All Entries in the "30-Second Solutions" Category
Free Technology Training and Advice for Small Business
Keeping up with technology (or getting in the tech game to begin with) is something millions of small business owners and startups struggle with. Many have dreamed of having a “technology mentor” they could turn to for expert advice, and access to free tools for learning how to put tech to use. Happily, there’s something [...]
Small Business Solutions of the Week
BizBest 30-Second Solutions “30-Second Solutions” – a BizBest exclusive – spotlights the best new and undiscovered profit- and productivity-boosting products and services for small business, explainable in 30 seconds or less. Here’s our latest half dozen: Daily Discount Deals for Biz Owners: BizyDeal is a new site offering business owners deep discounts on products and [...]
The Future for Small Biz in Social Media
Time. It’s a little word, but the single biggest roadblock to small business engagement in social media. Sure, millions of biz owners have embraced social. But time constraints produce constant dropouts and millions more won’t buy in as long as they believe the time sink outweighs the benefits. The future, then, may well be a [...]
New and Affordable B2B Leads and Lists Online
A BizBest 30-Second Solution: Hoover’s – which has the biggest and best database of business contact information anywhere (85 million contacts and counting) – has launched two new ways for small businesses to find leads and build B2B lists via affordable “view only” and pay-as-you-go services. For the first time, the new “Essentials” and “Lead Builder” [...]
A Terrific New Twitter Tool for Business
BizBest 30-Second Solution With Twitter use by small and local business soaring, busy biz owners need new and better ways to tweet their way to success. InboxQ is a new browser plugin that offers business users an efficient way to quickly find and engage Twitter users interested in specific products, brands or topics without having [...]
A Cool Tool for Creating Online Forms
BizBest 30-Second Solution: If your biz needs to capture registration info, expenses, leads, invoices, job applications, worker evaluations, contests, surveys, promotions, newsletter signups, online payments, non-profit donations and much more online, Formstack is a cool tool to try. The web-based Formstack tool lets you easily build snappy-looking HTML forms that you can put right into [...]
Finding Startup Funds Made Easier
Websites hoping to play matchmaker between investors and startup entrepreneurs have come and gone with great regularity. FindVenture.com looks like a player. The site has partnered with a long list of venture capital funds to create a kind of exchange that connects VC and other investors with biz owners and entrepreneurs seeking capital. FindVenture uses [...]
Sprouter is a Sparkplug for Startup Entrepreneurs
Sprouter, a still new-ish site for startup entrepreneurs, is a great place to sync up with other entrepreneurs passionate about the startup space. The clean and refreshing site offers a Twitter-like service where you can Tweet, errr, “Sprout” about what you’re working on now, and network or collaborate with others who have similar interests and [...]
A Better Touchscreen PC for Engaging Customers
Sneak Peak! (Coming in May 2011): If your small business has a customer-facing computer – typically a health-care office, lodge or retail store – you know customers often have to contort their posture to view the screen properly. A new touch screen desktop PC that will be introduced in May by HP aims to solve [...]
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 [...]
