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- Live Webcast: Closing the Deal: Online Presentations That Result in Higher Sales
- Closing deals is an art form. You've got to know your prospects, understand their concerns and speak their language. How do you accomplish this in order to make the sale? View this on-demand BNET webcast, moderated by James Hilliard and featuring guest speakers Tom Bunzel and Kineon...
- Tags: Webcast, Prospect, Citrix Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Webcasts 2008-08-28
- Web Insight for Outlook (msi)
- Imagine the power of your prospects qualifying themselves. No more cold calls. No more not knowing your prospects interest. Simply engage your prospects with an email sent from Outlook, with our tracking technology appended, and get web site visit alerts the moment your prospects clicks back to your website. After...
- Tags: Web, Prospect, Upside Technologies, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-21
- Find the Best Prospects for a New Product by Using a Data Mining Model
- The market department of a financial firm keeps records on customers, including demographic information and their type of accounts. The firm is launching a new product and wishes to determine who are the best prospects among the existing customers for this new product. People are asked to provide a list...
- Tags: Prospect, Neural Network, Data Mining, SAS Institute, Confusion Matrix
- White papers 2007-05-14
Additional Resources
- Review: Why Android is for me and the G1 isn't
- For me, when it comes to cell phones, it's a marriage of convenience. I value the basic function of a cell phone to connect me to the rest of the world from almost anywhere, but beyond that, I couldn't care less about the "features." Despite my power...
- Tags: T-Mobile G1, Phone, Smart Phone, T-Mobile, Cell Phone, E-mail, HTC-made G1, Telecom & Utilities, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Kevin Kelly points to the Semantic Web at Web 2.0 Summit
- Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last week, Wired founding editor Kevin Kelly painted a compelling picture of the opportunities created as we increasingly open our data up for linking. Reprising and building upon an earlier presentation that has been discussed here previously, Kelly...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Google calls it quits on the Yahoo ad deal; Will Microsoft enter the picture?
- Updated: In a move that's not terribly surprising, Google said Wednesday that it is scrapping its search advertising deal with Yahoo. Google's decision puts Yahoo's search business back in play and may bring Microsoft back into the picture. In a blog post, Google announced it was ending...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- How to avoid being an IT layoff casualty
- How to avoid being an IT layoff casualtyLive and die with a single project?If all someone's time is spent on a single project and if his employment is reliant on the success of that project, isn't that approximately as heedless as having his entire pension fund invested in his employer?RE:...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, IT layoff casualty, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- Web 2.0 reality check
- Web 2.0 reality checkI rarely hear sales mentioned in thsi contextIt's been many years since I had my first meeting with a company using the ubiquity of the internet to sell collaboration tools (it was for marketing campaign management for agencies, I recall). We didn't use the term Web...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Web 2.0, sales, Web, social media, Web 2.0 reality check
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- Social media and enterprise IT demand gen -- a wrong fit?
- Al Krueger's "Comet Branding Internet Radio" show always sparks interesting discussion. This morning I joined him, Brian Solis and Nicole Jordan to discuss "The Changing Role of PR as Media Evolves." While our PR fundamentals discussion was compelling, it momentarily branched into something that I feel is a bigger issue...
- Tags: Information Technology, Social Media, Sales, Al Krueger, Brian Solis, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Social media...dirty word or essential skill?
- Social media...dirty word or essential skill?Striking a balanceInteresting piece. I guess your assertion makes the assumption that we learn ANYTHING at school that is useful in business. If the curriculum does include genuinely useful sales and marketing modules alongside maths and economics, then there is much to be...
- Tags: social media, dirty Word, essential skill, education, job
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
- Web 3.0: Notes from the future
- At the Web 3.0 conference in Santa Clara October 16th and 17th we dived into some fascinating glimpses of the future. Web 3.0 isn't just a suffix upgrade, rolling over from the increasingly fuzzy buzz around Web 2.0. This conference was an...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Web 3.0, IBM Lotus Notes, Conference, Advertising World, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-19
- Two cents on the latest and greatest from Cupertino
- Two cents on the latest and greatest from CupertinoPlanned long before downturnYou don't cook up new machines overnight. It takes time, a lot of time. These things were in the works long before the economic problems surfaced.If they had been introduced a few months earlier, there would have...
- Tags: Notebooks, Branding, Intel Chip, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Two cents on the latest and greatest from Cupertino
- Bob Snow emailed me his thoughts on the new MacBooks, and the economy in general. This week, Apple made a great industrial design statement while going somewhat off-track into a recessionary economy. Let me clarify. The high margin MacBook Pro computers are great. Super industrial design and superior graphics...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Unibody, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiral
- Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiralGreat post RyanAs someone who got layed off in not quite as public a manner as you but at the same time I can relate! My own search for funding hit a wall when our prime prospect...
- Tags: death spiral
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Poll: Best personal finance software?
- A little while ago, before the massive recession threw everyone into the depths of their portfolios, I thought it would be prudent to graduate tracking my expenses from pen and paper to software. My parents have dabbled with Quicken, and I wasn't really impressed with Microsoft Money....
- Tags: Software, Quicken, Personal Finance, Mint, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?Not realy, their flaw isThey honestly believe they know vastly more than everyone else, refuse to listen, and miss major oportunities.Not a fatal flaw, but MS recognizes the need to change.MS became dominant, the big dog with selling it's and only it's OS on PCs...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., fatal flaw, flaw, computer, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Can two AMDs be better than one?
- Can two AMDs be better than one?They should never have bought ATIATI was content with competing with NVIDIA, and if market conditions had let them fail at it, so be it. What we're seeing now is the failure of 2 companies, not just one.ExpensiveThe cash infusion may have been...
- Tags: Research & Development, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Is Apple out of ideas?
- Is Apple out of ideas?At this point they might not need muchApples' greatest growth prospect lies in computers, due to its smaller market share. There's a lot of room for growth there. Within that market, Apple has been able to cement a reputation, especially with consumers, of very good...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Is Apple out of ideas?
- In an interesting BusinessWeek story, Arik Hesseldahl asks: "Where does Apple go from here?" For a company who has made a reputation of surprising consumers and resetting the bar, it's a good question. Of course, this question is asked on the heels of a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Medicare no-pay list: Lessons for IT consulting
- Medicare no-pay list: Lessons for IT consultingAn Unfair ComparisonThe comparison is somewhat unfair. When the wrong patient gets an appendectomy, or the wrong blood, or instruments left inside the patient, it can be clearly established that the mistake stemmed from* Carelessness * Some best practice protocol not being followed* Lack...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Medicare, IT Consulting, blame, consulting, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
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