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HelloTech: On Demand, In-Home Tech Support Via College Students Near You

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Almost everyone of a technical bent in the technology industry is familiar with that old routine: your parents, your friends, and your neighbors inevitably calls you for free technical support. However, almost no one really wants to be that technical support person. Why in home technical support?

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Rebranding Should Be Driven By Growth, Not Desperation

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In the course of dominating their initial direct response market, a number of enterprise-level advertisers began using Invoca''s unique marketing platform in ways the company had not foreseen. This unintended use of their technology caused the company to modify their product set to better accommodate large, brand-focused advertisers.

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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

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BuddyHelp was launched in this proto-Internet environment and was immediately used by businesses to provide hands-on technical support. At companies such as SaskTel, Gateway and Cablevision, customer support agents used BuddyHelp to access their customers’ computers and handle their technical support issues.

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Changing The Business Of Media Through Online Video, With Cenk Uygur

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One of the folks in media who has been helping to define that shift is Cenk Uygur , the head of Culver City-based The Young Turks (www.tytnetwork.com), and online news and politics show. The audience is your best friend in production, and helps you figure out which way to go. Just do it. It doesn''t serve their audience.

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5 Simple Tactics To Make Freemium Users Pay

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Anyone, including well-healed, large companies, could offer state-of-the-art technical support for free. Upsell Logically – Craft a seamless path to charge users after a trial period or in exchange for other benefits, such as removal of advertisements or access to additional features. No Help From BuddyHelp.

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10 Ways Tech Entrepreneurs Can Make the Most of the Holidays

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Take advantage of this by bringing some sentimental value to your advertising. Does your tech help people connect? That’s a lot of potential advertising — and all you have to do to tap into it is make sure your campaigns include share buttons or can be easily forwarded. 5 Connect with consumers. 6 Enhance audience experience.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

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This is how you make money from advertising – someone else runs ads on your site or your blog, and you get paid for everyone who clicks on the ad. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. Pay per click (PPC). Crowdsourcing. You can use it for your business.

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