Embarking on the entrepreneurial journey of forming your own Limited Liability Company (LLC) can be both exciting and a bit overwhelming. Even when you may be filled with dreams and driven by ambition, the maze of paperwork and legalities can…
Fast-loading pages help with WordPress SEO, increase pageviews, and improve overall user experience. This article shares a few helpful optimization tips to speed up your site and boost WordPress performance. Test your website speed The first step is to test…
As you venture into the vast universe of design and ingenuity, the pivotal role that Computer-Aided Design (CAD) takes on is simply undeniable. Be you an architect bringing intricate floor plans to life, or a product designer spinning novel ideas…
Google Chrome has recently declared that it has obtained support for passkeys. Passkeys is the modern biometric authentication industry-wide standard that will eventually replace the need for passwords. The tech behemoth, Google, has made this feature available in all stable…
In this article we will reveal who are the most dangerous black hat hackers?: Hacker communities are diverse all over the globe. Hackers hack computers to improve their security and vulnerabilities. Hackers, on the other hand, can target computers for…
Your CRM newsletter is expanding to give you much more of what you told us you looking for — research, e-books, white papers, news from around the Web and other information. The new Internet.com Enterprise Applications Daily newsletter delivers a…
NetSuite has long had storefront capabilities. In fact, the San Mateo, Calif.-based company claims to have 1,500 e-commerce businesses using its Web-based applications. However, the company is looking to get more vertical with both its marketing and its features set,…
In a move it says will help small businesses tap the power of customer data with the sophistication that large enterprises enjoy, Microsoft today announced it is offering Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager as a standalone product. “There are 40…
Ridgely Evers, CEO and founder of NetBooks, has an owinteresting take on how small businesses approach marketing: “Most small businesses are not great at accounting, so they hand it off [to an accountant]. Most are not great at marketing, but…
Whether you call it software-as-a-service, Web-based software or on-demand applications, products such as NetSuite and Salesforce.com are changing how small and mid-sized businesses look at productivity tools. The rise of these Web-based services means enterprise-class business tools without the big…
You’ve spent the Adwords or Adcenter dollars to attract visitors to your site — and it worked. Now what? Getting people to visit your Web site is the first step, but just the first step. Once visitors get there, you…
Successful small businesses tend to be masters of outsourcing functions that aren’t core to their expertise — payroll and human resources being two prime examples. If you pay employees or partners based on sales performance, outsourcing that part of your…
If you own or manage a small business, mobility could be your middle name. Whether you’re developing new customers or servicing existing ones, things don’t get done if you’re sitting behind a desk all day. If NetSuite is your business…
Every business owner knows it: If you could just talk to prospects one-on-one, you could convert them to customers. Click-to-chat and click-to-call features, of course, have existed for years, but now there’s a new, more viral twist. Starting today you…
It’s no mystery what motivates a salesperson: It’s good, old-fashioned money. Salespeople naturally want to earn large commissions, which means large revenue for your business. It’s the ultimate win-win situation. Of course, tracking sales compensation can be a time-consuming task.…
There’s little doubt that many e-commerce businesses embrace open source applications such as OS Commerce. The problem is that using open source software isn’t for the faint of heart as you need a certain level of technical expertise to deploy…
As small e-commerce shops mature and establish themselves as viable ongoing businesses, many are experiencing the growing pains that afflict any new successful business. For companies that make their money selling online, efficiency can be the difference between getting by…
Small businesses — e-commerce or otherwise — don’t have the luxury of spending extra time and money on test marketing, which probably works out well as most don’t have the means to measure it in any case. That doesn’t make…
If the thought of signing up for a Web-based application suite leaves you feeling a little isolated, you’re not alone. When you commit to running your business with an on-demand service, it’s understandable that you might feel more secure with…
Courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com. When it comes to running a successful small business, few things are as critical as an effective sales force. Whether they are full-time employees, part-time reps or channel partners, keeping track of the incentives and commission structure…
Article of courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com There’s no denying that many small businesses are turning into true believers when it comes to Web-based applications (aka, on-demand, software-as-a-service, ASP-delivered software and hosted applications). While myriad hosted products exist offering everything from collaboration…
Courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com. When it comes to managing contact and sales leads, no product has stood the test of time better than ACT!. In its near 20-year history, the product has built a steady base of customers spanning all market…
Courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com With the Oakland Coliseum and the Athletics game against the New York Yankees as the backdrop, on-demand application provider NetSuite took the wraps off NetSuite Version 11.0. The new version boasts an AJAX-based user interface, SuiteScript to…
Salesnet thinks that now is the time to “start to go toe-to-toe with Salesforce.com,” according the Jonathan Tang, the president and co-founder of the Boston-based provider of Web-based CRM applications. “Salesnet is quickly growing its reputation as the Salesforce.com alternative.”…
Reprinted from SmallBusinessComputing.com. If you’ve been waiting to see how Microsoft has improved its CRM application, the wait is over. About two years in the making, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 adds new marketing features, tighter integration with Microsoft Office and…
Many successful small businesses are happy to stay small businesses. After all, if you’re profitable and have loyal customers and employees, trying to push growth for growth’s sake can backfire. On the flip side, most mid-sized businesses grow from small…
The adage “information is power” especially applies when it comes to dealing with your customers. Whether you’re trying to prospect for new customers or service (and grow) your existing ones, the more you know the better. While larger companies have…
If good marketing is all about generating leads and effective selling is all about qualifying those leads, where does CRM software fit in? Before the Call thinks that the CRM application should be where leads, sales collateral and market intelligence…
When it comes to the power of presence in applications, “we’re just scratching the surface,” Ed Simnett, senior product manager for the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft, told InstantMessagingPlanet.com. “Presence is becoming a normal part of information workers bag of…
Courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com. To run your business efficiently, you must live by the credo that no application is an island. That is, if your e-commerce storefront isn’t sharing information with your accounting, inventory management, point of sale and other business…
One of the benefits of Web-based applications is that vendors can efficiently roll out new versions. There’s no software for users to download or CDs to mail. Siebel Systems has been taking full advantage of the ASP model, releasing five…
Touting what it calls the three C’s of CRM, SalesCenter today announced a new version of its Web-based sales force automation application. In addition to configuration and customization, Dave Dabbah, general manager for SalesCenter, said the company “provides a layer…
Convoq, a Lexington, Mass.-based provider of communication and collaboration services, today announced ASAP Pro 2.0, a Web conference service that requires only that attendees have a Macromedia Flash player to attend an online meeting. Aimed at small and mid-sized businesses,…
Article originally appeared on SmallBuinessComputing.com. Microsoft’s next small business edition of Office will feature an enhanced version of Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager. The new suite, codenamed Magellan, also touts tight integration among applications. Microsoft Monday announced the availability…
Many companies offer turnkey online application suites, but perhaps no one has been as ambitious as San Mateo, Calif.-based NetSuite. The company began with what was largely an accounting application, added e-commerce and Web-site building features, andlater tacked on inventory…
WebEx Communications is one of the pioneers of real-time collaboration applications. In fact, to many companies the name WebEx is synonymous with online meetings. To date, Web-based meetings have been viewed mainly as a way to reduce travel expenses. However,…
Reprinted from SmallBusinessComputing.com In an effort to integrate its IP-based communications products with Microsoft customer relationship management software, Cisco Systems today announced the Cisco CRM Communications Connector. The offering is designed to integrate Cisco IP Communications technology with Microsoft CRM.…
NetSuite, a Web-based application provider, recently announced two new modules designed to further enhance its e-commerce capabilities and provide deeper integration with the suite’s financial, inventory management and sales and customer-support systems. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company will add new…
NetSuite was providing Web-based applications when it wasn’t cool. The San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of a turnkey e-commerce, accounting, customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) package has seen the hype, the fall and slow ascension of the…
Do business owners and executives know more about what’s going on in Hollywood and Washington, D.C. than they do about what’s happening in their businesses? Sound far-fetched? Maybe a bit, but it’s true that from a technology point of view…
Customer relationship management (CRM) software has been around for years and has become a staple of many large businesses. Yet small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have not been quick to adopt CRM. SAP AG , a Newtown Square, Penn.-based software…
There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but, by golly, there is free customer relationship management (CRM) software. Starting yesterday, you can sign up for the gratis service at FreeCRM.com. The catch is that after the first…
Like many software and service vendors, Boston-based CRM provider Salesnet.com sees an opportunity to help small businesses implement some of the advanced application features enterprises use. In a move designed to help small business increase sales, Salesnet today announced its…
Providing your customers with fast, reliable and personalized service is becoming a hallmark of good business practices in today’s information-rich, Internet-enabled world. Thanks to customer relationship management (CRM) software it’s getting increasingly easy to have detailed info on all aspects…
In a move designed to target Fortune 1000 companies, Web-based customer relationship management (CRM) vendor UpShot Corp. announced today that it is adding a dashboard feature and integration with Lotus Notes. According to the company’s CEO, Keith Raffel, the two…
It may not be possible to make the experience of buying a product online entirely comparable to buying an item at the mall or at a downtown boutique, but there are some sales practices that translate from the physical world…
Users of Web analytics applications must wonder what happens to those hot sales prospects lured in through online marketing campaigns. Customer relationship management (CRM) users, in turn, probably wonder how those prospects got there. In an attempt to tie together…
The ‘C’ in CRM could stand for “change,” according to a new Aberdeen Group report on the customer relationship management (CRM) market. According to the Boston-based research firm, the market will grow at an annual rate of 6.7 percent to…
On the day of its S3 introduction, Salesforce.com also laid claim to 95 percent year-to-year growth and its first quarter of profitability. According to the San Francisco-based ASP, it ended its first quarter with $19.1 million in revenue, a 22…