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I recently came across a web site that can be a valuable resource for advice, CanDoGo. The following quote from the web site explains what it’s all about: “CanDoGo is packed full of timely “how to” sales, personal development and motivational advice that answers your questions to help you overcome immediate business challenges.

The New Economy is forcing us to change the way we sell. Buyers are much more savvy, tougher, willing to play you against your competition, and are reluctant to divulge information about how they are going about making a decision. A lot of what we used to do just doesn't work anymore.

Are the small-business “home and trade service” advertisers that populate PennySaver and American Classifieds a good bet to buy search packages? That’s the question being posed by American Classifieds, the second-largest classified publisher franchise with 6,000 editions.

Here are several excerpts from an article by Neil Sikder, a vice president of Maia Strategy Group, Speak With Your Customers: Automation. Efficiency. Sales growth. That is what best-of-breed CRM technologies provide and if implemented in support of the right strategy and surrounded by the right processes and people, it works beautifully.

At J.D. Power and Associates’ Automotive Internet Roundtable in Las Vegas this week, several speakers said they believe mobile search and services are an increasingly important part of auto marketing — assertions backed up by J.D. Power research showing that 18 percent of auto shoppers use mobile during the car buying process, up from 15 percent in 2007.

Here are some insights from a press release about a recent survey, Most Companies Avoid Integrating Social Media Despite Evidence of Benefits: Most companies have no formal plans to manage the adoption of social media or leverage its benefits, despite early evidence such tools bring improved customer relationships and increased sales.

Edit, sales and circulation may be what springs to mind when talking about the magazine industry but the magazine marketing department is playing a more vital role than ever. Just like their peers in other publishing disciplines, marketers are being asked to do more with fewer resources (in terms of both manpower and budgets).

I saw a question on Linked In from a new Product Manager who is switching careers and wanted some pointers about how to make the transition smoothly. I answered the question with some suggestions. She is not a software Product Manager, as I am, so my response to her was not tied specifically to what I do as a software PM.

Real estate advertising revenues will give way to transaction revenues, at least in SoCal, as The Los Angeles Times Media Group teams with several partners to launch ZetaBid, a new site that will display and auction foreclosed homes and other properties.

Study on Visual Representation of Data, Information and Knowledge in Web 2.0 Subject & Keywords: Data Visualization, Information Visualization, Displaying Data, Mapping Data, Map, Maps, Mapping, Best Practices, Visualization Methods, Visualization Arts, Infographics, MindMaps, TrendMaps, Time Travel Maps, Grids, Trees, Tagclouds, Timelines, Charts & more..