All Entries in the "30-Second Solutions" Category
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, [...]
A Better Way to Carry Cash Overseas
If you’re traveling overseas on business, here’s a better way to carry local currency: Pre-loaded, security protected, foreign-currency debit cards good at millions of locations that accept Visa or MasterCard worldwide. Two dominant players are the Cash Passport Card (www.cashpassportcard.com) and TravelMoney card (www.visa.com), which carry the MasterCard, Visa or other name brand labels and [...]
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 Great US Economic Indicator for Small Business
Small business owners don’t generally follow broad based economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP), industrial production, national unemployment or hundreds of others produced by the federal government. But there’s a new kid on the economic forecasting block that’s worth checking out for an accurate view of where the economy is likely headed. [...]
Global Fulfillment for Small Business
If your retail business is growing but storage, shipping and fulfilling orders have you running in circles; an under-the-radar site that caters to small businesses has your back. With a few clicks at up-and-coming Shipwire, you can send inventory to their warehouses, integrate with your own website and start fulfilling your customers’ orders in real [...]
Free Online Desktop Sharing
The award-winning innovators at LogMeIn have created JoinMe – the simplest way yet to share your computer screen with somebody else. For fast-moving small businesses, JoinMe could be a terrific timesaver. Tech nerds and IT consultants already know about LogMeIn, which offers services such as remote tech support and desktop control. But as a businessperson, [...]
Easily Manage Expense Reports Online
Expense reports are a pain – for you, your business and your employees. But new services that let you manage the process online are changing how expense reports happen — and saving small business owners time and money. Expensify, which bills itself as “Expense reports that don’t suck,” is an up-and-comer in the online expense [...]
Low Cost Video Surveillance
Video security and surveillance for small business may never be the same. GotoCamera, a new web-based service, makes it easy and affordable for even non-techies to watch over your bar, retail store or any other business by using your Internet connection and low-cost webcams you may already own. Conventional systems require costly equipment and can [...]
How to Take Your Training Online
Mindflash is a new online tool that can make employee training easier than ever for anything from how to use your phone system to sales methods and company policies. Whether your business employs forklift operators, sales reps or cashiers, you probably have a need for training of some kind. Mindflash is super flexible. Employees [...]
Boost Biz with a Wireless Photo Memory Card
Local businesses – from doggie day care to flower shops – are gaining an edge over “the big guys” with a new wireless photo delivery device that lets them share images instantly with customers by using a digital camera in a different way. Eye-Fi is being billed as the first-ever wireless memory card. Eye-Fi looks [...]
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