photo credit: Josean Prado I’ll describe what needs to happen if you want to connect disparate pieces of information about the same person, organization, or entity. I hope you’ll be further persuaded of both the difficulty and the value of such an effort. The need is widely felt, whether you’re trying to connect the dots […]
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photo credit: ckaroli Many business owners wonder how they can get a little inside information regarding their competitors such as their products, services, prices and more. I have put together a small list of some very helpful tips on spying on your competitors that I recently came across while reading an article located on Forbes.com.
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According to AppScout.com, e-commerce site 6pm.com, a sister site to Zappos.com, accidentally priced all of its products at $49.95 on Friday, costing the company $1.6 million. “This morning, we made a big mistake in our pricing engine that capped everything on the site at $49.95. The mistake started at midnight and went until around 6:00am
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By building win-loss analysis into your sales tracking process, you can learn important lessons about your sales force, your value proposition, and your key competitors, reports Inc.com. Consider putting together a questionnaire for clients and would-be clients to discover in which categories your company excells and in which it falls short. But don’t ask reps
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The blog Grasshopper conducted a survey, “The Entrepreneur State of Mind,” and the results have now been summarized in an infographic by Jason Lankow of Column Five Media. How do you measure up? Photo by Column Five Media.
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Get ready for fame, tweeters of the world: the Library of Congress is archiving for posterity every public tweet made since the service went live back in 2006. Every. Single. Tweet, reports Ars Technica. The LOC announced the news, appropriately enough, on Twitter. Twitter isn’t just about being pretentious and notifying the world about the
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USA TODAY reports that with the federal tax-filing deadline looming, spam enticing Internet users to fill out bogus forms at faked IRS websites is flooding inboxes. And slick Web page promotions for overnight tax-preparation services and instant refunds are turning up in Google search results and Twitter micro-blog postings. Be wary, the IRS and tech
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Al’s Morning Meeting has an interesting story about how your state could be selling your name and other information right now, and hauling in a lot of money as a result. The Oklahoman and the Tulsa World discovered that their state government earns $65 million a year selling data. The revelation comes just as the
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Bryan Nicholson moved his company from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City, largely based on census information, reports The Daily Iowan. The University of Iowa senior and senior franchise owner of the Iowa City branch of College Pro Painting, said key factors in the decision were household income and property values. As census day arrives, officials
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Excitement about the approach of the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan, due March 17, is inspiring ever more dramatic calls for greater high-speed Internet connectivity in the United States, reports arstechnica.com. This month, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski declared that the agency wants 260 million Americans hooked up to 100 Mbps broadband by 2020. Not
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