Using An iPad In Your Small Business

Paul Mah's suggestions for how to use an iPad in your small business include using it to make slide presentations, as a virtual product brochure and as an extension monitor for you laptop or desktop PC.

"Thinking of using the Apple iPad in your business this year? Beyond the various considerations to deploying the iPad in your SMB, what actual roles could Apple's shiny tablet play in your company? Below, I share five possible business uses for the Apple iPad:

Give Presentations Tired of lugging your bulky laptop around just to give presentations? With the VGA Adapter and supporting software, business users can make use of the much more portable iPad for this task. A number of software supports the VGA Adapter, such as the free Presentation App, or Apple's own Keynote. Getting the presentation onto the iPad will probably require the requisite files to be synced in advance, though some of the presentation software supports alternative means of moving the files over. And unless you create the presentation on the iPad, you will probably want to first check that the transferred files display as expected."