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Ask HN: Any integrated e-commerce, CRM and help desk solution out there?

We are going to setup an online shop soon for our products (Actual, physical products). In order to assist our customers better, we need to setup a help-desk solution, which should have an integrated discussion forum and a file download area as well. Also, we would like to use a CRM to manage all our customer relationships, leads, campaigns, etc.Looking at the available software (free or...

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1- Get excited. 2- Create account. 3- Provide alternate e-mail address for security during signup 4- Login to the site. 5- See that outlook.com found out your facebook profile picture using your alternate e-mail address and started using it in outlook.com 6- Get turned off immediately. 7- Close browser, to never ever login to outlook.com, ever again
Re:What I Learned From Increasing My Prices on Friday July 27, 2012 @12:23PM (#4302131)
Honest question: Is sending an e-mail just to show a sample somehow more efficient? Why not just provide a link to the sample? I tried 6 times to get an e-mail sent and finally got one on the last try. Almost gave up.

Edit: No, I still don't have an e-mail and no information as to where I can find a sample

Ask HN: Website management for non-web startups

I know quite a lot of people here are working on products where the company/product web site is of crucial importance. Often, the web site is the product.But there are some of us who are trying to bring up non-web businesses. Our core business is embedded systems development. Our web page, although important, is not our core business. So we would like to spend minimal resources for...

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Re:How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system on Monday January 30, 2012 @08:51AM (#3528737)
... and on a -somewhat- related note: Does anyone here recommend 'premium' e-mail hosting, such as Rackspace E-mail? (http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email/). What are the benefits of such services? I am trying to understand the benefits of these premium e-mail services to a postfix on a self-managed VPS.