Archive: June 2008

June 30, 2008

Getting More From Your Mobile Devices: Get FREE Training From Your Wireless Carrier

Most of us buy cell phones like we buy bagels. We just buy one and might not think much about...

June 29, 2008

Online Business Is Blossoming, But Still A Drop In the "Bucket"

Microsoft has recently announced that Office Live its online service geared to service small businesses has reached its one millionth...

June 29, 2008

How To Save Money With Technology: Podcast

Allbusiness.com podcast editor Chris Bjorklund, speaks with Ramon Ray (Smallbiztechnology.com) about how to reduce IT costs. If the embed player...

June 29, 2008

My Saturday: Why Motorola Q Is Junk, Palm Treo 700wx is lovely and Verizon Wireless is Mint

This Saturday as I was driving my family to a day of shopping in Manhattan (American Girl and Toy's R...

June 26, 2008

What Kind of IT Spender Are You?

Do you view technology as an investment in your business growth and health, or as a necessary cost to...

June 25, 2008

Buying Into Business Intelligence

Eric Weiss, The Worcester Group Many small and mid-sized businesses have not invested in Business Intelligence systems because owner/manager perceptions...

June 24, 2008

Do You Need a Hosted App for That?

Q&A with Bill Kane, CEO of Mumboe With the increasing availability of hosted applications for specific tasks like contract management...

June 24, 2008

5 Steps To Smoothly Implement A Technology Upgrade

Upgrading technology can be a very unpleasant experience if you don't plan for things properly. Depending on what you are...

June 24, 2008

Web Filtering in the Workplace - How I Learned the Hard Way

Dan Nickason, IT Supervisor, Genesis Physicians Group A few years back, I worked for a small business that provided IT...

June 24, 2008

No Hassle Printing Out of the Office

It can be a real pain to print something from your laptop when you're visiting an office or hotel...

June 24, 2008

Why Are Online Customers Abandoning Shopping Carts? Is It Really Your Fault?

Well sort of. You can do some things to increase the purchase rate. A survey conducted by PayPal and comScore...

June 24, 2008

Real Estate Agents: Boost Sales With SMS

Real Estate agents have a tough sales job - especially depending on the market they are in. Commercial? Retail? Manhattan?...

June 24, 2008

Beyond Text! Add "Life" To Your Web Site - Part Two

Literally one minute ago, I posted part one of Beyond Text! Add "Life" To Your Web Site, this is part...

June 24, 2008

Beyond Text! Add "Life" To Your Web Site - Part One

Text on a web site is what we're all used to. It's been the most common element of web sites...

June 24, 2008

7 Tips For a Green Office

As some of you know, I'm not Mr. Green. I've never paid much attention to saving the environment or anything...

June 24, 2008

The Ultimate Home Office - On the Highway In an RV

My "remote" friend Jeff Zbar, who is a Writer & Speaker on Technology, Entrepreneurship, Home Offices, Telework & Work/Life Compatibility...

June 23, 2008

Is Your Call Center Out of Date?

Every day, I'm sure most of you place a phone call to a call center. You might not even think...

June 23, 2008

Online Marketing Tips At The "Brain Exchange"

Last week I attended Prime Strategies' Brain Exchange. Marian Banker, facilitator of these intimate round tables of business owners led...

June 21, 2008

Remote Tech Support. A Personal Story.

Over the past few days I've had problems accessing network resources. I could access the Internet, I was getting an...

June 21, 2008

Technology In Action: How An Oil Distributor Saves Money Via GPS Like UPS

This is a short video from WSJ reporter Raymund Flandez, how a trucking companies is saving money on travel and...

June 19, 2008

Buy Technology. Sell It Back At A Fixed Price.

Have you ever walked into a local retail store to buy some technology gadget, only to think that in a...

June 19, 2008

Scheduling Is A Pain. But Technology....Can Help!

Recently I wrote about the new time scheduling tool, Vungle which helps busy people schedule common times. Another service on...

June 19, 2008

Do You Ship A Lot of Packages? Streamline Things And Save Money

Shipping can be quite expensive. With gas prices on the increase, costs are probably rising even further. If shipping is...

June 19, 2008

Why Are You Still Holding On to Microsoft Office?

IBM recently announced the commercial-grade, general availability of Lotus Symphony a suite of free, software tools for creating and sharing...

June 18, 2008

Making Your Web Site Readable On Mobile Devices

Your web site, is one of the first impressions you'll have to customers, future employees, partners, and vendors. Although most...

June 18, 2008

Independence Day - 4 June 2008: Jigsaw's New Initiative

I love it when individual companies join together to do something that's greater than any of them could do on...

June 18, 2008

Network Switch 101: Get Faster and More Reliable Data Through Your Network

From time to time, Smallbiztechnology.com will deviate from our more general coverage of news, reviews and analysis give you a...

June 18, 2008

Summer's Here: Technology Can Help You Enjoy It

Last week I participated in an Intuit webinar, as part of their awesome QuickBooks Group. I spoke about the technology...

June 17, 2008

What's a Widget and Why Do You Need One?

Q&A with Ori Soen, Founder & CEO of MuseStorm What are Widgets? Widgets - and their close cousins social applications,...

June 17, 2008

D&B Competitors On the Rise Through Enhanced & Accurate "Social Networking"

Dun and Bradstreet is one of the leading sources of information on businesses of all shapes and sizes. If you...

June 17, 2008

Costco: Shopping for Diapers, Car Tires and....Telephone systems

Costco and other large stores, sell just about everything you would ever need or want on this earth. For just...

June 17, 2008

Are You A Good Neighbor In Your Vendor's Online Community

There are a number of vendors that have setup discussion forums and/or communities for their customers to get help from...

June 17, 2008

Making Customer Service A Criteria for Selecting A Tech Vendor

MSNBC recently put together a list of customer service rankings of companies. For customers of the companies that were ranked...

June 16, 2008

Is Your "First Impression" (Your Web Site) In Shambles? Get Help.

One of the points in my timeless, 10 Web Site Musts is the importance of good navigation and the overall...

June 15, 2008

Accounting Software: Cash Flow Predictor With Peachtree

Wouldn't it be great if you had a tool that could help you know what your cash flow needs are...

June 15, 2008

eLearning via FaceBook

Yeah I'm on FaceBook. Just like you, your cousin, boss, daughter and millions of others are. If there were no...

June 15, 2008

Security. There's No Excuse for Being Insecure.

Some things in life you just can't help. For example, you're driving down the street at a safe speed, but...

June 15, 2008

The Missing "Email Profile" Option in Email Newsletters

I receive dozens of email newsletters, as I'm sure you do. One of the most annoying things, other than content...

June 15, 2008

When Your Service Gets Bought: Comcast Buys Plaxo

I've been using Plaxo for many years and like it. I started using it as a way to have online...

June 11, 2008

Beyond Cost Per Click. Moving To Cost Per Lead.

There's a number of ways to find customers online. Traditional marketing via TV, Radio, Bill Boards, Print Magazines or Online....

June 10, 2008

Does Your Computer Need A Tune Up? Maybe You Don't Need to Buy A New Computer

After a few months of computer use (for some people maybe after only 2 days) you'll notice your computer is...

June 10, 2008

Why Processors Are Still Important Considerations When Shopping For a Computer.

About 5 or more years ago, it seems, shopping for a computer meant one would look carefully at three things:...

June 10, 2008

Would You Pay $40 For Desktop Search?

I started out using Google's Desktop Search for my desktop search engine of choice. I switched to Microsoft Desktop Search...

June 9, 2008

Shh....Confessions Of An It Consultant. Learn From Other's Mistakes.

Wow, when have you ever heard your IT consultant confess to doing something wrong? When have you heard them sit...

June 9, 2008

Technology Does Not Have To Be Complicated. Boost Productivity By Simplification.

For the past few weeks our vacuum cleaner has not been working. What was wrong with it, was that the...

June 9, 2008

Financing For Customers: You Can Do It Yourself

Our family loves watching DVD's of Little House On the Prairie. One of the scenes in many of the shows...

June 8, 2008

HubSpot: Why Integrating Your Blog, Web Site, In Bound Leads and More is POWERFUL!

I wrote about HubSpot in January, but guess what, I didn't get it quite right. I've been looking at it...

June 6, 2008

Ending Slavery In the Work Place: Set People Free From Wires

If you are still primarily "a wired" office, the employees you have tethered to desktops are missing out on being...

June 5, 2008

10 IT Problems You Might Not Know About

Sometimes there are problems in your company, regarding technology and you might now even know they are a problem. For...

June 4, 2008

Eventbrite: Excellent Event Registration Management Service

I've been using Eventbrite for about a year now and it's a great service for managing all aspects of event...

June 3, 2008

Tech Lesson: Cheap, No Good Fans vs Expensive, Good Fans from K-Mart

It's getting to be quite warm in the North East so we went to get two fans for the house....

June 3, 2008

NetBooks vs Smartphones vs Notebooks: The Looming Choice

Intel, Nvidia and Microsoft are all going after the ultra-mobile or "netbook" market. These are notebook computers, much smaller than...

June 3, 2008

$100 A Year? Worth A Boost In Sales From Better Web Search

When customers visit your web site, especially if it's very content rich, they really need a search engine to be...

June 3, 2008

VOIP: I Bet You Thought VOIP = Free

I'm sure you thought you new all there was to VOIP - Voice Over the Internet - phone calling. However,...

June 2, 2008

How Will You Answer When Cable Companies Come Knocking?

It appears that cable companies such as Comcast are making inroads into the market for telephone and internet access, bought...

June 2, 2008

Does Your Company Deserve some Kudos?

You know that your company rocks - here's an opportunity to let the world know too. The Small Business Awards...

June 2, 2008

Millenials vs. Boomers: The Key Difference (It's not just age)

Technology is important to your business, and especially integrating technology with marketing. However, technology by itself is not going to...

June 2, 2008

Online Advertising is Growing. Are You Part of the Growth?

IDC (yet another IT research firm) released its newest study that shows online advertising is growing, In fact, "IDC finds...

June 2, 2008

Gartner: 10 Disruptive Technologies

Boston based IT analyst and research firm Gartner came out with a list of top 10 disruptive technologies - for...

June 1, 2008

Remote Access to Your Data: Easier than Ever

Web2Storage Corp. announced general availability of its Web2Drive software, which allows remote access to local storage devices. Web2Drive software...