TED: Bassam Tariq: The beauty and diversity of Muslim life - Bassam Tariq (2014)

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Bassam Tariq is a blogger, a filmmaker, and a halal butcher -- but one thread unites his work: His joy in the diversity, the humanness of our individual experiences. In this charming talk, he shares clips from his film "These Birds Walk" and images from his tour of 30 mosques in 30 days -- and reminds us to consider the beautiful complexity within us all.

Blogger Intervention: 3 reasons why no one is engaging with your content

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Maintaining a blog is a key aspect of any content marketing strategy. This MarketingSherpa Blog post offers three reasons why your blog content might not be performing as well as it should. A key takeaway? Cater to your customer and reader’s needs.

Addressing the Gaps in Your Customers’ Data Protection Strategy

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The EMC Global Data Protection Index introduced last month shows the business consequences of misaligned data protection strategies. And the survey results also give us a glimpse into disasters waiting to happen from inadequate protection for next generation workloads.

Calling All Solution Providers: New MRR Business Opportunity

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As more and more organizations are embracing SaaS based applications like Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 this presents new monthly recurring revenue (MRR) opportunities for Solution Providers offering cloud backup and recovery services. Organizations need to be able to protect their data that is created and stored in Microsoft Office 365 just like any other enterprise data within their IT environment – especially for those organizations that need to meet strict regulatory and compliance mandates.

Why You Need Phone Scripts

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Everyone has an opinion on whether or not you should use phone scripts when selling or prospecting over the phone.  Those who don’t believe in using them cite many reasons including:
Using scripts makes you sound like a telemarketer
Following a script is too confining – you have to “go with the flow” of a conversation
You can’t consult with a prospect if you’re following a script
Scripts all sound so “salesy” that it turns prospects off
People can always tell that you’re reading something, so you sound unprofessional

My Enemy's Enemy Is My Friend--VMware And Google Cozy Up

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If you’re Google, you’ve watched Amazon Web Services (AWS) create and own the public cloud infrastructure space and have been left scratching your head. Google has, after all, the biggest cloud provider footprint in the world. Surely it should be the leader in the space?

Salesforce.com Chief Strategy Officer: Companies Must Innovate Around The Customer

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What do you need to successfully build a long-lasting relationship with your customers? As the Chief Strategy Officer for Salesforce.com, the #1 most valuable cloud company in the world, Micheal Lazerow spends most of his time trying to answer this question. By spending time with customers, Lazerow is able to better understand and communicate his customer's needs back into his organization. It has been said that regardless of the size of your business, there are always more smart people on the outside, than on the inside, of any company.

Sorry Samsung, Apple’s probably the smartphone king

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Apple's Q4 2014 may not only have been its best quarter ever for iPhone sales, but the point at which it overtook arch-rival Samsung in the smartphone business. The Cupertino firm announced a massive 74.5m iPhone sales in the final three months of last year, setting itself a new record and - according to at least one research firm - … Continue reading

Billionaire Carlos Slim's TracFone Wireless to Pay $40 Million To FTC For 'Deceiving' Consumers

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Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's U.S. mobile provider TracFone must pay $40 million to the FTC to settle charges that it deceived millions of consumers with false promises of “unlimited” data service.

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