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		<title>Finally some good news on the economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The State of SMB IT Survey September 2010 is now available for download, and it has some cautious but good news: &#8220;After weathering the economic storm of 2009 then treading cautiously in the first half of 2010, small and medium business IT professionals are slowly but surely navigating the course back to “business as usual.” [...]
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		<title>Roller coasters on thin ice – the need for marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recession is over (for now), but for many businesses, the after-effects are proving to be more painful than the event itself. There&#8217;s never been a more important time for your business to be actively engaged in effective online marketing. Some companies are realising they survived the recession, breathing a sigh of relief, and sitting [...]
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		<title>Recession may be the catalyst for a new era in business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Confederation of British Industry have released a fascinating news release, speculating that the recession may be the catalyst for a new era in business. &#8220;The business environment of the next decade will be significantly different to what might have been expected just two years ago. The financial crisis and the recession that has followed [...]
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		<title>Miss the boat? Is the recession already over?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It depends who you ask, what you read and where you look. It does appear that we&#8217;re past the worst of it, but it will be a long time before the recession is well and truly behind us. Everything has changed. Even if most people don&#8217;t yet realise it. And guess what? More change lies [...]
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It does appear that we're past the worst of it, but it will be a long time before the recession is well and truly behind us.

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		<title>UK tough, Germany muted: it&#8217;s all down to the banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A snapshot from this morning&#8217;s BBC News Business page: Over to the banks. Share and Enjoy
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		<title>The recession is over &#8211; are you ready?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC News website is tentatively reporting that the recession may be over: &#8220;Confidence among business professionals has surged, suggesting the recession is at an end, a survey has said. The Institute of Chartered Accountants&#8217; index of business confidence rose to 4.8 at the end of June, from -28.2 in March, the biggest rise for [...]
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		<title>Recession: The beginning of the end or the eye of the storm?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this year&#8217;s Software Industry Conference, myself and Sharon Housley (NotePage, Inc.) co-presented a session on Marketing in a Recession. The session went well, yet the feedback we received was fascinating. It turned out that most of the people who attended the talk believed that the worst of the recession was now behind us, and [...]
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The session went well, yet the feedback we received was fascinating. It turned out that most of the people  - http://blog.softwarepromotions.com/index.php/recession-the-beginning-of-the-end-or-the-eye-of-the-storm-2009-07-28/" title="Email this" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Email</a> &bull; <a href="http://blog.softwarepromotions.com/index.php/feed/rss/" title="Subscribe to RSS" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RSS</a>
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		<title>Software Piracy on the Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 06:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Minkus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recently released report by the Business Software Alliance, worldwide software piracy rose from 38% to 41% in 2008 (meaning that 41% of all software in use is pirated). This is the second year in a row that software piracy has increased. Although some progress in combating global software piracy has been made, [...]
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		<title>Google &#8211; one step backwards, three steps forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Labs have launched two new experimental products that actually have the potential to change the way we search for news and pictures. Google News Timeline &#8220;allows users to view news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and more on a zoomable, graphical timeline&#8221;, while Similar Images &#8220;helps you narrow your search by [...]
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		<title>Proof: 50% of successful companies work with SoftwarePromotions!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday I wrote a post entitled Doom and gloom? Share your views! I was pleased to get an interesting mix of comments, and a few people emailed me as they wished to remain anonymous. The results weren&#8217;t quite what I expected, and I&#8217;ve tried to roughly group them into categories. 45% of you felt [...]
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		<title>AdWords Performance Must Be Viewed Within Wider Economic Context</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Minkus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a close friend who owns a small company which produces and sells several speciality men&#8217;s clothing items.  For the past year, with a little help from yours truly, my friend has managed a successful AdWords account advertising his products. I was recently talking with this friend and he was bemoaning the fact that [...]
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		<title>Doom and gloom? Share your views!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah the joys of living in a recession! I got fed up with all the doom and gloom on Radio 4, so switched to Radio 5. This proved to be a slightly faster and more dynamic form of the same misery. Switching off the Radio, I headed for the BBC&#8217;s Business pages: &#8220;Unemployment passes two [...]
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		<title>New York Job Fair Reflects Growing Desperation of the Unemployed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Minkus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A biannual job fair in New York City entitled &#8220;Women For Hire Career Expo&#8221; attracted a segment of the population which it had never before interested- men. One attendee, Kevin Greene, 37, was reluctant to attend an employment event geared specifically towards women, but that his desperation to find work  forced him to put aside [...]
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		<title>Microsoft to Cut up to 5,000 Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Minkus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has announced that due to decreased earnings, it will cut up to 5,000 jobs, 5.5% of its total workforce, over the next 18 months. This round of job cuts will be the largest and most sweeping in Microsoft&#8217;s history. The software giant&#8217;s net profit fell by 11 percent in the second quarter of its [...]
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		<title>Market ups and downs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Turbulent times&#8221; is an understatement. A quick browse of the BBC&#8217;s business pages reveal the following: Apple posts best quarterly profit eBay sees profit and revenue drop IBM bucks gloom with rosy outlook Sony sees first loss in 14 years Predictions anyone? Share and Enjoy
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		<title>Are times getting tough for Google?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Weiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on a story from the Associated Press, it appears that Google have fired a large number of temporary workers. Is this just a cost cutting measure or are there other issues at hand? I can&#8217;t help but wonder how many companies have lowered, slashed or even terminated budgets in their AdWords accounts. The good [...]
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		<title>Marketing during a recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;An often overlooked fact is that there is no such thing as a “standard” recession; each have demonstrated individual characteristics and patterns. One thing, however, is certain. The recession will be bad for most businesses. Yet some will not only maintain their existing levels of growth and sales, but will actually prosper despite the economic [...]
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		<title>Palamida Names Top 25 Open Source Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Minkus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many professionals during these difficult economic times, software developers are being asked to continue producing the same quality end product but with significantly reduced budgets. What is a software developer to do? One of the best ways for struggling developers to get more out of their diminished funds is to take full advantage of [...]
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		<title>Give and you shall receive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karin Collins</dc:creator>
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		<dc:creator>Dave Collins</dc:creator>
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