Tech-challenged SMBs: Learn To Help Yourself

The tech consultant may still be the small business owner's best friend, but with the help of easy-to-use do-it-yourself online tools, owners can learn to do a number of IT chores for themselves.

"I was recently reading about MobiFlex, a self-service portal that lets you create smartphone custom apps in a few hours — without coding. Working with all browsers, it supports smartphone native resources such as GPS, the camera, and robust back-end data access.

As I was reading how easy and economical it was to create a smartphone app, I thought what an opportunity for smart free lancers or others."