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October 30th, 2006

Make Sure No One Messes with Your Email Message

Thawte Personal Email Certificates can ensure that your messages aren’t tampered with undetected. You can get a personal email certificate (or multiple) for Free - and it can be used indefinitely. Why do you want one? You will be able to:

Sign email so that recipients can verify the email address that […]

October 27th, 2006

Cheap MS Exchange Alternatives

VerusNova previously featured OpenGroupware as an open source Microsoft Exchange alternative. Well these next two applications are not open source, but are full-featured and more cost-effective than installing an MS Exchange environment in your business.

Postpath is an AJAX-based drop-in replacement for MS Exchange for about 1/3 the cost in larger implementations. There is […]

October 25th, 2006

Paying Employees Doesn’t Have to be a Hassle

PayCycle is one of the best small business payroll services online and is excellent for service professionals who use 1099 contractors.

Every payday, PayCycle automatically computes all federal, state, and local taxes, as well as any other deductions you’ve identified, such as 401k or insurance premiums. You simply log into your account. At the […]

October 24th, 2006

Make Money from Surveys

Where should you take your business next? How do you know what your customers and potential customers want? Here’s an idea: Ask them!

This is simple enough to do in person, but what about all those web visitors? Add a survey to your blog or website and collect valuable information. If done anonymously, you may […]

October 23rd, 2006

Outstanding Open Source Project Management

VerusNova featured an article “Online Project Management Tools Roundup” back in May.

Now I want to re-visit the one in particular that I have found to be outstanding - as well as introduce another that I recently found.

OpenWorkbench “…is an open source Windows-based desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality and […]

October 20th, 2006

2 Small Business Info Sites and the Power of Testimonials

Get a load of free informative articles related to work and business online at Work.com. Articles run tha gamu from How to Hire an Intern, buying a Business, RFID for Small Business, Accounting Software for Small Business…and hundreds more!

Want some inspiration? Learn from the best — Head over to nPost.com and read interviews with entrepreneurs […]

October 19th, 2006

Send Voicemail to your PC for Free

GotVoice is a free service that retrieves your voice messages from your existing home and mobile phones and delivers them directly to your email inbox using a pre-chosen schedule, or manually with a simple click of a button. Now you can access all of your voicemail over the internet in one place. GotVoice retrieves your […]

October 17th, 2006

Having Trouble Tracking Time? Get Tick’ed

Track Time with Tick from TickSpot. This online tool will allow everyone on a project to track time expended on all activities, on multiple projects. It will also show you how much of the projected total hours (i.e., budget) have been spent versus the work completed.

In their own words:

We’ll admit it, entering your […]

October 16th, 2006

Manage Your Network for Free with The Dude

The Dude by MikroTik is a free network monitoring application to help manage your routed and wireless infrastructure. It runs in Linux (under Wine), MacOS (Darwin), and Windows.
Some of the features include:
Auto network discovery and layout
Discovers any type or brand of device
[…]

October 12th, 2006

If you want to get paid - 4 Invoicing Solutions

If you own a small business, and you want to get paid, you need to invoice your customers. If you don’t ask to get paid, most times, you won’t be. Many people I’ve talked to complain they are too busy working or finding the next project to invoice and process payments. I even get told […]

October 9th, 2006

Fast, Free, Great Looking Websites with Sampa

Sampa is a Web 2.0 application that allows you to easily build a website or blog. The drag-and-drop interface, and pre-built templates, pages, and widgets means that anyone can have a great looking website in about 30 minutes. Sampa is a good way to provide information to customers quickly, in a format that is […]

October 4th, 2006

6 Ways to know if your website is up

In the past I have had a lot of problems with availability from various hosting providers. This made me take the effort to find a way to monitor my sites 24×7. The following services were ones that I tried either via a Trial Offering, Free version, or paid service.

Website Pulse which has everything from […]

October 3rd, 2006

5GB Free from XDrive - No More Excuses!

X-Drive was originally featured here at VerusNova in the post “150 Free Online Storage Options Summarized.” It was a recommendation for a fee-based service, but now that they are owned by AOL, the service is free . Get 5GB of free space, and save a secure copy of your photo collection, home videos, music, and […]

October 2nd, 2006

Leverage a Global Workforce

Previously at VerusNova I had an article “Getting Technical Help at a Reasonable Cost” which featured a handful of online palces to hire technical help by the project or hour.

oDesk is another site that you can use to either hire help, or use it to market yourself to earn extra money as a freelancer. […]

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