Mandy Aguilar, Author at Counterman Magazine - Page 2 of 5
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I Use WhatsApp To Conduct Business

Texters will do anything to save money on their monthly cellular bills, and WhatsApp has become so ubiquitous that many are actually snipping SMS service altogether.

The Internet Has Turned Me Into A Chatterbox

“An online chatting fanatic, that is (although some of my friends will say I’ve always talked my behind off in the real world). What I mean is that I use online chatting a lot, and not just one platform,” writes Mandy Aguilar.

Sensor Not Included

Counterman’s Counter Professional of the Year stuns a crowd with product knowledge that shows that power of the aftermarket.   I recently returned from Industry Week in Las Vegas, ready to share all the new technology on display at AAPEX. But, my dear readers, we are going to hold back on that column until next

Fan-tastical Tech

The 2013 World Series has made me realize something I suspected all along: The Internet is about people. What good is a blog without people who read it?   My beloved Red Sox are back in the show! After being dead-last in the 2012 baseball season, the Boston Red Sox climbed out of the American

Get Involved In A MOOC

The Internet has changed many traditional businesses, and several Internet startups are now taking aim at disrupting one of the oldest models in our business establishments: higher education (and their timing could not be better)! Twenty-eight years after my final college class in Boston, I went back to school for 12 weeks this spring; but

Tabs, Not Apps, To Sell More Auto Parts

The ability to open multiple tabs in a browser allows users to multi-task at levels never seen before on our counters.   Hold my hand dear readers, we are about to enter the utilitarian world of tabs. That’s right, instead of apps I figured it’s time we talked about tabs. Tabs, a rather boring four-letter

Is It The End Of Retail? (As We Know It?)

Mixing some of what we have learned online with the efforts from our fantastic team of peers who formulate our company’s ecommerce strategy, we have created a rewarding experience for thousands of customers who support our ecommerce platform.

Happy Birthday Gmail

Just nine years ago there was no Gmail? It’s hard to believe, as they are so present in our daily tech routines today.

I’m Lost. Show Me The Waze

Waze users automatically report their driving speed using the phone’s GPS triangulation features, and if they hit a slowdown, they simply click on a variety of alert buttons, instantly transmitting the traffic alert to all other users not yet snarled in the traffic jam.

DTFM: Deliver This For Me

In a radical plan, Walmart will ask some of its customers to sign up to deliver online orders in exchange for discounts on the stuff they came to the store to buy; customers will drop the online orders off on their way back to their homes.

Apps Like Wunderlist, Any.do Make Multitasking Just A Little Easier

Our computers multitask, our phones multitask, and so, just to keep up with the pace of the tech world today, we better become multitasking super humans.

Welcome Competitors, We Are Open For Business

There are those who stick to a generational hand-me-down mantra of not even talking to competitors, not ever, because it will mystically emasculate their business.