Sales & Marketing
March 2009 Archive

Q&A With Microsoft's Glauco Ferrari: Ways To Rise Above The Recession

March 31, 2009 | If your business is hunkering down, hoping to ride out the recession, Microsoft's Glauco Ferrari has some words of wisdom: Strive to improve customer relations and increase your employees' productivity in order to be competitive. And definitely have a plan.
By Jennifer Moline

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday March 24, 2009

March 24, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: software developers expectations for stimulus package, Power Pack 2 for Windows Home Server, Sage SalesLogix Today CRM software-hardware appliance, Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 and NAS 420 servers, HP dc5850 Business Desktop with Linux, AOL Shortcuts.com coupon service goes mobile, Concur comes to BlackBerry and Windows Mobile, RIM updates BlackBerry Internet service, Elfiq WAN load-balancing product suite, iPhone captures 50% of smartphone Web traffic, VASCO aXs GUARD Gatekeeper bundle, Microsoft sponsors Tweets, LeapFish.com free domain name appraisal, Web-based TextFlow, Box.net full-text searches, Google enhances search, Axcient hybrid on-premises/cloud backup, archiving, and DR...
By bMighty Staff

bMighty News Flash: Monday March 23, 2009

March 23, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: .tel domain launches, SMBs spent $6.9B on local online advertising, HP, Microsoft channel offering, social media marketing budgets increase, KACE Kontainers, IE8 loses users, iPhone 3.0 as game changer, Dell smartphone bombs, iPhone Bluetooth headset, 17" iMac returns, Skype goes SIP, SMBs can save big with cloud, auto-phishing on the rise, Concentric IM security service, Salesforce.com Twitters, Symantec's online storage, CraigList outpaces Myspace, Carbonite loses data...
By bMighty Staff

Q&A With John Jantsch Of Duct Tape Marketing: How To Focus Your Marketing

March 23, 2009 | Small and midsize businesses need to stay competitive and relevant in order to survive this recession. But how do they get noticed among all the other companies? Duct Tape Marketing's John Jantsch explains what type of marketing smaller companies should focus on and how to harness social networking.
By Benjamin Tomkins

Make Presentations Go Virtual With Webinars

March 20, 2009 | Fight the high cost of gas and air travel with your own Webinars. They're great marketing tools for communicating with customers and can help fight customer attrition while earning your business repeat sales.
By Kim T. Gordon

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday March 18, 2009

March 18, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Senate extends SBA programs, IBM buying Sun Microsystems, Criticism and praise for Obama's small business plan, Via Technologies design for mini-laptops, IBM, HP take swipes at Cisco's unified computing, Google Chrome Beta slow on Windows 7, iPhone 3.0 delivers cut, paste, and more, Cybersquatting reaches record levels, Panda Security offers cheaper Security-as-a-Service to SMBs, Google updates Unread in Gmail, Electronic Privacy Information Center urges FTC to investigate Google's cloud security, Sun Microsystems announces cloud computing platform...
By bMighty Staff

bMighty News Flash: Friday March 13, 2009

March 13, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: FBI probe of Vivek Kundra, Firefox beta release, Yahoo's FireEagle on Facebook, Palm Pre vs. iPhone and BlackBerry, Symbian platform release schedule, rumors of Android Cupcake, GlobalScape file sharing update, Dell all-in-one tackes iMac, PC makers target SMBs, stimulus for veteran-owned SMBs, Twitter drives traffic, Facebook outpaces Yahoo traffic, CDW seeks SMB partners, Zer01 unlimited mobile plan, Google Voice threatens Android, Linux adoption quickens...
By bMighty Staff

How To Make Your Business Look Good Online

March 13, 2009 | Blogger John Jantsch explains how to build and maintain small and midsize companies' online reputations using sites such as Google, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Facebook. Because the only way to control what people say about your business is to be part of the conversation.
By John Jantsch

Q&A With Fuel Interactive's Brian Carter: An SEO Pro And So Much More

March 10, 2009 | Brian Carter, director of search engine optimization, pay per click, and social media at Fuel Interactive, discusses how small and midsize businesses can survive the recession, how corporate structure affects companies, and what the future of marketing will be. As a stand-up comedian/acupuncturist/constant Twitterer, Carter has a lively view on the state of the smaller business today.
By Jennifer Moline

Making Social Networks Work for You

March 3, 2009 | You may be sold on the business value of social networking, but now you need to put it into action. Get the lowdown on managing your online persona, updating your Facebook status, growing your LinkedIn network, going mobile, and maintaining your privacy in this excerpt from Juliette Powell's "33 Million People In The Room."
By Juliette Powell

Q&A With Juliette Powell: The Business Potential Of Social Networking

March 3, 2009 | Social networks like Facebook are huge these days, but can they bring in business? Juliette Powell, author of "33 Million People In The Room," discusses Facebook, theorizes about the ROI of social networking, and explains why it can be risky to ignore social media.
By Benjamin Tomkins