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TrialPay: Online Retailers Can Give Shoppers Powerful Incentives To Buy
July 03, 2009, 8:45 AM
Retailers are always looking for any and every edge to increase their sales and profits. It's one thing to get customers to visit your web site. It's quite another thing to get customers to buy. With the competition literally being ...

Managing Paper Documents: Better Workflow. More Time. Increased Productivity
July 02, 2009, 8:25 AM
Xerox is one of the leading vendors helping companies manage their documents. Managing documents is more than just scanning documents, but it also includes workflow, permissions, and being able to integrate paper documents in the normal "digital process" of communications ...

How Many Customers Would You Like To Lose Online: Analyzing Your Shopping Cart Abandonment
July 01, 2009, 8:25 AM
In a traditional retail store you can assign greeters are the door (hello and welcome to CVS, Gap, Wal-Mart) to greet customers and say "thanks for shopping" when they leave.

How You Can Have Fun In the Copy Room: Less Waste, Lower Color Costs
June 30, 2009, 8:25 AM
I've been on this earth for over 30 years and I've done my fair share of copying. It's never a pleasant experience. Between the copy machine jamming, changing messy toner, the slowness of the machine, replacing the other consumable parts ...

Phone Features: PopUps, Telephones and Customer Service
June 29, 2009, 8:25 AM
If your growing business has the pleasure of needing a call center (big or small) to respond to customer needs, the phone system you use and the features it has are important. Even if you don't need a full-scale call ...

Tool for Aiding the Corporate Data Sleuths (i.e., Sales People) In Your Company
June 29, 2009, 8:20 AM
Using Hoovers, Jigsaw, LinkedIn and other paid and free resources to find out corporate data is good. However at times you need to dig deeper, and you find yourself scouring web sites for corporate data, such as information on senior ...

From The Moblie Office File: Verzon's MiFi - Ideal Tool For Those "No WiFi" Times
June 29, 2009, 8:20 AM
On my Dell Latitude E6400 I use Verizon Wireless broadband - on the train, in taxis, all over New York City. Many of you have built in wireless broadband cards and all of you have WiFi antennas built into your ...

Creating Your Own Social Network: Beyond Facebook
June 26, 2009, 8:20 AM
Many businesses are using Facebook as a portal to communicate with their customers. Facebook is much more than just a simple platform - through the use of applications and widgets you can do so much more. From simple things like ...

American Idol for Business: What's Your Rank on Forbes' Most Promising Company List?
June 26, 2009, 8:20 AM
Forbes and HP are looking for America's most promising companies. Whether you are "the" most promising or not. Filling out the survey gives you a personal ranking of how your company compares to other companies.

Choosing the Right Video Surveillance System: It Depends on Why You're Watching
June 25, 2009, 8:20 AM
Convincing your kids that you have eyes in the back of your head might work to deter bad behavior, but it's likely a less effective strategy for keeping everyone in line at work, and I doubt it will discourage any ...



Latest Comments in Technology & Your Business This Week posts

Yay for Xerox! That sounds like a fantastic machine, and it's about time. I could give you many stories about being covered in toner while trying to replace cartridges! I am glad that they have moved forward to a simple easy process.
By: Kim Shuford on 6/30/09 at 12:06 PM
How You Can Have Fun In the Copy Room: Less Waste, Lower Color Costs
I totally agree with the fact that you are supposed to get more from VoIP and pay less. It seems to be that way, but I did try a few years ago to switch to VoIP and it was a disaster. When a call would come in it would disconnect the other line and it was just crazy.
I am sure that the VoIP system has made tremendous growth in the last few years, so hopefully these types of problems are fixed.
I know a company that has just switched to VoIP and they seem to be very happy with it. I will probably look into again when I see that they have made it for a while without those types of problems.
I agree with Jason though, the traditional telco charges are ridiculous. I asked once if there was a fee for sneezing while you were on the phone!! VoIP is definitely the new way to go, and the savings are huge!
By: Kim Shuford on 6/30/09 at 11:42 AM
Save While You Grow with an Outsourced Telephone System
VoIP is most certainly a cost reduction. It's the only service where you are going to pay less and get more. Think about that, where can you get more and pay less? VoIP has done just that. Small businesses are adopting VoIP so rapidly because they are tired of being nickled and dimed to death by the traditional telcos and see a tremendous value with VoIP. They can cut costs and gain functionality, who wouldn't want that? Businesses are tired of paying all the bogus charges the telco throws at them like the FCC Line charge that has nothing to do with the FCC, it's just a buzz word the telco uses to make it sound like a government charge. Or the Line maintenance charge, which one would think it is for the lines outside but it's not, it's for the lines inside your building. What is that all about and when was the last time the phone company came out to maintain your lines in your house. I am pretty sure they tell you that's not their obligation. If that's the case then why do I pay a monthly fee for that service?

Sincerely
Jason
President
VoIPstreet
www.VoIPstreet.com
...
By: Jason Tapolci on 6/16/09 at 2:49 PM
Save While You Grow with an Outsourced Telephone System
It's the only service where you are going to pay less and get more. Think about that, where can you get more and pay less? VoIP has done just that. Small businesses are adopting VoIP so rapidly because they are tired of being nickled and dimed to death by the traditional telcos and see a tremendous value with VoIP. They can cut costs and gain functionality, who wouldn't want that? Businesses are tired of paying all the bogus charges the telco throws at them like the FCC Line charge that has nothing to do with the FCC, it's just a buzz word the telco uses to make it sound like a government charge. Or the Line maintenance charge, which one would think it is for the lines outside but it's not, it's for the lines inside your building. What is that all about and when was the last time the phone company came out to maintain your lines in your house. I am pretty sure they tell you that's not their obligation. If that's the case then why do I pay a monthly fee for that service?

Sincerely
Jason
President
VoIPstreet
www.VoIPstreet.com
...
By: Jason Tapolci on 6/16/09 at 2:47 PM
No More Land Lines? Your Local Directory Listing Will Suffer
Thanks for the post. Technology is something we cannot ignore and cannot fall behind on, especially as a small business owner.
Another interesting article I found has a bunch of info about the iPhone. Check it out! http://www.wbsonline.com/resources/iphone-apps-for-your-small-business/ ...
By: Sara F on 5/26/09 at 4:58 PM
Are You Ready for Mobile Payments? Can You Afford Not to Be?

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