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Michael Singer   bio   3/15/2010   Post a comment
Which ERP solution best fits your unique business situation? If you're a midmarket company, that's not always an easy answer.
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As an executive and regular public speaker, I use PowerPoint frequently. I have tried a few alternative products for creating presentations and recently I created a deck using SlideRocket for a big staff meeting.
Rob Leathern
Rob Leathern   3/4/2010   29 comments
When we chose to develop a new logo for our company, we decided to use the Website 99designs.com to have multiple designers compete with ideas for our logo.
Pam Baker
Pam Baker   1/26/2010   27 comments
Social media is all the rage in customer relationship management (CRM) these days. It even has its own tag: SCRM. Still, it remains a double-edged sword for the business world. Despite its newfound popularity, the flourishing of an army of “experts,” and the plethora of how-to information on the Web, some companies still don’t get that social media is a tool best used gingerly to attract and retain customers -- and not as a hammer to pound home a company message.
Benjamin Tomkins
Search advertising works, perhaps too well. It's easy to use, and the results are easy to measure. That's led many midmarket companies to allocate large chunks of their marketing budgets to search advertising, but while this approach may garner results now, in a few years, an overreliance on search advertising may leave you wondering where all your customers went.
Mike Moran
Mike Moran   1/4/2010   8 comments
The fun thing about the Internet is that there is always something new coming along. And the really annoying thing about the Internet is that there is always something new coming along.
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