Archive for October, 2008
Oct
Using Microblogging in Business Communication: Twitter vs. Yammer
30-10-2008 | Posted by: Carolyn Young
Yammer is a new “micro-blogging” tool that won the top prize at the TechCrunch50 conference in September, 2008. If you have read our thoughts about Twitter (another micro-blogging platform), then you may already be familiar with the micro-blogging concept (otherwise, read this). Twitter has garnered a reputation as a great tool for communicating with friends, [...]
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BizTechDay Re-cap: Effective Launch Pad for Hands-on Business Owners
30-10-2008 | Posted by: Jeremy Reither
On Saturday I wrote how R3R was awarded a free ’scholarship’ pass to BizTechDay, a new conference aimed at entrepreneurs who want to harness technology to promote and grow their businesses. On sunday I attended the conference, it’s taken me a few days to sit down and share my thoughts on the (mostly) successful event, [...]
(more)There’s a new conference in town - and this time it’s aiming right at you (the small business owner). And we’re proud to say we’ll be heading there tomorrow - courtesy of Comcast (the conference’s top sponsor), who awarded R3R a full pass ’scholarship,’ based on an application we submitted online.
BizTechDay is a conference that [...]
As a self proclaimed social media fan, I am always interested in how different organizations utilize the social networking websites at our disposal. Since we are closing in on one of the most important elections in history, I was curious to see how successful the different social media tools have been for Barack Obama and [...]
(more)When you’re writing marketing material, service descriptions, or product descriptions - whether it’s for use offline or online - you know it’s important to use the right keywords. The difference online is that those keywords need to be “right” for the search engines as well as for your human readers.
Until search engines learn to read [...]
Oct
Avoid Getting Lost in the Details of Your New AdWords Campaign
14-10-2008 | Posted by: Jeremy Reither
There’s a reason AdWords is Google’s biggest money maker. Well there are a lot of reasons. But one big one is that they’ve packaged an incredibly sophisticated piece of pay-per-click (PPC) keyword bidding software in a reasonably simple user interface. But don’t let that interface fool you - there’s much more to it than initially [...]
(more)It was back in May when we started evaluating Virtual PBX options for our own office. But recently we became aware of a newly launched software for one of the most popular voice over IP (VoIP) phone services: PrettyMay Inc. announced their new Skype PBX software in late September. They call it PrettyMay Call Center [...]
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