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You'd think that "marketing automation," like "sales automation," would be part of a CRM system. In theory, sure. But in practice, you need to know how these systems fit together and how they don't.
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Open source projects that want more users must learn the ways in which it might "lose to the competition."
Law firms are newest victim of SEO, marketing
Look out Dewey Cheatem & Howe, the search engine marketers have their sites set on you. Or at least they would if they could find you.
Link QuickBooks Contacts to VerticalResponse E-Mail Marketing
One of the chores people hate most when using computers? Reentering information from one system into another system. After all, you're typing on the same computer, right? And data should be shared right? So why have to virtually schlep things like contact information from one system to another to another to another to get your work done? This week, at least two companies upgraded virtual schlepping to automated contact sharing.
Laptop gender wars: What your netbook (or Toughbook) says about you
Like it or not, design, color, form factor, and texture are the new key features for tech products, which begs the question ... Are you OK with using a cute laptop?
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Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
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Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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