Archive: March 2007

March 30, 2007

Do You Need A Marketing Plan?

Why do you need to market your business? You need to market your business in order to let customers...

March 30, 2007

Goodies: Google's Free Software Pack Adds More

The word FREE is one of the catchiest words in the English language - that's why so many spammers...

March 30, 2007

Yahoo's Unlimited Storage: What It Does and Does Not Mean to You

Yahoo is now offering unlimited email storage for its customers. This is not for business, but for personal use, Yahoo...

March 29, 2007

HP: Increased Focus on YOU! (Yeah...Small Businesses)

Yesterday, at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art, Hewlett-Packard launched a fresh push to reach small businesses. This renewed and...

March 28, 2007

Unified Communication: An Editorial From Harprit Singh, Innoport

Innoport is a unified messaging company, which provides a virtual PBX, fax, voice mail and find me/follow me service. I...

March 28, 2007

eFax: Ditch the Fax Machine. Empower Your Business

eFax is a company that helps you enhance your communication efficiency. Instead of receiving faxes in a fax machine -...

March 28, 2007

TripSync - Making Travel Arrangements Efficient

Over the past several months, I've done a decent amount of traveling. Nothing as extensive as a someone who...

March 27, 2007

IBM and 3Com Tout Integrated Communications

System i is IBM's answer to the blossoming of PC based servers, like weeds, in a company. Very small businesses,...

March 27, 2007

Best Buy, Buys Speakeasy: Now Selling VOIP and Internet Access

Wow! Best Buy, the mega electronics retailer and owner of Best Buy for Business will now start selling VOIP...

March 27, 2007

Microsoft's New Phone System: What It Means to You and the Small Business Telephone Market

...including guest commentary from Anita Campbell, Small Business Trends Microsoft recently announced a new phone system, specifically geared to smaller...

March 27, 2007

Introducing HTC: Mobile Technology Power House

You're all familiar with Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, LG and other mobile hardware vendors. What about HTC? I've only recently (past...

March 26, 2007

NetGear's Continued Embrace of Resellers

Netgear's been selling networking equipment to the small business market since 1996. Headed by Patrick Lo, Chairman and Chief...

March 26, 2007

Yahoo Launches Web Hosting

Yahoo's Small Business Section has always been pretty good and full of information. It's services, such as web hosting, email...

March 26, 2007

When Technology is Stupid: Twitter for Business? Smart

I'll never forget the advertisement: Several years ago, there was an advertisement for a pager that "talked". I believe...

March 25, 2007

Flickr: Make Your Photos Come to Life

Some people just love shopping for clothes or shoes. Some people can spend all day tinkering with their car....

March 24, 2007

Taking Email Marketing to a New Level

Being able to market to your customers online has so many benefits. It's often much cheaper than traditional mass market...

March 23, 2007

13 Reasons Why You Should Blog

this topic is definitely not knew to many of you. However, for those who are still on the sidelines and...

March 23, 2007

Using the Web to Boost Your Business

Your web site can be much more than a digital brochure for your business. It can be the foundational tool...

March 22, 2007

Getting Tech Help

Wall Street Journal (no subscription needed) has a nice article about tech help available for small businesses. It goes hand...

March 22, 2007

Judging a Web Site Through Dirty Glasses

What's the first thing you do before meeting up with a new business person, considering buying from a vendor...

March 22, 2007

Competing, Using Great Customer Service

There's many things smaller businesses simply can't compete against a large business in. But one thing they CAN compete...

March 22, 2007

HP's Buys Tabblo Inc. to Make Our Printing Better

HP is the leading vendor, overall in printing. It revolutionized the world of business and consumer printing. Laser Jets...

March 22, 2007

What to Do When Your Laptop Gets Soaked?

Have you ever had one of those days when your notebook computer was sitting on the desk just fine and...

March 22, 2007

Remote Support In Action: When You Don't Need A Technician On Site

When your copy machines breaks down, one of the most reassuring things to see is your local copy technician close...

March 21, 2007

Putting Your Computer to Sleep Saves Money

Leaving a single light bulb on, all day long, costs about $80 a year and emits 1,350 pounds of...

March 21, 2007

Is Fear Holding You Back

Nancy Shenker, pr Diva of the OnBlog and owner of PR firm, theONswitch writes that fear of new things...

March 21, 2007

Think Free Handles Large Documents Better

If you use Google Apps or Zoho you've probably found out by now that they don't handle large files to...

March 21, 2007

37 Signals

I've heard of 37 Signals suite of software but never tried it out. I still haven't tried it out, but...

March 20, 2007

VOIP is Exploding: Offered by your local ISP soon

BT has launched, BT IP Voice Managed Service. This service will enable ISPs to offer their own VOIP services -...

March 19, 2007

When Your Web Site "Vanishes" from Search Engines

If you look at your web traffic logs you'll find that most of the traffic comes from search engines....

March 19, 2007

Microsoft is Going Direct. Will Channel Partners Follow?

Microsoft's Office Live offers smaller businesses an easy to use, low cost and feature rich online system for creating...

March 19, 2007

Processor Wars Are Much Over

I can remember shopping for computers over the years and looking at three main things: memory, hard disk space and...

March 19, 2007

Bring Sales and Contact Management to Microsoft Outlook with Prophet

Many businesses (dare I so most) start out managing their business sales and customer relations use Microsoft Outlook by...

March 19, 2007

Two New Phone Services: GrandCentral and GotVoice

If you are someone who wants to (or needs to) use your phone like a Swiss Army knife and squeeze...

March 19, 2007

"I don't use a computer and I'm proud of it"

You might not believe it, but some CEO's think that because they don't use a computer or don't know much...

March 19, 2007

Should Google Buy Intuit?

IT pundit Nicholas Carr, the guy who wrote the famous piece, "IT Doesn't Matter" has an interesting article wondering if...

March 15, 2007

Where Do Your Eyes Go

Only when you look at an eye tracking chart do you really get the feeling of how to MAXIMIZE the...

March 15, 2007

Analog Phone? Want VOIP? Not a Problem with Portico

Maybe you're jealously licking your lips, like a vulture on the side lines, waiting for lions to finish eating,...

March 15, 2007

Capabilities Your Web Designer Absolutely Must Possess

Your web designer could be one of the most important members of your business team - which includes your accountant,...

March 14, 2007

Email Hosting from Verizon Business. Does Brand Matter

Outsourced email hosting is exploding - Bluetie, MI8 (been doing this before there was dirt), Webmail.us, WebOffice, Google, HyperOffice,...

March 14, 2007

What Microsoft Brings to the VOIP Table

Currently (well until a "few minutes" ago) VOIP was the domain of CISCO and other networking companies, dozens of...

March 14, 2007

How can I maximize my sales and marketing with a limited budget?

One of the toughest aspects of running a business is working to keep a steady flow of revenue coming...

March 14, 2007

Wireless Security Primer

When you connect your computer to the Internet via a wireless WiFi "hot" spot, it's not secure. Unless you work...

March 14, 2007

What NetSuite's Deal with Cartridge Can Teach Us

NetSuite recently announced a deal (one of many) with Cartrdige world - sellers of printer cartridges. They also announced a...

March 14, 2007

Lo Fonera - Free Wifi or $2 a Day

The brains of smart people never cease to amaze me. Fon a Spain based company has launched a WiFi...

March 14, 2007

Thinking About Hosted Applications to Run Your Business. It's a tough choice.

hope I'm not boring you to death in writing about hosted applications, but I think it's an important issue. Not...

March 12, 2007

Dashboard for Your Business

Driving west on Route 80 to Ohio recently I periodically looked at my gauges to check up on my...

March 12, 2007

Connecting Your Business, it's NOT the Vendor it's YOU

Microsoft released a press release that reads Microsoft Details Vision for Building a Connected Business. The second I read the...

March 11, 2007

Smallbusiness.com Gets the Social Bug

Smallbusiness.com, run by my friend Rex Hammock (of Hammock Publishing) has upgraded Smallbusiness.com. He writes: We've added some new features...

March 11, 2007

Worksmart.net - Project Management and More Hosted App

There are so many hosted applications that it's not hard, but nearly impossible to mention them all and especially to...

March 11, 2007

Nick Braak's Daylight Saving Time Cheat Sheet

I have the latest version of Windows XP and so I figured that all just fine with my computer....

March 11, 2007

Is Mobile Advertising For You? A New Report Can Help

There's a new report about, about mobile advertising, that you might want to check out. The online advertising market is...

March 11, 2007

Call Butler - Software Based Telephone System with Virtual Flexibility (amended)

Many of the small business focused telephone services I come across are one of two kinds. Hosted applications (such...

March 10, 2007

Dear Mom and Pop: Technology Isn't Just For Big Boys

If you think that because your real small business, "mom and pop" and can afford to NOT embrace technology, your...

March 8, 2007

Switching to QuickBooks Enterprise

Intuit is touting a new push that highlights companies switching from large enterprise packages. The URL is quickbooksenterprise.com/switch. With this...

March 8, 2007

Sotto Wireless - Blending the Cell and WiFi Phone

Your cell phone is a nice tool, however, it costs money to use it. Your office wireless phone (via WiFi)...

March 7, 2007

Studio Dell - Visual Insight from Dell

I've been browsing through Studio Dell's line of online videos and like what I see. The three main categories are...

March 7, 2007

eBook Review: How to Use E-Mail to Skyrocket Your Sales, Without Burning a Hole in Your Pocket

(photo from Worth1000) Email marketing is a VERY, VERY powerful way to market your products or services. Traditional banner...

March 6, 2007

Secure, Encrypted, Trusted Email

For many of us, having secure email is not really that important. But there's also many of you who do...

March 6, 2007

Want Skype? Don't Want To Install It On All Your Computers? Check out VoSKY

I really wish I could write some long oratory about VoSKY Exchange. But it's pretty simple to figure out....

March 6, 2007

ConnectMe Mobile: Bring Your Office With You - Inside Your Smartphone

Having fax, document sharing, voice mail, "virtual PBX" functionality and other features is pretty easy to do with many...

March 5, 2007

Lawyer in a Box for Small Businesses in a Bind

Often times you need some legal documents, have a question or just want to do some research on business...

March 5, 2007

Dropped Cell Calls No More. Get An External Antenna

Having a cell phone is real nice. But if you rely on your cell phone and find that when you...

March 5, 2007

Addiing Search To Your Web Site with Picosearch

I've been using Google's free search service to manage the searches on smallbiztechnology.com, however, one of the disadvantages of...

March 5, 2007

IP PBX - No Reason Why You Can't Have One

If you are still using the Centrix or analog PBX system from your phone company, you're missing out on cost...

March 5, 2007

RFID is Not Just for WalMart: Smaller Businessses Leverage Can Leverage It As Well

There are several large manufacturers and retailers (such as Gilette and Wal-Mart) that are leading the use of RFID to...

March 4, 2007

Turning IT Frustration into Appreciation

When your computers are not working, one of the most frustrating parts of the experience is getting professional help...

March 2, 2007

Microsoft's Hosted Application Strategy - Coexist with Software

Office Live is Microsoft's online servcies crown jewel to help small businesses run their businesses. There's a mature ecosystem...

March 2, 2007

Turnkey Online Video - Going Beyond Text and Banner Ads

Spotrunner's claim to fame was making turnkey television commercials that small businesses could buy, ad their own contact information...

March 2, 2007

Windows Mobile 6.0 - New and Improved

Your mobile computing experience is probably one of the most important aspects of technology in your business. Choices are...

March 2, 2007

What is Net Neutrality?

Scott Wolpow of PublicCTO helps us understand Net Neutrality. The Internet is no longer a "new" means of communicating. It...

March 1, 2007

Salesforce.com 2.0 - What it Means to You

Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff spent the first 8 years of its life building up a strong customer...

March 1, 2007

Is Photography For You and Your Business

Taking pictures at our children's birthdays, weddings, vacations and other occasions is an expected part of life. Pictures (and...