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Sage Software Announces New President and CEO

It's our pleasure to inform you of the appointment of Sue Swenson as President and CEO of Sage Software, effective from May 1, 2008.

Sue has over 20 years' experience in the telecommunications industry and has managed periods of rapid growth and industry  change. She spent most of her career with Pacific Bell, where she held senior management positions in marketing and customer service and was responsible for over 13,000 employees. She subsequently became President & CEO of Cellular One, the mobile telephone joint venture with Vodafone AirTouch and AT&T Wireless, followed by positions as Chief Operating Officer with Leap Wireless International and T-Mobile (Deutsche Telecom). She is currently Chief Operating Officer of New Motion, Inc (now Atrinsic, Inc), one of the largest digital media entertainment content providers.

We think this is a great step forward for Sage Software and believe that it will benefit Sage customers and partners alike.

Social Networks and Your Business

There is a lot of buzz about social networks these days. The impact of social networks like Facebook or My Space is obvious, these sites can be a advertising and marketing goldmine for companies that serve the demographic that are involved with these sites which is mainly younger consumers.

How can businesses that are engaged in B to B take advantage of Social Networks. One network whose participants are right for B 2 B businesses is Lindedin.

Go to Marketing Strategies has published excellent advice on using Linkedin, in this article How To Get the Most From LinkedIn

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Sage Software Strengthens Ties Between Accountants' Network And Business Partners

When accountants are asked by clients where they can get technology advice, larger firms  may be able to dial to their consulting arm at the other end of the building, but many small firms are left in the lurch. What smaller firms need is a support network to turn to when technology consulting is needed. In support of that effort, Sage Software today announced new program details for resellers in the company's Business Partner Alliance program designed to improve their working partnerships with accountants.

5 Ideas for Benefiting from the 2008 Economy

What the future holds for business in 2008 is anyones guess. One thing is for sure surviving and thriving in 2008 may prove to be a great challenge.

Here are 5 ideas that you can use to ride the wave of change. Focusing on all aspects of your business, maintaining a positive attitude, and inspiring high level of performance from your employees, are some of the keys to success.

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We live here too. But it is not easy.

CEOs Weigh in on Best, Worst States to Do Business

Texas, Nevada, North Carolina Top List as Best States; California, New York, Michigan Are the Worst, NJ close to NY.

MONTVALE, NJ--(Marketwire - January 22, 2008) - While much of the nation's focus is jumping from state to state during the presidential primary race, CEOs did their own "state-jumping," ranking the best and worst states to do business. In an annual polling by Chief Executive magazine, CEOs ranked the states with no income tax as the top two states for business -- Texas and Nevada -- and those highly-regulated states as the worst two -- California and New York. These same states have been ranked as the best and worst two states to do business in for the past three years. CEO Magazine

How Nina Smith sold Sage Software’s employees and customers on its corporate rebranding effort

If you are a user of Sage Software as many of our readers are you may enjoy this article about Nina Smith, President of Sage Software's US Business Management Division, published by Smart Business.

"In the six years that Nina L. Smith has been at Sage Software, she’s been running full speed. In that time, she has seen the software company take on more than 20 acquisitions to grow."

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