Web based CRM software is a Customer Relationship Management application hosted by an Application Service Provider. Software as a Service model (SaaS) user does not own the software but acquire the rights to use the software online by subscribing to CRM services. Web based CRM provides different capabilities, including Campaign Management, E-Commerce, Sales Force Automation, Lead Management, Customer Service and Support, etc. Searching for the right online solutions, companies should look for customer relationship management capabilities that meet their business needs.(...)
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Post tags: Business, crm services, crm software, customer relationship management, Customer service, marketing, Microsoft, microsoft dynamics crm, software, software online, web based crm software

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Dear friends of Bizcloud,

I was browsing the Web over the weekend and I noticed an advertisement for outsourced project on Elance. A person in China likes what Bizcloud has to offer and wants to reproduce it. I am just curious, our site is free and copyright laws and patents clearly do not apply to China. How can we protect our intellectual property?

What do you suggest I should do to protect Bizcloud and the investment we have made? What would you do? Should I just take it as a complement and not worry about it?

Should the IP’s from China be blocked or should I work on launching a Chinese version of Bizcloud? Bizcloud censorship?  lol

I am open to your ideas.

The sad reality is that we do provide a hosted private labeled version of Bizcloud and this business could have contacted Bizcloud to license our technology.

I have included a screen capture of the Elance project. We have contacted Elance and they clearly do not have a policy against copy cats on the Elance site and have not removed this project. From what I can tell they still have 3 days remaining to accept bids on this project.

The good news is Bizcloud is free to use today and our developers continue to keep ahead of the technology curve.  If you find the information in our bizcloud blog or on our site useful please help spread the word about our site.

Thank you in advance.

Vahid Razavi

Originally posted 2009-07-29 09:08:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Post tags: Australia, Bizcloud, china, Copy rights, copycats, Elance, Intelectual rights, project

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Health Reform By The Numbers:

• $1,115 – that’s the average premium for employer-sponsored family coverage per month in 2009.  Annually, that amounts to $13,375 – or roughly the yearly income of someone working a minimum wage job. (Source)
• And if nothing is done to reform our broken health care system, a recent survey found that over the next ten years, out-of-pocket expenses for Americans with health insurance could increase 35 percent in every state in the country. (Source)

Yesterday, Leslie Banks, one of the many Americans burdened by skyrocketing health insurance costs, introduced President Obama at a reform event in Philadelphia.  Here’s her story:(...)
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Kind Ambition

Americans like their extremes.  From extreme sports to extreme make-overs, there’s something about pushing to the extreme that entices us.  It’s almost as if something “measured” or “centrist” gets branded as wimpy or not taking a stand.  We raise the threshold to a point where the joy of our normal lives can’t compete with what’s on television or the media’s quick-cut-edited versions of life.  This seeps into our emotional tastes as well.  People don’t see their everyday lives and relationships as “exciting enough,” so they add drama to ramp things up.  This never improves real lives, and usually has a downside.

In the real world, everything is gradients and degrees.  Nothing is Always.  Everything is Sometimes.  All or nothing is an exciting, extreme that sells products, gets people jazzed, and increases your stress level.  If there’s anything we need to do these days for our health and well being, it’s to lower that stress level, and stress is a function of extreme perspectives.  All or nothing is life or death.  This is flight or fight adrenaline stimulation at its subtlest. Try this yourself.  You’ll feel much more stress saying “I’ll never find a job,” than you will saying, “I wonder if today I’ll find a job?”  You’ll feel much more stress saying, “I never get what I want,” than saying, “maybe I’ll do better next time.”  Extremes are all about creating life or death adrenaline, and that isn’t a good position for long-term decision-making.(...)
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Post tags: Downsizing, Human Resources, Layoffs, profitability, Re-engineering, Revenue Generation, San Francisco Lay offs, Stress, Systems, unemployment

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By a definition, a family business is a business in which one, two, but often much more, members of one family have a significant ownership interest, together with responsibility commitments towards the business.

Family company is not necessarily run by members of one family. It can be owned by unmarried couples or friends. There are also small businesses which are ownership of two families, of two individuals whose relatives become employees. In these cases it is very important to document your business relationship in a formal business-partnership agreement. The document should include duration of the agreement, partners’ capital contribution expectations, and divisions of profits and losses.(...)
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Post tags: Business, business partnership agreement, business relationship, family, family business, family relationship, management, marketing, small business, strong family, successful business.

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Online collaboration, and especially web conferencing,  is currently a hot trend in the business world, as companies are looking for different ways to improve their efficiency and cut back on costs. Companies that have offices in multiple locations are using online collaboration tools to keep all their employees from different locations engaged in a project they are working on. Various online collaboration tools that are available today can benefit not only large corporations, but also small businesses.(...)
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Post tags: business world, collaboration, collaboration software, collaboration tools, communication, computing, online collaboration, share documents, teleconferencing, web conferencing, web conferencing software, webex, webex conferencing

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It is a grim reality that more and more people are losing their jobs every day, and that there are no attractive job opportunities waiting for them. The options for those people are either to start their own business or buy a franchise. Franchisers argue that their proven business model offers people a bigger chance to succeed than starting a small business on their own. (...)
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Post tags: Franchising, recession, small business, Tips & Advice

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When the economy is in the slump, all the scam artists come out to play skilled and ready to take advantage of people desperate for an opportunity. The way they operate is that, at first, they just observe the situation to find a weak spot where they can hit with a biggest probability for success.
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Having a web presence became the crucial ingredient for the success of any business, and small businesses are increasingly taking on that challenge. Once you have a website up and running, one of the very important things is to manage and monitor it properly. Small businesses that have, or are planning on having a web presence, need to be informed about the options that are available to them for web hosting. They can choose to either invest a bigger amount of money and acquire their own server, or go with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) hosted offerings. (...)
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Post tags: host provider, hosting, internet service provider, linux hosting, service provider, shared hosting, web host providers, web hosting, web hosting service, web presence, windows host

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The raising health care costs are causing more and more pressure to the small business owners cornering them to choose between providing the insurance coverage for their employees or laying some of them off. A news from the  health industry is that  insurance policies will be more available for individuals,even those having pre-existing medical conditions, what should be a big step forward in achieving legislators’ goal of making health coverage accessible to many of close to 50 million individuals currently without one.(...)
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