ActiveCollab versus Basecamp: A web-based project management solution comparison

October 17, 2009

Basecamp is the subscription-based, hosted 100 pound gorilla – everyone’s heard of him and he’s a crowd favorite. ActiveCollab is the one-time fee, open source, server-side, up-and-coming contender. Distinct but balanced pros and cons make this battle too close to call in advance. It will depend on what fits the needs of your organization as [...]

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Infusionsoft Review: Automating Your Marketing

October 8, 2009

After signing up with Infusionsoft, a combination CRM, shoppingcart, autoresponder, email marketing service, I did my (backward) due diligence by seeking out some reviews on the company. I was quite excited about the service and expected to hear great things. I was shocked to find how many negative reviews there were. Complaints ranged from it [...]

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How to Stop Not Delegating

August 28, 2009

Have you ever worked hard all day but failed to accomplish anything significant? You worked like a dog, but you didn’t move your business forward an inch. You probably said something to yourself like, “Today was not a good use of my time. I worked all day but didn’t get anything done that really matters. [...]

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Squeezing more out of less: Slow times as the catalyst for future success

July 27, 2009

July has been a slow month for us. Traffic to our site is down, and there has been a proportional decrease in the flow of new clients coming in. It’s nothing to panic about, it’s just enough to leave me feeling unsettled and therefore very motivated to do something about it. It has been this [...]

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Grasshopper vs. Google Voice: Phones for Small Business Owners

July 23, 2009

Unless you want to be tied to your desk all day, you need a way for important calls to reach you on your mobile. The now outdated solution was to forward calls to your cell on the way out of the office. But then you run into the hairy situations of not being able to [...]

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All Effective Ads Fall Into 6 Groups?

June 18, 2009

I’ve been reading “Made to Stick” by Chip and Dan Heath. Excellent book for any small business owner who handles their own advertising, manages people, or needs to communicate with people… basically every small business owner. In the Introduction, they discuss an advertising study done by an Isreali group. The finding surprised me. Basically, all [...]

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This Week’s Top Three: Grow Your Business, Double Your Sales, and Improve Your Blog

March 23, 2009

Each week (or so) I post the creme a la creme from the small business blogosphere. Identify the Growth Factors in your Business via Go Big Network This will help you focus in on what matters in your business. As a business owner in a down economy, it’s more important than ever that your time, [...]

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What to Respect About Camel Cigarettes: Enhance and Expand Your Product Line

March 5, 2009

Camel, the cigarette maker, has been doing some interesting things with their product line lately. They are really pushing the envelope and, dare I say, innovating. Those not addicted to tobacco may not even have noticed but over the last year or so they’ve been shaking things up. Other cigarette makers seem content with the [...]

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Make Your Business More Profitable by Focusing on Constraints

March 2, 2009

There are many ways to make plans to improve your business (improve = make more money). You can create goals, set priorities, flesh out your businesses strategy, etc. While all of these approaches are useful, and will certainly help you identify more to-dos than you can handle, I’ve found that focusing on removing constraints creates a kind [...]

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Can blogging help your small business? Watch it unfold here.

February 28, 2009

For small business owners with a lot to do, is blogging worth the time spent? Can a company blog significantly contribute to the bottomline of a small business? Let me say upfront that I have never had a successful blog or tried to use a blog to market a business. So, I can’t answer that [...]

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