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WordPress Recommended for Small Businesses and Non-Profits


March 10th, 2010, 11:45:25 AM
Posted in Business Start-Up, Marketing, Technology, Tools | 1 Comment »

Small businesses and non-profits are beginning to realize that they don’t necessarily need a custom built CMS system to run their website. Why not use a state-of-the-art publishing platform that focuses on aesthetics, web standards and usability – and not to mention… it’s FREE?

So you have a new website…now what?


February 1st, 2010, 12:40:10 PM
Posted in Business Start-Up, Marketing, Technology, Tools | 1 Comment »

As a follow up to the 12th step in the SEO Checklist for Your New Website, I recommend adding your site to the following 8 Free Business Listing Websites: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yelp, City Search, Merchant Circle, Trip Advisor and DMOZ.
You will be asked to create a business profile allowing you to add a brief [...]

12 Steps for Search Engine Optimization


January 26th, 2010, 06:20:40 PM
Posted in Business Start-Up, Marketing, Technology, Tools | 1 Comment »

A checklist to use during the development process
Are you ready to build a website for your small business or for yourself? There are simple search engine optimization steps you should consider during the development process.
The following 12 step optimization checklist will bring you one step closer to maximizing your revenues with smart web design.
1.) Choose [...]

Funding for Pioneering Business Ideas


October 7th, 2009, 05:00:43 PM
Posted in Events, Technology | No Comments »

SBIR National Conference
Reno – November 2009
Time is running out for early registration for the 2009 National SBIR Conference. For high technology, start-up companies this is an ideal opportunity to obtain the information needed on how to access $2.3B available from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs -  the [...]

Should I Blog?


July 2nd, 2008, 04:47:23 PM
Posted in E-Commerce, Marketing, Technology | 1 Comment »

Should I Blog? An Essential Question for Businesses Today.
The answer may very well be, “no.” Certainly for many, the answer is, “What’s a blog?” Fair enough. It’s quite normal for most business owners (especially these days) to be so busy working to keep their businesses running, they don’t have the time to keep up with [...]

Need to Blog Post Quicker? Easier?


September 21st, 2007, 03:17:30 PM
Posted in E-Commerce, Technology, Tools | No Comments »

We have just added Josh Kenzer’s QuickPost plugin to the WordPress interface that powers our Blog, It’s cool and will make it much easier for our authors to create their posts on our blog.
I’m creating this post to take it for a spin the first time.
Josh works over at Twelve Horses, the folks that built [...]

How to Get Search Engines to Pay Attention


September 4th, 2007, 11:11:40 AM
Posted in E-Commerce, Marketing, Technology, Tools | 6 Comments »

The days of putting up a website then waiting for it to show up on the first page of any search engine are long gone. Today it takes time and effort to see your site in the first couple pages of results. However, most site owners and webmasters do not know where to begin. By [...]

Quickbooks – Windows Vista Warning


January 31st, 2007, 03:06:23 PM
Posted in Accounting, Payroll, Software, Technology | 3 Comments »

We know that lots of our customers and clients use QuickBooks. In fact we recommend it as one of the best solutions for providing a bookkeeping and accounting system for small business.
Since there are thousands of Nevada businesses using QuickBooks we thought we should pass on the email we received from them concerning the [...]

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