What's A Referral Really Worth?
Business owners often look at networking as purely a marketing activity. After all, getting out into the community or taking part in industry events helps build name recognition and contacts that can lead to new business.
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Business Know-How
The Best Firefox Extensions: Social Networking
Want to put social networking sites to work for your small business? These Firefox extensions will help you get started.
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Business Is Booming For Managed-Service Vendors
No small business wants to get stuck in a relationship with an IT vendor that goes belly-up on them. When it comes to dealing with managed-service providers, however, the economic risks may be lower than you think.
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Menus4Moms Founder Mary Ann Kelley: Wednesday's Woman
When Mary Ann Kelley began home-schooling her children 10 years ago, little did she know the education she was about to give herself. An idea for a Web site, and then another, catapulted Kelley into a world of coding, advertising, affiliate programs, e-newsletters, and plenty more -- and what she has learned she generously shares.
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Xerox, Lexmark Debut Dueling Printers For SMBs
Lexmark announces the "world's first" Web-connected touch screen all-in-one printers, while the Xerox WorkCentre 5230 brings high-end enterprise functions to smaller businesses.
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A Reader Speaks: Desktop PCs In Small Businesses
A straight-from-the-trenches viewpoint on why desktop PCs continue to find homes in small businesses.
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What Does Google Chrome OS Mean To SMBs?
Google's plan to create a PC operating system poses a direct challenge to Microsoft, could shake up Linux, and does who knows what to Apple. For small and midsize businesses, though, any changes will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
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Quicken 2009 For The Mac: On Its Way Or Gone Away?
Mac-using small businesses who rely on Quicken have been eagerly awaiting the 2009 version of the basic financial and accounting package, which was supposed to be out this summer. Intuit has recently scrubbed mention of the new version from its website, however, raising questions about when and if the software will ever ship.
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My First Server: Fujitsu Debuts Primergy TX100 S1
Fujitsu's new SMB-oriented server is the company's cheapest yet, starting at less than $600. The company positions it as the first step up from relying on standard PCs.
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Microsoft Office: A First Choice, Or A Last Resort?
OpenOffice.org has certainly come a long way in its effort to match Microsoft Office. But has it come far enough?
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7 Cheap Ways To Buy Online Exposure
Building a brand online isn't easy for most small and midsize companies. But the bright folks over at Search Engine Land have some useful and inexpensive tips.
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Polish SMB-Focused E-Mail Marketing Firm Adds Multimeda, Analytics, Social Media
Implix today rolls out GetResponse 6.0, its e-mail marketing solution for small businesses, with a slew of new features.
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Massive Job Losses Don't Spare Small Businesses
The national unemployment figures are in, and they stink. Really, really stink. And small businesses aren't doing much better.
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Microsoft Offers No Response On Response Point
If you were wondering about the future of Microsoft's Response Point small business VoIP system, you can keep wondering. The system's future has been in doubt for months, and the company declined to clear up the confusion at a meeting with Voice over IP resellers this week.
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Small Businesses Hold Back On Tech Spending
If you're a small business desperately trying to hold the line on your IT budget, you're not alone. A new CDW survey reveals that fewer SMBs expect technology budgets to improve in the next 6 months.
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AT&T And CDW Offer Subsidized Netbooks To SMBs
Wanna buy a netbook real cheap? How about $199? No problem. All you have to do is sign this little 2-year contract for 3G data services...
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How To Say No -- And Live With Yourself: Wednesday's Woman
The following is an excerpt from the book Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success, by Claire Shipman, senior national correspondent for ABC News' Good Morning America, and Katty Kay, Washington correspondent and anchor for BBC World News America.
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HP Access Discovers The Virtues of "Free"
HP Access, the company's assistance program for small and midsize business, has dropped its $49 price tag and is now free to buyers of qualifying HP products. Ironically enough, at that price the program actually has some value.
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Dell's Adds Ultraportable Notebook To Its Vostro Line For SMBs
Question: What's smaller than a notebook but bigger than a netbook? Answer: An ultraportable, like Dell's new 3.36-pound Vostro 1220, with a 12.1-inch screen.
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Are SMBs Facing A Crisis Of Cloud Confidence?
Cloud computing is often thought of as the perfect option for small businesses. But a new survey shows that small businesses share many of the cloud computing concerns of their larger competitors, including security, availability, and speed.
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Online Sales Tax Brouhaha Hits More SMB Amazon Affiliates
Amazon.com has dropped affiliate relationships with small businesses in North Carolina and Rhode Island as the states prepare to implement new laws requiring the company to collect online sales tax.
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Receivables-Based Credit: An Alternative Financing Option
From increasing interest rates to the need for higher credit scores, many small business owners have felt the strangle known as the credit crunch.
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Economy
How To Find People To Follow On Twitter
Of my 271 followers on Twitter, *maybe* 10% are people I actually know. The rest is a group joined together based on common interests -- small businesses, entrepreneurs, tech tools, and the like.
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How Long Should Your Business Keep Its Computers?
When does buying new PCs for your business become cheaper than NOT buying new PCs for your business? According to Intel, it's when those PCs reach the ripe old age of... 3.
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How To Make Your Public-Speaking Engagements Interesting And Unforgettable
After the waitress poured my coffee in the Washington Hilton Hotel's restaurant, I turned to the lady beside me at the counter and asked, "Will you pass the cream, please?" She answered, "No, I won't."
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