Archive: June 2007

June 28, 2007

Salesforce.com - Assuming Customer Service is Great. How Dangerous

Many people use spreadsheets to keep track of their data. It's better than nothing - but it's quite a manual...

June 28, 2007

CDW Joins the Social Media Fray

Let's just confess - most of the web sites we go to, are about one way transactions. YOU read what...

June 28, 2007

Plaxo 3.0 is On Fire

For my contact/calendar information I use Microsoft Outlook, synced to my Dell Axim. I'm going to replace my Axim with...

June 28, 2007

Finding a New Retail Location? Stop Guessing

If you own a retail store, and or looking to expand to another area, how do you know where...

June 28, 2007

Virtual Phone System Market Heats Up with Virtual PBX Acquisition

Last week Tech Crunch and other sites announced that Google was going to acquire Grand Central, a "one number" telephone...

June 27, 2007

Share Your Files Even When Your Computer is Off

Avvenu's Access n' Share helps you remotely share files on a computer and make it accessible via your cell phone,...

June 26, 2007

Vertical Response Digs Deeper with its Recent Upgrade

by Stephanie Cockerl of NextSteph Businesses want to know if their e-mail campaigns are really working. The amount of e-mails...

June 26, 2007

Google Apps Gets more Features

Google Apps is Google's hosted service providing companies with a privately branded collaboration, email and document sharing service. It competes...

June 25, 2007

Microsoft's Startup Center: Information For Your Business

When you're staring a business, and if you are not a seasoned entrepreneur, you're not sure what to do first...

June 24, 2007

Avanquest's Latest Web Site Software: Web Easy Professional 7

Software developer and vendor Avanquest recently released the latest version of its web site creation software, Web Easy Professional. In...

June 24, 2007

New Launch: Small Business Tech Links

Hi Everyone, I'm excited to announced that I've launched a new 'blog' - Small Business Technology Links. What is it?...

June 22, 2007

IT Analyst: "IT Vendors still don't get SMB IT"

eChannel Line writes Large IT vendors do not have a complete handle on the small and medium sized market, according...

June 22, 2007

Online Sales Slowdown: Is Your Web Site Lazy? Do You Love Losing Money?

Web sites are one of the most important technology tools your business can have. If the web site you have...

June 22, 2007

The Importance of Training Your IT Staff

For larger businesses they expect their IT staff to have various certifications and years of industry experience. However, in smaller...

June 22, 2007

Get Your Photo as an Avatar

If you haven't yet check out Sitepal, you're missing a treat and the opportunity to add life to your web...

June 21, 2007

See Where & When Your Cusotmers "Touch" Your Web Site

The nice thing about web analytics tools is that many are free and they give basic information such as...

June 21, 2007

Printing: The Printer You Use Is How You Look & How Your Work

Someone was recently telling me about their experience in printing with various printers. One printer, a very fast printer/copier (color)...

June 20, 2007

Get an iPhone From World Extend: Remote File & Application Access

World Extend's SecureIDA is a free VPN and remote access service, launched in April of this year. I covered it...

June 20, 2007

Send Emails By Speaking: Not Typing

Wouldn't it be nice if while you were walking to the next appointment after a full day of yet...more...

June 19, 2007

Why Small Businesses Aren't Leaving Microsoft Office in Droves

Think Free sells a web based suite of applications similar to that offered by Microsoft Office. Although the use of...

June 19, 2007

Do You Know What A Femtocell Is?

Some times we get caught up in the "usual" technology of technology that we don't take the time to think...

June 19, 2007

Why Newsletters (Good Ones) Are Like Good Blogs

Before the buzz of blogs rose to a frenzy, email newsletters were all the rage. Of course they are still...

June 19, 2007

Should You Buy a Mac for Your Business?

Chris Shipley, producer of Demo joins the chorus of people lamenting their experience in using Windows Vista. As I...

June 19, 2007

Email Marketing: Benefits of Outsourcing Your Email Newsletter

Over 100,000 of you use Constant Contact's email service. More of you use some other email service (like Cooler Mail...

June 18, 2007

Inside Secrets from a Dell Executive (Really)

When you walk into a store, or eat at a local restaurant, do you ever wonder if you're getting a...

June 15, 2007

Following Intuit's Lead on...Linux (yeah you read right)

Close your eyes for a minute. Think about Linux. What comes to mind? Low cost servers? Geeks? Close your eyes...

June 15, 2007

Early Adopters Want Wi-Fi Cell Phones

Most cell phones purchased today are traditional cellular network only cell phones. However, early adopter technology users want their next...

June 14, 2007

Feedblitz Launches Newsletter Edition: Challenge to Constant Contact

It's simply impossible to write about email marketing and e-newsletter creation, without writing about Constant Contact. It has over 100,000...

June 14, 2007

vFlyer: Making Pictures Worth Millions of Words

vflyer enables you to create classified advertisements once and run them on several classified services such as Craig's list, eBay...

June 14, 2007

The Phone System is Dead: Could 600 businesses be wrong?

Since 2000, M5 Networks has been telling as many people as it can that the phone system, as they know...

June 14, 2007

Peachtree 2008 Is Available

Peachtree by Sage 2008 is now shipping. One of the newest features in this release is the ability for Peachtree...

June 14, 2007

Computer Brand Explosion: Be A Smart Shopper

Velocity Micro recently issued a press release that their computers would start to be sold in Circuit City stores. I'm...

June 14, 2007

What Are Empoloyees Doing On Your Network?

During company time, you want your employees to work for the company right? However, if they are monitoring their eBay...

June 14, 2007

Keeping Your Files in Synchronization Across Multiple Computers

If you use multiple computers or share files amongst a team, one challenge is being able to easily share files...

June 14, 2007

Adobe: Moving Online Software to the PC

Don't worry, I'm not turning smallbiztechnology.com into Slashdot or some geek site. However, I it is absolutely critical that you...

June 13, 2007

Newegg.com launches EggXpert.com - for Geeks.

If you are a real, true geek and you just love any opportunity to talk about technology, ask questions...

June 13, 2007

Constant Contact: More than Email Marketing - Surveys too!

Constant Contact is by far the leading email marketing service for small businesses. It's simple to use, economical and feature...

June 12, 2007

What Stripping Linoleum Can Teach You About Technology

This past Saturday I began a task I thought would be relatively easy - stripping linoleum from my kitchen floor...

June 11, 2007

Your Online Image: It Sticks Forever

Keep this in mind: anything you do online is online for the world to see forever. I'm sure there are...

June 11, 2007

The Next Wave of Software: Hosted or PC Based

There's two primary views of where the future of software is headed. One view, is that software will be anchored...

June 8, 2007

Linksys Launches New Small Business Focused Products

Networking, unless you're a geek - small business owner is probably something your IT consultant (or staff member) takes care...

June 8, 2007

SAP & Oracle: Battling For Your Business

I hesitated to re-hash this issue, but think it's important to do so. For years, in the 1980's and 1990's...

June 7, 2007

Learning from NASCAR Racer Robby Gordon: Why Technology Is Critical

If you're like one of the other millions of Americans in this great country you LOVE watching car races. If...

June 7, 2007

Scanners: The Bread and Butter of Some Businesses

Scanners. Hmm. They're not hot technology devices like the buzz words of web 2.0 and VOIP are, but scanners...

June 7, 2007

2GB Flash Drive + Internet Security from CA

Flash drives and security are not unique, but CA has a nice bundle combining a pair of flash drives with...

June 6, 2007

Jaxtr: Encourage Phone Calls from the Web

There's many times when your customers are browsing your web site and want to pick up the phone to call...

June 6, 2007

Microsoft Office Live: Web Site: Do It Yourself or Do It "for ME"

Hundreds of thousands of small business customers are using Microsoft's Office Live to do business online. Office Live has an...

June 6, 2007

Pure Networks: Network Magic Makes Networking Easy

For the geeks amongst us, putting together a network and related aspects of a network, such as printer sharing and...

June 5, 2007

Buying Your Phone System from Staples

Are you about ready to throw out your phone system? Are you tired of calling an expensive technician everytime you...

June 4, 2007

Google Gears: Why It's Important To You - Offline Web Browsers

When you are not connected to the Internet your web browser is no good, unless your running an application that's...