Facebook Launches ‘Facebook for Business’ Website

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]It’s obvious that social networking is a key part to marketing a business, and Facebook hopes their new Facebook for Business site will help business owners understand the various benefits of Facebook; and teach them how they can use it for their businesses. I have previously talked about how to create a social […]

Google Updates The ‘Plus One’ Button

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]The Google +1 button is fast becoming an essential “must have” for most site owners – which means that Google wants to provide all these site owners the best experience possible. Facebook has hired some of the best guys out there to focus purely on making everything load as fast as possible, including […]

Blackberry for Business – Small Business Chat Video Recap

Last night Blackberry for Business hosted their very first Twitter chat, #BBSMBchat. I had written about it last week – but I know that not everyone was able to join in on the discussion – some had prior arrangements and some simply do not use Twitter. For those of you that were not able to attend, as-well […]

LinkedIn Job Application Plugin Goes Live!

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]LinkedIn has launched a new plugin that allows companies to place an “Apply with LinkedIn” button on their job listings pages. thus allowing all those hunting for a job to apply for positions using their LinkedIn profiles as resumés. Any company can embed the plugin by adding an eight-line code snippet to its […]

Google Launches Adwords Express

Today Google announced the launch of Adwords Express. AdWords Express is designed to help local businesses that aren’t already AdWords advertisers create effective campaigns easily, and within 5 minutes. Product Manager Kiley McEvoy uploaded a short video on Youtube to help explain what Adwords Express really is. To start simply visit http://www.google.com/awexpress, fill out some basic […]

Google Updates It’s Mobile Site Builder

A little while ago I spoke about the launch of Google’s Mobile Site Builder – an extremely easy to use tool to quickly and easily develop mobile websites for your small business. Rajiv Bammi, Software Engineer at Google, posted on the Google Apps blog sharing a few updates that have been made to their mobile site […]

1&1 Dual Advanced Hosting – Free For 1 Year

[frame align=”left”] [/frame] 1&1 has launched their new summer special on their Dual Advanced hosting plan – offering it completely free for 1 year, after which it becomes $6.99/month. Take note that the fine-print for this special states that you must sign for a 2-year contract to receive 1 year free – however $83.88 ($6.99 […]

Join Me Monday For The BlackBerry #BBSMBchat

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]This coming Monday, July 25th, BlackBerry will be hosting their very first Twitter chat which will be a unique opportunity to share stories, swap advice, and network with other small business owners. It will focus on the issues that small business owners face, how they stay current in an ever-evolving world of technology, and […]

Dwolla Introduces Online Cash Payments

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]It seems just a few days ago we blogged about how selling online is getting easier and easier, and now here comes Dwolla – a new comer to online payments who aims to offer yet another option to buying and selling online – allowing people to pay by cash straight from their bank […]

Google Plus Business Profiles Are Coming Soon!

Christian Oestlien posted an update on his Google+ account today regarding Google+ Business Profiles. Since the Google Business Profiles concept has leaked out to the masses there have been tens of thousands of requests to be one of the first beta testers of these business profiles. Due to this demand Google actually made the decision […]

Programming In C: Functions with Viewer Choice

Using a Conditional inside a User-Defined Function If you want to give the viewer a choice of options, this can be handled either inside a user-defined function, or in the main( ) function. Let’s begin by handling viewer choice inside a user-defined function. In this example, a customer chooses how many books to order. The […]

More Wood Behind Fewer Arrows

[frame align=”left”]  [/frame]Last week, Google CEO Larry Page used the phrase ”more wood behind fewer arrows” to describe an ongoing effort to make Google a sleeker, more focused company. Page went on to declare the products Google Health and Google PowerMeter were the first victims of that effort. Today, Google has announced that it’s also shuttering […]

Fund Your Adwords Campaign Via The Google Credit Card

Building up capital for a small business can be a bit of a hassle sometimes, and having the correct cash-flow at exactly the correct time to launch new advertising campaigns does not always happen. However what if you did have the necessary funds to launch an advertising campaign, say right before the holiday season? Before […]

Did Online Selling Just Get Easier?

When it comes to selling online, or ecommerce, there are 2 general solutions. You can go the route of obtaining your own merchant account that would work with an existing ecommerce solution such as Magento or osCommerce. Or you can develop a customized ecommerce solution tailored specifically to your needs and based around your own […]

$20 Off Your First Project at crowdSPRING

crowdSPRING is the world’s #1 marketplace for custom logo design, web design, graphic design, industrial design and writing services. Entrepreneurs and small businesses simply post what they need, when they need it and how much they want to pay. Once posted, over 92,000 creatives from 200 countries around the world submit an average of 110 […]

Getting Traffic from Social Sites

Social sites like Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon have become hot and are getting hotter all the time. Both online and offline businesses are jumping into social marketing – and for a good reason. It works! Many small online businesses are flocking to social media. In fact, one report states that utilization of social media by small businesses has […]

Google Plus Invites For Everyone!

It’s been fairly quiet lately, sorry. With the new layout slowly coming together – and a ton of new projects happening all at once I have been rather swamped. I can’t lie though – I have wasted ALOT of my free time on Google+; building my circles, setting up my sparks, etc. It all takes […]

Free Mortgage Calculators for Websites

Every now and then a real estate business asks to have an on-site calculator developed for their website – usually because they saw it on another site and thought it to be a good idea. I can’t argue here – it lets you provide a resource center your clients can bookmark and come back to […]

$1.99 Domains at Namecheap

Namecheap has been running a campaign on Facebook attempting to attract 5000 new ‘likes’ to their Facebook page. Provided they were able to get 5000 new likes by July 8th (today) – they would open up $1.99 .com/.net/.org registrations. To take advantage of the new deal simply head on over to the Namecheap Facebook Page, click CURRENT DEALS on […]