Lyn Toomey, a veteran virtual assistant and founder of Virtual Market Support, leverages her 27-year career in marketing, operations and virtual assistance to support small and midsize businesses.In the past few years, the Virtual Assistant (VA) ...

I love hearing inspirational stories of business owners who are successfully running and growing their companies. I also enjoy learning how e-mail marketing helps them succeed. This month, I'm shining the spotlight on three very different businesses ...

Susan-Says: Successful Marketing Starts with You ---Susan Wilson Solovic, CEO - SBTV.com, author of "The Girls' Guide to Building a Million Dollar Business" Q. I'm starting a business and I'm wondering: What is the ...

Think Ahead Make Your Move Manageable Presented by AT&T It's no accident your small business has succeeded. If you're like most small business owners, you work hard to maintain and grow the business you've built. You're proud of the quality of ...

Would You Recommend Us? By Darren DahlPerfect your service by asking the only question that matters.The first time a customer complained, it was easy to explain it as a single transaction gone wrong. But a few months later, there was another one, ...

Growth is good. Managing cascading revenue, remembering new faces at work, finding enough desks, computers and space for everyone--these are the right kinds of problems to have.But, of course, they're still challenges for a growing business. One of ...

Choosing a Web Hosting Partner Support, scalability, and cost are all important factors when choosing a service for your web site-far more so than just the lowest price. Unless you're planning to purchase your own servers (an ...

Selling Online For information on AT&T products to help you with Selling Online, please click here. The internet has opened up a new marketplace that has allowed millions of small business owners to compete ...

How to Create Your Own Web Site Today, prospective customers expect you to have a web site. Every day tens of millions of searches are conducted on the internet, with every one of those searches for the purpose of finding ...

Determining Your Allowable Marketing Cost If you're going to sell using direct response marketing methods, it's important that you determine your marketing budget. One way to do this is to "back-in" to the numbers by ...

2006 InfoWorld Security Survey: IT's confidence crisis Normal Paul Calento 1 2007-05-18T19:00:00Z 2007-05-18T19:05:00Z 2 1782 10162 InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. 84 ...

Moving Tips Don't let a move disrupt your business At one time or another in the life of your small business, you may find your need to move to a new location. While this kind of expansion can be an exciting time for a company, it also can be ...

In your day-to-day operations you probably use software for a variety of purposes, ranging from e-mail to accounting. Much of this software you can be using for free. But before you get too excited and think you should build your entire business on ...

Cyber Crooks Go PhishingLarge websites like PayPal, eBay and Amazon have all been targeted by phishing scam e-mails in the past, but experts say these days, online consumers are seeing even more "phishy" e-mails in their in-box.So what exactly is ...

Guarding Against Online Identity TheftOnline shopping is faster, easier, and sometimes, cheaper. According to a survey recently conducted by the USC-Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future, the number of online purchasers rose to its highest ...

Escape From Meeting HellQuick show of hands: Who hates meetings? So that's most of you. It's not surprising. Workers across this land are gripped by soul-deadening angst as they shuffle down the hall every Wednesday at 3:30 to go review ...

Q&A Choosing a Web host Q: What is a Web host? A: A Web host is a company that provides space on, and Internet access to, specialized computers called Web servers. Providing reliable and secure Web ...

Advising Startup Clients on Telecom Services By: Mark Hendricks, Inc.com Telecommunication service can be a critical element for most startup businesses. A typical new company uses landline and cellular telephone service, Internet access, wireless ...

Online pet peeves Your website might be annoying customers. Here's how to change that. By Melissa Campanelli Provided by As web consumers become more sophisticated, they're demanding more and tolerating less from the websites they ...

Building An Online Store by Aliza Sherman     --by Aliza Pilar Sherman Aliza Pilar Sherman is a Web pioneer, ...

The Care and Feeding of Revenue-Sharing Partners by Clarence Briggs Companies that join forces to better serve customers should assure that their offerings are complimentary and not ...

A Vision Beyond Virtual by Andy Bourland and Ann Handley ClickZ was born in May 1997, in a couple of spare bedrooms. With a real need to make this baby profitable as quickly as possible, we kept costs ...

All the Moving Parts by Dan Leonard, Biznews24 Whoever in business said that it's the handshake - and the firm look in the eye - that's important when negotiating with partners was probably right. It's ...

They roll out of bed in the morning and head off for work--still in their pajamas. They work from their dining room tables, stock inventory in their cupboards and arrange meetings in the lobbies of their local hotels. They set their own schedules, ...

Fast Growth in the Sensible Lane by Lucas Roh The founder of an Internet-services provider ignores the mantra of the boom years of the late 1990s that fast growth would equal fast profit and opted instead ...