One of the most valuable skills an entrepreneur or a company executive can have is the ability to talk about their product in an effective and engaging way in front of an audience. But for founders of a startup, mastering public speaking and presentation etiquette can also be crucial to the growth of your business.
Published: Jul 05, 2014
Technology businesses strive to remain at the forefront of innovation, but also in their marketing efforts, technology brands need to continuously evolve to take full advantage of the changes and developments in digital marketing.
Published: Jun 21, 2014
showpads survey of 1000 sales pros reveals customers more informed than ever before.
Published: Aug 02, 2012
Few senior executives would knowingly do something in their companies to lose $3.5 million for every $5 million they invested in a project. Yet this is the exact loss experienced by most American companies today for each employee they send overseas. In the book co-authored with my colleague Bill Ayres—Carry a Chicken...
Published: Apr 01, 2012
Presenting can be exhilarating, but it can also be the stuff of nightmares. The pleasure of sharing ideas and seeing the light bulbs go off in the audience as the message lands can quickly be replaced by fear of failure and a desire to run.
This eBook explores 20 habits of truly brilliant presenters and provides...
Published: May 01, 2015
The security of online services is a topic of increasing interest to enterprises as the number of third party hosted service offerings has expanded in recent years. The emergence of various “cloud computing” concepts and definitions has highlighted not only questions about data ownership and protection, but...
Published: Feb 09, 2014
In our 35-criteria evaluation of sales force automation (SFA) providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — bpm'online, CRMNEXT, Infor, Microsoft, NetSuite, Oracle, Pegasystems, Salesforce, SAP, and SugarCRM — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.
This report shows how each provider...
Published: Apr 04, 2018
In 1961 a pilot in Santa Cruz, California conceived of a small, lightweight communications headset as an alternative to the bulky headphones of the era. Today, headsets have become indispensable tools everywhere from outer space to office space. In busy contact centers and other voice-intensive applications, high-quality...
Published: Jul 01, 2011
iPad at Work For Dummies provides essential and in-depth coverage for a variety of productivity-related tasks made possible on the iPad, from basics such as setting up and starting out with an iPad to tips on the best practices for enterprise-level word processing, spreadsheet creation, presenting, task management, project...
Published: Mar 08, 2016
When building out an online video strategy, there are myriad decisions that will have a direct impact on how viewers engage with video. By architecting the video experience from the beginning to be flexible and dynamic, it’s possible to build a system that is not only a joy for users to watch, but is designed at...
Published: Oct 02, 2013
Productivity—what does it mean? Profi t. Productivity means profi t. When an employee can complete more work in a normal workday, revenue increases while costs remain the same. The extra revenue generated by increased productivity goes straight to your bottom line. Because increased productivity means additional...
Published: Mar 01, 2013
Microsoft has teamed up with DocuSign to make our industry-leading eSignature apps available to businesses and consumers within Microsoft applications, making it easier than ever to stay productive.
Robust apps for Outlook, Word, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Windows and Windows Phone are making it easier for organisations...
Published: Feb 26, 2019
Recruiting the best employees. Creating the optimal work environment to retain those employees. And not losing, but indeed, enhancing productivity in the process. Goals to which every employer aspires. Tools that make it easier and more comfortable to use the telephone are central to recruitment, quality of work life,...
Published: Jan 01, 2010
On-premise solutions are taking a backseat to software as a service, or SaaS, options. According to predictions from Gartner, spending on cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) investments will exceed that of on-premise solutions by 20171. If you haven’t made the switch yet, you’ll probably be weighing...
Published: May 01, 2012