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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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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PODCAST: Social Networking, Web 2.0 And The Consumerization of IT - Best Practices For SMBs
Earlier this month, I got the chance to be a present a video Webinar on how small and midsize companies can best take advantage of the latest changes in technology. While I was in Pittsburgh for the video shoot, I also recorded an audio interview with Maurice Saluan from Zenith Infotech, where we discussed many of these same subjects in a more casual forum. You can listen to the podcast here.
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Shustir.com Co-Founder Shu Kim: Wednesday's Woman
Shu Kim's family emigrated from Seoul, South Korea, to New York when she was only three; ironically, a work assignment took her back many years later. In retrospect Kim realized the time she spent in her birthplace helped her tap into her entrepreneurial roots.
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Women in Business
How To Protect Your Small Business From Identity Theft
With friends, family, and co-workers like these…In the spirit of opening your eyes but not inducing paranoia, when small businesses fall victim to identity theft, someone they know is more often than not the guilty party whose tampering has a direct impact on their credit standing.
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13 Twitter-Speak Translations
"What the heck IS this Twitter thing?" The frequency with which small-business owners and entrepreneurs continue to ask me that question -- as recently as two hours ago by one of the dads at an end-of-the-year school function, and last week during two interviews for profile pieces -- signals to me that, a) word is truly getting out beyond those of us who live in this social media cocoon, and, b) people assume way more is involved with Twitter than is actually the case.
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Cost-Conscious Buyers Force Verizon Business To Repackage Web Center
When the economy seemed strong, plenty of companies were willing to pony up for the full multimedia version of Verizon's Web Center contact center service. But now, not so much. So Verizon has come up with Web Center Voice, which leaves out the multimedia, and half the cost.
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Big Businesses Like Verizon, But SMBs Choose Cablevision's Optimum Business
J.D. Power and Associates' new 2009 Major Provider Business Telecommunications Study shows that rankings of satisfaction with telecommunications providers varies according to company size, with smaller and larger companies preferring different providers.
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New All-On-One Panda Security Solution Targets Small Businesses
In the same spirit that multifunction printers consolidate four separate space-hogging machines into a single piece of hardware, unified threat management (UTM) solutions combine multiple types of security products into one package that aim to keep customers' networks safe.
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Small Business Optimism Is Tougher Than The Great Recession
In the face of the unrelenting torrent of bad economic news, leave it to small businesses to keep pushing. According to a new study, 70% still foresee growth in their business this year, and almost half of those actually plan to hire new workers!
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9 Ways To Decide What You Should Sell
Are you thinking about launching a new business? Do you have some new product or service you want to sell? Are you pretty sure the product or service will be a big hit if you can get enough money to get started, or get the time and resources together to add it to your existing offerings?
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Business Know-How
New Company Targets Web-Based Malware And Blacklists
Dasient, a security startup started up by former Google engineers, among others, is targeting malware that has your Web sites targeted, as well as monitoring your sites for their presence on blacklists. That last, as any business that's been blacklisted can attest, can be deadly.
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TwiddleMuff Maker Margaret Light: Wednesday's Woman
Not everybody is fortunate enough to know their grandparents. Margaret Light was, and not only did they provide her with a sense of stability while she was growing up -- her family moved every few years -- but one also served as the catalyst for a business that's now in its third year.
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Women in Business
Spiceworks 4.0 Adds Visual Mapping, Twitter, And More
The latest version of the popular free IT management tool for SMBs adds the ability to visually map your company's IT network, Twitter integration, and 3rd-party management plug-ins from Microsoft, LiveOffice, Intel, and Trend Micro.
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