Small Business Blogging: Why Do People Blog?

Jun 21

Why should you blog? Blogging is an elective. There is no requirement for blogging just as there is no requirement to eat diet food … unless, of course, you really need to. Likewise with blogging. If you study the statistics for small businesses you will find certain types of businesses do much better as a result of blogging than others. We know, for example,...

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When A Small Business Person Should Hire A Professional

Jun 20

Now. The end. “And now”, as Paul Harvey made famous, “the rest of the story.” I get it – you’re a small business owner. You know how to do it better, faster, more efficiently, with a special twist, or any other number of ways to make it “better”. If you did not think one, some or all of these to be true you would not be...

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How To Record Skype Calls

Jun 13

You bet it can be valuable to record conversations on Skype. But I bet you have search for “recording skype calls”, “skype call recorder” and even “free skype call recorder” before you found this article. According to Steve Ballmer’s CES closing keynote there were over 300 billion minutes of Skype conversations in 2011....

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The Facebook IPO and Your Next Venture or Investment

May 14

Remember back in 1998 and 1999 when everyone, at least in my world of web and application development, was getting checks for just crazy sums of money? It was the Dot Com Boom, yes it is. I mean was. Or is? What We Learned About Web Start-ups The First Time Around Back in the late 90′s I made some pretty good cash doing websites for people who really needed a...

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Simple! Create Your Own Business Website on Google Sites – and it’s Free

Dec 01

Why would a web developer be giving a tutorial on how to create a web site? Simple: you need a professional one that does a lot of things you probably cannot get your own to do but you also need others to help build your network for lead generation. Google Sites provides just such a location to help you catch a few more eyes and turn them in to fingers that call you...

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File uploads for small business websites

Nov 28

Recently a prospect contacted me with a need for their clientele to be able to upload a few different types of files via the website. The company requires documents from their clients and wanted to move away from the fax machine and allow customers to upload files directly from their computer to the site. The files needed were PDF, DOC, TXT, and ZIP. Since the...

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