This seems like a very interesting company, it’s a tool that allows a businesses to create locally targeted coupons that customers can find online, print, and bring into the business.
Now, for the sake of full disclosure my company Local Zing Inc. is an affiliate, in other words if I do refer them business I […]

http://www.foldera.com/ - This is a limited beta of what looks like a killer business tool. Too much to describe so I added a screenshot of the features:

The benefits of an online spreadsheet is not that its going to be better and more feature rich than excel, but the fact that several people can be involved in editing it, without the need to 20 copies of it to end up clogging up your email. It’s also got integrated chat, so you can […]

I just came across a very good review and introduction to Google Analytics, which is essentially a tool to help you analyze who is viewing your web site, and what they are doing. Sounds simple but way to many small businesses do not pay enough attention to what is happening on their web site. Your […]

A friend just pointed me to a book called Go It Alone - by Bruce Judson, and you can read the whole thing for free online if you like.
I’ve read the first couple of chapters and it is a first class read, and a must have for anyone who wants to start their own […]

ZDnet reveals some Gmail code that hints at more business centric email tool
Someone has been snooping around in the Gmail javascript code and found this little gem:
function vJ(){if(uy){;return’‘+”Manage this domain”+” | “}else{return””}}
Essentially, if Gmail is enabled for other domains, businesses can update there own “MX Record” to point at mail.google.com, and google will handle […]

The idea that “cheap, fast or good… Pick two” gets a kick in the pants from a company called 37signals.com. This small company has created four brilliant products that claim to do “less that competitors products”, and in the world of software that really is refreshing. It is by keeping things simple that this small […]

This blog hasn’t been around for long but already has 2900 people subscribed to it via feedburner. Anyone in business should read this blog, Guy Kawasaki is a straight talking person who understands business and innovation.
Let the Good Times Roll by Guy Kawasaki
Thanks to http://www.workhappy.net/ for pointing to this blog.

Yahoo is teaming up with six apart, makers of typepad, to provide blog hosting aimed at businesses. 5 gigs of space and 200 gig of bandwidth is a pretty good deal for 12 bucks a month.
BetaNews | Yahoo to Offer Blogs to Businesses
The disadvantage of a hosted system like this for a business is […]

Positioning, as popularized by the excelent book, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Reis and Trout has somewhat fallen out of favor in recent years. The whole concept that company can “own” a word in the prospects mind, like volvo “owns” safety, and BMW “owns” driving just falls flat when you look at […]

I’ve been looking around for a while for a phone service that can just do some good call forwarding and I found VirtualPBX.con. This provides some killer “big business” functionality for a very reasonable price. For as little as 9.95 a month you can have your own PBX with “follow me” calling and “auto distribution” […]

Having done a fair amount of cold calling I will concur that it is a demoralizing activity. It’s dead right to point out the hidden cost, because most companies just look at the bottom line, how much money was brought in.
Never Cold Call Blog
There has got to be a cost to the customer as well, […]