Spam emails are unsolicited commercial email sent without consent. It is email that you don’t want and didn’t ask for. Spammers attempt to send emails in a few different ways including purchasing large lists of email addresses and using software to randomly generate an email address. You need to be careful how you use and share your email address. Here are the top 10 ways to reduce the amount of spam that you will get. (more…)
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1 09.07.09 Top 10 New Ways to Reduce Spam Email
0 09.02.09 Starting Your Online Presence
We are living in the information age. More and more consumers turn to the Internet to find information on companies and their products and services, quite often making a decision to purchase before talking to any salesperson. Traditional marketing materials such as brochures, printed advertisements, radio and television ads are very costly compared to a having an online presence. Why should you consider building an online presence with your company? (more…)
There are a few office essentials that can be fairly expensive. Without proper planning the cost of Internet access and printers can grow unnecessarily as you add new computers or workstations to your office. Most small businesses only require one Internet access into the building and one or two printers. By following a few simple steps you can save your business money by sharing Internet and printers among your computers. (more…)
0 08.19.09 Loan $25 and Change Lives
Technology can be used for so much more than helping ourselves. Kiva is a non-profit organization that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur in less fortunate areas of the globe. They are the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. (more…)
0 08.15.09 Free Step by Step Video Tutorial
I’ve just finished developing my first video tutorial, and have based it on a recent post talking about backing up your important business data.
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It’s a miserable day outside so you decide to spend the day drafting proposals to your clients. You have been working on one particular proposal for a couple hours and the power goes out. You curse because 3 hours of work has gone down the drain because it had not been saved. Using battery backups or uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) can eliminate this problem. (more…)
1 08.03.09 How to Properly Backup Your Data
Running a small business can generate a lot of data. The emails you send and receive, financial transactions such as invoices and recorded expenses, working files such as documents and spreadsheets and possibly pictures you have taken of previous work done can all be very important to your business. What if you were told that you had just lost all electronic information about your business? (more…)
1 07.28.09 How to best keep track of your invoices
A large percentage of businesses use invoices to bill the customer for services rendered. There are also many ways in which the invoices can be printed. Many businesses start off by using a Word Document as a template for invoicing, and gradually evolve into using expensive accounting software. You should at least use a basic accounting package and I will tell you why. (more…)
0 07.21.09 Becoming Incorporated
Tomorrow I plan on going to the Companies Office here in Winnipeg with the intent of Incorporating this business. Since this will be an internet based business, with potential clients across the world I feel it is important that the company be it’s seperate entity so that it can live forever (hopefully). I will post updates on this page as they happen.
Update: July 27, 2009
It took a couple days for the response to come back from our Companies Office on Broadway, but it arrived in the mail today. (more…)
1 07.21.09 Importance of Computers in Business
Businesses around the world use computers as part of their daily operations. For some the computer is just a tool for writing documents, others use it to manage every aspect of their operations.
Whether you are starting a new business or have been established for a while, everyone knows the importance of having a computer. However the trick isn’t just to have computers, the trick is to have reliable computers with the right software to help you get the job done right the first time. (more…)