CMS or what?:
Recently, I've had several conversations with clients on the benefits of moving their web sites to a
web content management system or CMS. I currently use
Wordpress for my web site, but I have also used
Joomla,
Drupal,
Expression Engine, and
Simple Updates. For a list and description of some popular CMS software go to
CMS Critic, this by no means lists every system, but it does a good overview of many systems. I am a big fan of
open-source CMS, but as long as you use one, it will be a good step in the right direction.
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Alexis Coates : Technology Business Startup Basics:
That's always a tough question for me to answer. I've always figured aspiring entrepreneurs needed to learn as much as they could about everything and anything that had to do with business in order for them really achieve.
That said, there are two main skills you need to cultivate and acquire to be a great business along with five others technologies you need to focus on to really give you a sense of what it's like to successfully run a business:
I. Website. There are many advantages to having a professionally designed website. Consider some of the points below:
1. Make a great first impression of your business to first-time visitors to your site
2. Reach a wider, global market
3. Increases credibility
4. Use as a promotional tool
5. Increase sales
II. Customer Relation Management System Database. Customer relationship management (CRM) is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with customers and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales-related activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. The overall goals are to find, attract, and win new customers, nurture and retain those the company already has, entice former customers back into the fold, and reduce the costs of marketing and customer service.
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The Spectrum Challenge:
This month Spectrum new client/affiliates commission is $20,300. It is much more important for us to protect the integrity of our clients/affiliates investment than to pay a commission. Spectrum will do lease, show & qualify tenant. Just Refer 50%. Our goal is 0% vacancy for our clients/affiliates which guarantees cash flow and protection of the investment. Offer ends 3/31/10.
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OTIS ROLLEY JOINS URBAN POLICY DEVELOPMENT:
Urban Policy Development (UPD), a Baltimore based public sector management consulting firm, named Otis Rolley as Senior Manager with areas of concentration in planning and zoning, community and economic development, public administration and organizational development.
Prior to joining the UPD team, Rolley was the founding President and CEO of Central Maryland Transportation Alliance (CMTA), the region’s only sole-purpose transportation advocacy organization. Formed by a coalition of Greater Baltimore Area business, civic, environmental and philanthropic leaders, CMTA hired Rolley as its first president in 2007.
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