Product Reviews

33 Tools And Resources To Increase Website Trust And Sales

By TJ McCue - Oct 1, 2012 - 11 Comments

After reading Lisa Barone’s incredibly useful and popular post "25 Questions Your Site Must Answer," I felt compelled to look at my site and my client’s sites to see what tools I could find and use to start answering as many of the questions as I could. I’m not done yet, but Lisa inspired … Read More

Getting Your Small Business Started On Yelp

By TJ McCue - Sep 27, 2012 - 13 Comments

Yelp is one of the top ways for local businesses to get noticed and found by consumers, especially on mobile devices. It is an easy and affordable way to market your company and it is not just for restaurants. If you run a company that uses or could leverage its local presence, Yelp is worth … Read More

Scheduling Phone Calls And Appointments With Tungle

By TJ McCue - Sep 16, 2012 - 4 Comments

Scheduling appointments can be easy, if you have a personal assistant, secretary, or you know how to leverage technology. Voicemail tag is pretty common when you don't have an assistant, and you are trying to schedule an appointment with someone. Messages back and forth, as you try to figure out … Read More

SumAll: Financial Analysis by Tracking Your Website Traffic

By TJ McCue - Aug 30, 2012 - 3 Comments

Google Analytics is free. We all know that, but we also know that it isn't always easy to use. Small business websites are not cheap to build or manage (not usually) and then we expect those sites to deliver magnificent results. In reality, few of us are watching the analytics meter because it is … Read More

Business Networking with Biznik

By TJ McCue - Aug 29, 2012 - 7 Comments

Social networking is frequently touted as one of the greatest ways to drive new business. Just keep writing, blogging, podcasting, tweeting, or pinning and the sales will eventually follow. That may be true, for some. But for most of us, sales and marketing is still a 1:1 process. Meeting people in … Read More

TeamWox Makes Group Collaboration Less Complicated

By Small Business Edito… - Aug 14, 2012 - 1 Comment

Sponsored Post No matter the size, every business has a seemingly endless number of daily tasks that have to be managed, planned, organized, and implemented. For those business owners who have employees and different departments to manage, all of these daily tasks can sometimes … Read More

Funding For a Small Project or Product with Kickstarter

By TJ McCue - Jul 27, 2012 - 10 Comments

Despite its enormous popularity, Kickstarter is still not as well known in the small business community as you would expect. If you haven't heard about this crowdfunding platform, read on and I'll share how this still-new service is shaking up the startup and new product world. Kickstarter is a … Read More

Optimizing Your Website: Ten Powerful SEO Tools

By TJ McCue - Jul 26, 2012 - 21 Comments

Optimizing your website is mission critical, but it isn't a black box. You can do a lot of it yourself with any of these search engine optimization (SEO) tools. If you are a small business owner that has dreamed of showing up on page one of Google or Bing, this post is for you. To show you a bit … Read More

Research Tool to Help Your Small Business Succeed: Review of QuestionPro

By TJ McCue - Jul 6, 2012 - 10 Comments

Most business owners have heard the statistic that 80% of new businesses fail within the first three years. One of the biggest reasons they reportedly fail is because they lack the information and related analysis to make a good decision. You can prevent this by using free and low cost online … Read More

Daily Deals That Won’t Break The Bank: Check Out Signpost

By TJ McCue - Jun 28, 2012 - 9 Comments

Groupon and LivingSocial have motivated many small businesses into offering daily deals, but the 50 percent commission is often a daily deal breaker. Signpost is a new venture-backed daily deal service that that lets small and medium sized businesses set up their own daily deal campaigns and online … Read More

Back It Up Today With Hard Drive In The Cloud: Review of Carbonite

By TJ McCue - Jun 26, 2012 - 9 Comments

Storage space. We always seem to want more of it. There is always a shortage of storage space, in our homes, offices, and on our computers. So we buy external hard drives and create a daily and weekly backup plan. Not. Confess in the comments if you start your new year with thoughts of backing up … Read More

Valpak Extends Online Presence with Acquisition of Savings.com

By Susan Payton - Jun 22, 2012 - 4 Comments

Best known for its snail mailers, Valpak, a subsidiary of Cox Target Media, is increasing its online presence. This week, the company announced its acquisition of Savings.com (as well as its sister site, London-based Savoo.co.uk), an online source for savings, personalized deals and tips for … Read More