How-To/Advice
April 2009 Archive

5 Essential Tools For Mobile Business

April 29, 2009 | Cutting the wires and going fully mobile can open up new opportunities for your business, but it also means you'll need to invest in tools to help your mobile workforce keep working on the go. Here are five you can't do without.
By bMighty Staff

Why You Should Take Your Company Mobile

April 27, 2009 | Interested in starting up a business but concerned about infrastructure costs? Cut those down significantly with a mobile company. In this recession, it's more cost effective to invest in some laptops and smartphones rather than shell out a bunch of cash for a brick-and-mortar office.
By Jennifer Moline

Ask Steve: Take Your Business Web Site Mobile

April 23, 2009 | The importance of mobile Web enablement will eclipse traditional Web e-commerce, ad-word search, and online self-service within 10 years. Yankee Group's Steve Hilton maps out the best practices for enabling your business' mobile Web site.
By Steve Hilton, Courtesy of Yankee Group

Make Your Business Web Site Social

April 17, 2009 | Using Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, a startup wine retailer in Massachusetts has found innovate ways to move real world activities online and grabbed more customer in process.
By Amanda C. Kooser

Putting Public Social Networks To Work For Business

April 15, 2009 | Companies are exploiting public social networking sites for valid business purposes. However, a lack of enterprise-class controls makes management of users akin to herding cats. By adopting strong policies for business use of public social networks, small and midsize businesses can maximize value and safeguard against inappropriate connections between personal and business contacts.
By Courtesy of Info-Tech Research Group

9 Cloud Storage Services For Your Business

April 9, 2009 | Storage can be expensive to manage and maintain, not to mention the constant need for more disk space. By using cloud computing for data storage, business owners can take advantage of more attractive pricing and minimize ongoing costs while integrating a host of new features available from different vendors.
By George Crump

Q&A With Nick Van Der Zweep: The Black Art Of Virtualization

April 7, 2009 | Virtualization is often cited as a panacea for IT management, power consumption, and hardware budget headaches. But what can virtualization really do for your business? Nick van der Zweep of HP Insight Software digs into the details to unearth the real value proposition.
By Jennifer Moline

Financial Crisis Survival Kit

April 2, 2009 | In the face of the current financial crisis, small- and midsize-business owners need strategies, tips, and tricks to help their companies weather the storm and emerge poised for the future.
By bMighty Staff

Should You Socialize Your Hiring?

April 1, 2009 | Some midsize companies, like MTM Technologies, are using social recruiting to attract better talent with lower recruiting costs by tapping employees' social networking contacts.
By Rusty Weston