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SQL Server 2008 Support Ends
7/30/2014
Despite What Your Parents Told You, Techy Entertainment Won't Rot Your Brain
7/21/2014
Games like Minecraft have shattered the reputation of tech-minded games as idle entertainment. They're quite the opposite now: education tools that can reach tough-to-reach kids.
Ecommerce Shipping Requires as Much Attention as What's Being Sold
6/2/2014
Shipping costs, the No. 1 reason for abandoned carts, make and break sales. Ecommerce software needs to provide sellers complete control. The best shipping software has these 5 major hallmarks.
5 Security Steps Every Software Maker Needs to Take
4/30/2014
Paranoia doesn’t pay off in the frenzy to change passwords after a crisis emerges. It pays off in cultivating the constant vigilance that averts the crisis.
Essent Customers Safe from “Heartbleed Bug”
4/9/2014
Smell-to-Sell Promotional Products Can In-scent-ivize
3/25/2014
New bacon-scented products are bringing fragrances where fragrances usually haven’t gone before, a growing opportunity for promotional products.
Essent Showcasing Promotional Products Software at 2014 PPAI Expo East
3/4/2014
Essent strives for "well-formed orders” -- sales and purchase orders that are free from the time- and money-sapping errors all too prevalent throughout the industry.
Essent sponsoring the PPAI 2014 North American Leadership Conference
3/3/2014
The opportunity to hear from and speak with industry leaders will help us continue to create promotional products software that solves the most pressing needs of those who shape the industry.
5 Reasons We Love PPAI Expo East
3/3/2014
From knowing that winter is over to sharing the excitement of everyone's new initiatives, there are plenty of reasons to love PPAI Expo East.
Weather Whatever Weather Brings
2/25/2014
Closing your business in this day and age for some snow just doesn’t make business sense.
Sun Setting on Windows XP, Making it a Liability
2/11/2014
What Makes a Product Configurator Essential for Promotional Product Software
2/10/2014
With volume, variety, and customization inseparable from the aims of the industry, it’s critical for promotional products ecommerce software to let buyers, piece by piece, see what they’re getting.
A Promotional Product Predicted All This Bad Weather We’re Having
2/10/2014
Predicting six months in advance, the Farmers' Almanac, a promotional product dating to 1818, even came uncannily close to nailing its Super Bowl weather prediction.
Essent Order Trax Customers Clean Up at PPAI Expo Awards
2/3/2014
Eleven Essent OrderTrax customers took home a combined 18 awards from the 2014 PPAI Expo in Las Vegas with a boost from the promotional products industry-standard electronic data interchange.
How to Handle Boring Business Tasks? Get Rid of Them
1/27/2014