Software & Tools

Always Have These 6 Contractors At The Ready

You land a big new project and need expertise and staff that you don’t currently have. No small business can afford an army of employees just sitting around waiting for...

7 Apps That Should Be Banned From Your Office

We are all – whether we’re the employee or the employer – infinitely distractible. Studies have proven that multitasking is a myth – that while we can switch between and...

Helpful Money Metrics to Help Monitor The Health of Your Company

When most people want to know how they’re doing financially, they look at their bank balance and see what’s there.  Bank balance accounting – although wildly popular – is a...

7 Risks You Should Be Aware Of When Using The Cloud

It’s not uncommon for business owners who aren’t particularly tech savvy to hear about running their business on the Cloud and go full-steam ahead heedless of the costs – both...

Become More Efficient By Using These 8 Old School Technology Pieces

The drive for years has been to do more with less – that is to incorporate the functions of multiple tools into fewer and fewer devices. We all know where...

1 Easy Thing You Can Do To Enhance Your Websites Performance

There are literally billions of Web pages, as well as users, and today, having Internet marketing fit somewhere in your budget is a given. But if you are going to...

The New Way To Collect Email Addresses

What’s one thing all entrepreneurs need? Clients. Sometimes I feel like I spend half of my time working to make connections, land clients, and strengthen relationships with existing customers. I...

The Best VoIP Phone System On The Market

I know more about phone systems than I really care to. Having owned three companies of all different sizes over the past 17 years, I have unintentionally become skilled in...

Life Of A Backpack CEO

My business sure ain't an episode of Mad Men.  I don’t spend my day lounging on a couch sipping scotch, and I often wonder why I bother to keep an...

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