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No April Fool – Irreputable Companies Are Waiting To Take Advantage Of You!

Rembrandt Communications

After asking a few questions, it turns out that they had no access to their website, back-end hosting, domain names, social media accounts, and more. Well, unfortunately, It doesnt matter if you are highly educated and have extensive technical experience and knowledge. These unscrupulous business behaviors happen all the time.

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How to Make Better Reference Calls

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Reference calls. Ask for at least 5 references. As your candidate for at least 5 references. Ask for at least 5 references. As your candidate for at least 5 references. Don’t worry about the fact that these are the references that the candidate has hand-picked – that’s part of the process.

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

Social CRM is a philosophy and a business strategy that uses technology, work flow, business rules, and social information to talk with (not at) the customer in a transparent way, to make value for both parties. 5) Embracing social advertising and retail , as well as the exciting opportunities offered by mobile and geo-location technologies.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

Are specific technologies or platforms involved in your project? Do they have experience with the technologies involved in your project? Beware of being swayed by big-name firms or impressive name-dropping. What are the review periods and your responsibility in the process? Or is your project a clean slate?

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

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Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. We focused together on improving our sales methodology, our training and our comp plans through a larger than life ex country manager from PTC named Kai Krickel. Customer also buy social proof because others are acting as strong references.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Tech startups are at the other extreme. Second in importance only to talented people, IP in all its forms is the key asset comprising most of the value of any tech startup. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

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It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! Customers have long included some of the biggest names in social commerce and online gaming plus startups like TopSpin, Local Response, Maker Studios, StockTwits and the like. End of story. Or Likes – LIKES!