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List of the top free ranking, human-edited SEO friendly general directories, where you can submit your website in order to improve search engine placement.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going... international

A recession is a good time to sit back and analyze your go to market strategy and, part of this, to think about going international, online or through a reseller network.

The Cloud and the Crowd

There's two trends - the Cloud and the Crowd - afoot in the software world, and if these trends have gotten buried by all the day to to day trivia, let me give you a quick rundown on how they've changing our industry.

Guest: Ken Beam

Ken Beam is an IT Strategic Alliances Consulting and Business Development Specialist, with 27 years experience in IT & channel management. On April 16th heâ��s holding a seminar on "How to on-board new partners for maximum performance, and faster cash results" and has generously offered a 40% discount to Avangate readers.

What good is Partner Relationship Management to me?

We all use software applications, products, computer programs or whatever you want to call them to make our lives or jobs easier. But the same product will mean different things to different people. What good is a PRM (Partner Relationship Management system) to me or a 360 degree analysis of partner relationship management systems from the usersâ�� point of view. Here follows.

The most important startup decision you may forget to make

Nowadays, you as a developer who's going to go down the Startup Road have a huge and sometimes confusing range of platforms to build on. Just going with the default - whatever platform you happen to know best - makes about as much sense as walking up to the next girl (or guy) you see and saying let's jump in bed.

Guest: Marty Cagan

Marty Cagan is the founding partner at the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG). Marty has been a product executive for some of the biggest technology names out there: Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, America Online, and most recently as Senior Vice President of Product Management and Design at eBay.

How to track "downloaders"?

More and more software vendors our company we work with don't track downloads and, what is more exciting, "downloaders". A Google Analytics tutorial on how to do the tracking with very little modifications for your website.

10 steps to a Successful Business Networking Event

Here are some ideas from Daniel Nicolescu's experience as a business developer - ideas that work for a great networking event.

Fake it until you make it?

How important is it to look bigger than you really are? Should you fake it until you make it? Small software companies versus big companies on the run for customers - on which side do you stand?