CRM Update – Apr 04 : 12:48 pm

Georgetown-based ForkingDeals, a site that provides offers on food and beverage establishments has been acquired by cause promotions site, Recoup. Recoup describes itself as a philanthropic engine that brings businesses, consumers and nonprofits together for social good.
ForkingDeals is pleased to announce that we have joined Recoup (www.recoup.com) and will be offering a dramatically expanded selection of local and national promotions.
As an added bonus, every dollar you spend will help you support charities you are passionate about!
One great year after founding ForkingDeals, we are proud to announce that what began as a way to support local restaurants, bars, and events in the D…

Customer satisfaction is the most common use for online surveys.  But analyzing your results to see what kind of progress you’ve made can get rather hairy and cumbersome.
If that sounds like YOU, then you’re going to love the trend analysis feature inside of QuestionPro.
How to get started
Don’t let the technical sounding phrase “trend analysis” freak you out.  All you have to do it create a single survey with a standard set of questions.  You’ll want to make sure that your survey is rather short with no more than five questions…

Does your business have a blog?Is it working for you?If you said “no,” I wouldn’t be surprised.But it doesn’t need to be that way.Keep reading to discover why many blogs fail and what you can do to boost your traffic and brand.What’s Wrong With Blogs?This platform, if done properly, can generate tremendous traffic, leads and sales for your business that you otherwise would not have had.Unfortunately though, most businesses do not blog well. Why? Because they refuse to think like a consumer…

As expected, the long-awaited Instagram for Android has proved to be a big hit, netting more than 1 million downloads before the app had been out for 24 hours.
Stats from Google Play peg the number of downloads between 1 million and 5 million, a wide target. By the time the app went live on Tuesday, some 430,000 people had preregistered for the app via a signup page that Instagram had created on March 25.
There had been a huge pent-up demand for the Android version of Instagram. Though Android now has more than 50% market share of the smartphone market in the U…

Andrew had a beautiful and relatively modest dream as a teen. He wanted to own an Alienware gaming computer. When he became an adult, he was able to achieve that dream by purchasing a M14x laptop. There was no happy ending for the man and his computer, though. It has needed to be sent back to Dell five times already. He bought it in August. Of 2011. He hasn’t even owned it for a whole year yet.

Of course, the system hasn’t gone back to Dell multiple times for the same problem…

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Delayed Until End of April [REPORT]
Both the 10.1-inch and the 7-inch version of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 2 Android tablets were slated for a March release, which they obviously missed. Pocket-lint reports that the launch was postponed as both Samsung and Google need more time to work on Android 4…

The world of business has changed enormously. It is not what it used to be 10 years ago and earlier. It just isn’t. What are the driving factors of this change? Or, should we ask, what IS the driving factor of this change? It is one simple world. But it can mean almost a million things. And, it starts with T. No points for guessing, we’re talking about technology. Technology has changed the face of the business world. Trends catch-on in seconds, and last for a few weeks. Customers have never been so connected, or so fickle…

Access to Amazon Instant Video’s streaming library has been a nice perk to signing up for Amazon Prime. But the service was never particularly useful to many customers who like to sit back on their couch and watch stuff on TV rather than stare at a computer screen. Now Amazon has cut a deal with the PS3 that draws it closer to competitors Netflix and Hulu Plus, which both stream on the Wii and Xbox 360 in addition to Sony’s console.

According to PlayStation Blog, Amazon offers 120,000 movies and TV shows for rental or purchase…

It is possible – if not highly probable – that Apple will at some point within the next two years, gain entry into a very exclusive club in the corporate world. Just how exclusive are we talking? If Apple gets in, there will be only one member.
According to the latest industry projections from Piper Jaffray’s resident Apple watcher, Gene Munster, if shares of Apple surpass $1,000 by 2014 – something a growing number of analysts expect – the Cupertino, California-based tech giant will become the first company in the history of the world to attain a market capitalization of one trillion dollars…

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MidnightBox: [Camera Accessories] Deluxe Table Top Photo Studio for $27 + $4 s&hRadioShack: [Laptops] Refurb HP Pavilion g7 Core i3 Dual 2…