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Small Business Accounting Software: 17 Targeted Choices
Are you still keeping your books using a spreadsheet — or worse, a time-consuming paper accounting ledger? Make 2010 the year you get your books organized and in tip-top shape. Let technology help make it easy. Here are 17 small business ac...
New Q&A Site for Entrepreneurs: Answers OnStartups
You read blogs about running a business. Amazing that I could deduce that, right? A regular Sherlock Holmes over here, writing that on … a blog about business. Why read blogs? I’m guessing it’s because you’re constantly out of...
30 Useful Small Business Email Marketing Apps
Email marketing is one of the dominant ways that a small business reaches out to customers and prospects. Email marketing is about relationships — and successful relationship marketing involves a lot more thought than simply firing off a newsle...
Customer Relationship Management With A Social Media Twist: BatchBook Review
Keeping track of customers and your interactions with them is never an easy task. BatchBook calls itself the social CRM solution for small business owners and entrepreneurs. I set up a free trial account and the following is my review after testing...
PocketSmith: Financial Forecasting for Small Business
PocketSmith is a new web-based financial tool to help you predict cashflow. Currently, the service is designed for individuals, but with just a bit of creative thought, small business owners can see how it will help them manage and forecast cashflo...
QuickBooks 2010: Accounting Software Review
It is hard to imagine big shifts in accounting software. After all, not much has changed in how you count money coming in or going out. But Intuit has done just that in its latest release: QuickBooks 2010. It has all the standard things you’ve co...
WebinarHero: New Webinar Listing Service
WebinarHero is a free webinar listing service and promotion service. On the site, you can submit your upcoming webinar. Or, if you are looking for webinars to attend, you search the database for webinars on various topics. You can also search by date...
33 Highly Useful Presentation Tools
After the terrific market response to 11 Highly Useful Presentation Tools for Sales and Marketing, we knew that a follow-on post was mandatory to help readers sell and market successfully online (and off). Here is a list of 33 more presentation tools...
Product Review: Google Docs For A Book Manuscript
All in all, this was a nice improvement. For the two books I wrote last year I had to deal with Microsoft Word and transferring files from home to office to laptop and back, then printing hundreds of pages of manuscripts to send to the publisher. For...
How I Used PointBanner to Get Banner Ads, Fast and Cheap
If you are looking for banner ads for an online advertising campaign, PointBanner is an excellent design service. It is well within a small business budget. They promise — and deliver — fast turnaround time. Recently I tried out the s...
Basecamp - A Good Choice to Manage Projects for the Web Savvy
Basecamp is an online project collaboration system. It helps you manage projects and organize your documents in one place and share it across teams. They have three other major applications that dovetail with it: Highrise (CRM), Backpack (business or...
Review of Zoho Projects: Project Management Tool
Zoho Projects is an online task and project management tool. As a Web-based project planning tool, it provides a way for the small business owner or manager to plan, manage, and track a project from start to finish. Benefits of using Zoho Projects If...
Online Scheduling Review: Shiftboard Keeps Schedules Up to Date
Shiftboard is an online scheduling system for small to medium-sized companies and organizations. You use it to schedule worker shifts. That worker could be a paid employee or a volunteer. Like many of our reviews, Shiftboard is a software-as-a-serv...
WorkingPoint: Bookkeeping, Invoicing and Contact Management in One
WorkingPoint is online business management software for small businesses. It is an ambitious and comprehensive offering that includes bookkeeping, invoicing, contact management, inventory management, a public marketing profile, and more. As a web...
11 Highly Useful Presentation Tools for Sales and Marketing
Computer slide presentations are one of the ways we sell in person. We create the slides, show them to a prospect and then leave them on our machines for the next time we need them. Why let them go to waste? By hosting them online, we can repurpose t...
Outright: Simple Online Bookkeeping for Sole Proprietors
Outright is a simple, online bookkeeping service. Key in on the term “simple.” I’ve never seen an easier financial tool for a business owner. That’s not me gushing over this product, but stating the obvious. If you have a bookkeeper now, this...
