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HelloTech Launches Service To Wean Your Parents Off Your Tech Support

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Los Angeles-based HelloTech.com , a provider of in-home technical support and sales help, said Tuesday that it has launched a brand new site to help people purchase home technology services and products for their parents.

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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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Startups that sell innovative new products seem to get all the attention these days, but services may be the quicker way to larger profits and faster growth. Software is one of those entities that can be provided either as a product or a service, so this is where the movement to services started. Product sharing services.

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5 Simple Tactics To Make Freemium Users Pay

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Yet too often, entrepreneurs embrace giving away their products and services for the wrong reason - they are simply reticent to ask for payment. Anyone, including well-healed, large companies, could offer state-of-the-art technical support for free. The freemium approach offers users access to online solutions at no charge.

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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets

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The giant search engine is set to end less used products or combining a number of them into more resourceful ones. So last fall we started a spring clean , and since then we’ve closed or combined more than 30 products”. Google has from late last year embarked on an in-house cleaning project.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

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Watching video has now surpassed text searching, with popular sites like YouTube , so you see more video ads – in banners, news lead-ins, and site placements. 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. Streaming video.

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Do Not Obsess On Names – Obsess On Delivering Awesome Customer Value

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If Smucker’s can annually generate hundreds of millions in sales for a variety of food products, there is little risk that a mediocre company or product name will preclude you from achieving similar success. Follow Tom''s lead and make the pronunciation of your company and products obvious. Do''s And Don''t Do''s.

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