If you visit Onlywire, you will see that it is a very austere website, but what it does can save you tons of time. If you use multiple bookmarking services then you know how much time entering them all can take — and all the browser link buttons that take space on your toolbar.
Consolidate […]
It’s almost March already and the first quarter of the calendar-year is upon us. While this post is not necessarily technology-related, I thought it would be good to remind everyone of important tax and business dates for March:
Here is one for March 15:
S Corporations: File a 2005 calendar year income tax return (Form 1120S). Provide […]
If so, LicketyShip is currently in Beta testing for providing Same Day Delivery Service. There is no explanation of how they plan to offer this service or how much it costs, but I assume if you sign-up — you will find out.
Beta testing service only extends to the following locations: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago,
San […]
A new Wiki for Small Business has recently gone online:
[This] site is owned and operated by Hammock Publishing, Inc. (http://www.hammock.com), it is designed to be a participatory project in which a community of users (you) share with one another the knowledge needed to start and operate a small business.
[Note - If you don’t know […]
TagCloud is a new way to search for info you want embeeded in RSS feeds. It searches any number of feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence.
Microsoft Office2000 HTML Filter Tool will remove Office-specific markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved as HTML.
At Odeo you […]
Go It Alone by Bruce Judson.
This is not a How-To guide but gives a nice overall view of what it takes to run your own business and what are the key points in getting it done right in today’s environment.
Publishers Weekly says: “This engaging, if optimistic, primer insists that you don’t need much capital, […]
Google has yet another free (beta) service called Google Pages. If you have a Gmail account you can create a free website using their no-HTML-necessary web template and creation tools. It is free, and I didn’t see any limitations to the number of pages, but then again, I didn’t get very far. I think the […]
I am from the Government, and I’m here to help…
At least that is what the IRS is saying to small businesses. The Small Business and Self-Employed IRS Resource page has a link to virtual video workshops. These videos focus on (what else) the tax aspect of small business.
Here are some of the topics covered:
Opening […]
The blog Simple Thoughts has an article entitled “Free But Costly - The Open Source Trap” which is inspired by Dr. Richard Stallman’s article - Free But Shackled - The Java Trap. They suggest you get what you pay for and Open Source is not all it’s cracked up to be…(my paraphrase.)
I think this is […]
The Free Management Library has ebooks available online for both non-profits and profit-based organizations. There are books in 75 categories including:
Business Planning
Advertising and Promotion
Fundraising
Project Management
Taxation
Risk Management
This site is a treasure […]
Need to give a presentation soon?
If you’re like me, creating presentation slides is not the hard part, it’s the delivery.
I find that while projecting Powerpoint slides staring at the PC just causes me to read the slide (which is a sure way to a boring presentation), and if I have notes in my […]
Blue Ocean Strategy - How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant (by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne) is a new way of attacking any market space. It is completely the opposite of what traditionally is done by most companies (especially the larger ones). Traditionally companies will:
Compete in existing market spaces
Beat the […]
VerusNova now has a ‘Most Popular’ posts in the right sidebar. The Top 5 entries will show, however, please note that this started counting only as of today’s date (2/17/06).
Enjoy!
An interesting article on Web Marketing Today describes the steps that were taken to launch a specific site (jesuswalk.com) - and while the article is several years old, the concepts (and links provided) are still valuable as on overall guide.
The 7 steps detailed in the article include:
Develop Concept
[…]
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If you do a lot of B2B sales, maybe you should consider using an extranet to share information between you and your vendors and customers. Also, if you do a lot of data sharing, such as construction, building materials, architects, and other vendors on a building project, it is almost guaranteed to streamline your business. […]
If you are using Unix or Linux in your server environment, then you know there are quite a few administrative tasks that are command line and file-based. If your technical staff is still climbing up the learning curve for these tasks, or if you happen to have a lot of computing assets and want to […]
This post has been removed - but you can read it in its entirety and all the other posts related to Blogging for Business for free in ebook format by Registering HERE and clicking on the Free Report Logo in the right column, or by going to the Registered Users Content Page. There is even […]
Google Mail is providing a hosted email solution for your entire small business. If you have a domain, you can use the hosted GMail to provide 2 gigabytes of storage and search tools for each user, and a Control Panel for you to easily manage user accounts, aliases and mailing lists.
It is currently in […]
I previously blogged about VMware Player stating that VMware (now a subsidiary of EMC) provides this software free of charge so that if anyone builds a virtual computer image, you can load it on your server or PC.
Well, on the VMware Community site you can download pre-built OS images for free. This includes specialized […]