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  • Dynamic Web Site Woo Customers

    Customers are no longer waiting for your television or magazine ads. E-mail boxes are full of newsletters, important special offers and product release news. Direct mail is costly and often times the administrative and mailroom staffs are the only ones to see the postcards you send. With advertising funds drying up and companies looking to…

  • Integrators Target Digital TV Conversion Opportunity

    Over the next few days people in 2.8 million homes will lose their television service. That’s how many households that The Nielson Co. reports are completely unready for the transition from analog to digital television.   Friday, June 12 is the deadline for converting all full-powered U.S. television stations from analog to digital transmission. That…

  • IBM Enables Partner-to-Partner Relationships through New Portal

    IBM is trying to help facilitate partner-to-partner relationships with a new social networking community. Riffing off the name of its once-annual partner conference, IBM’s PartnerWorld Communities takes the idea of the conference’s partner networking area and makes it virtual and global. Based on surveys and feedback of the IBM Business Partner community earlier this year,…

  • OnForce: Surge in Applicants for IT Contract Jobs

    Online technology services marketplace OnForce has experienced a surge in applicants looking to become service professionals with OnForce in Q1 of this year. OnForce’s online technology marketplace matches up businesses and individuals looking to fill mostly short-term technology contract jobs with individuals who can fulfill those jobs.  Currently, OnForce has a database of more than…

  • Netbooks Brighten PC Sales Outlook

    Worldwide PC shipments didn’t fall as sharply as expected in Q1 – dropping just 6.8 percent – 1.4 percent better than previously forecast. But the decline still marked the sharpest decrease since Q3 of 2001, according to market research firm IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. IDC notes that positive activity at the end of the…

  • ZyXel Incentives Boost Partner Sales, Revenue

    Wireless and mobility provider ZyXel is helping its solution providers remain profitable and drive sales by increasing product discounts and marketing co-op funds to make it easier to close deals on products and services. “We’re looking at this as our own ‘stimulus package’ to partners,” says Dana Patrick, Director of North American Channel Sales, ZyXel.…

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