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When it comes to sales, I know one thing for sure: I am an absolute zero in sales. Fortunately, my work is not related to sales – I’m sure I would have starved if I had to sell something to support myself. I have tried to sell a piece of software once amidst the recent recession as a form to diversify income sources – and failed miserably so instead of diversification I just got a huge number of wasted hours.

And since people tend to admire the qualities that they don’t possess, I definitely admire sales people and their mysterious talents of persuading others into buying something that they sometimes don’t even need.

Since I do admire them, I definitely think that they deserve the best in software, web and mobile applications to boost their productivity...When it comes to sales, I know one thing for sure: I am an absolute zero in sales. Fortunately, my work is not related to sales – I’m sure I would have starved if I had to sell something to support myself. I have tried to sell a piece of software once amidst the recent recession as a form to diversify income sources – and failed miserably so instead of diversification I just got a huge number of wasted hours.

And since people tend to admire the qualities that they don’t possess, I definitely admire sales people and their mysterious talents of persuading others into buying something that they sometimes don’t even need.

Since I do admire them, I definitely think that they deserve the best in software, web and mobile applications to boost their productivity. Now CloudContacts, the innovative business card scanning service that we initially reviewed here, makes yet another step to further simplify things for salespeople by l[...]

Google is well known for its passion to various doodles to celebrate tons of global and local events – quite frequently the company changes its logo on the pages of all the local domains or only on specific ones depending on the event of the day. As some of you may know, yesterday Russia had more than a significant reason to celebrate as FIFA made the decision to hold the World Cup in 2018 in Russia – for the first time in Eastern Europe.

Of course Russian football fans and pretty much everyone else are exceptionally pleased with the opportunity and celebrating...

Today I am introducing you SmsCoin, a new monetization tool for all sorts of online publishers and our sponsor for the month. SmsCoin is a company that offers a broad range of SMS-based tools to add an extra monetization source (or at least an additional payment tool) to any online business that allows receiving payments from as many as 87 countries...

A president of a country can definitely be considered an open-minded and tech-aware progressive person when he or she has a Twitter account. After all, it is the most fashionable way to connect to citizens online these days. But what if a president actually has as many as two Twitter accounts? I really don’t know but I have a feeling that the Russian president Medvedev is sometimes overdoing his online activities.

He is extremely active online with a video blog, a Twitter account and his regular communications with Russian people online...

These days it’s really hard to find a person who would not agree that internet has truly turned the world into a global and tightly connected place where everyone can easily talk to everyone without tons of efforts or financial investments. But I have frequently written here on Profy how different things can be about tons of tech aspects when one happens to live in Russia...

I know these days any more or less tech-savvy internet user will have at least a slight suspicion that Google probably knows a little too much about them. And it is not surprising given our reliance on various Google services and tools...

Apple is a strange company when it comes to Russia: while it has quite a lot of loyal fans here including our own president who seems to be the biggest fan, the company frequently acts like it does not care about the market and its potential at all. The company keeps delaying launches of its ultra popular products and negotiates prices with local retailers that make Apple gadgets far from affordable for the majority of population of the country.

In this situation it is really no wonder that most people who desire a specific device by Apple that is not available find a way to get it outside of the official market...

Do you believe in the power of social media? Of course you do if you are reading this post now because people who read this blog are mostly related to the online crowd in this way or another. But the truth is that the mainstream media still make more difference when it comes to promoting a product (even if it is an online service like Twitter) or turning an online celebrity into a world-famous personality that everyone talks about...

Last week the blogosphere in Russia discussed yet another interesting topic regarding the famous Apple’s device and a huge bill sent to one of subscribers of a local mobile carrier for some international exuberance. And since the summer full of vacations abroad is in full play, the story quickly got to be a very hot one though there’s nothing particularly special about it – nothing but the amount of the bill involved: $17 thousand from a cell phone carrier after a vacation abroad...