How-To/Advice
February 2009 Archive

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

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

bMighty Q&A: Leaders Talk IT For Your Business

February 19, 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

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

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

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

Follow The Money To Better Vendor Management

February 5, 2009 | Savvy vendor management can significantly reduce expenses by planning and optimizing IT purchases of products and services. By applying several best practices, business owners can improve dealings with vendors during critical moments in the management cycle.
By Aaron Hay, Courtesy of Info-Tech Research Group

6 Linux Myths Busted

February 4, 2009 | Linux is steeped in myths. And like most technologies that offer an alternative to a de facto standard, these myths keep many business owners leery of moving from Windows to Linux. Busting some of these myths may change your mind.
By Matthew McKenzie