Sales is a critical factor for success in business. When you have a startup, often you must wear the sales hat among the many others. In this case, I am referring to selling your product or service to a client. Here are some suggestions that will help turbo charge your sales efforts.

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You already know how important networking is to your business, and your calendar has been populated with several events per month. It’s time to make sure that all that money and time you have invested is put to good use. Here are some resources to help you maximize your conference experience.

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In order to maintain harmony among several developers it is important to follow some core standards. With Symfony, it is standard practice to use a two space convention. Here is how to make PHPEclipse honor this policy while still allowing you to use the tab button.

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This post is for those that are new to Ruby on Rails, or those that have not spent the time learning the various debugging techniques. The objective is to get you quickly up to speed on how to debug your Ruby on Rails application.

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Interest in Symfony has increased since del.icio.us announced it developed its new version on the Symfony framework. If you are running Vista and you need to get a quick Symfony development environment going, then look no further. Follow these easy steps to going in 20 minutes.

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I have been waiting forever for this! And finally my hopes and dreams have come true! Now I can return to my beloved Thunderbird… but wait, is it already too late?

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With more of us using online services, such as online banking and bill pay, we have increased the chance of identity theft. I advocate the use of online services as a method to increase productivity; you just need to take the necessary precautions.
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Specifically, I am posing this question to tech entrepreneurs who have one or more early stage companies to manage and demanding personal responsibilities. One of my goals is to create a framework that helps tech entrepreneurs free time to focus on creative and strategic activities. Following is a description of the current system I am [...]

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Here are the six laws of persuasion and how they can be used to enhance your business. For further detail check out the references at the end.

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One of our programmers had the following comment in a recent Subversion commit: “Verified to display correctly with IE6, IE7, FF Ubuntu, FF, Galeon, Konqueror”. Sigh… don’t you hate when you have to do that? Frameworks like Prototype and Symfony has made development life much easier, but sadly CSS cross browser hell still brings the [...]

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