Is your company's Website updated more than once a week? Is it integrated with social media tools like Facebook and Twitter?These may seem like rather basic, obvious matters at this point, but a surprising number of small businesses are not updating their sites frequently or utilizing social media as much...
Is your company's Website updated more than once a week? Is it integrated with social media tools like Facebook and Twitter?These may seem like rather basic, obvious matters at this point, but a surprising number of small businesses are not updating their sites frequently or utilizing social media as much...
A report released by freelancer hiring site Elance today shows a surprising amout of growth in hiring during the fourth quarter of last year, especially in IT categories. Among some of the most sought after technical skills on Elance last quarter were PHP, Wordpress, HTML/CSS, graphic design, MySQL, JavaScript and...
After a few years of buzz in mobile marketing circles, QR - or "quick response" - codes are finally starting to pop up in the United States, thanks in large part to the proliferation of smart phones. While they're still not exactly mainstream, QR codes are appearing in major print...
The Q&A site Quora has been blowing up with new users for the last few weeks, initially thanks to some much-due love from Robert Scoble, and then by growing enthusiasm for the site among the tech press.While tech writers, VC's and geeky enthusiasts of all stripes have an obvious, immediate...
It's been a few years since Yelp launched, but despite proliferatingcompetition, the user-generated business reviews site isn't going anywhere. For some local businesses, it's a blessing. For others, the very public, sometimes brutal candor of their customers can be a lot to swallow.Like it or not, social media has empowered...
It's been a few years since Yelp launched, but despite proliferatingcompetition, the user-generated business reviews site isn't going anywhere. For some local businesses, it's a blessing. For others, the very public, sometimes brutal candor of their customers can be a lot to swallow.Like it or not, social media has empowered...
Since its launch in 2008, Evernote has been used primarily by consumers for recording and organizing notes and ideas. And while consumers continue to be the company's chief target, the application has many potential uses in business, a fact underscored by their announcement earlier today of sponsored accounts for schools...
In case you haven't heard, this weekend marks the first annual Small Business Saturday, the small business community's answer to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Just as consumers flock to malls on Black Friday and hunt for bargains online on Cyber Monday, small businesses everywhere are hoping they'll see some...
As most business users of Google Apps know by now, Google recently added dozens of new services to Google Apps, including AdWords, Analytics, DoubleClick, Feedburner, Reader and Voice, among others. The update gives Google Apps customers access to a whole suite of applications that were previously only available to individual...
For nearly as long as we've had the ability to publish to the Web, tools have existed to help us measure traffic on our sites. In the early days, there were log file-based systems that gave us a general idea of the number of "hits" we were getting each week....
Edith Yeung has a knack for bringing smart people together. For evidence of that, one needed to look no further than the fourth floor auditorium of the Metreon in San Francisco last weekend. It was there that Yeung and her team hosted a series of speakers, panels and product demos...
Yesterday, we rounded up some handsome, business-friendly Wordpress themes for small business sites. Regardless of which design you go with, you're going to want to bolt some plugins on to your installation of Wordpress to extend its functionality.If Wordpress doesn't do something you need it to, chances are there's a...
Wordpress may have begun life as a blogging tool, but the open source publishing platform has evolved into something resembling a full-fledged CMS in recent years, especially with the release of Wordpress 3.0 in June. In fact, it can easily be used to manage a Website for products and businesses,...
The Times Center in New York City was packed on Friday with some of the brightest minds in both business and technology for the first-ever east coast edition of BizTechDay, a one-day conference for entrepreneurs now in its third year.The event, which was keynoted by Seth Godin, featured an impressive...
Starting July 1st, Starbucks will finally begin to offer free and unrestricted Internet access over Wi-Fi in its stores. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz made this announced at Wired's Disruptive by Design conference today. With this, Starbucks finally joins the ranks of neighborhood coffee stores all over the world that have...
In March, President Obama announced the National Export Initiative (NEI) in order to improve conditions that affect the private sector's ability to export. By working to remove trade barriers and hurdles to entering the export market, the NEI seeks to help meet the Obama administration's goal of doubling exports over...
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We've done an analysis of the 72 start-ups launching at Demo Fall 08, to categorize them by both location and focus. The location story: 28% from Silicon Valley, but only 3% more than East Coast at 25%. It is still US centric at 40%, with Europe at 10% and Asia...
Many small and medium sized businesses may have an interest in maintaining a presence on social networks, but don't the time, money, or resources to do so. For them, a new service provided by a company called Bizzlr can help. For a small monthly fee, companies can use Bizzlr's solution...
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