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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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Innovative Services Are A Huge Boon For Startups

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Even many well-known corporate giants, including IBM and GE, have transformed, redefined, and re-invigorated their businesses into services businesses, and are downplaying their traditional product focus. Here is just a sampling to give you the idea: Software as a service (SaaS). Product sharing services.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads Finally, an easier way for Small and Mid-Sized Companies to Run Their Business Applications: IBM Smart Business IBM From the PC to the Internet to every piece of hardware and software in. Novell was rated the top provider of Linux technical support.

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