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August 2007 Archive
Mid-Market Heroes: Leveraging Technology In a Tech-Adverse Industry
August 30, 2007 | Bamboo Pipeline -- a bMighty Mid-Market Hero company -- uses high-tech systems to sell plants to landscape professionals used to working with sod and dirt, not keyboards and monitors
By
Naomi Grossman
ASP Business Experts Build Online Community For Caregivers
August 21, 2007 | Two IT professionals used their ASP skills to build Lotsa Helping Hands, a free Web community designed to help manage logistics for caregivers
By Keith Ferrell
10 Smart Questions About Hosted VoIP
August 20, 2007 | The VoIP decision shouldn't be based on technology, but on how it will affect your business. Small businesses should ask themselves these 10 questions before making the leap to voice over IP and choosing hosted VoIP versus a do-it-yourself implementation
By
Kate Gerwig
5 Ways Wireless Can Boost Business
August 15, 2007 | Wireless networks can transform your business into a powerhouse by providing services to customers and adding more flexibility to your business than any other piece of hardware.
By Jimmy Ray Purser
Five Tips for World Class Customer Service
August 15, 2007 | Zealously protecting customer data and personalizing the customer experience are only two ways to ensure top notch customer service. Cisco's Jimmy Ray Purser offers three more tips.
By Jimmy Ray Purser
8 Strategies for First-Rate Customer Service
August 15, 2007 | Good customer service starts with meeting customer needs: a trouble-free shopping experience and a smooth business transaction. Increasingly, it's also about anticipating and meeting their desires
By Eric J. Adams
Insider Tips for Managing Customer Relationships
August 15, 2007 | Three successful business leaders share their best technology strategies for serving up great customer service.
By Eric J. Adams
Keep Your Web Customers Coming Back
August 15, 2007 | Are you driving away business with an outdated web site? Here are three improvements you can make right now to keep your customers enaged, and get them to return.
By Eric J. Adams
10 Tips for Increasing Operational Efficiency
August 15, 2007 | To remain competitive, businesses must boost operational efficiency wherever possible. It's particularly important for SMBs to operate efficiently, because they often have more limited resources than larger enterprises.
By James A. Martin
Expand Your Business with IP Communications
August 15, 2007 | Some small and medium-sized businesses view global expansion as a "daunting task." Others see IP communications as a way to overcome those limitations
By James A. Martin
The Business Case for Staying Connected
August 15, 2007 | Keeping a workforce connected to people and to data anytime, anywhere, is a big step toward boosting operational efficiency. It's especially important for small and medium-sized businesses
By James A. Martin
How Plaxo Enables Technological Networking
August 15, 2007 | Relying on only 50 employees, Plaxo helps 1 million users keep their e-mail addresses and contact information updated automatically. This is how they do it
By Michael Astel
Save Money Now by Disaster Planning
August 14, 2007 | You'll likely see immediate benefits such as lower insurance premiums and higher revenue, says an insurance expert.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems
Fostering Innovation
August 14, 2007 | Author Geoffrey Moore explains the link between effective innovation and a company's growth stage, and reveals the advantage of being a smaller business.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems
"Uncorporate" Thinking Saves Farms
August 14, 2007 | Organic Valley Farms officials describe how a farm cooperative is helping to save the family farm.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems
Sorting Out SOX
August 14, 2007 | Dr. Peggy Jackson, author of "Sarbanes Oxley for Small Businesses" outlines the advantages to voluntary compliance.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems
What is the Double Bottom Line?
August 14, 2007 | In this European accounting process, profits and sustainability are of equal weight. Find out what it will mean to you when it hits the U.S.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems
How and Why to Outsource
August 14, 2007 | Ashok Divakaran of Booz Allen Hamilton describes the advantages of outsourcing and which departments are best suited to it.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems
CEO Cheat Sheet: Outsourcing
August 14, 2007 | Cisco networking expert Jimmy Ray Purser diagrams the network you'll need to outsource your operations effectively and safely.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems
Boost Your Sales Force
August 14, 2007 | Discover how to boost your sales force by contracting with an outside sales rep firm. Sales expert Jim Dickie points out the caveats and lays out the advantages.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems
Micro-multinationalize Your Biz
August 14, 2007 | Michael Copeland of Business 2.0 discusses how to make the new "micro-multinational" work. Joined by Rajiv Parikh of Position2, who runs a micro-multinational.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems
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ANTenna Blog
News, Views, Insight, And Advice
| Cyber Monday Security Risks Are All Business |
Why Cyber Monday for the online shopping surge? Because for many, Monday's the first working day after Thanksgiving. Which means they can do their online shopping on business time, on the business dime, using business machines over business connections. You may not be able -- or want -- to do anything about the productivity drop, but at least you can tell your people to shop safely. Read Post |
| Fusion-io: This Ain't Your Father's SSD Hardware |
Think your new SATA solid-state hard drive is hot stuff? There's a new kid on the block that will make it look like a relic from the storage Stone Age. Read Post |
| Black Friday FOR SMBs, Not Just BY SMBs? |
Typically, Black Friday is a sales event where companies offer big discounts to consumers to spur sales the day after Thanksgiving. But in today's economy (ITE) companies are also pushing Black Friday to their SMB customers. Read Post |
Holiday Internet Marketing Grows, A QuickBooks Marketing App Gets Upgraded, And A New Entry-Level Shopping Cart
A new Constant Contact survey says SMBs are boosting their Internet marketing for the Holidays, ClickFuel has upgraded its FuelStation online marketing dashboard to work with QuickBooks 2010 and QuickBooks Pro, and ProPay's CartLite is an entry-level shopping cart. Read Post |
Unified Communications Looks to the Sky
To date, cloud computing has had little impact on the Unified Communications (UC) market. The underlying technology has been slow to fall into place, the cost of these services has been high, the benefits have been hard to pinpoint, and the distribution channel has been weak. Infrastructure providers, such Broadsoft, Cisco, and Microsoft, have been pushing to overcome those barriers and may be close to providing small and medium businesses with more UC cloud options. Read Post |
Storage, Storage, Storage: New Storage Devices In 3 Sizes
Data storage choices for SMBs just keep on coming as Data Robotics and Synology debut new storage solutions for prosumers, small businesses, and the midmarket. Read Post |
Yes, Virginia -- There IS A Google Phone
So -- you stay in touch with Google Mail, edit Google Docs, and surf the Web with Google Chrome. You're curious about Google Voice and intrigued over Google Music. Is it just a matter of time before you're carrying a Google Phone? Read Post |
Handy Tool Makes Updating Mac Apps Easy
MacUpdate Desktop simplifies the process of keeping your applications, preference panes, and widgets up to date by automatically downloading and installing what you need. Read Post |
Firefox Gets A Bad Rap From Shoddy Security Research
Is Firefox currently the Web browser most likely to stick your PC with a dangerous security vulnerability? Only if you believe headlines written by people who really should know better. Read Post |
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