Small business tips

Shouldn't we make it as easy as possible for our customers to get ahold of us?

I recently met someone who was in charge of the SEO of a relatively large internet company. I mentioned LAS to him and spent a little time talking about the site before he basically said "SEO probably isn't worth it for you guys."

Tyler and I live on opposite coasts, so as you might imagine, we spend a fair amount of time communicating over various channels including email, IM/chat, telephone, and video chat.

If you write a blog about news and current events, there's an easy way to increase your reach on Google.

There are a bunch of different tools to help you set up a wiki, but my favorite is Google Sites. In this post, I'll go over how I set up my wikis using Google Sites.

Amazon offers a program called Amazon Associates. It's basically a way for you to market products sold on Amazon and take a small commission on all the sales you generate.

One of the biggest challenges businesses of all sizes face is the organization and storage of information.

One of the best features of Chrome is the ability to create "application shortcuts" that let you launch web sites as stand alone applications.

SheerSEO is a very basic tool for staying on top of the SEO basics for your site. It tracks your site's search engine rankings, what other sites are linking back to you, and a few other important inbound marketing metrics.

For years, Microsoft Visio has been pretty much the only option if you wanted to make flow charts, org charts, or other types of structured drawings on a computer.

Google provides a number of nice online services. So many, in fact, that it's not uncommon to have multiple Google accounts for different uses. Unfortunately, switching between those accounts can be pretty annoying.

This may be obvious to some of you, but I want to talk about how you can boost your productivity by using multiple computer monitors.

Earlier today, I received an email from a friend of mine asking for a copy of my PhD thesis proposal to use as a guide while he writes his own.

I've reviewed a few different blogging platforms, and I want to use this post to summarize those reviews.

Blogger is a fairly popular blogging tool. It was purchased by Google in 2003, although it doesn't look or feel anything like other Google products.

Apple's been making a lot of headlines recently over problems related to the antenna of the new iPhone 4. Perhaps bigger than the problems with the phone itself, however, has been the way they've dealt with the problems.

We've talked a lot about what you can do to improve your site's SEO, but we haven't really explained how to tell if what you're doing is working.

This week I'm writing a three-part series about how you should approach planning and strategy when starting a blog.

Earlier this week, I talked about how checking out your competition online can be a good way to get some ideas and identify opportunities for establishing your small business online.

Once you've got your content all figured out, it's time to come up with ideas to get people reading your blog.

Establishing your small business online can be a bit of a daunting task, and knowing where to start can be one of the biggest challenges.

In this first post, I'm going to discuss what you should consider when deciding what type of content you want to offer on your blog.

Unfortunately, web apps often have rather poor documentation, particularly for the more advanced functionality. Luckily, online forums and blogs often do a great job of filling in the documentation gaps.

Earlier today I was having a conversation about SEO and website optimization and I realized that there's a very important concept that we haven't really talked about yet on this blog.

One of the biggest benefits of web applications is the ease with which one can share documents for other people to collaborate on or view. Unfortunately, this same ability is the source of a number of fears about online software privacy an security.