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Financial Force – migration and setup

Financial Force – migration and setup

By on November 12, 2010 in Business Systems

Financial Force has been our financial platform for six months now the words of our general manager in an IM chat with me summed up our experience nicely “Imagine if we never had Salesforce and Financial Force these days!   Arrrgghh!” As I intimated in my previous post on the topic Cogent has taken the [...]

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Financial Force – adventures in integration

Financial Force – adventures in integration

By on April 24, 2010 in Business Systems

Financial Force is a full Software as a Service (SaaS) accounting application, developed on salesforce.com’s cloud computing platform, Force.com. At Cogent we took the position, from the outset, that it’s better to build a business on world class infrastructure than it is to introduce it later in the business lifecycle when integration with established practise [...]

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Twitter – How I built my Twitter Following

By on March 29, 2010 in Social Media

How I built my Twitter following is a subject that I really hadn’t considered in detail until a friend, and former colleague, asked me this question. As far as this blog goes I get about 150 visitors a day, most of which is a result of the HP articles I wrote some time ago, I [...]

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Social Media, blowing the winds of change

Social Media, blowing the winds of change

By on September 5, 2009 in Social Media

Social Media, to me, is a nebulous subject, constantly on my mind because of the business I?m in, more importantly, how I choose to conduct my business and my life in general. When I traveled to New York a couple of weeks ago to attend Affiliate Summit my mind was swimming with thoughts about the [...]

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What recession?

By on December 22, 2008 in Internet Marketing

So, I’m not exactly a prolific writer but hey, I’ve been busy ok? A little over a year since my first post, and looking in hindsight at what I set out to achieve, and how, I have to say if I haven’t already achieved my goal, I’m pretty damn close. As we head into the [...]

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Page Rank, a tale of two sites

By on November 6, 2007 in Web Sites

If you recall, in a recent post, I mentioned that I had just gone live with an Article directory site, TotallyAwesomeArticles.com, on or about the 24th September 07. At the time I had resigned myself to the fact that, based on my previous experience, and in direct contrast to the legends of Internet Marketing who [...]

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Article Directory – is it worth it?

By on September 24, 2007 in Web Sites

Shortly after I started this blog I decided to create an article directory. God knows why but, considering that a Keyword Analyzer search reveals there are approximately 350 million sites (indexed pages) competing for around 4500 searches a month for the keyword phrase “article directory”, I figured the world needed another one! So, TotallyAwesomeArticles.com was [...]

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