In a recent lifehacker poll for best registrar, however, while both of those showed up on the list, the top honors went to a lesser-known (at least by me) site called namecheap.com.
A friend recently told me about an online service called Ninite which makes installation easier than I could have ever dreamed.
One of our main goals with this blog is to help our readers choose the best software possible. There are many things to consider when evaluating software such as price, platform, reliability, speed, etc. but I think the most important thing is design.
I've recently been reading a book called Built to Last about the properties and behavior of successful companies
As a matter of fact, "link building" is one of the most important, and difficult parts of online marketing. It's a topic too large to tackle in one post, but luckily there's a pretty easy way to get started.
With how important technology is in business these days, it's becoming increasingly common for small business owners to hire programmers.
While one of the nice things about a small business can be the avoidance of much of the overhead, bureaucracy, and paperwork ubiquitous in the corporate world, at some point, even the smallest business is likely to require a foray into the legal realm
As you probably know, publishing content online is a great way to promote your business. Unfortunately, the things that make information so easy to share online also make it almost impossible to protect your content.
As part of their security features for Gmail, Google has a security checklist of things to do and keep in mind to help protect the integrity of your Gmail account. Many of the 18 items are fairly obvious or specific to Google, but it's a useful checklist not only for your Gmail account, but for any online account.
I'm going to suggest a small challenge for the weekend: set aside an hour or two this weekend and try out some new software.
I wanted to give a very basic overview of how scripting works in Google Docs. In addition to being useful for thinking about the mail merge, hopefully this introduction will give you a sense of how you can use scripting in Google Docs to extend it's functionality in any number of ways.
Have you ever wondered why it runs along the bottom of the screen? Well I have. From a UI standpoint it makes way more sense to have that bar running along the left or right side of the screen instead of across the bottom.
If you ever find yourself seeking for an available domain name, Domize.com is a great place to start.
As far as I know, there is only one truly scalable way to add content to your website: User Generated Content (UGC). If you offer your followers a way to speak their minds on your website, you'll be able to build up a respectable source of information without any ongoing work on your part.
Allowing comments on your blog can be a great way to engage your readers, but there's always the chance that some of the comments will be negative.
Plenty of options exist for performing mail merges, including Microsoft Office and online resources such as Mail Chimp. If you just need to send a few basic scripted emails, however, Google Docs can do the job fairly well.
We've pretty much beaten to death the idea that every business needs to buy a domain name, create a website, and write a blog to help establish their online brand, but what about individuals?
There are a ton of screen-sharing options out there with a variety of features, but few are as straight-forward to set up as Join.me.
I recently ran across another pack of templates from speckyboy.com, and I've got to say that some of them really expanded my expectations of what one can do with Google Docs.
Over the past year or two, a new trend has been building online. Q&A (Question and Answer) sites have been getting a lot of hype, and they're starting to make their way into the mainstream.
A while back I talked about LucidChart, a web-based tool for creating flowcharts online. Today I'm going to review another online flowchart tool called Gliffy.
Last week I wrote about how Google Instant might impact the way we find information online. Now it's time to talk about how Instant might impact online marketing for small businesses.
Yup, you read that right. Canonicalization. Seriously. It's a word. It refers to the art/science of making sure that search engines are associating the correct URLs with the pages on your web site.
One of the major reservations many people have about using web-based applications for business purposes is security concerns.
It turns out that giving an application shortcut it's own profile can be useful on it's own, and it's easy to do on any OS. Here's the why and the how.
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