Many small businesses believe they don’t need to be online. They feel it is complex and/or costly. Most of those who are online, don’t realize enough real benefits. The fact is, more than ever businesess of any size need online presence. For example a one-employee company (maybe a consultant) might want to have their resume, past clients, expertise, and contact information on a website that is bookmarked by clients or prospects, in addition to being searchable when others are looking for someone with their background. A small local store might …

A few years ago while attending a convention I noticed this self claimed consultant who was handing out his business card. I am using the word card rather generously here as they were clearly cut out of regular paper. Seemingly he had printed them on paper using a laser printer. It looked unprofessional, yet it was thought provoking. Why one needs a business card anyway and what do we do with them after getting them? In the old days when I used to have a note book for taking notes …

Have you seen those Mac commercials? The question that I am asked these days more than Mac versus PC is about netbooks and notebooks.
With the integration advancements the notebooks became more desirable than the desktops since they were portable and could do everything that the desktops did a year or two earlier. The desktops became mostly specialty computers where typically higher end processing, and graphics, large amount of memory and disk space, larger (or multiple) screens, or some combination of these were required. And then came along …

There is a product called Bodybugg which is featured on the TV show “The Biggest Loser”. For those who are not familiar, it is a little gadget that one wears on the back of their upper arm, throughout the day. It has some sensors and a very accurate pedometer. The sensors measure things like body temperature, the amount of sweat, and “heat flux” (whatever that means) and the pedometer counts the number of steps one walks. Using all that information, the company behind this technology, BodyMedia, …

First things first, if you haven’t already, go to http://google.com/voice and sign up to get your Google Voice number. In a week or two you will get an invitation. You can then claim a free GV phone number, not a phone line, just a phone number.
What can you do with it? You can set up the Google Voice to route the calls to your real phone lines like cell phone, home, office, or whatever. You can even set it up to call different numbers at different …