If you’re in business, then you know that your customers are the ones that keep you in business. How can you build your business then? 1. Before your paying customer walks out the door, ask them if they’d like to be added to your database. 2. When someone visits your website, offer them a free [...]
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Databases, information systems, and your business.
June 6th, 2010 by Bradley Thomas Call me odd, but I love databases. Installing them, creating tables in them, adding data to them, querying that data using SQL, creating reports etc. Heaven on a stick – I must be sick. So, what’s the difference between a database and an information system, and how can they help you? A “database” (an all [...]
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Totally – an inside look at how it works
June 6th, 2010 by Bradley Thomas First up, let me state something: this is going to be a long post! And secondly: I have absolutely no doubt that database administrators (DBA’s) are worth their weight in gold. If you have a mega-large project, with as many tables as say a standard installation of SAP, or PeopleSoft has (ie: 16,500 tables), then I [...]
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Relational databases, key/value stores, graph databases….
June 6th, 2010 by Bradley Thomas Just watched a great interview with Emil Eifrem from neo4j.org And this is where it gets really exciting…. Imagine a world where one data storage mechanism allows you to connect all your seemingly random data into one cohesive whole, and be able to query it later. This is something I’ve been working on for a [...]
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Facebook and OpenGraph
April 22nd, 2010 by Bradley Thomas Huge announcement yesterday by Facebook. http://ow.ly/1BAEM This is all OK as long as you use FaceBook as your primary platform to connect with whoever does business with your business (and with FB Ad’s, you have another advertising stream certainly) And this is all good as long as you know what Facebook is, and how you [...]
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How customer purchase data can make you rich
April 15th, 2010 by Bradley Thomas Data. Data. Data. No, not the character from Star Trek. I mean, raw sequences of computer ones and zeros that represent real world things. First names, last names, street addresses, phone numbers, current balance, arrears, sales this quarter, date paid to, last sale date, credit balance, birthday, anniversary….. you name it. Data is out there [...]
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A "case study" for you to follow
March 31st, 2010 by Bradley Thomas I have decided to use this website as a “case study” to show you, in real time (or over time – LOL) how much what I have to say (and how much I implement what I learn from others) actually turns into dollars. This is going to be an eye-opening journey – you’ll learn from [...]
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Getting Data From Other Systems – Quickbooks
January 22nd, 2010 by Bradley Thomas Hi gang It was suggested to me (thanks Jake!) that I should show you just what I do, and perhaps you can see how you might benefit from what I can build for you. Here’s a short video I did that shows how to ask Quickbooks for a list of customers – not completely useful [...]
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How to take the afternoon off
December 30th, 2009 by Bradley Thomas You probably get sales letters like these all the time. You know, lots of paragraphs like “TransX Inc. will be recognised as the most progressive enterprise in the transportation business. We will offer our customers cost effective transportation service within geographical areas and market segments …” Couldn’t they just have said: “We ship your stuff [...]
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Microsoft Office Integration
November 9th, 2009 by Bradley Thomas How Totally integrates with Microsoft Office. I decided to tackle this one first, because I believe it shows the power and flexibility of Totally when it comes to working with information. We all know the drama (unless you’re very, very fastidious, or you already have a system of storing documents on your hard disk!) of [...]
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