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Automatic Time Tracking with Chrometa
Automatic time tracking sounds like a beautiful thing for a time-based business owner. It isn’t easy to separate out how you spend your time on projects and client work. This is going to sound odd...
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Review: Dragon Naturally Speaking
Speaking your emails, texts, and documents into existence is a wonderful idea. It saves you time and effort, allows you to walk and talk your way to productivity. This review of Dragon...
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Constant Contact is More than Email Marketing
If real estate agents claim location, location, location, then business owners might have to say inbox, inbox, inbox. That’s where many of us live. This Constant Contact review is for the business...
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Gathering Customer Information Via Web Forms With Adobe FormsCentral
Creating a website form should be a fairly simple task, but it eludes most of us. We get started, then stop, mostly because I think we’re afraid of all the spam that will follow. Spam will follow, too....
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Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet for Small Business Owners
“Tablet computers are for kids and gamers” is the prevailing sentiment that I hear from small business owners. The logic is that a tiny handheld computer won’t really help you get your work done. Even...
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13 SMS Text Messaging Services for Marketing in the Mobile Age
Ninety nine percent of the time statistics can drive you to heavy drinking. In researching this post on SMS or Text Message Marketing, I wanted to find out how many people use text messaging, how...
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9 Ways to Make a New Product
If you’ve ever had an invention idea, now is one of the best times to be alive. Devices and machines are readily available to help you turn your idea into reality. If you’ve heard of the maker...
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Boost Your Productivity with Mindmapping Tool from Mindmeister
Just about everyone wants to boost their productivity. There is no shortage of tools that promise to help you do it, too. Many business owners are visual thinkers and mind mapping is one of the methods...
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Back It Up Today With Hard Drive In The Cloud: Review of Carbonite
Storage space. We always seem to want more of it. There is always a shortage of storage space, in our homes, offices, and on our computers. So we buy external hard drives and create a daily and weekly...
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Daily Deals That Won’t Break The Bank: Check Out Signpost
Groupon and LivingSocial have motivated many small businesses into offering daily deals, but the 50 percent commission is often a daily deal breaker. Signpost is a new venture-backed daily deal service...
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Ten Help Desk Solutions for Better Customer Service
Customer service is mission critical or so we often hear from experts. Beyond trying to manage a complaint, why is it so important? If you don’t have a process for managing customer requests,...
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Research Tool to Help Your Small Business Succeed: Review of QuestionPro
Most business owners have heard the statistic that 80% of new businesses fail within the first three years. One of the biggest reasons they reportedly fail is because they lack the information and...
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Optimizing Your Website: Ten Powerful SEO Tools
Optimizing your website is mission critical, but it isn’t a black box. You can do a lot of it yourself with any of these search engine optimization (SEO) tools. If you are a small business owner that...
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Funding For a Small Project or Product with Kickstarter
Despite its enormous popularity, Kickstarter is still not as well known in the small business community as you would expect. If you haven’t heard about this crowdfunding platform, read on and I’ll...
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Blogging Networks Can Expand Your Reach, Influence, and Income
Getting paid for a blog post may seem like a pretty good deal if you are a new blogger. Receiving free products in lieu of payment has its upsides, too. There are many ways to go about this, but one of...
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Business Networking with Biznik
Social networking is frequently touted as one of the greatest ways to drive new business. Just keep writing, blogging, podcasting, tweeting, or pinning and the sales will eventually follow. That may be...
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SumAll: Financial Analysis by Tracking Your Website Traffic
Google Analytics is free. We all know that, but we also know that it isn’t always easy to use. Small business websites are not cheap to build or manage (not usually) and then we expect those sites to...
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Scheduling Phone Calls And Appointments With Tungle
Scheduling appointments can be easy, if you have a personal assistant, secretary, or you know how to leverage technology. Voicemail tag is pretty common when you don’t have an assistant, and you are...
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Getting Your Small Business Started On Yelp
Yelp is one of the top ways for local businesses to get noticed and found by consumers, especially on mobile devices. It is an easy and affordable way to market your company and it is not just for...
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33 Tools And Resources To Increase Website Trust And Sales
After reading Lisa Barone’s incredibly useful and popular post “25 Questions Your Site Must Answer,” I felt compelled to look at my site and my client’s sites to see what tools I could find and use to...
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