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February 2009 Archive

Barter Exchanges Attract Customers And Boost Sales

February 27, 2009 | Care to barter for business? Bartering has moved into the mainstream thanks to professional barter exchanges that provide a venue for swapping goods and services, getting rid of excess inventory, turning downtime into revenue, and attracting new business.
By Crystal Detamore-Rodman

Q&A With Software Security Solutions' Monte Robertson: Protecting Your Company From Threats

February 26, 2009 | Today's hackers are more sophisticated than the days of the "geek in the basement." Data is selling well on the black market, so trained programmers are looking for ways to exploit your company's vulnerable machines. But there are security measures businesses can take to protect themselves and their data from outside threats.
By Jennifer Moline

bMighty Q&A: Leaders Talk IT For Your Business

February 26, 2009 | Leading executives, managers, and experts from SMBs and large enterprises share their insights and perspectives with bMighty on a host of IT issues, challenges, and opportunities that small and midsize businesses face.
By bMighty Staff

8 Tech Indulgences To Give Up For Lent

February 25, 2009 | A lot of technology can sap your time and productivity. bMighty came up with eight that we challenge you to see if you can sacrifice for the 40 days of Lent -- and see if your business benefits. While technologies like Twitter and e-mail newsletters have value -- if they weren't, giving them up would be a no-brainer -- they monopolize our time. So use Lent to find a way to better manage yourself.
By bMighty Staff

Mobile Security's Stature Increases As RIM Acquires Certicom

February 25, 2009 | By acquiring mobile encryption supplier Certicom, Research In Motion can bolster the security features on the BlackBerry. That should be welcome news to small and midsize businesses, because as BlackBerrys have gained power, they've also become problematic to manage as storage and security issues have arisen.
By Paul Korzeniowski

Search Is Going Vertical

February 24, 2009 | Optimize your Web site for the major search engines, but don't stop there. Vertical search engines only crawl specific topics, interests, or formats. Overlook vertical search and you'll miss a huge opportunity to draw customers and prospects to your site.
By Rebecca Lieb

Tax Season Tips For Your Business

February 23, 2009 | As the dreaded April 15 tax deadline looms, business owners need to ask themselves: Do I have all my paperwork? What deductions am I forgetting I can take? How does the stimulus bill affect taxes this season? And what on earth happens if I get audited? bMighty has the answers for small and midsize companies.
By Jennifer Moline

9 Power Problems That Can Unplug Your Business

February 23, 2009 | Who knew power was so complicated? A recent conversation with power expert Fred Miller at Eaton revealed that there are not one, not two, but nine different kinds of power problems that can cause trouble for your computers and servers. And each one requires different levels of protection.
By Fredric Paul

Storage Goes Big -- But Not In Price

February 20, 2009 | Just when you were getting used to gigabytes, now there are even bigger ways to store and manage your data. Here are a number of storage options for your smaller business, whether you prefer on-site hardware, a portable option, or an online backup system.
By Amanda C. Kooser

Network Switching Market Faces Dark Days

February 19, 2009 | The networking industry will feel the effects of the economic meltdown this year, as network switch revenue is expected to see its steepest decline in almost a decade. As a result, small and midsize businesses will find themselves with more bandwidth problems and less support from network suppliers.
By Paul Korzeniowski

What Your Business Can Learn From SEO Experts

February 18, 2009 | Your business has a Web site. Think that's enough? Hardly. Potential customers need to be able to find you, and that requires you to flex some search engine optimization skills. And because the world of SEO -- and the Internet, in general -- is constantly changing, it pays to learn how social networking is moving in on Google's territory.
By Jennifer Moline

Some Links Are More Equal Than Others

February 18, 2009 | Links are the core of any successful SEO effort. Optimizing your Web site with a coherent inbound, outbound, and internal linking will make it easy for search engine spiders to find your site.
By Rebecca Lieb

Q&A With Chas Roy-Chowdhury: How The Stimulus Bill Will Affect Smaller Businesses

February 17, 2009 | Now that the stimulus bill is starting to seem like a reality, it's time to figure out what's in it for small and midsize businesses. bMighty talked with Chas Roy-Chowdhury of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, and you might not like what he has to say.
By Jennifer Moline

Q&A With Kevin Reeth Of Outright: Using SaaS For Bookkeeping And Tracking Tax Deductions

February 17, 2009 | Business owners have enough to worry about without being accountants, too. Kevin Reeth explains how Outright improves on the Excel and shoebox approach to bookkeeping and how SaaS and cloud computing could change the bookkeeping software market.
By Benjamin Tomkins

Use Keywords To Get Search Results

February 13, 2009 | Put Google AdWords to work for your Web site and watch the customers -- and sales -- click in. It might take some practice to figure out the right word combinations, but the low cost of AdWords is a marketing tool small and midsize businesses may not be able to afford to pass up.
By Gwen Moran

How To Take Your Business Green

February 12, 2009 | So your company wants to go green, but it doesn't know where to start? bMighty's Green IT Toolbox has the tools you need, including which aspects of your business can go green, what resources you can refer to, and how to get started. After all, green IT can be good for the planet AND your wallet.
By Jennifer Moline

Get Ready To Scale Back Your Corporate Network

February 12, 2009 | As the recession lingers on -- possibly into the next year -- small and midsize businesses that considered growing may now find themselves facing challenges. Now they need to figure out how to scale back deployments, close offices, consider outsourcing, lay off staff, and rethink adopting technologies such as VoIP and unified communications.
By Paul Korzeniowski

Q&A With Xactly's Chris Cabrera: Automating Sales Force Motivation

February 11, 2009 | Sales compensation gets a face-lift through software as a service, making Xactly's sales performance management products affordable for smaller businesses. And effectively motivating your sales force -- and even rewarding them -- can have a positive effect on your revenue.
By Benjamin Tomkins

Q&A With Rebecca Lieb: How To Succeed With Search

February 10, 2009 | Most businesses have a Web site, but without a savvy search strategy customers and prospects will never find it. With more consumers and businesses online than ever before -- many of them using mobile devices -- a findable digital presence is crucial to marketing sales success. Find out what you can do now.
By Naomi Grossman

SEO Is Not An Afterthought

February 10, 2009 | Building your Web site with flash and sizzle -- or just with Flash -- can result in a slick business site. But if you don't bake SEO into the site from the start, no one will ever find it.
By Rebecca Lieb

11 Things To Love On Valentine's Day

February 9, 2009 | Valentine's Day is all about love and that includes showing affection for your favorite technology. Here are 11 things that get bMighty all warm and fuzzy, from red-hot netbooks to the consumerization of IT and more -- things every business owner should embrace.
By bMighty Staff

Q&A With Hurwitz & Associates' Laurie McCabe: Solutions For Smaller Businesses

February 9, 2009 | SaaS, cloud computing, Web-based tools, on-demand -- there are a lot of nontraditional technology terms for smaller companies to stomach these days. But a closer look reveals that these tools can help small and midsize businesses save a lot of money and time. Analyst Laurie McCabe helps wade through the jargon.
By Jennifer Moline

The Choice For Your Business: Netbook Or Smartphone?

February 5, 2009 | Netbooks have been generating a lot of hype, causing some experts to say they'll displace smartphones. But both products have their downsides, and small and midsize companies would be wise to consider all the details before deciding whether to invest in a new netbook versus a smartphone.
By Paul Korzeniowski

Q&A With DataFlux's Tony Fisher: Good Data Can Bring In Revenue

February 4, 2009 | Data governance is what will bring in cash and help you hold on to customers, says DataFlux CEO Tony Fisher. Too many smaller companies have duplicated information and therefore don't know where their inventory is or what their customers like. And during a recession, that's something businesses can't afford to do.
By Jennifer Moline

Ask Steve: Three Strategies For Surviving Tough Times

February 3, 2009 | Business owners are, rightly, concerned about how the financial crisis and recession will hurt their businesses. Yankee Group analyst Steve Hilton shares his insights about ways that you can use technology to survive these tough times.
By Steve Hilton, Courtesy of Yankee Group

Advantages To Database Virtualization

February 3, 2009 | Using database virtualization can enhance database performance and provide real-time backup of important business data. But this functionality isn't just for large enterprises; small and midsize companies using SQL Server can virtualize databases, too.
By Naomi Grossman

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