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30 Twitter Tools for Business
How do you use Twitter for business? This question has been answered manifold times. What tools do you use for business though? There aren’t that many business tools for Twitter it seems. You rather should ask:
Which tools enable professionals best to use Twitter for business?
This way you may find more useful tools and apps. Nonetheless there are some valuable specialized Twitter tools for business you should try. I compiled a list of both, Twitter tools for business and professional Twitter tools. Most of them are free but some advanced ones, especially in the CRM arena are not.
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Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems
The Oracle Corporation, the technology information company, announced Monday that it would acquire a rival, Sun Microsystems, for $9.50 a share, or about $7.4 billion.
How to Write an Elevator Pitch
Your elevator pitch is more important than a business plan or executive summary. In fact, with a good introduction and elevator pitch, you don't really need a business plan or executive summary.
Prospering by Telling Customers to Not Purchase Your Product
Here's a seemingly career-killing sales tactic: tell your customers they waste a lot of money on the product that forms the core of your company's business. Good way to land on the next cost-cutting list? For Xerox, this approach has actually created a powerful growth strategy.
Make Huge Profits Online with (your own) Products
If you REALLY want to make more money online you should strongly consider producing and selling your own product. I am not talking about manufacturing a product (i.e. a computer, TV, Slap Chop) or reselling someone else’s product… those cost a lot of money to produce and/or the profit margins are too slim. I am talking about making "information products" that cost close to nothing and are sold at prices that allow you to make huge profits.
Media, media, media. And rarely a word about...
The all important conversation of the customer cannot be translated, by its teachers, into words legible for a CEO or CFO.
The teachers, social media consultants and ad/marketing agencies and PR firms, refuse to whisper the magic phrase that unlocks the checkbook of millions of businesses. These are the same potential clients who await the power of digital media to connect, more and with less expense, with their customers. And connect with them in ways that are meaningful to the customer...and meaningful to the business.
What’s the magic phrase? I can increase your cash-flows...
Jerry Yang, Yahoo Chief, Steps Down
In a memorandum sent to the company’s staff Monday evening, Mr. Yang, 40, said he would hold the post until the board names his successor, a process he said he would participate in. The Yahoo co-founder said he would then return to his previous job as “chief Yahoo,” a corporate strategy role, and would remain on the board.
A radical business plan for Facebook: Charge people
"We've found out that having a price is really cool for making profits," Hansson pointed out last spring in an entertaining presentation called "The Secret to Making Money Online." "You have customers, they pay you money for the product or service, and you get profits! It's almost too simple to work." Of course, 37signals didn't come up with this idea on its own, either: "I've heard that over time—hundreds of years actually—this has been how most businesses have made their money. But somehow that notion got lost in the Web world."
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies.
When Microsoft and Apple were founded.
As those examples suggest, a recession may not be such a bad time to start a startup. I'm not claiming it's a particularly good time either. The truth is more boring: the state of the economy doesn't matter much either way.
If we've learned one thing from funding so many startups, it's that they succeed or fail based on the qualities of the founders. The economy has some effect, certainly, but as a predictor of success it's rounding error compared to the founders.
To Feds: I want my bailout
On behalf of the estimated 25 million small businesses existing in the USA (that includes the non-employer, solo-preneurs), I'd like to request a bailout. We don't have all of the baggage of firing 10's of thousands of workers, paying severances, and honestly, I think many of us are worth more than some of the firms you've helped.
The social trendcasting site Edopter.com tries to forecast the next big thing
Every year companies spend billions of dollars on market research trying to determine what makes you tick. Now, a new startup says you don't need a focus group to find out what's in -- all you need is a computer and a good pitch.
Bacon Salt: How two tech guys created a viral food sensation
"What started as a viral internet campaign turned into positive mainstream media coverage, and consumer demand for Bacon Salt in their local supermarkets. I don’t have a list of where you can buy Bacon Salt today, but I’m told that penetration is strong across the United States, with several large chains stocking the product."
Jerry Seinfeld: Microsoft's New $10 Million Pitchman
Microsoft Corp., weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.'s advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld.
The software giant's new $300 million advertising campaign, devised by a newly hired ad agency, has been closely guarded. But Mr. Seinfeld will be one of the key celebrity pitchmen, say people close to the situation. He will appear with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in ads and receive about $10 million for the work, they say.
Burnout: It's an issue
Burnout. Find the ways and means and resources to manage it now. You'll need all of them and more in the coming years
7 Months Into My 2nd Stint as a Startup CEO - socialmedian
As I set out to apply these lessons the 2nd time around, I promised myself that I would periodically stop to write an update. I had meant to do the first update after 6 months at socialmedian but we got so busy with our recent beta launch that I'm just n
Gartner Analysts Decry Facebook, Twitter Bans at Work
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other social applications that allow for messaging and collaboration in the workplace should not be banned, argue two Gartner analysts. Though not quite ready for use in enterprise applications, Facebook, Twitter and the ot
TrustyPig steals web design from SmartyPig
A local Des Moines web startup, SmartyPig, recently had their entire web design ripped off by a Romanian company called TrustyPig that apparently is an “all inclusive traffic and income generating program”.
Entrepreneur's Journal: Virtualizing your business - BloggingStocks
Darren Shafae operates Paper-Check.Com, which is a proofreading business. Without web-based technologies, his business would probably be far smaller.
"I have taken the best of ideas I have seen, and refined them to meet our needs and improve work flow an
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