Archive for the 'Technology' Category

I learned about this from Becky at SmallBizSurvival.com.
For $79 per month, any business can advertise a special offer and capture the cell phone numbers of potential customers for text message promotions!
You can learn more about mobile marketing here.
I’m sure the price will come down in the future.
If you have a business that does direct response [...]

Most of the work at home opportunities I’m familiar with require the rep to purchase their own broadband and landline service and deduct the costs from their income tax return.
Evidently that’s not always true according to this research.
From Silicon.com
This begs the question - who then pays for the home broadband and who is responsible for [...]

People rightly have come to love Skype.
A recent outage of the service left folks scratching their heads however because so many have become dependent on the service for their lives and home based businesses.
So what happened?
According to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Skype blames it on all you users restarting your computer after downloading an [...]

The old saying went - you need a fax machine the first time someone says “do you have a fax?” Maybe the same is true for Skype. You need it the first time someone asks if you have it.
Unless you’re on dial up of course.
Skype 3.5.202 was recently released.
Here’s what Ubberreview had to say (in [...]

Here’s what happened to one small business owner when he switched to VoIP and there was an outage.
Read the article and you’ll find it’s no wonder SunRocket went broke… they had razor thin margins!
Click here for dial up voip (no broadband required!)
Click here for another excellent Voip Provider
From PC World
The problem stems from contractual relationships [...]

Working at home is getting simpler and safer - fewer wires to trip over - thanks to home wireless networks.
Not just in the US either. This is a South African report.
From ITWeb.com
Eighty percent of respondents who already had wireless networks at home agreed that they were more productive. Respondents who did not have a [...]

To date, satellite Broadband hasn’t been able to accommodate the needs of home medical transcriptionists, home based call center employees, and other home based workers.
Current group, however, is not satellite based. As their name hints, they are on the forefront of “broadband over powerline” (BPL) technology and working with utility systems to enable [...]

How can you benefit from the booming US Hispanic Market? Help them use low cost VOIP long distance to call their friends and family members.
Facts to consider:
o The Hispanic marketplace in the United States totals an estimated 30 million.
o Hispanic long distance callers use 1300 minutes/month @ 6c/min for international calling.
o Easily installed, the plug [...]

It finally happened. There’s a long distance dialer that uses VOIP for really low cost calls to the US or Mexico. You can register up to five phones (even cell phones) and not have to insert a lengthy PIN number each time you call.
Some of the people who will really like this are dial up [...]

This sounded like such a good idea. That’s why Microsoft, Dell, and Google were salivating over the prospects. The device would have used previously unused TV airwaves to allow for the transmission of wireless broadband. Sadly, it’s flopped so far.
This could be a great boon to people who cannot otherwise get broadband service. If they [...]