Latest Stories for December, 2009

 

Greening Your Small Business: Book Review

I’m not a good steward of the environment. I don’t recycle as much as I can, I drink bottled water when it’s available and I just don’t have time to make the extra effort that it takes to “be green.” And you want to know something else? My final work in…

Aggregate Mobile Coupons for Businesses

New York (PRESS RELEASE – December 12, 2009) – 8coupons.com, the best place to find mobile coupons and deals in your neighborhood is evolving and growing. Once only known in New York City for Mobile Coupons and OCHO LOCO! promotions, 8coupons.com has improved into a one-stop shop for…

Email Marketing in Small Businesses: Adoption, Budget, and Challenges

Earlier this year we partnered with research firm Hurwitz & Associates on an online survey of small businesses with 1 to 20 employees. (You may remember taking the survey here on this site, back in July.) The survey was about marketing.  I wrote about the first part of the report last month. …

Instant Access to Legal Answers for Individuals and Small Businesses Owners

San Francisco, California (PRESS RELEASE – December 11, 2009) – JustAnswer, the website where people go when they need answers from a verified attorney, and Nolo, the country’s leading publisher of how-to legal and business tools and the leading lawyer directory, unveil the…

A Remedy to Inbox Overflow

At every job I had before becoming a cartoonist, on my desk sat the traditional IN and OUT trays. And occasionally I’d get those really busy days where my inbox was so full I was sure my desk would flip to one side. All day co-workers would walk by, drop a stack of papers in my tray, and…

The Better Way Challenge for Small and Medium-Sized Business

New York (PRESS RELEASE – December 11, 2009) — Small- and medium-sized business owners can compete for a chance to win up to $2,000 in a reward card and a free consultation with business-marketing expert Guy Kawasaki — and share the triumphs and trials of running a business…

How to Stop Junk Mail to Your Business

No time like the holidays to remind us how much needless waste clutters our mailboxes. Direct-mail outlets and retailers are in full force, sometimes sending two or three copies of 100-page glossy catalogs to the same business address. Not to mention all the credit-card offers, coupon packs and…

AT&T Forms Business Sustainability Advisory Council

Dallas (PRESS RELEASE – December 10, 2009) — AT&T today announced it has formed a business sustainability advisory council dedicated to advising AT&T on the powerful linkage between information and communications technology (ICT) and helping customers minimize the…

Google Releases Real-Time Reputation Problem

As I mentioned yesterday, Google released quite a bit of news covering a wide variety of areas. One of the larger headlines revolved around their new effort to integrate real-time search into the search results to help Google compete with Bing’s Twitter deal and, of course, Twitter itself. …

New IBM Study Uncovers Business Strategies For Weathering Economic Storm

Armonk, N.Y. (PRESS RELEASE – December 10, 2009) — Top-performing companies were 15 times more likely to apply analytics to strategic decisions than their underperforming peers, according to a new IBM ( IBM) study of the role information-based decision making is playing in successful…

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