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May 31st, 2006

Get Your Documents Signed and FAXed for Free

EchoSign is a great new service that will save a lot of time if you need to get signatures on documents.

You just email the document you need to be signed to the desired party; then they print it and sign it, and then FAX it to the EchoSign FAX number. It gets converted to […]

May 30th, 2006

Advertise Your Business with Photo Stamps

If you’re going to buy stamps anyway — you might as well advertise your business. Stamps.com is selling PhotoStamps for Businesses.

You can upload any image (see guidelines at the site) and have it printed on a sheet of 20 stamps. The cost for a sheet of standard first-class stamps is $17.99 for […]

May 29th, 2006

Can a Blog Make Money?

If you are blogging to support your main business and keep in contact with your customers (and potential customers), making some money on the side (via Ads, etc.) is nice to have. But what if your main income generation strategy is based on blogging? Steve Pavlina has a great article entitled: How to Make Money […]

May 26th, 2006

BizTech Links for 5/26 - Free Stuff, RSS, and More

Want to start a good business blog? Here is an article from Innovation Creators that provides Tips on actually writing a successful business oriented blog and creating significant traffic.

Want to know if RSS will really have an impact on all things web? My opinion is ‘yes’. I think it will affect advertising, customer service, sales, […]

May 25th, 2006

Send Large Files Without an Email Client

Tired of having your emails bounce back because you either reached your send limit, or — more likely — your recipient’s ISP email limit was reached? YouSendIt is a way to send up to 1GB without an email client!

Also, if you need to send information to mobile devices check out EMOZE.

Emoze is a […]

May 24th, 2006

Dual-Boot Windows and Ubuntu and Load Anything

Here are two great Ubuntu Linux must-reads; especially if you are planning to use both Windows and Linux.

First is “How to Install Anything in Ubuntu” by Monkey Blog. This is a graphical guide for all new users with a Windows background who are using Ubuntu. It covers areas like Synaptic, package manager, etc.

Next […]

May 23rd, 2006

Essential Online Store Checklist

Here is a two part article from Small Business Computing: Starting an Online Store - An Essential Checklist (part 1):

A Business Plan
A Reliable Source for Your Product
A Good Domain Name
A Reliable Web Host
A […]

May 22nd, 2006

Business PodCasts

Here is a link to the Top 5 Small Business Podcast episodes from last April as per Small Business Trends blog.

They are:
Hiring New Employees - The Technology They Need
How to Start a Business With No Money
Master the Random Business Encounter
[…]

May 19th, 2006

BizTech Links for 5/19 - Lopico, Etsy, and Prosper

==> Free LLC and Corporate Resolution Documents

==> Here are some useful tools: Google Calendar Notifier and Digg.com Notifier

==> Article: Using a PDA with Linux. “In this two-part series, A.Lizard explains how he made his Linux workstation cooperate with a Palm.”

==> Are Your Photos Safe? Why is it news that online photo storage and sharing […]

May 18th, 2006

Google Notebook Goes Live

Google Notebook is now available.

What is it? It is a web clipping, bookmarking, and page building notebook site like Backpack. Pages can be public or private.

Get an overview of the features here.

Lots of good uses for this including travel planning, meeting notes, shopping lists, build quick marketing brochure or ‘for sale’ […]

May 17th, 2006

Cheap Phone Numbers for Your Business

If you run a business out of your home office, you know how important it is to have a seperate business phone number. Giving out your cell phone number is not the best way to do this since mixing business and pleasure calls can be cumbersome — and two cell phones just doesn’t make sense. […]

May 16th, 2006

Adding Search Capability to your Frontpage Website

It you have more than one page on your website, then it is important to have search capability. Not only is it convenient for your visitors, but you can use the stored results as business intelligence to see what people are looking for at your site.

If you use Frontpage 2003, this capability is built […]

May 16th, 2006

Backup Your Wordpress Database

Do you use Wordpress as your blogging solution? I have learned the pain of losing the database, which contains all you entries, registered users, comments, etc. It is important not only to back up the files under your blog directory, but the database as well.

Here is great tutorial from the Wordpress Codex on How […]

May 15th, 2006

Skype Out is Now Free!

at least until the end of the year for domestic calls. Call any landline phone from Skype for FREE!!
Here’s How.

read more at Download Squad
Technorati Tags: Skype

May 15th, 2006

Organize Your Life

Do you have notes stored on little pieces of paper all over your desk, and in your car, and in your purse or pockets? Forgetting important appointments and thoughts? Feeling generally disorganized?
MyLife Organized can help.

is a personal task outliner and to-do list manager which will help you to organize your goals, projects and tasks […]

May 12th, 2006

BizTech Links for 5/12 - Web2.0, Skype, and RTFM

Here is this week’s roundup of useful links related to business and technology - enjoy.

Web2.0 Online Application Compilations:
SEOmoz.org Web2.0 Awards
Categoriz (Web2.0 by category)
eConsultant Web2.0 Directory (over 900 apps)

SolutionWatch has an excellent article describing 50 Ways to Take Notes Online.

MAKE shows you how to […]

May 11th, 2006

Microsoft Office Live…or Memorex?

While Microsoft Office Live is in Beta (and not free), there are some currently available free tools that provide an awful lot of the same functionality (and even look-and-feel) to make anyone comfortable and happy.

First is AjaxWrite which provides “the look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform”. […]

May 10th, 2006

Online Project Management Tools Roundup

There are so many online team collaboration tools now, that it is hard to keep track. Many of them fall into the Web2.0 category, and others can be downloaded as open source and run from a private server. Going through my links the other day I realized that I had tools for: calendars, todo lists, […]

May 9th, 2006

Fluxiom Delivers Easy Digital Asset Delivery

Fluxiom is a digital asset sharing, collaboration, and delivery tool. There have been many great reviews of this service, including: Mashable, Solution Watch, and Ajaxian. So I won’t reinvent the wheel here…but I recommend you read one first.

Now - I just want to point out the benefits that a service like this can […]

May 8th, 2006

2 Excellent Web2.0 Calendars (but not Google!)

With all the bruhaha over the new Google Calendar, sometimes it’s hard to remember that there are quite a few competing offerings out there that deserve attention. Now, I admit that I use Google Calendar quite a bit, but I am still a big fan of 30 Boxes. Why? It’s simple, elegant, has a […]