'Technology and Internet' Category

• ERP Outsourcing for Small Businesses

  Posted by Guest on February 20, 2012

  Outsourcing has often been seen as an option for large companies who want to make savings in times of financial disarray. Despite this, there is a growing trend for smaller business to outsource but for entirely different reasons. When a small business needs certain specialties or skills that it cannot afford on a permanent in-house [...]

  Management, Technology and Internet

• Top 5 Twitter Accounts Small Businesses Should Follow

  Posted by Guest on February 6, 2012

  Twitter is chock-full of good advice for budding small businesses if you know where to look. Amidst all of the celebrity gossip, personal messages and marketing campaigns, there are Twitter accounts out there that are aimed at helping you get the most beneficial information for your small business. Finding the right accounts to follow is [...]

  Technology and Internet

• How to Evaluate Your OHS and Risk Management Software

  Posted by Guest on January 9, 2012

  If you’re looking at upgrading your business systems, you’ll find that things have changed a lot since the days when you could just cobble together a few computers and call it a network. The typical new business system includes training functions like the learning management system and even an OHS management system. The beauty of [...]

  Management, Technology and Internet

• Benefits of CRM for a Small Business

  Posted by Guest on December 26, 2011

  Lots of small businesses make use of CRM solutions, but if your company doesn’t currently use it, what are some of the benefits? Read on to find out why it is certainly worth considering using CRM software to benefit your small company. Get a snapshot of data One of the main benefits of CRM software [...]

  Technology and Internet

• Three Tips Twitter Can Teach Small Business Owners

  Posted by Guest on September 26, 2011

  There are plenty of reasons to criticize social media. With all the hype, there has to be a considerable amount of condemnation as well. Critics of the social media phenomenon that has taken over our society in the last decade claim that social media is a phenomenal waste of time and an endless distraction for [...]

  Technology and Internet

• John Lennon of the Beatles was the Walrus; I am the onion (i.e. Layers)

  Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on August 15, 2011

  Hi. Nice to “meet” you. My name is Brian Satterlee and I am the chief writer here on BusinessFizz.com. I have also been know to write for Ezine Articles and for various other web sites located throughout the web. I have been writing for a long, long time it seems as I just finished up [...]

  Entrepreneurship, Technology and Internet

• Generating Leads: An Experiment In Social Media

  Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on July 25, 2011

  I worked with a client late last year that wanted to drum up new sales because they were losing a very lucrative customer.  I had a lot of ideas: I figured they could attend trade shows, approach clients directly, and attend business groups, but I really didn’t take the idea of using social media to [...]

  Sales And Recruiting, Technology and Internet

• The Ever Changing State Of Technology

  Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on June 27, 2011

  I am currently in Nashville, Tennessee sitting at a Starbucks on West End, writing this post. Last week we had a graduation party, followed by a trip to Montana, followed by a wedding. In all my travels the past two weeks we were never out of reach of 3G or at least Wifi at the [...]

  Technology and Internet

• Don’t Share Your Netflix, Rhapsody Passwords

  Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on June 4, 2011

  Add one more crazy law to the list of new technology laws… Tennessee now makes it illegal to share logins for services like Netflix and Rhapsody.  I would assume that Hulu and iTunes would be a similar story.  It seems to me that this kind of sharing would already be a form of theft, where [...]

  News, Technology and Internet

• Amazon.com No Longer Pays Affiliates In Illinois

  Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on March 14, 2011

  Amazon.com sent us an email this week stating they are terminating the contracts of associates in Illinois.  The following is a copy of the email we received: “Hello, For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of Illinois residents. Unfortunately, a new state tax law signed by Governor Quinn compels [...]

  Technology and Internet