Progressive Practices: Marshall & Co
July 28th, 2010 admin
Topics: AccManPro, business, business plan, facebook, innovation, kashflow, linkedin, online communities, social network, twitter

AccountingWeb has an intriguing contest going on to discover the most progressive firm in the UK . It’s intriguing at multiple levels. The firms get to pitch yet with one exception have provided no links to their site The pitches vary widely but are mostly generic as Mark Lee would put it They are all tiny firms – what happened there? They are invited to answer questions on the website …
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Very interesting post. Keep us posting dude !!