SalesForce vs SugarCRM vs ZohoCRM Review

February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Salesforce vs SugarCRM vs ZohoCRM

Salesforce Head to Head with SugarCRM and ZohoCRM Does your business have a CRM solution in place? With many offerings like Salesforce, SugarCRM, and ZohoCRM, which one is right for your business? Most businesses have a pieced together sales process through email, spreadsheets, and notebooks. If you are looking for a better solution to get your business sales process firing on all cylinders you should have a CRM solution in place. So what should I use for a CRM? There are many offerings in … [Read more...]

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Email Tip #2 – Don’t Use Email

February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Email Tip - Don't Use Email

This Weeks Email Tip, Don't Use Email Being Valentines Day, I thought a great email tip would be Don't Use Email. How many of you have read an email and thought, what is this person saying? Not understanding the tone or emotion in email is one of the biggest pitfalls of email communication. Most times when we read email it is read with tone-deafness. It is hard to understand what emotion the sender is trying to convey. Things like facial expressions, tone of voice are lost in email. This … [Read more...]

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Email Tip – Forget Real Time Email Response

February 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Email Tip - Forget Real Time Respnses

Really, Do You Have to Look at Your Email Now? Building on our email tips from a few weeks back, I wanted to start sharing some tips to improve your productivity with email. I know most of  these will sound common sense but let's be honest, how many of you responded to an email on your mobile while having a conversation with a friend? Email Tip - Do not respond in real-time! Seriously, this email tip is a very simple effective way to get the most out of your email communication. I know … [Read more...]

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Hosting Your Video on Dropbox

January 24, 2012 By 1 Comment
Dropbox Public Folder

Want Website Video? Host it On DropBox Dropbox is a powerful cloud storage platform offering many ways to share and collaborate with your files. One nice feature is the public folder, it offers you an easy to use option to share videos and embed them on your website. Similar to using Amazon s3 it provides a great way to host videos on your website without having the streaming take away the bandwidth from your site. In this quick tutorial I will show you a quick way to host your videos on … [Read more...]

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Social Media Strategy – Getting Started 101

January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Social Media

How to get your Social Media Strategy Going Getting started with social media is fun and exciting so here is a quick guide to help jump in. So what is this hype about social media? Why is it something that everyone is talking about but no on is really telling you how to use? Social Media is really taking something that we do everyday and expanding it. Now we are able to use various social media channels to share and learn. Remember when you met with a friend or family member … [Read more...]

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Website Conversion – What Are Your Website Goals?

January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Website Conversion

Website Conversion Only Comes With Planning Your Website Goals To really maximize your website conversion rates you need to have a strong set of website goals to work from. No defined website goals, then trying to figure out our conversion ratio will not tell us anything. We need to know where we are, and where we plan go to analyze how well we are doing. To plan for website conversion we need to define what we want visitors to our website to do. This is our first step in creating … [Read more...]

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Sprout Social Interview

January 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Sprout Social

Interview with Justyn Howard CEO from Sprout Social Sprout Social did a major redesign of its social media management tool late and 2011 and that made some users happy and left others shaking their heads. Like life one thing we can always count on is change, so we decided to reach out to Sprout Social and see what there thoughts were. Justyn Howard took some time to give us the inside scoop on the changes and what is planned for future. While Hootsuite remains one of the main tools used … [Read more...]

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7 Best Practices for your Social Media Strategy

January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Social Media Strategy Best Practices

Building Your Social Media Strategy Your social media strategy will continue to be a crucial component of a strong inbound marketing for businesses plan throughout all of 2012 and the years to come. With millions of people and companies engaging in social media as their primary platforms for professional networking and marketing, the atmosphere has become cluttered and crowded. While social media will likely play an even stronger role in successful SEO, and inbound marketing this year, … [Read more...]

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