Technology

Converting website visitors to customers

| By Sarah
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This is a guest post by Shabana Shiliwala, who owns The Financial Sort, a financial planning company based in Austin, Texas.

Something about reading online shortens our attention spans. When was the last time you actually waited for a slow homepage to finish loading? If it takes longer than 30 seconds to find the information you’re looking for on a website, do you keep looking or go back to the Google search results to consult a different site (of which there are an infinite number)? It seems there’s an inverse relationship here–the more information is available to us, the less patience we have.

What does that mean for you as a business owner? You’ve got 30 seconds or less to convert visitors to your company website into customers.…


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The Next Phase in the Evolution of Office Suites

| By Raju Vegesna
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This week, Microsoft is launching the latest version of its Office suite. These 3 year release cycles seem alien to us given that our apps are typically updated at least once a month. In case you are considering upgrading to Office 2010, you might want to give online alternatives a try. Our friends at Google listed several reasons not to upgrade to Office 2010 .

As Microsoft evolves its Office suite and moves online (finally), we see a new phase in the evolution of Office suites – Componentization. For the past five years, we have seen Office suites evolve from desktop application suites to online application suites, and Zoho has been at the forefront of this transformation. Now, we are leading the way again in taking the office suites to the next phase of its evolution.

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Daniel Brusilovsky interviews Ian Wenig

| By Arvind
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Ian Wenig, Senior Director Strategic Alliances at Zoho got interviewed by Daniel Brusilovsky at the Structure 08 event presented by GigaOm. The interview is now up at Daniel’s Apple Universe podcasting site.

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Thanks to Daniel.

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Zoho @ DEMO 2007

| By Raju Vegesna
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We are happy to announce that we have been selected to unveil our new product at DEMO 07: a pinnacle event with the unparalleled reputation of identifying the best-of-the-best and the real trends-in-the-making.

DEMO 07 • FIRST
The Launchpad for Emerging Technologies
January 30-February 1, 2007
Desert Springs, A JW Marriott Resort & Spa, Palm Desert, CA

We hope you’ll join us as we launch our latest product for the very first time. If you are not registered yet, you can do that @ www.demo.com/D7promokit (special offer with $600 off)

What is Zoho announcing @ DEMO 07? Well, you’ll have to wait till Jan 30th.

If you are attending DEMO, please drop me a line. I’d love to chat with you during the conference.

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At the SDN Day, Bangalore

| By Arvind
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Thanks to Craig Cmehil‘s invite for the SDN day, Hyther & me are here at the SAP campus in Whitefield, Bangalore.

It was a revelation of sorts of how big a community SDN is! Thanks to Bangalore’s traffic woes, we started a bit late and Craig had a micro intro. Mark Yolton, VP of SDN/BPX, gave the initial presentation titled “What have we been up to (together) this year”.

The SDN team is 35 strong and some of them were present – Mark, Craig, Marilyn, Marco (the only Dutchman was the joke), Uri, Anil, Anand and others. The invitees included SAP employees, partners (all the developers whose life revolve around SAP) and a couple of customers. Craig & team had done a pretty good job and the mix was perfect.

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Zoho at the Web 2.0 Conference

| By Arvind
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Raju Vegesna, Evangelist, Zoho will be speaking at this year’s Web 2.0 Conference in the session titled ‘SMBx: The Revolution of the SMB Application Marketplace“. Moderated by Tony Perkins, Creator & Editor in chief, AlwaysOn, other speakers of the session include Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch, Dave Ferguson, Engineering Director, Google and Richard McAniff, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Office.

Thanks to Danny Kolke of Etelos which provides hosting of custom web applications, for the invite.

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Podcast interviews with Sridhar & Raju

| By Arvind
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A few days earlier, Kiruba Shankar interviewed our CEO, Sridhar Vembu. The podcast is up now, click here for accessing it. Lots of insight into services vs products companies in India, venture funding in India now as compared to way back in 1996, how Zoho’s gonna take on Google/Microsoft, desktop vs online security, how blogs have helped spread the word on Zoho etc.

In another interview, Allen Stern at CenterNetworks met up with Raju Vegesna, Zoho Evangelist. The interview concentrates on Zoho’s background & technology behind it, comparison with Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Microsoft Office, the future of office products, Zoho’s clients etc. The podcast can be downloaded from here.

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