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Review: Iomega StorCenter Network Hard Drive
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Iomega's fourth generation StorCenter Network Hard Drive brings many of the features found in higher-end storage devices down to a price that's sure to be attractive to small businesses. The company's newest StorCenter comes in 500GB, 750 GB, and 1 TB models.

Can you run your business bank account 100% electronically?
bytestart.co.uk - Here’s an interesting challenge: in an age when you can run your business virtually 100 per cent electronically, can you do all of your banking without ever touching a piece of paper?

Small Business, Big Clients
entrepreneur.com - Don't fear taking on giant corporations as clients and business partners. Everyone benefits when Goliath hires David.

Selling to Sluggish Prospects
businessweek.com - People buy from people they like and trust. Beyond that, don't push too hard and don't neglect your sure-thing customers.

Whip Vista into Shape
pcmag.com - Microsoft Windows Vista is a pretty muscular operating system, but it still needs toning. These three utilities give your new OS more speed and endurance.

Tightrope: Working from home? Make time for the kids
usatoday.com - More and more people are choosing to work from home. And, as with every other aspect of life, you have to establish rules and boundaries for yourself as well as others.

Five Holiday E-Mail Marketing Do's and Don'ts
clickz.com - The holiday shopping season is 59 days away from its official U.S. launch on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. This time of year can make or break your e-mail marketing program. Tune it up now to avoid mistakes once the season is in full swing.

Want To Boost Your Business? Try CRM
morebusiness.com - Customer Relationship Management, as the name suggests, is a tool to help you enhance your relationships with both existing and future customers.

Blog Roundups: Screensavers, Plagiarism, and Business Cards
smallbiztrends.com - Three good blog carnivals are now posted for you to explore.

Widgetmania: What's In It For You
ecommerce-guide.com - The term widget, like many tech terms that became popular with the Web 2.0 movement, still has varying meanings, but when we talk about 'Web widgets' it refers to a piece of self-contained code - a small application actually — that opens up a doorway to a much larger application, such as eBay or a shopping comparison search engine, for example.

Speed Up Your Remote Connections
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Have you ever been out in the field and tried to connect to the organization’s file server over the Internet? Or tried to access the database from hundreds of miles away? Or perhaps open and run an important business application remotely? If it took ages to open a document, access an application or view a database record, then you could well do with Wide Area Network (WAN) acceleration.

Room To Grow
businessweek.com - S corporations, C corps, LLCs—wading through the alphabet soup of incorporation options is one of your move important early business moves.

I keep hearing people talking about 'bacn.' What is this and does it really matter?
btobonline.com - The e-mail industry is full of acronyms and catch phrases. The newest on the scene is “bacn,” which is not to be confused with the pork product commonly served with a side of pancakes.

EU to Review Google-DoubleClick Merger as Microsoft Meddles
ecommercetimes.com - The European Union is preparing to weigh in on Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick in October. In the meantime, Microsoft reportedly is mounting a lobbying effort to persuade U.S. regulators either to reject the merger outright or to encumber it with stringent restrictions.

Eminent Domains
pcmag.com - Businesses seek the country codes of far-off places for their Web domains.

Coping With Frustration While Operating A Home Based Business
smallbusinessbrief.com - Regardless of whether it is online, or offline, operating any type of business will present challenges and periods of frustration. The source of frustration addressed in this article may be all too familiar if you happen to work at an Internet-based home business which relies on personal relationships and/or teamwork.

Can This Employee Be Saved?
mybusinessmag.com - Rehabilitating struggling employees is often easier--and cheaper--than starting over.

Hook, Line and Sinker
entrepreneur.com - How three entrepreneurs snagged their first clients.

Amazon Goes Wild Over Widgets
ecommerce-guide.com - According to an e-mail sent today to Amazon Associates, the company's affiliate marketing program, Amazon Widgets are small, visually dynamic, easily configurable tools that allow you to feature products from Amazon on your Web site, blog or social-networking pages.

Expansion Plans
mybusinessmag.com - How to know when to grow.

Oh, Grow Up
entrepreneur.com - These 8 steps will take your business from awkward adolescent to full-grown adult.

Overcoming a Sales Dip
about.com - No business is immune to a sales slump. Changing market conditions, sagging consumer confidence, unmotivated staff, and new competitive threats can all quickly turn stellar sales performance into a fast downward spiral.

Take Charge of Your Inventory
allbusiness.com - Proper management of your inventory is key to your bottom line. To get a handle on what's in your shop, you need to either choose the right inventory software program or decide where to outsource inventory management. Your inventory is the lifeline of your retail business, and it's vitally important to monitor that lifeline consistently.

Five Tips to Stay Away From Work At Home Scams
businesstoolchest.com - There are many different types of work at home jobs. Not every job opportunity is legitimate. Thorough research has to be done before you pick the right opportunity. Caution needs to be exercised. A lot of people fall victims to scam opportunities. In the process they lose a lot of their money. Here are my tips on how you can separate the good opportunities from the bad ones.

Tracking Trends for Your Small Business
nfib.com - A surefire way to stay ahead of the competition in your business is to keep abreast of innovations and trends. Entrepreneurs must constantly update, enhance and be on the cutting edge of new ideas and technology that will spark and maintain their business.

Top 10 Low-Cost Or Free Ways To Promote Your Small Business
workz.com - Whether you have been in business for years or are just starting out, marketing your business is always critical to your business success. Here are my Top 10 ways to promote your business inexpensively.

How to Turn Around an Unprofitable PPC Campaign
sitepronews.com - Here are the problem areas I discovered and rectified.

Can your phone service make you a better marketer?
ducttapemarketing.com - Virtual phone services, meaning online services that take the place of the old PBX phone system, are great for small to mid size companies. A lot of the chatter around these types of services is that they allow you to act bigger than you are, but that’s sort of silly because the smallness of small business is a great selling tool.

QuickBooks Unveils 2008 Models
smallbusinesscomputing.com - If you're a QuickBooks aficionado, the fall is an exciting time for you, too. It means the chance to see what's new in the leading small business accounting application. Of course, if you're already using an older version of QuickBooks, you have to weigh whether the new features warrant paying the upgrade price.

Searching for Answers on eBay's New Playground
I've been trying to get into the test group for a while, so when the Playground was announced, I got right into it and I've been using it ever since.

Security Suite Smackdown 2008
pcmag.com - You can tell it's autumn. The leaves are turning colors, the sun is lower in the sky, there's a chill in the air…and the brand new security suites are out. Every year brings a flood of new versions looking to occupy those new Christmas PCs.

Email marketing to peak in the second week of Dec. 2007
marketingtrends.org - According to the EMEC (E-Mail Experience Council), overall email marketing volume for this year is expected to peak in the second week of December. The EMEC analyzed the results of a survey it did in the fourth week of July.

Collecting Bills? Put Your People Skills to Work
wsj.com - Collecting overdue bills while maintaining good relationships with customers often requires keen people skills.

How to Make the Jump from Employee To Business Owner: Checklist for Starting a Business
powerhomebiz.com - Changing your career track from being an employee to an entrepreneur is a very big step. To ensure a successful transition from being a hired worker to becoming your own boss, here are things you need to consider.

Bend, Don't Break From, Traditional Media
clickz.com - In yet another advertising industry forecast, Jack Myers tells us advertising will increase 3 percent this year and 7 percent next year. That's certainly good news, but the real story is that, among all this solid and steady growth, online and "nontraditional" media will grow at a more robust rate: over 20 percent this year and 18 percent next.

RelevantMind Mines Communities for E-tail Cash
ecommerce-guide.com - RelevantMind today launched a site designed to tap special-interest online communities, as well as other online resources, to help shoppers make purchasing decisions.

Networking Notes: Playing the Password Game
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Don't think paying attention to how you construct your passwords is that important? Check out this tale of public humiliation at a company called MediaDefender.

Late Payment - When to use a debt collection agency
bytestart.co.uk - There is a real culture of late payments in the UK. For business to business transactions, most firms automatically expect 30 days credit. In fact, if you don’t agree different terms, the law says businesses can take 30 days to pay by default.

Secrets Of The Self-Made 2007
forbes.com - They're rich-- really rich--and in the mood to share. Their secrets, that is. We played 20 questions with 21 self-made members of the Forbes 400.

Smart Questions: What to Look For in an Ad Agency
inc.com - Some 42 percent of small businesses say that increasing advertising is a high priority for 2007, according to a Wells Fargo/Gallup poll. Businesses choosing to tap an outside agency can use these questions to help separate the chaff from the Chiat/Days.

The Upside of Change: Increased Sales
businessweek.com - Seven strategies to help you use changes to your advantage by being a better salesperson and a better sales-team leader.