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I. What is Payroll Accounting? II. Does Your Business Need to Outsource Payroll? III. What About Payroll Accounting Software? IV. In-House vs. Outsourced Payroll V. Consideration VI. Glossary

When Q4 rolls around, people start hanging Christmas lights, planning family gettogethers, stocking up on booze for said family get-togethers — and buying gifts. It’s true, the last quarter of the year is great for sipping eggnog, but it’s also when big and small businesses alike make or break their revenue goals, often making 20-30 percent of their annual sales, according to the National Retail Federation. With the average holiday shopper purchasing 16 gifts during the season, wintertime is salestime. We’ve compiled the 10 things brands and retailers can do to boost revenue during the holiday season — and keep customers coming back for more.

Over the last several years, DigitalOcean has built out its feature set in a way that has taken it from a provider of cheap and simple virtual machines (VMs) to a legitimate public cloud alternative, most recently adding support for Redis and MySQL to its managed database services. As its services evolve, it continues to experience healthy growth and maintain popularity among the independent developer audience. Over the past two years, DigitalOcean has accelerated the velocity of its feature development, looking to better meet the needs of a business audience. By emphasizing a simplified feature set, pricing structure and user experience, even as it expands its competitive footprint in the shadow of public cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Digital Ocean continues to help define what it means to be an alternative public cloud in a market dominated and largely defined by hyperscalers.

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Hosted Voice over IP business phone services are now more affordable, and more flexible than traditional business telephony solutions.

Having to make big decisions on behalf of your entire business can be intimidating — as marketers, sometimes we’d rather choose to play it safe and see what unfolds naturally, instead of risking the “wrong” move. But what if we told you the safer choice isn't actually safe at all? It's true: indecision and lack of action can actually pose far more of a threat to the wellbeing of your business than you might think. Download this ebook to learn the five biggest risks that come with staying passive, and see why tackling your decisions head-on matters.

There has been an exciting revolution that is changing the landscape for businesses far and wide. The advancement of marketing and sales technology has enabled businesses to work at the speed of life. But with the rapidly moving technology space, organizations are finding that they’ve built such robust tech stacks that it’s time to re-evaluate just how well their technology is working for them—as opposed to against. With many internal organizations across marketing, sales, and customer success reporting their team’s tech stack consists of 30 or more tools, we are realizing there is a wealth of untapped Executive Summary data at our fingertips. Many have overlooked the role people, process, and data play in maximizing the returns technology can yield. Revenue Operations is a way to bridge gaps between siloed organizations. It is about marketing, sales, customer success, and partner ops teams working better together. This guide is dedicated to exploring the emergence of Revenue Ops, its

The growing trend towards insourcing marketing and transactional email is being driven by businesses that are looking for ways to improve their email programs, increase data security and lower costs. When evaluating whether it makes more sense to leverage an on-premise or outsourced solution, it's important to understand how the traditional arguments have changed.

With the current state of the economy, IT executives are being asked to stretch their budgets in order to keep their businesses profitable. In 2008, Median IT spending per user fell to $6,667 from the previous year's $7,397, according to Computer Economics. This represents a 6.2% reduction, consistent with the fact that IT managers were supporting an increasing number of users without corresponding increases in IT spending. IT spend continued to decline in 2009 and uncertainty and caution is still prevalent in 2010.

Email is the primary communication system and file transport mechanism used in organizations of all sizes. Email systems generate enormous amounts of content that must be preserved for a variety of reasons, including: -Compliance with local, state, federal and international statutory requirements - Electronic discovery requirements and best practices - Knowledge management applications - Disaster recovery and business continuity

This paper presents an overview of IBM System i high availability to companies that are beginning to explore this powerful business continuity technology.

Journaling is a powerful feature, one that IBM has continued to develop and improve over the years. Yet, depending upon your business requirements, you probably still need more protection against downtime than journaling alone can provide. This white paper will cover what you need to know about journaling, what it can do and how it supports and cooperates with high availability software.

Achieving effective and efficient high availability protection for larger IBM i environments requires careful thought and clear understanding of the technology options. This white paper describes what you need to know in order to make an informed decision about IBM i high availability strategies so that your business requirements for Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are not compromised

In our latest Point of View, "The Dirtiest Word In Business," Airfoil has assembled a collective set of best practices to help technology marketers meet the communications challenges of a new digital decade.

Ensuring the reliability and efficiency of your data center operations requires a strategic partner that is qualified to minimize energy usage, reduce costs, and optimize space utilization, helping you meet critical business initiatives.

Find and connect quickly with the right people, prospects, and opportunities to grow your sales pipeline and boost conversion rates. The ZoomInfo™ Database is the only source of business information combining the business web, community contributors, and professionals who post their own profiles-updated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Unlock the power of this data with our next-generation prospecting tool, ZoomInfo™ Pro, featuring rich segmentation, export capabilities, and list building. Add custom appends and lists to streamline revenue generation and maximize ROI. Start your free trial today.

Does social media marketing really work? How do you separate fact from fiction as you navigate your way through the buzz about "going viral"? Amidst the chatter about Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, Digg, Delicious, and Linked In-what will really get your business ahead? Tune in to find out as Oneupweb CEO Lisa Wehr and Social Media Director, Maureen Michaels team up to unveil the truth.

Freemium is a feature-light version of our award-winning business software program, TempWorks Enterprise, that helps you manage hiring and sales processes.

The Cibecs and IDG Connect annual Data Loss Survey uncovers the latest trends and statistics around business data protection

Windows Server 2012 represents a paradigm shift from the traditional client/server model to a new cloud-based infrastructure. Is your business ready? Download this whitepaper to learn the 7 key questions you need to answer now

The Shortest Telecomm White Paper Ever Written!

While we tend to think about mobility largely as a consumer phenomenon, it is also changing how the workforce carries out business. With so much being done beyond traditional office walls, many insurance companies, financial service organizations and even government agencies are adopting mobile tablets and smartphones as productivity tools for agents, representatives and personnel, and developing enterprise apps for these devices.

With more than three decades in the hotel marketplace, Grupo Posadas operates more than 104 hotels and 19,042 rooms in 50 beach and city destinations in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. It's brands include AQUA, Fiesta Americana Grand, Fiesta Americana, Lat 19°, Caesar Park and Caesar Business, making Posadas the leading Mexican hotel operator in Latin America. Posadas selected Neolane's enterprise marketing software to improve segmentation and deliver consistent, personalized customer communications across e-mail and direct mail channels, while streamlining campaign management within its loyalty programs.

This White Paper, sponsored by Pitney Bowes Marketing Solutions, a leading provider of web-based co-op marketing tools, examines the trends and challenges faced by companies looking to achieve more business growth from their trade marketing efforts.

A whitepaper by Ventana Research discusses the need to combine business and technology in a unified approach for MDM implementations in diverse areas.