Small Business Computing Staff

Wall Street Journal: Will Social Media Marketing Work For Your Small Business? The Wall Street Journal’s Sarah E. Needleman reports that some small businesses are having little success with their social media marketing programs, perhaps because social networking sites such as Facebook are the wrong place for them to try and sell themselves. “Bill.com Inc., […]

Inc. Technology: A Tablet App For Your Small Business? Minda Zetlin says creating a custom tablet app could be a good investment especially if your product and company appeals to a younger audience. She talks to developers about how to go about it. “The train is moving out of the station. It happens to have […]

Open Forum: Is Your Small Business Ready For Mobile Marketing? Small BizNest founder John Joyce says asking about whether you need to be involved in mobile marketing is a bit like asking ten years ago if you needed to have a website. “This question is reminiscent of the discussions many of us had 10-plus years […]

Wired: Review – Toshiba NB505 Netbook The new Toshiba NB505 netbook has a 1.6 GHz and 1 GB of RAM and set new records for low performance on benchmark tests, but at $288, Wired says, the price is right for small business users with light computing requirements. “How do you create what might be the […]

Entrepreneur: Ecommerce – Bridging The Online-Off Line Gap Chris Brogan explains why both bricks-and-mortar and purely online small businesses need to build bridges between the two worlds and how to go about it. “More than 40 percent of small businesses in the U.S. have no online presence whatsoever. This stat baffles me. Do they think […]

Gadget Lab: Tablet PCs – Why We Need These Unnecessary Devices Do you really need a tablet PC for your small business? Probably not, says Brian X. Chen, but people are buying them anyway. Chen speculates on what the appeal is. “Apple’s iPad is just one year old, and more than 15 million customers have […]

Entrepreneur:Key Strategies For Improving Your Online Business Emarketing consultant Corey Rudl’s three key strategies for improving your online business include: improving your sales process to convert more website visitors, offering existing customers “backend” products and setting up an affiliate program. “Do you have a business plan? A list of goals that sets out just what […]

Small Business Trends: Why Prospects Won’t Visit Your SMB Website Lisa Barone suggests some of the reasons that turn customers and prospects off from delving further into your small business website, including things like a lack of contact information on the home page, no or few external links and too much selling. “Getting people to […]

Entrepreneur: Automate eBay To Save Time & Money Janelle Elms, an eBay University instructor, explains where small businesses can automate their eBay efforts to save time and money, and which tools are available to help them from eBay. “With eBay’s extensive group of online tools, you can let eBay work for you. Just consider the […]

Entrepreneur: iPad 2 – Is it Right For Your Small Business? Scott Steinberg, CEO of high-tech consulting firm TechSavvy Global, says the iPad 2 has many attractive new features for small businesses, including cameras to enable videoconferencing and a processor twice as fast as the one in the first iPad. But it falls short in […]

Small Business Trends: Roundup – A Hard Look At Social Media Marketing For SMBs A Small Business Trends roundup of articles about social media marketing for small businesses. Some question the accepted wisdom that social media is a must for small businesses. Others offer tools and advice for those forging ahead. Though the undeniable power […]

Wired: Preview: New Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 The new Android-powered Galaxy Tab 10.1 from Samsung is a big improvement on the first version of this product the Korean company launched, and keeps pace with iPad in many respects, but can it overcome the huge momentum and marketing advantage of the iPad? “Samsung has already superseded […]