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09.03.10

You May Be Dangerously Sleep Deprived and Not Know It http://ow.ly/1gkgK

08.03.10

Twitter Grows nearly 1500% in 2008 http://ow.ly/1fsnS. Twitter also reported same 1500% growth for 2009 yesterday.

08.03.10

Nielsen report: time spent on social network, blogging sites growing more than 3X the rate of overall Internet growth. http://ow.ly/1fscH

05.03.10

Check this service out: Isolate pieces of web pages, remove backgrounds, print or save as PDF - Free! Works on Mac or PC. http://ow.ly/1eT0l

04.03.10

just joined a video chat at http://bit.ly/aPmygW #tinychat

04.03.10

Why No Business Should Be Involved In Online Social Networking http://ow.ly/1efvO (Make sure you read the entire article)

04.03.10

Social media privacy: Insurance companies want access to your #Facebook - http://ow.ly/1edXt. Moral of the story - think before you post!

04.03.10

Social network security: Where is the outrage? http://ow.ly/1edPo. Keep this in mind as you use services like #Facebook Connect.

01.03.10

The #Facebook imperative for enterprise software. ZDNet.com http://ow.ly/1cRgm. The paradigm shift to social computing is here.

28.02.10

Google Makes Facebook Pages a Higher Priority for Businesses - http://ow.ly/1cg2d. Your FB Fan Page is now more important than ever!

28.02.10

Local Tweets: 9 Ways to Find Twitter Users in Your Town http://ow.ly/1c644

28.02.10

Playing around on Google #Buzz. Definitely see some nice features, but some things that should be obvious R hard to find. Feels like beta.

27.02.10

Chile struck by one of strongest earthquakes ever http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16026/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=IDaAncyw

27.02.10

Carly Simon reveals 'You're So Vain' clue - http://ow.ly/1bTdK. Beautiful piece of social marketing by Carly to promote her new album.

26.02.10

I'm sitting @ Smitty's right now... pizza they're cooking 4 us smells fantastic. Hope ur coming to eat it w/me or I'm going to ruin my diet!

26.02.10

Can we make it? 100 members by the end of February - The Venue Online, (really) free business networking community. http://biz-venue.net.

26.02.10

Hey... the VOL #Olympia Meet & Greet is TODAY at noon! Business networking and authentic Chicago-style deep dish pizza. http://bit.ly/9xgeMy

26.02.10

Why and How to Use Disqus with Wordpress. http://ow.ly/1bvlN We build #Disqus commenting into #Joomla! and #Wordpress sites we develop.

26.02.10

@zacpalmer It was a day-long virtual conference on social media for business sponsored by the American Marketing Association.

25.02.10

Attending AMA virtual convention on Social Media. 222 Lee St. in Tumwater. Have room for a few more people if u want to participate.

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vTiger Hosted CRM

What is vTiger?

vTiger is a CRM platform produced by a network of contributing software architects through "open source" development. Open source development uses the collaborate efforts of many independent programmers to create software that everyone can use at minimal cost.

In the case of vTiger, the software itself is free. This makes it possible for value-added consultants (like Alternative Marketing Connections) to offer enterprise-quality, customized vTiger installations for a fraction of the cost of their commercial counterparts, such as SalesForce.

We host your vTiger installation on our own secure internet servers – the same ones that host our websites. We also provide setup, customization, training and support to you at a very modest cost.

What is "Cloud Hosting?"

vTiger is just one example of an increasing trend towards "cloud computing," or software applications sold as an online service, managed and maintained by an outside company. Rather than invest your operating capital in internal computer resources, like servers, and the significant support necessary to run them, cloud-hosted applications are entirely outsourced and only require end-user computers connected to the internet. The service provider provides all the updates, backups and maintenance of the software.

Cost & Feature Comparison (10 User Installation)

The following is a real-world cost and feature comparison of 2 popular customer management solutions against our vTiger solution:

ACT! Is a widely used package that uses the traditional software model, where the company buys software for their server, and then copies of a desktop application for each of their end-user computers.
SalesForce is the most popular cloud-based (online) CRM solution.

	ACT! Premium Software CRM	SalesForce Online CRM	SalesStream™ featuring vTiger CRM

Setup and Basic Installation	~$800 (cost of computer consultant @ $80/hr)	Included in Subscription	Included in Subscription
Hosting and Basic Support	~$3,000 (approx. Cost of a Windows Server and backup system)	Included	Included
Training & Customization	Additional (Estimate: $1,000-$2,000)	Additional (Estimate: $1,000-$2,000)	Additional (Estimate $1,000-$2,000)
Software Cost/10 Users	$3,298	$0	$0
Project Management Module	$1,990 (3^rd Party, Additional Software Required)	Not Available	$0 (Included)
Cost Per User, per month	$0	$125	<$10
Cost Per User, per year (with 1 year contract)	$0	$1,250	<$100
Total Cost After 1^st Year	$12,288	$14,500 (!!!)	$1,200
Version Upgrade, plus installation †	$2,500†	$0	$0
Total Cost After 2^nd Year ††	$14,788	$27,000 (!!!)	$4,600

Which Solution Makes Sense for YOUR BUSINESS?

† Note that since ACT! Is a desktop application, each time a new version of the software becomes available, customer must purchase a software upgrade that will cost $200 per user, plus the cost of installation. (So add another $2,500-$3,000 to the above numbers for a 10-user installation!)

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