Social networking ideas are exploding in the web space. I thought I am progressive and love to read about new trends. Never had a problem to comprehend novelty technologies and make use of those which applied to my world and work. Recently though this vertical is accelerating so fast, it surpassed 100-fold an industrial revolution [...]
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VOIP or not and how to talk cheap…
Canada is a nation of immigrants. Most of us have families and friends abroad. Long distance phone bills pile every month. Since the deregulation of the communications industry few years ago they are not as significant as they used to be, but… we are still aware of long distance costs.
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Some of the best software comes free
Being a startup you worry about every dollar spent. Software is the last on your list. You assumed it would come with your computer. And now you have to write this first invoice, you look at start, programs… where is this Microsoft Office? Nowhere to be found. And it was always there in your corporate [...]
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Website ROI (Return On Investment)
So you got your website presence… Now what? Is the phone ringing off the hook? New clients request your products every day? No? Ouch! All this investment in the website and nothing in return?
So what were you thinking? – that dropping a small business card in the middle of a multi-million people city traffic will [...]
BlinkSale: Invoicing made easy
During my early days of self-employment, the tasks I habitually procastinated on where job costing and invoicing, even though putting off the latter could have jeapordized making the rent that month. It was still paperwork, and to this day, I hate paperwork.
In this day and age, a service like Blinksale is a welcome addition to [...]