Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Marketplaces “hate” monopolies - at least where competition is allowed. To date and the foreseeable future, the Windows operating system has a near monopoly on business software applications.
Will VMWare intrude into Microsoft’s monopoly - or rather - allow other users to get a piece of the pie without requiring Windows users to switch wholesale?
Decide for […]

Here’s the list from Popular Mechanics about 25 things every man should know how to do.
But since most men don’t know how to do all these things, it’s also a list of 25 clues about potential part time service businesses to start!
1. Patch a radiator hose
2. Protect your computer
3. Rescue a boater who […]

What is the future of email marketing?
With most young people texting these days, email is seemingly for “old fogies”.
Even chat and Instant messaging are a bit like texting with training wheels.
The old mantra was “the money’s in the list” but now what form is the list supposed to take?
Or is it lists? One snail mail, […]

The other day I was telling you how well Keyword Anywhere was working. Just as their product was rolling out, the Keyword research tool at Overture went out!
URL: http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
Talk about bad entrepreneurial fortune for a brand new product! While the folks at Keyword Anywhere are trying to help their current customers with a workaround, evidently […]

I guess you’d say that LeadStash.com is Web 2.0 Direct Mail For Small Business. Unveiled a week ago, it has already drawn criticism from a major publisher’s blog - Fast Company. In fact, I found it because Google picked it up and I saw the headline in my email! I guess press releases CAN […]

Email is crucial to business these days for many reasons. Most corporations use it in lieu of paper correspondence and it carries more weight than paper communications. Paper communications are likely sent by email and expected to be printed out! In one organization I’m familiar with the printed and signed documents are scanned and also […]

I needed to do some keyword research so I decided to purchase and test the new tool Keyword Anywhere. I don’t expect I’ll be able to use all it’s foreign language search components soon, but just the English tools are awesome enough. The picture is about a search done using Myspace to suggest keyword niches.
You […]

Most home based entrepreneurs are aware of Google’s free tools, but now Microsoft is trying to target the small office, home office crowd with its online tool suite: Microsoft Office Live.
Here’s just more evidence of what’s possible while working from home. Do you have any contacts overseas who could help you product source?
From The […]

Here’s a free tool that will help small businesses on the net deliver email more productively to their customers and not get their communications trashed as “SPAM”.
Spam is a bigger and bigger problem nowadays. Recently RalphWilson, Paul Myers, and other Net marketing gurus havewritten about the problems that spam is causing honest, hardworking Net marketers.
Actually, […]

AT&T wants to remain competitive in serving the Small Business sector and is looking for ways to serve them that might even be of interest to larger home businesses.
The San Antonio Business Journal notes that
AT&T recently launched its AT&T IP Flexible Reach, a new business effort that will give technicians the ability to converge a […]