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If people don’t know about your website then the investment is effectively wasted. Here are the steps you need to take to ensure you clock up hits from day one.

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Update your website

2008 may not even seem that long ago to some of you. But so much has changed in marketing since then that quite frankly a website even developed in 2010 can seem – well – “old school.” According to Pew Internet & American Life Project back around 2008, only about ½ the North American population [...]

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Alternatives to Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is one of the most commonly used applications in the world of computing, but as you might already know, it isn’t free. Excel is part of the Microsoft Office bundle of programs which while it isn’t that expensive to purchase, it’s still an unnecessary cost for many of today’s fledgling businesses. When it [...]

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Annual IT Department Evaluation

  If you’re taking advantage of the spring to sort out your office, clean up your paperwork, and get your admin in order, don’t neglect your IT systems. It’s a good idea to review some key areas of your computer systems once every 12 months or so. Revisiting these five crucial aspects shouldn’t take long, [...]

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Powerpoint alternatives for investor presentations

Roughly 95 percent of slideshow presentations are still given in PowerPoint, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t evaluate other tools. We’ll run through the top alternatives and weigh the pros and cons. Google Docs Presentations A free feature in Google Docs (Trust us, it’s there; you just never use it.) If you consider yourself a [...]

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Do me a favor … tell me what a “phone“ is?  A device to call someone?  What exactly constitutes a “call”?  While you’re at it, what’s a “smart phone” anyway?  And how much longer must I drag along this 9 digit distraction? I don’t know about you, but my so-called phone is used to actually [...]

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Digital Mail Room

As the world increasingly goes digital, using postage mail for customer outreach has almost become an anachronism. In fact, many small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are using targeted direct mailings alongside their digital efforts to connect with customers. That increased momentum is bringing about the growth of digital mailrooms in offices and companies across the country. The savvy business owner must move [...]

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My last blog ended with a Simon & Garfunkel reference to Steve Jobs as our generation’s Joe DiMaggio and how Tech-Nation turns it’s lonely eyes to the Google guys – Larry & Sergey. Then I realized something … Steve Jobs’ consecutive string of hit consumer devices is quite similar to Joe DiMaggio’s 56 game hitting streak. But Jobs died, [...]

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Entrepreneur Zack Price was selected to be a Project Glass Explorer for Google.  Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday.  Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was [...]

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Social Media as a web-presense

When starting a new company it is surprising the number of people who still don’t consider a plan for how they will be perceived online. A web-presence is the digital representation of your company and is a key factor for attracting new business.   Often your web presence will be the first point of contact with [...]

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