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Microsoft’s touch-first Modern Office suite revealed in documents

May17
by on May 17, 2014 at 9:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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It’s been a year and a half since Microsoft released Windows 8 and its ‘Modern’ interface to the world, but we’re still yet to see a touch-first interface emerge for the company’s Office suite, until now. In what can be only described as a slightly odd move, Microsoft Research has published an extensive document that details the company’s plans for ink-based computing but also happens to show screenshots of what appears to be our first glimpse at a truly touch-first Office interface. The PDF document, which goes into a lot of detail about how Microsoft believes ink based computing should work,…

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13 ways to keep your uninterested leads active

May17
by on May 17, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Insider, startup, YEC, yec.co, Young Entrepreneur Council

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Staying front and center in a potential customer’s mind without pushing them away can be a tricky line to walk. Push too hard for a sale and your lead may balk. But fail to follow up, and your lead will almost certainly vanish. With this challenge in mind, I asked successful entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What is one way that you keep customer leads active in your funnel even though they have explicitly said that they are not interested (yet) in making a purchase? Their suggestions are below. 1. Reach Out We have our managers…

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13 ways to keep your uninterested leads active

May17
by on May 17, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Insider, startup, YEC, yec.co, Young Entrepreneur Council

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Staying front and center in a potential customer’s mind without pushing them away can be a tricky line to walk. Push too hard for a sale and your lead may balk. But fail to follow up, and your lead will almost certainly vanish. With this challenge in mind, I asked successful entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What is one way that you keep customer leads active in your funnel even though they have explicitly said that they are not interested (yet) in making a purchase? Their suggestions are below. 1. Reach Out We have our managers…

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How Google Authorship will continue to change the search paradigm

May17
by on May 17, 2014 at 3:15 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Social Media

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Tom Rusling is the General Manager at iAcquire, a content marketing agency with offices in New York, San Diego and Phoenix.  This year, Google Authorship will truly take hold and begin to reshape the search landscape. With the bridge that it provides across Google’s products and services, Google+ has outgrown its social network pants and now serves as a platform for authors to verify their contributions to a website domain. On the online publishing side, the “rel=author” markup language enables publishers to add an author’s Google+ profile code to a published work and thus confirm who authored the piece. Now Google not only knows where…

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How to master voice control on Android: Going beyond Google Now

May17
by on May 17, 2014 at 2:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's, Insider, LifeHacks

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When Apple first introduced Siri with the iPhone 4S, it was not the first time the world had seen voice control, but it did mark the first time a major company was releasing it to the world simultaneously on millions of mobile devices as their most prominent feature. Despite its innumerable flaws and barely finished nature, Siri brought voice recognition to such prominence that soon companies big and small were scrambling to integrate it into all sorts of products. Google’s take on the virtual personal assistant was called Google Now, and it was launched on July 9, 2012 as a…

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