September 1, 2018
9 GitHub Alternatives for Source Code and Version Control
According to a 2016 GitLab survey, 98 percent of developers use open source tools, and 92 percent of developers prefer Git as their version control language. Despite the...
Tamara Scott
Tamara Scott is the Research and Content Manager at TechnologyAdvice. She lives and writes in Nashville, TN.
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August 24, 2018
6 Skype Alternatives for Modern Business Conferencing
When I was in high school in the late 90s (we still watched laserdisc videos in some classes, and everyone rushed home from school to sign in to AOL via dial-up modem), I...
August 22, 2018
6 TrueCrypt Alternatives for Reliable Data Encryption
TrueCrypt, a free data encryption tool, was abandoned by its makers in 2014 amidst rumors of security threats. This left users scrambling to find good TrueCrypt alternatives ...
August 15, 2018
Knowledge Management for SMB: How to Retain Expertise During Turnover
Your sales manager gives you her 2-weeks notice. She ran your sales department, helped the whole sales team train on the CRM you implemented last year, brought on some of your...
August 9, 2018
Join the TA BI Team at the Nashville Analytics Summit Aug 20-21, 2018
This marks the 5th year of the Nashville Analytics Summit, created by the Nashville Technology Council. The conference brings together some of the best minds in business data...
August 8, 2018
Comparing This Year’s Best Webinar Software
First introduced in the late 1990’s as a way to present to large dispersed audiences, the webinar has now become one of those marketing tools used by everyone from...
August 1, 2018
13 Best of Breed Collaboration Tools
The modern office is full of collaboration tools, and every article on The Best Collaboration Software is going to give you a similar list that includes general messaging and...
July 25, 2018
Kubernetes vs. Docker: Comparing Containerization Systems
4 min read Updated July 25, 2018. While many of us want to compare Kubernetes vs. Docker, the two systems actually provide closely related but seaparate functions. Both of t...
Wave vs. Quickbooks: Comparing Small Business Accounting Software
The last thing a small business owner needs to learn is how to be a professional bookkeeper on top of all the other small business priorities. To make up for this, small...
July 18, 2018
ConvertKit vs MailChimp: Battle of the Small Business Email Platform
On July 1, 2018, ConvertKit changed their name to Seva. They subsequently changed that name back to ConvertKit. Those changes don’t significantly affect how the email...
July 11, 2018
Customer Segmentation: Methods, Techniques, and Real Examples
Dust off your smarketing personas, because we’re getting back to basics. Well, kinda, because customer segmentation is generally considered an “advanced” marketing...
The 2018 Salesforce State of Sales Report: Major Conclusions
Salesforce has long been a market leader in CRM technology, but they’re also pretty good at research and customer support, both of which fuel their overall popularity with...
May 25, 2018
9 Smartsheet Alternatives to Get You Out of Spreadsheets
Smartsheet is a spreadsheet-based project management tool that teams and individuals can use to organize and track projects. The tool is extensible and flexible, which makes...
May 9, 2018
Redbooth vs. Trello: Which PM software is up to the task?
We use Trello at TechnologyAdvice to organize our marketing team’s workflows, and I use Trello to Agile my household. I really love Trello for its simplicity and its...
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April 26, 2018
GDPR Checklist: How To Prepare for 2018 EU Data Privacy Changes
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25, 2018. There’s been a big buzz about it recently (Google Trends showed a 3000 percent increase...