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How to Save
Here’s part of some spam I recently received from an e-procurement software company:
… Many companies are struggling to understand how today’s economic climate will impact spending, jobs and business viability. And if you are a purchasing professional, you are tasked with the additional challenge of cutting costs and saving money throughout the organization.
Popularity: 95%
Bureaucratic Blowback
AKA No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
In our last post, you met Gordy the Buyer. He’s the state government guy who’s saving the State of Minnesota hundreds of thousands of dollars. Gordy’s done this by getting state employees to use simple, inexpensive web technology to buy stuff they need to run Minnesota’s government (technology from Four51, a Minnesota company). Naturally, we thought of Gordy the Buyer as an unsung hero. So did a lot of people who read our blog post.
Popularity: 80%
Green Means Secure
Web site visitors are learning to look for the green address bar in their Web browsers while shopping online. You can also find it in online personal financial management tools like mint.com. Four51 has enabled Extended Validation SSL Certificates to trigger high security browsers such as Internet Explorer 7.0 to prominently display the trusted green address and security bars.
Popularity: 44%
QA (application environment series part 6)
Do you ever wonder if there is a process that is used to ensure quality on Four51? Have you ever experienced any issues on a web site you frequent? Do you ever wonder how a web site performs at such a high level of quality? If you answered “Yes” to any of those questions, the term Quality Assurance should come to mind. Each company assures the quality of their product at some level whether that is just a developer who tests his code, or a person or a team of people who are responsible.
Popularity: 40%
Extra! Extra! Read all about it: Four51 Coupons Coming Soon!
There is excitement brewing in the Four51 Customer base as people anticipate the arrival of Coupon and Gift Card functionality. This functionality will provide a convenient way to offer discounts to buyer users everywhere – both current customers and prospects!
Popularity: 39%
Abusing Customers
Four51 sends a lot of email to its customers. How much is a lot? We analyzed July communications data and found that our most-abused customer is Bob — he got eight bulk messages from us in July, which is roughly one every 2.5 business days. I called him to apologize. The thought of apologizing via email was just too ironic.
Popularity: 38%
