Small Business Trends

“Tablet computers are for kids and gamers” is the prevailing sentiment that I hear from small business owners. The logic is that a tiny handheld computer won’t really help you get your work done. Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dissed the iPad by stating it is not a mobile device. But despite a myriad of less-than-positive commentary, tablets are a Read More

Has your business ever gotten a judgment in a court, only to find it was worthless because you didn’t have the time or the know-how to collect it?

Judgment Marketplace aims to solve that problem for you.

JudgmentMarketplace.com is a website for selling and buying judgments. Small business owners, corporations and consumers who have won a court judgment Read More

Experian has launched a new service to help small businesses quickly evaluate new customers for payment risk, monitor to see if risk changes, and collect past due amounts.

The product is an online subscription service called BusinessIQ Express.  It’s an all-in-one dashboard to help you quickly evaluate companies that are customers and prospective customers.  You also get alerts Read More

Concur has given a new name and new features to its travel expense management reporting software. Formerly called Concur Breeze, the online software application is now Concur Small Business edition.

What I found interesting is the company’s philosophy for the product.  They’ve taken a set of activities – - reporting on travel expenses — and want to make Read More

Creating a website form should be a fairly simple task, but it eludes most of us. We get started, then stop, mostly because I think we’re afraid of all the spam that will follow. Spam will follow, too. Spammers build robots to mess with the forms, even with captcha technology in use. So, if you are a small business owner Read More

If real estate agents claim location, location, location, then business owners might have to say inbox, inbox, inbox. That’s where many of us live.  This Constant Contact review is for the business owner who is “wearing too many hats” and needs a marketing lifeline with this all-in-one marketing package. They offer more than just email marketing.

Speaking your emails, texts, and documents into existence is a wonderful idea. It saves you time and effort, allows you to walk and talk your way to productivity. This review of Dragon NaturallySpeaking is for the small business owner who wants to increase office productivity. I received an evaluation copy to conduct this review.

I’m starting Read More

Automatic time tracking sounds like a beautiful thing for a time-based business owner. It isn’t easy to separate out how you spend your time on projects and client work. This is going to sound odd coming from a long time product reviewer, but I was afraid to install Chrometa and learn that I was under-billing on my projects. It would Read More

It’s hard to talk about marketing to a group these days with all the one-to-one focus of social media. You might engage on a mass level, but experts advise you to “engage the individual.” This is timely and good advice. But it puts webcasts, webinars, and online seminars in a “past their prime” bucket, for some.  Don’t discount the method Read More

Capture and share. I like the sound of that better than Point and Shoot. You probably own a video camera in the form of a smartphone, an iPad, or one of a hundred video cameras that do, gasp, only video. This post is for the small business owner who has the creative tools, but wonders how to move that video Read More