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SEO Just Got 9 Times Harder – Content 9 Times As Valuable
In case you’ve missed it Google recently updated their search layout.
Instead of always returning standard search results as indexed within Google – the search giant now displays a total of 9 additional places that a searcher (aka prospective client) can find your company.
Nine!
Just when you thought that SEO was a snap and all you had to do was throw a few hundred keywords up on your firm’s home page – the game is suddenly changed.
Actually the game has been changing for years. Blogs have emerged as relevant research tools. Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook have enabled our customers to reach out to their friends for recommendations as opposed to relying upon raw searches through Google or other easily gamed Internet search engines.
Is there a way for you to keep up with all these changes? I think so – and it’s been right in front of your nose all along.
Intacct Survey Say’s Software Execs See Recession Ending
Intacct, a SaaS provider of accounting and ERP solutions endorsed by the AICPA and used by many industries including software companies, say’s that there just may be a light at the end of the recession tunnel.
From Intacct SVP of Marketing and Business Development Dan Druker’s Post:
In the fourth quarter of 2009, we started to notice our Software industry customers provisioning more users in large numbers and subscribing to more modules too – which I took to mean they were coming out of the recession. This trend only accelerated in the first quarter of 2010 – leading to Intacct putting together record quarters for both Q4 and Q1, dramatically exceeding our plan.
Around the first of the year I was talking about this trend with MR Rangaswami, the CEO of Sandhill group, who is an old friend from past lives at Oracle. We thought it would be interesting to put together a formal research project to understand whether the resurgence Intacct has seen in its software customers is more broadly true in the Software industry as a whole.
They’ve commissioned a study by Sandhill Group of 100 software company executives after noticing improved new Intacct user (seats) license demand in the fourth quarter of 2009. The results of the survey, as well as a copy of the data, will be unveiled in an April 29 webcast. Follow the link below to register and read Dan’s full post.
Bye Bye Recession – Led by Cloud Computing, Software is Roaring Back
Sue Swenson Considered To Lead Sage UK?
News broke over the weekend that Paul Walker, chief executive for the last 16 years at Sage UK, would be leaving the company. There’s no announced time period during which he will depart, however FT. com indicates that it could come as early as this year.
UPDATE: December 1, 2010 – Sue Swenson announced her retirement from Sage North America effective mid 2011.
Three possible replacements were mentioned by analysts in an FT.COM article – with one of them being Sue Swenson, currently the President of Sage North America.
There will undoubtedly be more candidates than the three above as other publications have reported that executive placement firms will be retained to locate additional candidates.
Could Microsoft exit the ERP business altogether?
Is it possible that we’ll see Microsoft sell out and exit the ERP accounting software business altogether? There are a number of signals, most recently today’s Bloomberg article that quotes Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell as saying the company is on a permanent diet and could ship some customer support positions to countries with lower personnel costs.
Of course that statement and one stinky quarter alone is not enough to draw a conclusion that the company’s Microsoft Dynamics, Navision and Axapta are on the chopping blocks.
A quarterly earnings report where the analyst revenue estimates were missed by over $1 billion is nothing to sneeze at. And judging from this article online in Bloomberg – the company expects to be making permanent changes that have in the past included cutting non-essential divisions. So the question is whether the ERP division could be on the blocks? Bloomberg Read the rest of this entry »
5 Lies Competitors Hope You Believe
If I’d taken all the terrible business advice I’ve been given over the years I would have been out of business 10 years ago.
Well meaning consultants have this habit of giving advice about things they sometimes know nothing about. If you’re foolish enough to follow it you may end up like they do – out of business, unemployed or working as an employee.
