- Intuit well along on transition to cloud, on demand software - ZDNet (blog)
May 23, 2011
Intuit well along on transition to cloud, on demand softwareZDNet (blog)Intuit gets 60 percent of its revenue from “connected services”—cloud computing extensions to its core products—and plan...
- Low Margins Haunt Salesforce But Investment Paves Way For Later SaaS Companies
May 23, 2011
Leading SaaS customer relationship management (CRM) vendor, Salesforce.com recently reported its first quarter results that topped analyst estimates even as profits slumped 97%. Salesforce.com...
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- Technical Site Audit Checklist
May 22, 2011
Posted by Geoff KenyonWe all want to deliver actionable site audits, but doing the research can be a bit overwhelming if you don’t have a process in place to systematically go through a site. I have...
- Website Messaging: How clarity once again trumped persuasion to the tune of a 200% boost in conversion rate
May 23, 2011
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“Clarity trumps persuasion.”
– Dr. Flint McLaughlin, Managing Director (CEO), MECLABS
The above statement has become somewhat of a mantra around the MECLABS offices. Not only because it...
- Is Your Site Trustworthy?
May 23, 2011
You’re a trustworthy person with a well-intentioned, value-adding business that does nothing but promote the wellbeing of the planet and humanity everywhere. You’re an all-round good human being,...
- Hot Hot Heat Maps: 10 Tips for Conducting and Analyzing Eye Tracking Tests
May 23, 2011
Quantitative site analysis (web analytics and A/B or multivariate testing) is phenomenal for learning about your site’s performance and user behavior. But the drawback is, this data tells you the ??...
- Twitter, you know, there is this thing called mobile - (by @baekdal)
May 17, 2011
Some of you might have noticed that Twitter's design team have once again been fiddling with their design. This time redesigning the twitter notification emails.It used to look like this:Now it looks...
- Top 10 List Building Questions -Answered
May 22, 2011
“While obsessing about SEO, poring over Google Analytics, agonizing over what to write next… building an email list has become a casual “put the form over there” checkbox item and then forgott...
- Your Site Has Just a Moment to be Trusted or be Busted
May 22, 2011
Top 8 Tips To Boost Your Website Sales: Trust is built on the thin slice of a first impression.
A site must make a good first impression, it must be fast, mistake-free and credible in order to give c...
- Blog Post: My thoughts on Blog Post Titled “IT Pros are not feeling the love from Microsoft” by Debra Shinder
May 22, 2011
On May 11th, Debra Shinder made a blog post titled “IT Pros are not feeling the love from Microsoft”. Needless to say, this has gotten the attention of quite a few folks (me included). After takin...
- Growing A SaaS Startup With Velocity: Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez (Part 3)
May 22, 2011
Sramana: What is the genesis of Marketo? Phil Fernandez: My previous companies were million-dollar enterprise software companies. They were classic enterprise software companies with big sales...
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- Stealth in the Cloud
May 22, 2011
I have mentioned the Unisys Stealth Solution for Network in a previous blog about encrypting data-in-motion in the Cloud. Unisys developed Stealth to solve a serious problem in the defense and intel...
- Expiration Data
May 22, 2011
People interested in acquiring desirable domain names that are already registered often track when these names are about to expire, so that they can quickly register them as soon as they become availa...
- By The Numbers: How Facebook Says Likes & Social Plugins Help Websites
May 22, 2011
Earlier this month, I wrote about how the promise of Facebook traffic has enticed millions of sites to use Facebook Like buttons and other Facebook social plugins. But does following Facebook’s soci...
- Goliath Helping David: How Microsoft Helps Startups Thrive
May 22, 2011
Speak to any investor, mentor or seasoned analyst, startups are integral in developing the technology industry and driving innovation. Having recovered from the dot-com crash, investment firms are con...
- [Infographic] – #LinkedIn ’s Road to IPO
May 22, 2011
Professional networking site LinkedIn had its initial public offering last Thursday, with shares of the company debuting on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol LNKD.?...
- All the Reasons Users UNLIKE Brands on Facebook
May 22, 2011
- 6 Excellent Small Business Websites To Learn From
May 21, 2011
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Small businesses are p...
- How Google Docs Killed GDrive
May 21, 2011
"In The Plex", Steven Levy's recently launched book about Google, has an interesting story about GDrive, an online storage service developed by Google. People first found about GDrive from a leaked Go...
- Growing A SaaS Startup With Velocity: Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez (Part 2)
May 21, 2011
Sramana: Where does the story go from there? Phil Fernandez: After that I got hooked up with a company that is now TIBCO. Back then it was an incubator called Technicron Software Systems. Rick Haven.....
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