5 Tips For SMBs To Seize The Mobile Web Opportunity

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:01 AM ET | Mar 12, 2010

With consumers flocking to mobile devices in droves, businesses need to meet customers where they are. These 5 tips will help your business navigate the mobile Web.

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Mobile
Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Internet/Web | Mobile | Sales/Marketing | iPhone

Yelp Lauches Business Promotion Webinars

Posted by Jake Widman 07:54 PM ET | Mar 11, 2010

The online rating service Yelp has instituted a series of educational webinars called Yelp for your Business, aimed at helping businesses leverage Yelp to enhance their online reputations.

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Business & E-Business
Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | E-Learning How-To | Internet/Web | Retail | Social Networking | Web 2.0

SMB Confidence Up, Spending And Hiring Still Flat

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:32 PM ET | Mar 11, 2010

A new survey of local merchants finds that most see the economy holding steady in the doldrums and widespread caution about hiring or spending.

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Business & E-Business
Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Economics | HR | Sales/Marketing

10 Tax Prep Tips To Reduce Audit Risk

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:56 AM ET | Mar 5, 2010

Tax day is almost here and business owners are diligently itemizing deductions and calculating depreciation - keep your chances your return being audited with these tips.

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Business & E-Business
Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Finance/Accounting | Government

Alfresco To Launch Content Management For SMBs

Posted by Jake Widman 02:25 AM ET | Mar 5, 2010

Enterprise content management and collaboration solution vendor Alfresco has announced its intention to launch a version of its service for SMBs and has opened its Early Access Program for a limited number of businesses to test.

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IT Management
Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | IT Management | Internet/Web | Services

SMB Confidence Continues To Flatline

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:30 AM ET | Mar 3, 2010

More than 40% of business owners expect it will be a year or more before their business rebounds from the great recession.

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Business & E-Business
Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Economics | Finance/Accounting | Government | Operations

Small Business Employment On The Upswing

Posted by Jake Widman 05:44 PM ET | Mar 1, 2010

According to new data released by Intuit, U.S. small businesses employed more people in February than the month before, continuing an 8-month trend of rising SB employment.

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Economics
Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Economics | HR

The 10 Most Strategic IT Vendors For SMBs

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 09:21 AM ET | Feb 26, 2010

The most strategic vendors for SMBs may be the same as for large enterprises. Or, the local and regional vendors that keep serve the IT needs of smaller businesses may just fly under the radar of national and global vendor rankings.

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Business & E-Business
Business & E-Business | Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | IT | IT Management | Operations | SMB Vendor News | Services

The 10 Most Strategic IT Vendors For SMBs

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 09:21 AM ET | Feb 26, 2010

The most strategic vendors for SMBs may be the same as for large enterprises. Or, the local and regional vendors that keep serve the IT needs of smaller businesses may just fly under the radar of national and global vendor rankings.

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Business & E-Business
Business & E-Business | Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | IT | IT Management | Operations | SMB Vendor News | Services

Intel Hacked At Same Time As Google

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:35 PM ET | Feb 25, 2010

Intel's annual report revealed that the company was successfully hacked this past January, around the same time as the Chinese Google hacks were grabbing all the headlines.

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Security
Business & E-Business | Security

Customers, Not Stimulus, Spur SMB Hiring

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 03:45 PM ET | Feb 23, 2010

Despite efforts in Washington to incent job creation among smaller businesses, customer demand remains the leading driver for hiring.

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Business & E-Business
Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Economics | Government | HR | Management

SMBs More Optimistic, But Still Scared To Borrow

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 03:42 PM ET | Feb 23, 2010

Small business owners are more optimistic about the economic outlook than a year ago, but lack of customer demand and anxiety about solvency keeps a majority from pursuing additional credit.

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Business & E-Business
Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Economics | Finance/Accounting | Government | Management | Operations

P2P Business Problems Growing: FTC Issues Warnings

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:35 AM ET | Feb 23, 2010

The FTC's announcement that nearly 100 private and public organizations had insecurely transmitted confidential, personal data over P2P networks is a wakeup call not just to those receiving the warnings, but to every business whose employees may be using file-sharing technology -- and especially to those who don't know whether employees are P2Ping or not.

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Security
Business & E-Business | Government | Security

Small Business Social Media Usage Booms

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 01:17 PM ET | Feb 19, 2010

A study finds that almost one of every five small business owners now actively uses social media for their business.

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Internet/Web
Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Internet/Web | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Services | Social Networking | Web 2.0

Staples Targets SMBs With IT Services

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:39 AM ET | Feb 16, 2010

Vying to be a one-stop shop for business IT, Staples seeks to grab the SMB market with "high-touch" services that can extend in-house IT efforts or provide full-service IT outsourcing.

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Services
Backup | Business & E-Business | Business Continuity | Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | IT | IT Management | Operations | Printers/Printing | Security | Services | Software-as-a-Service | Storage