Archive: September 2007

September 30, 2007

Protecting Your Domain Name: Ensuring Ownership Stays With You

How horrific would it be if you went to visit your web site and saw that the content was definitely...

September 30, 2007

Second Life: Still A Fad for Most But a Business Tool for Some

Second Life, the virtual world of avatars where virtual people spend real money is still somewhat of a fad, but...

September 30, 2007

When Phone Calls - Not Clicks Drive Sales

Ingenio, one of a handful of companies with cost-per-call services has teamed up with Network Solutions - a domain name...

September 30, 2007

SAP's Business By Design: New Service for Old Problems (Integrated solutions)

Author - Becky McCray, Small Business Survival (with commentary from Ramon Ray) SAP, known for serving huge corporate customers,...

September 30, 2007

Recycling and/or Disposing of Your Tech Hardware

Article by - Marti Lawrence, Digital Doorway With technology frequently changing the equipment needs of small businesses, you will probably...

September 29, 2007

Taking Care of Your Hard Disk: My Personal Experience

For the past several days, I've been wondering why my computer is not acting quite right. The hard disk is...

September 28, 2007

Conducting A Technology Assessment

An annual technology assessment is one of the best things you can do for your business. You'll find that from...

September 28, 2007

HP Web Printing Software - Every Web Browser Should Have This

Do you ever press the print button when you are browsing web sites? Do you ever wonder why you often...

September 28, 2007

Toshiba's New ToughBook: Tougher Than Ever. Built to Last

Fortunately, I only seriously dropped my notebook one time. I was on the way home and my notebook slipped...

September 27, 2007

Arriving at "Web 2.0": The Gulf Widens, Make Sure You Are On the Right Side

As the chasm of technology separating small businesses widens it will be VERY clear to you which small businesses are...

September 27, 2007

Is Your Online Yellow Page Profile Page Enough (Update)

If you're a local business you probably invest in advertising in the paper yellow pages in your local community and...

September 26, 2007

Your Next Printer: Cheaper Printer or Cheaper Prints

There's a new war for your printing dollar going on, and you should be aware of it. Kodak and Xerox...

September 22, 2007

Updated Resources Section on Smallbiztechnology.com

On Smallbiztechnology.com's Hot Resources section you'll find a compilation of great resources for your business. There's CONTENT (web sites, blogs,...

September 22, 2007

Free Ebook: I Hate My Website!: 10 Easy Ways to Improve Your Website Plus 9 Disastrous Moves to Avoid

Sometimes I wonder if I should keep giving you information on web site building? But then I think about the...

September 22, 2007

Have a Web Site? Need Local Leads? You Need Yodle.

Building a web site is getting easier and easier to do. Between hiring your own web designer or using...

September 21, 2007

Amazon.com UnBox: Awesome Customer Service. Behind Every Click is a Face

Last night I'm heading to the Chinese restaurant to get some food - it was about 7:30pm. I opened...

September 19, 2007

The "Small Business Label": Knowing What Is and Isn't For You?

As I stroll through the aisles of my local grocery store, Pathmark, I see all sorts of labels. Low...

September 19, 2007

Web Applications: Get the Inside Scoop on Web Applications from a Guru

Rafe Needleman has covered tech for years and has recently morphed into covering Web applications. He discussed with Podtech.net about...

September 19, 2007

Yahoo Offers Business Class Email. What This and More Means To You.

Yahoo is the leader in providing free email to consumers. For business, Yahoo has also offered a good mix of...

September 19, 2007

Virtual Trade Shows: Are They For You? Attendee or Exhibitor

I've only attended and/or participated in a few trade shows. And from what I can tell, they are not "trade...

September 19, 2007

Is It Time To Ditch Email for Better Collaboration?

Email is one of, if not the most popular tools for business communication. More than the cell phone, fax...

September 19, 2007

Boosting Indoor Cell Signals With Sprint Airave

Some people are fortunate to have great cell phone coverage no matter where they are in their home or office....

September 19, 2007

ADSL2 - Faster Uploads Than Traditioanl DSL

In order to keep the cost of DSL service low for small businesses, companies offer ADSL service which offers a...

September 19, 2007

New Storage Options from Maxtor: Data Encyrption, More Storage, Data Restoration

I have a Maxtor One Touch III drive with 500GB and it works quite well. Nothing fancy, but it...

September 19, 2007

IBM's Free Office Suite: Lotus Symphony
It's Not About Microsoft vs Others....

IBM's release of free software tools is important because it's IBM. But in the overall context of things, it's not...

September 18, 2007

Managing Your Business With A Database: FilerMaker Gives You Free Tools

One of the frustrations I've always had with using databases in the past is that databases have been powerful tools...

September 17, 2007

Educationg Small Business Educators about Web Site Building

Web sites are still one of the most important tools for small businesses. They are easy to build, cost relatively...

September 17, 2007

Online Marketing: Can You Do It Yourself? Should You Hire A Professional

I don't see many people doing email marketing by putting email address in the "cc" or "bcc" line of their...

September 17, 2007

4Smartphone: Access Email, Calendar & Tasks from PC or Treo (plus other email solutions)

Accessing email on your smartphone is not that difficult if you are using it to access your ISP based...

September 16, 2007

Anytrack: Tracking Your Valuables Almost Like the Movies

I'm sure you've seen the movies where the government, bad buys or someone is tracking someone else or something....

September 16, 2007

Linux: Still Not Ready for Prime Time on the Desktop (Yes on the Network)

It seems like its been forever since I've seen news about Linux. Unfortunately, although its had several years to mature,...

September 14, 2007

Symantec Launches SMB Specialization Program

Certification programs are programs by vendors giving training to their partners in the vendor's products. For example, a solution provider...

September 13, 2007

Agendize: Classified Advertisements Get a Communication Boost

Recently I was looking on Sidewalk.com for a local restaurant. When I found the information I had to copy and...

September 13, 2007

The Car Mechanic's Digital Edge (I'm just dreaming). Investment or Expense

Yesterday my mechanic said he had a web site. From the sound of his phone ringing so often its clear...

September 13, 2007

Microsoft Outlook is Good: Avidian's Prophet Makes it Better

Microsoft Outlook is a very good tool for email and contact management - for basic needs. Of course ACT!,...

September 13, 2007

Tech Divide (Cliff?) - More Small Businesses Are Using the Internet: But Not Enough. I'll Tell You Why

Technology research firm AMI Partners has research which indicates that e-commerce revenues generated by SBs have doubled from $107 billion...

September 12, 2007

Lotus Notes: Should You Consider It?

Many large companies have standardized on Lotus Notes and have used it for years. It's a stable and mature...

September 11, 2007

Building A Web Site for Mobile Devices is Different Than a Traditional One

Building web sites is pretty easy for most small businesses - you can do it yourself through a software program...

September 10, 2007

Is HR Optimiziation On Your Mind? Are Your Employees On Your Mind?

As your business grows from 1 employee to 5 and from 5 - 20 how you manage those employees...

September 10, 2007

CallButler - PC Based PBX Grows Up

There's a lot of solutions when it comes to telephone solutions for your small business. You can outsource your phone...

September 10, 2007

Storage: Is Your Business Exploding In Data Growth? Dell & IBM Have Solutions

I've really never paid much to storage - but I should. For some businesses who are just dealing with basic...

September 10, 2007

Four Steps to Boosting Online Sales

This guest article is by James Glassman, Senior Fellow, of the American Enterprise Institute All businesses thrive by finding...

September 8, 2007

FREE Tech Education: What You're Missing from Tech Vendor's Web Sites

I recently signed on to receive RSS feeds from Dell's StudioDell, Dell's excellent web site showcasing dozens of videos...

September 8, 2007

HP: Enjoy Your Computing Experience. New & Refreshed Products and Services

On Wednesday I attended HP's launch of a new line of computers and other hardware (phone's, PDA's, etc). There were...

September 8, 2007

Don't Use Cost Per Click Services Alone: Get Help from Online Services

If you're an expert in cost per click marketing, directly advertising on Google, Ask, Yahoo, Live or some other service...

September 8, 2007

Caspio ExpressDB Rocks: While Web 2.0 Has the Lime Light, Web Forms are the Rage

Remember those days when you wanted to have a simple, or complex form on your web site. Those days...

September 7, 2007

Verizon FIOS for SOHOs

If you operate your business in a home office, some parts of your business and home life merge - like...

September 7, 2007

Seth Godin: Why Blogs Work But Social Networks Don't

Seth Godin recently did an interview with Selling Power explaining why social networks - as they are today aren't...

September 7, 2007

The iPhone Affect: Are You Afraid to Buy Technology?

iPhone owners paid hundreds of dollars to be the first to buy an iPhone. Only weeks later Apple lowered the...

September 7, 2007

Zoho Launches Business Class Servcies

I'm increasingly leaning on web based applications and find that they are maturing quite nicely. I've been using Google...

September 7, 2007

Rob Frankel: Are Social Networks Failing?

Rob Frankel, is a respected veteran of branding and all things media. He was launching marketing campaigns and things way...

September 5, 2007

James Gaskin: A Lesson In Blogging

Blogging. Sure you've heard about it so much, sit back and watch tech guru James Gaskin speak about it at...

September 4, 2007

Is Your Web Site Mobilized Optimized

I recently purchased a Motorola Q and have started going to more web sites using the Q's browser. Some...

September 4, 2007

Updated: NetBooks: The Operating System of Small Businesses - From the Creator of Quickbooks

[Scroll down for update]One of the difficult things about being a small business is that you're too small to afford...

September 4, 2007

Printers: Giving Konica A Look

For the past months I've been getting press releases from Konica Minolta pitching me on the latest announcements in...

September 4, 2007

WSJ's New StartupJournal.com site: Simply Beautiful

If you've been a frequent reader of the Wall Street Journal's Startupjournal.com you know it's chock full of useful...

September 3, 2007

$10 Million Dolllars "Wasted": Palm's Foleo Is Discontinued

Palm posted on their blog a few hours ago that they are discontinuing the Foleo - their companion device to...

September 3, 2007

Earthlink: Staying With Loyal Customers - Few New Customers

Earthlink is one of the larger ISPs and it's having trouble financing it's growth of new customers. It's spent...

September 3, 2007

Are You Buying Wal-Mart Computer for Your Business? Don't (Side by Side Comparison Table)

If you need a computer for your home - buying the cheapest and most powerful computer your budget allows is...

September 3, 2007

Keep Your Customers Happy (for the Local Tech Consultants Amongst Us)

If you're a local technology consultant you need a lot of perseverance, patience, guts, smarts, connections and great customer...

September 3, 2007

Social Networks: Are You Twittered 2 Insanity or Facebooked out?

Over the past few weeks my participation (if you can call it that) has been increasing on social networks. I'm...