Jamie Bsales

For the vast majority of businesses, e-mail replaced the phone as the primary means of communications years ago. That means much crucial business intelligence, not to mention proprietary and potentially sensitive information about your products and your clients, resides in those electronic bits. However, for most small businesses, e-mail management amounts to letting Outlook auto-archive […]

If yours is among the 50 percent of small businesses that don’t yet have a Web presence, Microsoft wants you. It wants you so badly, in fact, it’s willing to register your domain name and host your Website for free. Plus, it’ll throw in Web-based design tools and templates so you can build your site, […]

Having employees working for your business is a blessing and a curse. That you need to hire people to handle all the work is a good sign, but having to pay them is kind of a buzz kill. And it’s not just the actual parting with the money that hurts; the mechanics of figuring out […]

If you’ve been thinking about reducing the paper clutter in your business life, meet your new best friend. The $499 HP Scanjet N6010 will let you digitize and manage paper documents, turn hard-copy printouts into PDFs that you can then store or share via e-mail, scan photos to drop into brochures and presentations, and create […]

If you’re still toting around a five-year-old projector or (heaven forbid) a flipbook for presentations, it’s time for an upgrade. The current generation of data and video projectors will help you look like a pro, are easy to use, and are kinder to the small business budget than you might think. Best of all, as […]

When it comes to managing your growing business’ IT needs, hardware rollouts are the easy part. You set up the PC and plug it in, and it either works or it doesn’t. The hard part is getting all the software loaded and working properly, with different configurations for each employee depending on their job function. […]

For many businesses, investing in a server-based communication and collaboration products, such as Microsoft Exchange, is the inevitable outcome of growth and success. Of course, that also means hiring a reseller or your own IT guy to maintain and upgrade the system. Fortunately, the advent of online applications offers an alternative, such as several robust […]

Most small businesses need to use a photo from time to time, be it for a Web site, brochure or presentation. But most businesses don’t have an in-house art department to handle tasks like image editing, or the budget to spend a lot of money on a professional-level image-editing package. But take heart: We found […]

Standardization of parts has been a founding principal of product design since Samuel Colt’s company introduced the concept more than 150 years ago. But if you’ve ever cracked the screen on your laptop or had its keyboard die, you’ve discovered that standardization means for one product family from one manufacturer. Typically, if a portable PC […]

For most small firms, your best potential customers are the ones you already have. New clientele is always nice, but repeat customers will make your business sustainable. Cultivating those relationships, while simultaneously reaching out to new prospects, is an ongoing challenge that can quickly overwhelm your marketing budget and bandwidth. In this digital age, e-mail […]

With Carbonite Online PCBackup 2.0, you truly have no excuse for losing an important file or precious photo should your hard drive die or your PC disappear. Carbonite installs in two minutes, runs unobtrusively and costs just $5 a month—no matter how many gigabytes of data you have to back up. Best of all, there’s […]

It can strike without warning, anytime, anywhere — on an airplane, in a meeting, at a coffee shop. “It” is screen envy, and the condition afflicts more and more business people as the proliferation of notebook PCs with large, gorgeous widescreen displays continues unabated. But you don’t have to be a victim. The HP Compaq […]