From Startup Journal: “Winning Sales Through Customer Testimonials” by Sarah Needleman. Mr. Welsh recruited one of Expensewatch’s first customers, a director of finance at a Texas manufacturer, who had sent a complimentary email about its products. The executive presented a 20-minute speech, accompanied by an online demo Expensewatch created. About 75 participants called in. The conference calls are now done … Read More
Eyes on the EnterPrize: Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Business Plan Competition
Got a killer business idea? Need to put together your business plan? Enter the EnterPrize Business Plan Competition, sponsored by the Pittsburgh Technology Council and get all the tools you need, plus a chance at investment cash. From the website: Who will be the next EnterPrize winner?Someone with the next great technology business idea. Someone with a strong business plan. … Read More
Google vs. PayPal
From today’s Wall Street Journal, “PayPal Prepares for a Challenge from Google” (free feature): Long the Internet’s leading online-payments service, PayPal has a 24% market share of U.S. online payments, according to financial-institution consulting firm Celent LLC. PayPal, founded in 1998, boasts 96 million accounts with consumers who want to send payments online without revealing their credit-card or banking information … Read More
Geek Night the 45th
Pittsburgh geeks, unite!
Backdoor Web Design: Creating Websites Without Resorting to FrontPage
We received a request for a free site analysis this week, asking us to help debug a site built in Microsoft FrontPage and wouldn’t display correctly on a Mac. As it turned out…
“The Blog” panel discussion
Panel discussion hosted by the Pittsburgh Technology Council
Always Be Selling: Tips for small business sales
Sales tips for small business owners, building on the ideas in an article at Signal vs. Noise
Blog DOA: Promotional Blogs for the TV Show “Monk”
The official blogs for the TV show Monk have great potential. Will the network make the most of them?