Archive: May 2008

May 16, 2008

Your Network Server: Out of Sight, Silent and Working Well

Your company's server is one of the most important parts of your technology infrastructure. Without a server, and one that...

May 16, 2008

Internet Speeds: Faster, Faster, Faster. Cost: Lower, Lower, Lower

If you have not looked closely at your bill for Internet access - you should. The price you are paying...

May 15, 2008

When Your Small Biz Needs Bigger Biz Accounting

Intuit's QuickBooks, Sage's PeachTree and Microsoft Account are perfect accounting software for small businesses. However, when you grow beyond their...

May 15, 2008

Learning From Zoho: Leveraging The Competition (Use Your Google Login on Zoho)

Zoho is a hosted service that offers a range of applications for businesses. Word processor, spread sheet, database, online presentation...

May 15, 2008

David Strrom On Choosing the right email listserv

David Strom, The Ultimate Technologist, Author, Writer, Journalist... Ironic, but the underpinning of Web 2.0 is something so old that...

May 15, 2008

Will Your New Web Site Crash? Know Before Your Customers Do.

Building a web site with fancy new design and features can be fun. Well sometimes it can be filled with...

May 15, 2008

Is the Paperless Office A Dream? Here’s Some Help and Guidance

Q&A with Bill Brikiatis, Director of Corporate Marketing for eCopy, Inc. While the totally paperless office is a vision that...

May 14, 2008

Spam: The New Security Threat

As security administrators and end users adopt new measures to resolve security threats, the bad guys - as usual...

May 14, 2008

Office Suites: Microsoft, OpenSource and the 80/20 Rule

By James Gaskin Do you like to save money? I strongly recommend individuals and small companies trying to save money...

May 14, 2008

Turn Your Mobile Device Into A Vault

It's a pretty sick feeling when you reach for your Blackberry, PDA or flash drive and it's not in the...

May 13, 2008

Happy Birthday Laplink! Get a $50 gift.

Wow...Laplink (leader in data file sharing between computers) celebrates its 25th Birthday. To celebrate they've put a nice deal together....

May 13, 2008

Convincing Management to Pay for A Web Site Update

Many of you are small business owners, so you are "management". However, for those of you who are managers and...

May 13, 2008

Want to be a smarter marketer? Check out 60 Second Marketer.com

Beth Silver, Doubet Consulting As a marketer of small businesses, I am eager to stay abreast of the latest news...

May 13, 2008

Beyond Traditional Web Sites. Opportunities for Marketing Your Business

I'm a huge proponent that every business owner should have their own web site. A well designed web site and...

May 12, 2008

Lookin' for An Electronic Payment Solution That's Not PayPal

I've used PayPal for years and like it. It's fast and pretty easy to use. However, the great thing about...

May 12, 2008

Powerful Forms Give Your Web Site Spunk and Better Data Entry Features

If you are not using forms on your web site you are missing out on a great way to accept...

May 11, 2008

Small Business Technology Super Stars

Out of the hundreds of thousands of true small businesses (a word I first heard of from NetBooks founder) there...

May 11, 2008

Do You Have A Water Bottle and Vitamins For Your Business?

We spend so much time and money carry around our little bottles of water, chugging down vitamins and going to...

May 11, 2008

CRM and Sales Management Through Microsoft Outlook

CRM, sales and marketing are all part of what small businesses have to do to keep getting new customers and...

May 10, 2008

More on Domain Names...

Last week we http://smallbiztechnology.com/archive/2008/05/whats-your-domain-strategy.html">posted this article about how you can boost sales with a domain name. I'm now reading something...

May 10, 2008

When ERP and CRM Combine: Customers are Happy. Sales Go Up.

Enterprise Resource Applications (ERP) is what mainly mid to larger sized businesses use and need to manage their business operations....

May 9, 2008

Acquiring & Leveraging Customer Insight: Taking A Page from Dell and Starbucks

Knowing what your customers think is absolutely critical when growing your business. It's easy to make products and see what...

May 8, 2008

Green Office Offenses: Are YOU Guilty?

Did you leave any printed documents sitting in the printer today? Were the lights left on when you left...

May 8, 2008

How I Survived A Computer Crash. Lessons Learned.

This week my notebook computer (a Lenovo 3000 N100) crashed. I smelled a burning smell but since I have a...

May 8, 2008

Boosting Sales With A Web Site Domain Strategy

Most businesses, regardless of size, put a lot of thought and research into choosing a domain name. Often the...

May 8, 2008

Reaching Global Customers: Not Business As Usual

With modern communication technology plus the speed and unlimited reach of the internet, it's easier than ever for small businesses...

May 8, 2008

Is Your InBox Turning Into A Box of Pain? Here's some help.

In some industries people are used to having their voice mail boxes filled with voice mail. However, there's far more...

May 6, 2008

Is it PowerPoint or is it you?

Susan Shapiro, Owner, Bralan Consulting No doubt you’ve attended at least one meeting where a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation was made...

May 6, 2008

Email:A Growing Security Threat. Protect Your Network.

Security software company Webroot Software released the results of its most recent State of Internet Security Report - Protecting...

May 6, 2008

Turning Email Response From A Pain To Bliss For You and Your Customers

One of the BIG pains that I know many of you face is how to deal with email - especially...

May 6, 2008

Enhancing Your Web Site's Communication Productivity

I know that was a mouth full (the title of this post) but I think it best illustrates the advice...

May 6, 2008

Creating Videos for Online Advertisement: Mix and Click.

There's a growing number of companies helping small businesses create videos for their businesses to display online. Text and traditional...

May 6, 2008

Product Review: Dell's New Vostro Notebook

Although desktop computers are to some degree commodity items, notebook computers still have some differentiation left in them. How the...

May 5, 2008

Ask the Expert: Securing and Managing Your Endpoints

Kevin Murray, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Symantec Corporation The IT threat landscape has changed dramatically over the past few...

May 5, 2008

Bring Your Web Site to FaceBook and FaceBook To Your Web Site

What's nice about social networking sites like FaceBook is that more and more users are using them. What's not so...

May 5, 2008

Two Sided Printing: Simple, But Effective And Worth It

Printers are dropping in price and although "printing on paper" is not as hot as "web 2.0", at the end...

May 4, 2008

How Telephone Service Helps a Wedding Planning Business. Ideas For Your Business

What gets me most excited about technology is hearing real stories of how real small businesses can BOOST their business...

May 4, 2008

Online File Storage, Collaboration and Backup - In One Service

Over the past few weeks I've been seeing a surge in services to help mange your file storage needs. There's...

May 4, 2008

Weather the Economy: Using Technology

I KNOW that technology is not the only thing small businesses need in their business and especially is not the...

May 4, 2008

eBay Sellers: Boost Sales With Video

When eBay was "hot" it was the go to place to buy and sell. Now, of course there's a lot...

May 4, 2008

Is It Time for An Apple In Your Business

(Photo to the left from Business Week)I've been a PC user all my life and am not rushing to buy...