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June 30th, 2006

Posts with The Most Diggs

Here is a reference list of articles here at VerusNova that have the most Diggs on Digg. Thanks everyone!

Top 14 Places to Find the Perfect Stock Photo

Webmin Can Make System Administration Much Simpler

Virtualize Your Infrastructure with VMserver for Free

Some Companies Saving an Average of $3.3M Using OpenSource

Create Online Tutorials Easily with Wink

Earn Money Selling Your […]

June 29th, 2006

Interesting Articles Roundup

I have rounded up a good sized list of articles and sites I have read over the past few weeks that I believe to be helpful for small businesses. Enjoy!

Simple skype voip analog adapter from Grynx

Top 100 Paying Keywords from 7Search

Adsense Tips for Bloggers by ProBlogger

Great Web2.0 Software by Dion Hinchcliffe

Add a Web search text […]

June 28th, 2006

Online portfolio management made easy with CarbonMade

If your business requires maintaining a portfolio of your work, then the interestingly-named service of CarbonMade can help you manage it, and show it off. You can upload your work and create online portfolios using drag-and-drop, i.e. without any HTML or coding. There are default styles and templates that can be used. You can […]

June 27th, 2006

Thankful Blogging

Got the idea of Thankful Blogging from Darren Rowse at ProBlogger -

Thanks to the following blogs for linking to VerusNova in the past several weeks/months:
smallbizsurvival.blogspot.com
madhatteksdiggs.livejournal.com
ublogs.net/members/small-business-software
mmcbs.com/bgs/money-to-start-a-business
www.hectica.us
[…]

June 27th, 2006

Top 100 network Security Tools Survey Results

As an update to the very popular survey done in 2003 by Insecure.org, a new survey (2006) was performed to identify the Top 100 Network Security Tools.

Respondents were allowed to list open source or commercial tools on any platform. Commercial tools are noted as such in the list below. No votes for the Nmap […]

June 27th, 2006

Comments Open (Again)

OK - Since I haven’t gotten many comments since I required registration, I have decided to try something else. I originally shut down commenting to non-registered users to avoid the dozens and dozens of spam messages I received each day. I just don’t have the time to work this and make sure real comments get […]

June 26th, 2006

Online Time Tracking Made Easy

Harvest provides simple online time tracking for the small business owner. It is especially helpful for companies that charge on a Time & Materials or hourly basis, including consulting, design, legal, and contractor work. Employees and contractors enter their projected and/or actual time spent on each activity or job into the worksheet. You can […]

June 23rd, 2006

How to Send a Text Message to Any US Phone

I sometimes find myself sitting at my computer and want to send a message to a colleague. They may be sitting in a meeting without their computer, or commuting, or I may not have good cellphone service where I am sitting - so I decide to send them a message. I know the phone […]

June 22nd, 2006

60 Minute Shopping Cart

Do you have one or two items you want to sell, and don’t want to go through a lot of pain to get an online storefront up and running?

Richard Soderberg of Floating Atoll blog discusses
How to Build a Shopping Cart in 60 Minutes using Paypal and Blogger.

If you have more items to sell […]

June 21st, 2006

Work More Efficiently for Less with Veetro

After learning about Veetro from WorkHappy.net I decided to investigate further. This service provides efficiency and standardization to many of the common business processes for small business.

Veetro allows you to access your business processes from anywhere, view crucial business information, manage and store documents, capture knowledge, and collaborate with team members. You can also […]

June 20th, 2006

Update Website Easily with Edit.com

Do you have a website? Is editing the content a real hassle? Everyone tells you that fresh content is king (and it’s true). But everytime you need to update or edit the site, you have to either hire someone from elance.com or pull your nephew out of class to help you. Then maybe you should […]

June 19th, 2006

Create Multimedia Brochures with BubbleShare

BubbleShare is not just another photo-sharing service. While I believe its target audience is the average online user to store photos in an album-oriented fashion, there are many more features to BubbleShare that can be leveraged in an interesting way to provide a nice marketing brochure for businesses.

BubbleShare allows you to upload and […]

June 16th, 2006

How to Build a Bullet-Proof Startup

Business 2.0 has a great article this month called: 16 Steps to a BulletProof Startup.

Here is the PDF Download Version

June 15th, 2006

Create Business Map Mashups with MapBuilder

“Create Business Map Mashups with MapBuilder” Try saying that five times fast!

If your business can benefit from integrating maps (i.e., Google or Yahoo) with data overlay — real estate, landscaping, planning, etc. — then MapBuilder.net lets you create, share, and extend online maps. A unique feature also provides the source […]

June 14th, 2006

Get a Good Domain Name - Automatically

Need a good domain name? Is the one you want already taken? No surprise there.
Instant Domain Search can help. Just start typing in words related to your site and then click on ‘Suggestions’. You will be redirected to Yahoo Small Business domain service with appropriate suggestions for your domain.

For example: I entered “house remodeling” […]

June 13th, 2006

Call Your Buddy List from Your Mobile Phone

PC Calling is going mobile with iSkoot.
You can save money on international calls, without being tied to your PC. No special hardware, no WiFi, no Broadband — just a cell phone. Once you download the iSkoot software to you cell phone, you will be able to do everything you can do with PC Calling, […]

June 12th, 2006

Get Leads and Earn Money for Referrals with InnerSell

InnerSell is an online referral site based on the concept that you may identify a need for one of your customers, but are not able to fulfill it on your own. InnerSell lets you — as a trusted vendor — find your customer another trusted vendor and earn a referral fee in the process. So […]

June 9th, 2006

BotW: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker

Harv Eker turned $2,000 into $1.6 million in less than three years as an entrepreneur.
This book is about changing your mindset so that you can become successful in whatever you chosse to do. A lot of us have habits, intellectual […]

June 8th, 2006

Audio Searching Adds Many Possibilities for Business

A new service called Evoca allows you to store, tag, organize, and — most importantly — search your voice recordings online.

You can make recordings using any of the following methods:

Direct from PC via microphone
via Skype (requires Pro version)
via Cell Phone
[…]

June 7th, 2006

Feedburner Email Signatures

I recently began taking advantage of the auto-generated email signatures offered by Feedburner. I now add the grpahic (see below) to all of my outgoing emails in hope of increasing my RSS subscriptions. If you are a Feedburner subscriber (and you should be!) then I recommend taking advantage of this feature. It works with […]