misses the mark and how you can change it to create higher levels of prospect engagement.
Despite a down economy, we continue to see investment in SFA. With shrinking sales resources and market opportunities, investing in technology to automate critical sales processes may be the only alternative to still meet sales targets. The economy has affected vendors in different way...
Wildfire delivers a social media promotions platform. This is an interview with its CEO Victoria Ransom. We play in 2 categories, we’re in the Social Media Marketing category and we’re also in the promotions space. We've taken promotion formats that have been proven successful and hav...
Bazaarvoice, the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, today announced that it serves more retailers on the 2009 Internet Retailer 500 ranking than any other social media competitor. Bazaarvoice dominates the Top 100, where it beats out i...
Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Microsoft Dynamics POS 2009, a flexible, scalable solution that helps midmarket companies and specialty retailers provide outstanding customer service, drive employee productivity and make business decisions with confidence. The new s...
Be Present – Woody Allen (will he ever again be mentioned in a martial arts article? Doubtful) once said that 80% of life is showing up. He was right. If you don’t show up to class, you can’t learn. Sure you can stay at home and practice the moves, but nothing replaces having a real pe...
Hapkido is a form of martial arts that is practiced heavily in Korea and is similar to jujutsu practiced in Japan. The word Hapkido itself comes from hap meaning harmony, ki meaning internal energy or strength and do meaning the way or joining energy. Hapkido in word and in action shou...
This is the complete list of Networking and Social bookmarking sites that was a study I had broken up into three parts, but for the benefit of new readers or if you wanted the complete document, I'm posting it as one article. On the market research part of this, I used Alexa, Compet...
Remember the "good old days" when we sat around and waited for the marketer to tell us where the value was? Even if we didn't believe them, they would throw money at it and pound on us until we decided that there must be something there. Now the marketers have to fight the joined voice...
My Comment - Providers Should Use Video Providers need to be asking themselves, "do I have good video?" Video helps you explain things in such an economical manner compared to many other forms of content. It can be viral, but even if it isn't, it will improve the ability of the prov...
A recent press release by CPA firm Templeton offered some interesting data on poor CRM adoption rates by accountants. Using a strong CRM solution is a critical strategy for any firm of size that considers its relationships important to the long term success of the company. It's interes...
There is so much going on in social media, it’s difficult to keep up. So I’m starting a series on different aspects of the social media landscape. We start with social networking and bookmarking sites. I tried to focus on the sites with the most traction so the articles don’t get unwie...
Part three of this popular series looks at Reddit, Reunion (MyLife.com), ShareThis, StumbleUpon, Tagged, Technorati, Tribe, Twitter, Urbanchat, Viddler, Wangyou, Wikipedia, Xanga, Xiaonei, Xing, Yelp, YouTube and Yuku.
Lead nurturing is often thought about as being found with a flag waving when your leads decide to take action. Waiting to be found is not a strong strategy. In fact, sitting around passively encourages your leads to leak away to competitors working harder to engage them. The secret is ...