A Small Business Blog and Small Business Tips Related to Growing, Marketing and Managing a Small Business.Small business blog for small business owners, includes resources for businesses, small business grants, business plans, business letters, daily business tips, online marketing advice and information. Learn ideas for your small business.Multifunction Messaging Gateway for Big or Small Businesses- July 26, 2007 PageGate is a complete wireless messaging solution that incorporates a wide variety of messaging protocols for sending messages to mobile phones, wireless devices, fax machines and pagers. Wireless messaging communication is important in todays fast paced environment. PageGate allows critical alerts to be sent instantly to wireless devices regardless of the recipient locations. PageGate supports group messaging and preprogrammed alerts, so that with the press of a single button notification...http://www.small-business-software.net/#496 Finance Companies Embrace RSS Feeds- July 25, 2007 Financial institutions are reaching out to clients using RSS feeds. While banks and financial institutions are usually slow to adopt new technology, that is not the case with RSS adoption. More and more professionals are using RSS in innovative ways, to stay ahead of their competition. Finance Companies Embrace RSS Feedshttp://www.small-business-software.net/#495 Microsoft and Yahoo Take a Step to Protect Piracy- July 24, 2007 Hopping on the privacy-protection bandwagon, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are limiting how long their Internet search engines retain potentially sensitive data about their users.http://www.small-business-software.net/#494 Keep Your Website Search Friendly- July 23, 2007 So you have a fantastic website but no one ever visits. You may ask Why Your website should be designed with search engines in mind. Too many web designers are graphic artists that excel at image manipulation, but lack a basic understanding of search engine optimization. Web design and search engine optimization (SEO) should not be mutually exclusive. Webmasters should have a clear understanding of both design techniques and how the search engines work. Keep Your Website Search Friendlyhttp://www.small-business-software.net/#493 Software Industry Conference Overview- July 21, 2007 This overview will not be as detailed as in the past but I did want to touch on a few conference highlights. The conference had a high percentage of new attendees. FastSpring FastSpring is a new ecommerce service run by Dan Engel (developer of Piccassa, and Morpheus), Ken White (former RegSoft owner and current owner of NextUp) and Ryan Dewell (former coder at RegNow). Digital River Digital River changed their name to Global Direct. They also launched a software marketing resource for.http://www.small-business-software.net/#492 Shareware Industry Award Winners Announced- July 20, 2007 The WINNERS for the 2007 Shareware Industry Awards have been announced! Take a look at the best software for 2007 in each category! Most have evaluation versions available for download. Best Overall Utility FolderMatch by Salty Brine Software TuneUp Utilities 2007 by TuneUp Software GmbH - WINNER WinRar by win.rar GmbH WinZip by WinZip International LLC. Best Application ClipMate by Thornsoft Development - WINNER CSE HTML Validator by AI Internet Solutions Open Office by Sun..http://www.small-business-software.net/#491 New Software Developer and Marketer Resource- July 19, 2007 Digital River, Global Direct has just launched a resource for software developers. The DR Developer Resource contains how to articles for software marketers and developers as well as some very interesting statistical information about software sales.http://www.small-business-software.net/#490 Interesting New Meta Tag- July 18, 2007 Google has announced an interesting new Meta Tag. The tag is unavailable_after and will allow you to tell Google when Google should no longer crawl that page. The tag is particularly helpful if you have a limited time offer promotional page, and on this page, the promotion will expire on a specific date. By using the unavailable_after tag, you can tell Google that they should not crawl this page, after the promotion expires.http://www.small-business-software.net/#489 Tips of Royalty Free Stock Photography for Website- July 10, 2007 Stock photography websites contain thousands of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time, effort and money. Typically publishers can either purchase exclusive rights to a single image or they can purchase a subscription of sorts. The subscriptions allow publishers to download a limited number of photos over a specified period of time. Stock photo websites allow webmasters, marketers and...http://www.small-business-software.net/#488 eBay Takes on Craigs List- July 9, 2007 EBay has launched a free classified advertising site in the United States, an experiment the online auction company says could lead to new sources of revenue. The site Kijiji means village in Swahili.http://www.small-business-software.net/#487 |