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6 Ways to Get Paid as a Freelance Consultant

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According to a recent survey, it is believed that freelancing will outnumber traditional employment by the year 2027. This requires a wireless credit card terminal and software for credit card processing or a merchant account. These days, more and more people are turning to freelancing or consulting for professional purposes.

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Apple Debuts iBeacon Location Technology in U.S. Stores

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Transmission through Bluetooth wireless technology gives your phone precise information about where you are in the store, while GPS transmitters don’t work well indoors and don’t distinguish well between locations only a few feet apart. How is iBeacon different than using GPS for geo-location?

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Social Media Sites Rank Lowest For Customer Satisfaction

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Are you surprised that social media websites ranked so low among the industries surveyed? Wireless Telephone Service 77. Hotels also show a disparity, ranked at 84 for website satisfaction but only at 77 for overall customer satisfaction. Health & Personal Care Stores 79. Personal Computers 79. Supermarkets 79. Internet Retail 78.

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An Internet Search is the New First Impression

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Locals call it the “coconut wireless” The Internet has boosted this “coconut wireless” to the extreme. In 2009, CareerBuilder.com published the results of a survey: 47% of human resource professionals in the USA use Google to search for the names of their job applicants. The New First Impression.

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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

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250+ million Americans carry mobile phones—over 80% of the nation’s population (Source: CTIA Wireless Association). Four out of five teens carry a wireless device; the majority (57%) view their cell phone as the key to their social life (Source: CTIA survey, Teenagers: A Generation Unplugged). (Source: CTIA.org). 91% of all U.S.

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How Appification Is Transforming The Internet

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In 2013, just 7 percent of companies had implemented a mobile app strategy, and 51 percent of companies had no plans to develop one, a FeedHenry survey found. To support this, smartphone manufacturers and network providers will continue to accelerate the speed of wireless connections. Apps have taken over the internet in recent years.

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Tracking, Personalization And Screams Of Privacy

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According to the Business Insider article: "Nomi's team gives retailers a snippet of code that lets wireless routers listen for nearby smart phone signals. The wireless routers can detect unique Media Access Control (MAC) codes from smart phones and then collect non-invasive data about customers in real-time. on the weekends, 12.4%

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