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Guest Post: Take the Payment

A customer is standing by the vacuum cleaner display. The Sales assistant approaches the customer and ask “are you looking for a upright or cylinder?” Which letter best describes the selling skills? Product knowledge know what you are selling. Acknowledge customer- make eye contact You now establish the customers need...

Back from BCS Talk

Just came back from a talk organised by the BCS on Field Service Technology where Steve Burrows, group IT director of Vanilla group gave us some insight on how JLA, the UK market leader in commercial laundry equipment rental, have used technology to streamline their Field Service Operations and integrated...

10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic

Great post down at ProBlogger with some great tips on how you can improve traffic to your blog. Here they are in a nutshell: Create link clusters within your blog Rework HTML title tags of trafficked posts Invite your readers to connect with you on StumbleUpon and Facebook Save your...

Facts on Software Engineering

I came across a post on CodingHorror where Jeff pulls out a summary from Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. There’s some great stuff in there that everyone working in software should know. And good advice is like? cheap glasses, you can never have enough! So...

5 ways to start a company (without quitting your day job)

Interesting post on CNN Money, which albeit being a couple of years old is always pretty interesting. It talks about ways you could legitimately start a new company while leveraging your day job. Here’s what it suggests in a nutshell: Use your salary as funding Turn common complaints into a...

Elements of Sustainable Companies

I came across this great list of attributes that are critical to the success of a start-up. Check these out: Clarity of Purpose – Summarize the company’s business on the back of a business card. Interesting test of how clear your objectives and targets are. Large Markets – Address existing...

Top 10 Application Design Mistakes

Excellent post by Jakob Nielsen called Top 10 Application Design Mistakes in which he talks about what he feels are the worst mistakes application designers make when designing a front-end for users. It’s echoed in a number of places, with people like Jounalistopia, Jack Schofield and Phillip Lennsen adding some...

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