Archive: July 2007

July 31, 2007

The Partners of Your Local Consultant Should Be Your Partners

Your local solution provider is a powerful source of expertise about how to best implement technology in your business....

July 30, 2007

Keep Your Eye On WiMax: Sprint and Google Are.

Sprint projects that by the end of this year it will be running test WiMax services in Chicago, Baltimore...

July 30, 2007

Selling Online: Expanding To New Markets

With a robust online retail operation you probably have little reason to consider the physical, geographic market of where you...

July 28, 2007

Steganos: When Secure Mobility is a Must

There are MANY security solutions for business professionals who are in the office all day and for those who...

July 27, 2007

The Concierge Report: Shopping for Technology

I'm pleased to welcome Serge Lescouarnec, owner of New Jersey Concierges as a writer for Smallbiztechnology.com. Serge's expertise is...

July 27, 2007

Microsoft's Evolving Online Ecosystem vs Google's Hosted App Bullet Train

If there's one company that can indeed build and facilitate an ecosystem of services online it's Microsoft. Many companies have...

July 27, 2007

Things I Love...Plaxo, Firefox, Feedblitz, Feedburner - (and lessons learned about $ and free tools)

Plaxo. Firefox. Blogger.com. Feedblitz, Feedburner I've recently started using Plaxo. I use it for one reason...it seamlessly synchronizes between...

July 26, 2007

Old School Hardware Upgrade Still Work

For many businesses, the hardware of the computer is more and more ignored. This is primarily because hardware is cheaper....

July 24, 2007

The Creator of QuickBooks Launches NetBooks

Ridgely Evers is not your typical CEO of a startup company. What's the difference? Well besides being a programmer and...

July 24, 2007

Sales Compensation Management: Xactly

From time to time I'll receive information from a company and really not understand what the subject is about. I...

July 24, 2007

Why More Shoppers Aren't Buying Online Faster?

In April I introduced you to Scan Alert, a company that provides online security analysis and authentication to web sites....

July 23, 2007

An In-depth Overview Of Digital Security: Interview with Symantec's Dean Turner

Do you remember when all you need was to make sure every one of your computers had a copy of...

July 23, 2007

Video Editing Outsourced and Online - Studionow.com

It's relatively easy to shoot video for your business. Maybe you have video of a corporate picnic or something...

July 22, 2007

What If Your Business Was Caught in a Steam Explosion or Some Other Disaster?

Last Wednesday as I was walking in mid-town Manhattan, I wondered why there were more people than normal in...

July 21, 2007

IBM's Partners and You: Changes Inside IBM Make Partner Selling Better

IBM's core strategy of reaching out to small businesses has been through its partners. Recently IBM reconfigured its entire...

July 20, 2007

CRN: Microsoft's Small Business VoIP Fails To Impress

Computer Reseller News writes the following about Microsoft's new telephone system for small businesses: However, after getting first hand look...

July 20, 2007

Dell's Managed Services Strategy

My friend Evan Stein, owner of CMIT Solutions in NYC wrote this recently on his blog, about managed services: You...

July 20, 2007

Technology PR Blog and Social Media Is For Small Businesses

For those of you who want to reach media that write about technology, there's on blog/podcast you have to read...

July 18, 2007

Calling All Partners: Microsoft Office Live

Microsoft's Office Live is Microsoft's Gateway into providing small businesses with hosted applications that compliment Microsoft Office. This is...

July 17, 2007

Microsoft Partner Conference: What Went On?

Annual partner conferences are a great time for vendors, partners and customers. At these love fests, technology vendors launch new...

July 17, 2007

Blow Up Your PDF Experience with DocuDesk

I'm sure you've been receiving and reading PDF's long before you started creating them. But I'd guess at some...

July 17, 2007

Google Small Business Search - Now It's Hosted

Google offers 2 types of web site search options. You can buy it's web site search appliance, starting at about...

July 17, 2007

Sun Rocket's Dead: Why It Pays to Choose Your Vendors Carefully

I've crossed paths with Sun Rocket from time to time at PR events. The telephone company selling prepaid phone...

July 16, 2007

Second Life, Twitter - Fact or Fiction

I heard s podcast today, from Podtech.net about Second Life. It was an interview of the co-founder, Cory Ondrejka. Cory...

July 16, 2007

Reminder: New Blog from Smallbiztechnology.com

Often times I come across nice tidbits of information that I don't want to post on Smallbiztechnology.com. On Smallbiztechnology.com I...

July 15, 2007

Windows Live OneCare: Don't Go On Price Alone

How much is your security worth? How much is it worth for you to have your network shut down due...

July 14, 2007

Are You Ready to Upgrade to CRM? (from Microsoft)

The most basic of Customer Relationship Management solutions for any business is probably an email newsletter. Constant Contact is the...

July 12, 2007

UPS - Getting the Edge in Business: Technology's ONE of the Keys

When you work in an industry wherein everyone's at pretty much the same level - you need every edge...

July 12, 2007

Microsoft Office as a Hosted Application...

Microsoft Office is offered as a hosted application right now through the implementation of virtual desktops that some companies are...

July 12, 2007

Google's Acquisition of Postini and Why It's Important to YOUR Business

For those of you who have been siting on the sidelines and thinking that Google's hosted application business was a...

July 11, 2007

Measuring Your Web Site Traffic

Knowing the metrics of your web site is important. But metrics alone are not enough if you don't know WHICH...

July 10, 2007

FileMaker Pro 9: Blending the Web & Desktop Database

For "enlightened" businesses, databases are the smart way to keep data organized. Many small businesses still use spreadsheets as their...

July 10, 2007

The Future of Small Business IT: Is Your Business In the Future?

I'm not a huge fan of studies that can predict that future, but I do respect those who try. Their...

July 10, 2007

Dell Launches New Product Line for Small Businesses: Vostro

Today, Dell is launching a new set of products and services specifically for the small business market. The name of...

July 9, 2007

Adding a Human Face to Your Web Site and other nice touches...

Maybe you've seen the avatars (talking characters) on web sites (how do you like mine) and wondered if these...

July 9, 2007

Can Non Tech Companies Do MORE with Technology

Technology companies are expected to use technology to its fullest extent and use it in all sorts of great ways....

July 5, 2007

Entrepreneur and Caffeine Marketing Jolt: Win an Online Marketing Makeover

Contests are a pain for everyone but the person(s) who wins. You do so much work and hope to win...

July 5, 2007

Methods to Move Beyond Email Roadblocks and Improve the User Experience

As you are looking to expand your use of email marketing, it is VERY important that you streamline the strategics...

July 5, 2007

Moving to Feedblitz from Constant Contact: Why I did it?

For years, I've sent my newsletter Small Business Technology Report to now almost 3,000 subscribers via Constant Contat. Constant Contact's...

July 5, 2007

Negatives and Benefits of Email

Email is indeed a wonderful tool, but the problem is that we get so much information via email its time...

July 5, 2007

Why Your Network is Now More Important than Ever

It seems like only a few years ago, when "network" meant your servers, computers, data, software and users access controls....

July 4, 2007

Robert Scoble Contributes To Fast Company Magazine

One of my favorite people in the world, Robert Scoble, has started doing vlogging for Fast Company. Fast Company writes...

July 3, 2007

When Minimal Technology is Required

Sometimes we forget how advanced technology is - the hardware we use and the software that runs it. Of course...

July 1, 2007

Messiest Desk Contest

Is your desk a messy tangle of wires and cables? Recognizing that the plethora of computers, speakers, printers and other...

July 1, 2007

Polite Mail: 1to1 Email Marketing for Microsoft Outlook

What is Polite Mail? By: Serge Lescouarnec, NJ Concierges and blog at sergetheconcierge.com Under the tag line of '1 to...

July 1, 2007

Digital Focus 2008: Where the HOT Companies Strut their HOT Technology

I made my annual ritual to Digital Focus 2008, by PR firm Pepcom. As usual, the exhibits were very good....