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RatePoint Customer Reviews Service Shutting Down

One of our readers alerted us that RatePoint, the customer review software solution that many eCommerce and other businesses used on their websites, is shutting down.  The RatePoint homepage is still operational as of this writing. But some customers report being unable to access their accounts,…

 

 

Is Your Site Mobile Friendly? Google Can Tell You

According to one statistic, half of all local searches are performed on a mobile device.  With more people accessing websites using their smartphones, making sure you website is readable on a phone is not something you can ignore. Load times, readability and images often render differently on a…

Constant Contact Moves into Mobile with Acquisition of CardStar

Today, online marketing tool provider Constant Contact announced its acquisition of mobile loyalty application CardStar. CardStar is the mobile version of the loyalty cards we all carry around in our wallets…only condensed into a single app. CardStar, which is available as an application for…

Infusionsoft Bucks Acquisition Trend, Builds Its Own Social Features

Infusionsoft, which offers marketing automation software (including email marketing software) to 8,000+ small businesses, recently announced that it has added social features to its offering.  According to the company, the new features will let its customers capture leads from social media,…

Will There Be a Shortage of Small Business Tech Workers in 2012?

Does your small business rely on high-tech workers to compete? You’re not alone. Increasingly, being up to speed on technology is crucial to business success, which means you need a savvy tech team in-house. But hiring those tech workers might be getting harder—and the risks of making a bad…

Don’t Be a Launch Hater

One of the holy Internet startup commandments lately seems to be “Thou shalt not launch.”  But I launch all the time, and I love it. Why? Because my startup’s most valuable commodity is time. I need to get as much user feedback on my product as I can get – and I need it fast. There are…

Amazon Price Check App: Small Business Threat or Sign of the Times?

U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe is up in arms against Amazon since the online retailer released its Price-Check app for Android just in time for the 2011 holiday season. Amazon’s iPhone version was released a year ago, so the uproar now seems less about the app itself and more about Amazon’s…

Small Business Software Trends for 2012

Are you confused by the terms SaaS and cloud computing? In their simplest forms, software as a service (SaaS) is the application, and the cloud is the place where you store the data from that app (and in most cases the application itself). Many of the latest technology announcements have…

Is ICANN Starting an Unnecessary Domain War?

We’ve become accustomed to websites ending in .com for some time now. Other gTLDs, which stands for “generic top level domains,” have peeked their heads out, like .org, .edu, .mil and .biz. But a new initiative from ICANN, the not-for-profit corporation that manages Internet…

Where Disaster Recovery Begins

Let’s begin at the end. There’s a disaster.  Your data is gone.  What do you do?  Well, hopefully, you’ve already done everything you need to do; otherwise, you’re in a heap of trouble.  You can’t recover data if you haven’t backed it up or if you haven’t planned in…

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