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7 Free Cloud Services and Software for Small Business
Here are 7 BizBest picks for top cloud services and software that’s free for small business: 1. Home Office Suite: For many home computer users, the $279 Microsoft Office software is overkill. As a free yet powerful alternative try OpenOffice.org from Sun Microsystems. You can download for free, and it comes with word processing, spreadsheet, [...]
B2B Daily Deal Sites for Small Business
Times have never been better for small business owners and startup entrepreneurs looking for deep discounts of up to 70% on the products and services they need to run their businesses day to day. A bevy of B2B daily and weekly deal sites have emerged, offering big discounts on everything from printing, food services and [...]
10 Ways Small Business Uses Google Apps
BizBest has often recommended Google apps (some free; some fee) as great productivity tools that any small business or startup can access quickly and easily, including business email through Gmail, shared online calendars (Google Calendar), documents, spreadsheets and presentations (Google Docs), easy-to-build websites (Google Sites), and many others. These easy-to-use applications offer dozens of ways [...]
New Business to Business Deal Sites offer Big Discounts
Small and local business owners of all types will have new opportunities to grab deep discounts on business-related products and services thanks to a battle heating up in the daily or weekly deals marketplace. Several B2B daily and weekly deal sites have sprung up recently, offering big discounts on everything from printing, food services and [...]
Top 10 Benefits of Sams Club Small Business Membership
Sam’s Club, the Wal-Mart division that caters to small business, is certainly popular. The membership-based buying outlets now number over 600, claim 47 million members, and have become America’s 8th largest retailer. So what’s the big deal? BizBest took a closer, inside look to identify the key benefits that aren’t always visible in one place. [...]
A Cheap and Easy Time and Attendance Solution
Small businesses that use remote workers, independent contractors or other off-site employees need a time and attendance or time clock service that they can log into at any time and see when their workers punched in for the day. Labor Time Tracker (LTT) is an easy-to-use, web-based (cloud computing) employee time and attendance service that [...]
A Virtual Phone System App that will Blow You Away
Say what you will about AT&T, but its new “Office@Hand” virtual phone system application for small biz, introduced Feb. 1, is going to blow away a lot of business owners. It’s a service that finally recognizes what biz owners already know – that small companies use phones today is radically different ways, with a complex [...]
Surprise Truck-Buying Tactics that Can Save you Thousands
Need a new pickup or other truck type for your business? Sometimes the advice we’ve “always heard” about something turns out to be only partly right, or not right at all, and in fact can end up hurting instead of helping our cause. Advice on negotiating the price of a new truck falls into this [...]
Yo – Are You Yammering Yet?
Sometimes called “Twitter for business,” but actually much more than that, Yammer is shaking up internal communications at many mid-to-larger companies by connecting employees inside a private and secure company-only social network hosted on the Yammer site. Yammer is business social networking at an enterprise level, providing an easy way for employees inside a company [...]
Best Ways to Beef up Business Value
If you hope to sell your business someday, the time to think about increasing its value is now. Too many business owners are shocked to find out the business they’ve been running isn’t worth nearly as much as they thought, says John Martinka, VP of Partner On-Call Network, a Kirkland, WA-based firm that helps small [...]
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