Archive: October 2007

October 31, 2007

Introduction to Four Online Communities: Getting Support from Peers

Author - Becky McCray, Small Business Survival Small business people are helping each other succeed through online communities. Some communities...

October 30, 2007

Do Tech Company Financial Earnings & Outlooks Affect Your Business?

Recently I've read that Lexmark's stock has dropped 7.2% and that senior management at Sage (makers of ACT! amongst other...

October 30, 2007

Marketing Online Is Not A Passive Activity. Put Action Into It

Although marketing online (web sites, email marketing and etc) are important and low cost ways for small businesses to...

October 29, 2007

Dell's Blog: What Small Businesses Can Learn

For some weeks, Jeff Jarvis a tech pundit, had been pretty negative about Dell's customer service, on his blog. In...

October 29, 2007

Why Lenovo ThinkPads Are Still So Good. Inside their Laboratory.

Did you know that a Lenovo's ThinkPad design team purchased two rows of airplane seats for their laboratory so they...

October 29, 2007

Web Marketing in 5 Minutes. It's Not that Difficult

You can't learn all about marketing online in 5 minutes. However, Clickz had an article that will give those...

October 29, 2007

Are You Wasting Technology By Not Thinking Strategically?

I recently read a McKinsey Study that reviewed how larger companies have three ways of looking at IT expenditures:...

October 29, 2007

Learning the Etiquette of Communication in a Digital World

Some people are phone people and I respect them for it. But I'm an email person. If you're a sales...

October 29, 2007

Alternative, from Novell, for Your Small Business Network

In order to operate a network for your small business, you need a central server for sharing files, sharing printers...

October 24, 2007

Sage's PeachTree Adds New Services

Peachtree, by Sage bills itself as a real accounting program as compared to other accounting programs. Recently it's launched two...

October 24, 2007

Small Businesses: Web 2.0 - NO WAY

Ouch. Research firm Bredin Business surveyed a few hundred small businesses and found out that they are resistant to using...

October 24, 2007

Merry Christmas: Small Businesses Will Make it So Via Email Marketing

Email marketing continues to be the most popular form of marketing for small businesses. It's easy to do, low cost...

October 24, 2007

Amazon.com Launches a Business Center for Small Businesses

I'm not sure why it's taken Amazon.com so long to do this, but I'm glad they've done it. They've launched...

October 24, 2007

Small Business Tech Trends with Brent Leary

Last week I was speaking with Atlanta CRM specialist and tech guru Brent Leary. We had a fast, fun...

October 24, 2007

Covad and McAfee Bundle Security Protection Services

Bundling products and services is good for vendors as they get a 2 for one marketing/sales approach and its good...

October 23, 2007

CompUSA Increases Small Business Push

I thought CompUSA was a dying brand? I guess I'm wrong. In a nut shell, CompUSA is focusing on serving...

October 23, 2007

AT & T Remote Vault - Another Online Backup Solution

I'm getting flooded with pitches to cover online backup solutions. There's so many coming in and I'm not sure if...

October 23, 2007

The Mobile Work Force: Small Business Growth

Press Release - The workforce of small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) is becoming more mobile and that trend is shaping...

October 23, 2007

When's the Best Time to Prepare for A Disaster?

Before it happens, said SCORE CEO Ken Yancey on the occasion of an 18 October 2007 workshop, "Plan, Prepare, Recover...

October 22, 2007

D-Link's SecureSpot Security Appliance

I get pinged and pitched quite a bit on various security solutions. I don't cover all the information I...

October 22, 2007

Project Management: It's NOT Just for Large Businesses

I hope you don't think I'm "silly" when you read this, but for some reason I thought "project management"...

October 22, 2007

ID Vault - Store Your Data In a Vault

Hmmm. Right now when I go online, my data is stored in my web browser's memory or I opt...

October 22, 2007

Getting Rid of the PC: Nicholas Carr

Many people were up in arms when Nicholas Carr wrote that "IT doesn't matter". I think in many ways...

October 21, 2007

Your Business, Your Telephone, Your Computer and Microsoft

Currently Microsoft's main ecosystem is the PC operating system - Windows is the operating system for PC's and server, Microsoft...

October 19, 2007

Virtual Phone Systems - Feature Rich and A Boost For Your Business

I was recently listening to a podcast from John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing who was interviewing Siamak Taghaddos, CEO...

October 18, 2007

Product Review: Scanning Business Cards and Documents with Plustek

A few weeks ago I received a big box. If it was Christmas and wrapped in gift wrap I...

October 17, 2007

Unified Communications: Best of Breed or Integrated Solution

Technology research company AMI Partners recently released some research which shows that in regards to unified communications (UC) smaller businesses...

October 17, 2007

GoToBilling.com - PayPal on Steroids. Marketing, CRM, Payments, and more

I recently got an email advising me to check out GoToBilling.com. The email wasn't long but just a short note...

October 16, 2007

Green Data Project: Reducing Power Consumption By Better Data Managerment

Until I read the press release from the Green Data Project, I never thought of using better data management...

October 16, 2007

Xerox: Color and Black & White Printing - No Cost Difference

One of the huge differences in printing in color for businesses of any size has been color. Prices on...

October 16, 2007

Vertical Applications: A Boost For Your Business. Oracle's Take

Imagine two dental offices. One has software specifically for dental offices and one buys software for a generic business...

October 16, 2007

Turning Your Web Site Into A Communication and Collaboration Hub

The basic corporate web site of 5 years ago is not going to cut it today. If your business is...

October 15, 2007

Win $50,000 Toward Starting Your Business

The US Small Business Administration reports that that there are about 26 million small businesses in the United States....

October 15, 2007

Jott and the Rise of Phone Applications

Have you noticed how many applications are being developed for the cell phone users? I recently wrote about CallWave...

October 15, 2007

Google's Phone: What it's All About

Not many people know what Google's new "G-phone" will be all about. But one thing we do know is...

October 15, 2007

Technology Usage: Too High and Too Low - Says Busienssses

Business research firm NFI Research regularly surveys 2,000 business executives and managers. It's latest survey finds that 2% of businesses...

October 14, 2007

Why Wal-Mart is Getting Into Tech

So Wal-Mart has been selling computers for some time now, they also sell TV and others gear. Now they're going...

October 14, 2007

Your Accountant as your Technology Advisor

Do you like your accountant? I think many of you do. The small businesses I've talked to about their accountant...

October 10, 2007

Google Search Appliance - 5th Generation Launches

Launched in 2002, Google's Search Appliance now has over 10,000 customers. Why is search so important? Let's say you have...

October 8, 2007

LongJump: Business Applications for Collaboration and Teams

LongJump, is a newly launched service from CRM company Relationals and offers a catalog of hosted applications for businesses....

October 7, 2007

Personal Bandwidth Manager - When Your Pipe Isn't Big Enough

What's your typical data stream like? Well let's see what mine might be like on a typical weekend. Downloading a...

October 7, 2007

Removable Hard Disks: VERY viable option. No more tape backup. Expanded storage.

I remember using tape backup - many years ago. It was a nice solution but hearing the tape whine and...

October 6, 2007

Backup: Yosemite Technologies CEO Interview

[Smallbiztechnology.com incorrectly reported the Yosemite's File Keeper Pro was an online backup solution - it is not. This article is...

October 6, 2007

Do It Yourself Web Development: A Guru Answers Some Questions

Paul Chato, President of YourWebDepartment.com answers questions about web sites, in particular do it yourself services and more. Although web...

October 6, 2007

Dymo DiscPrinter: No More Messy Marker Written CD's

So your burned a video of your presentation or digital photos to a CD for your favorit client. You...

October 6, 2007

Microsoft's Small Business Specialists: Geeks You can Trust and Who Know Their Stuff

Two years ago, Microsoft launched a new partner program, specifically for partners who focused on the small business market -...

October 6, 2007

Cabinet NG: Evolving Scanning Accessibility. Ease of Use for Small Businesses

Cabinet NG offers a simple and effective digital document management solution for small and medium sized businesses. It's latest offering,...

October 6, 2007

DirectPointe's Small Office Solution: Integration of Google Apps

DirectPointe offers a range of managed services including PC, server and network services. With this package of solutions your company...

October 6, 2007

Mozy (online backup) Bought by EMC

The nice thing about smaller companies is that they fight like anything to give good customer service and make a...

October 5, 2007

Happy Birth Day ThinkPad

Lenovo (formerly IBM) ThinkPad's are known to be one of the best made notebooks in the industry. On Thursday they...

October 5, 2007

Your Local Geek Chain: Are They Incompetent Deviants?

A Canadian "undercover" TV show videos local geeks being incompetent about basic computer issues and looking at things on your...

October 5, 2007

Being Attacked Online? Do Nothing.

What do you do if you're being attacked online? Maybe you have a restaurant and some patron hates you personally...

October 5, 2007

NY Times On Linux. Don't be Deceived By Free (my advice)

The NY Times had an article giving an overview of Linux. Touting the usual stuff about it being "free" and...

October 4, 2007

Google's Corporate Email: Now With Email Security

As I was thinking of writing this, I thought, how "unfair" it is that Google gets so much media attention...

October 4, 2007

SearchSMB Product of the Year

Technology vendors and readers can nominate their favorite products for the SearchSMB Product of the Year awards. SearchSMB.com editors...

October 4, 2007

Upgrading to Microsoft Office 2007 & Windows Desktop Search. Why Upgrading "Late" Is Not Bad

This week I finally upgraded my computer to Microsoft Office 2007. Along with the upgrade I started using Windows Desktop...

October 3, 2007

TubesNow.com - Wow! What a Wonderful Technology

If you want to send large files you have a limited set of choices using just your computer. Sending...

October 3, 2007

Microsoft Office Live Workspaces: Share Documents and Collaborate

For the past several months I've been using Google Docs to share documents related to various projects. There's now...

October 3, 2007

Microsoft Response Point Telephone System: Available For Purchase

I covered Microsoft's new telephone system for small businesses, Response Point, here in March 2007. Yesterday, Microsoft announced pricing and...

October 3, 2007

Windows Live Writer: A Good Multi-Blog Blogging Tool

In 2006 I mentioned Windows Live Writer here. I'm writing about it again today as it's been officially released...

October 3, 2007

Adobe Acquires Buzzword: A Different Word Procoessor

Internet News writes The company on Monday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virtual Ubiquity, developer...

October 3, 2007

Monitoring Your Network: It Saves You Money and Time in the End

Saving money is a good thing. But when you save "stupid money" - that's not so good. What do...

October 2, 2007

Strategies to Succeed Online: So Much to Learn. So easy to do.

Your business can succeed online. You just have to take the time and read up a bit on HOW to...

October 1, 2007

Must Read: Cool Tools for the Upcoming Holiday Season!! (or just buy them now)

In the Fall, PR & exhibit companies bring together journalists and tech companies for an evening of food and checking...

October 1, 2007

Software Empowers & Enables Small Business Producitivity: Two Examples

Sometimes we really don't understand the importance and power that software brings to a business. Software and how you use...

October 1, 2007

QuickBooks 2008: An Upgrade (or first time purchase) Well Worth Consideration

One of the challenges of software companies is to create annual (or at least regular) upgrades to their software product....