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5 Tips for Managing IT Across Multiple Offices

Here are five tips for managing information technology across multiple offices, all while maximizing efficiency, security, and cost.  Read more

How to Keep Your Message Clear

How to optimize your marketing message by better understanding the customer  Read more

My Favorite Tool for Avoiding Data Overload

Erik Kullenberg explains how he uses Threadsy to organize his e-mail and social networking accounts.  Read more

5 Mobile Payment Tools for Business

Mobile payment systems look to be the future of commerce. Here are five of the premier mobile payment tools your business can start using right away.  Read more

4 Tips for Conducting a Job Interview Using Skype

Facilitating a job interview via Skype is a process best learned and mastered ahead of time. These four tips will help you brush up your skills.  Read more

Watch Your E-mail Tone

The way we communicate in the workplace has drastically changed. Much of our communication happens via email, instant message, and even Twitter updates. W...  Read more

Should You Make a Tablet App for Your Business?

The train is moving out of the station. It happens to have an Apple logo (usually), measures about ten-inches in size, and lasts for about ten hours. Tablets...  Read more

Airbnb Mobile App Stands Out at SXSW

Nominated for the South By Southwest Interactive Awards for Mobile, Airbnb founders talk about growing pains and what's next.  Read more

How Self-Tracking Can Benefit Business

What if you could track everything you do in life? That is the idea behind self-tracking, a new method of tracking daily tasks, whether by using a health mon...  Read more

Study: Employees Are Unproductive Half the Day

Half of the average employee's time is spent on e-mail and other "necessary, yet unproductive tasks," says a new report.  Read more

My Favorite Tool for Staying Organized

Entrepreneur Teresa Meyer explains how she uses Evernote to stay organized.  Read more

Microsoft's New Cloud-Based Software

Looking to streamline your IT infrastructure? Office 365, Microsoft's new cloud-based platform, might be just what you need.  Read more

5 Tips for a Great PowerPoint Presentation

Want to deliver a pitch-perfect presentation? Here are five tips on how to deliver a killer PowerPoint.  View slideshow

10 Apps to Up Your Networking Game

Get friendly! You have a smartphone, so show your new contact you know how to use it. We've found the best free apps that can spark connections and keep you ...  View slideshow

My Favorite Tool for Making Presentations

Entrepreneur Maureen Carroll explains how she uses Prezi to make presentations.  Read more

5 Tips for Buying a Server

Need to control your own data? If a server purchase is in your plans, here's what experts say you should know.  Read more

A Decrease in Spam! Oh Wait, Nevermind

In late December and into early January, email spam Read more

Next Time You’re Stuck in the Storm

It seems current news stories spill into our social networks.  I'm guessing that, over the holidays, many of you read multiple Facebook statuses and ...  Read more

5 Ways IT Can Ease Small Business Accounting

Ever hear a story about a business owner who enjoys accounting and bookkeeping? I think it is an urban legend. Small business owners tend to dislike crunchin...  Read more

Expert Corner: Remote Access on a Budget

Jamie Larson works in one town but his main office is in another town. He had to figure out how to make sure his employees can use the software they use. Her...  Read more

11 Best Web Analytics Tools

Every company, regardless of size, requires multiple tools to understand the performance of its website, happiness of its customers and gain key context from...  Read more

How to Use Software to Plan and Prioritize Projects

In business, when the going gets tough, the tough have to learn to prioritize between projects to make sure they reach business goals without breaking the bank.  Read more

2011: The Year Social CRM Goes Mainstream

The University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management recently held a three-day course called "Managing Customer Engagement Using Social Media and CRM." ...  Read more

Federal Court Protects E-mail Privacy

A recent court decision cites Fourth Amendment search and seizure provisions to protect e-mail privacy.  Read more

How to Write a Compelling E-mail Subject Line

A subject line is like a handshake. A good one will announce confidence and respect, but a bad one can leave the recipient unimpressed.  Read more

Best Business Apps of 2010

With the right apps, smartphones and tablet computer are powerful tools for running your business. Here are seven that can help you communicate better, compl...  View slideshow

A Smarter Way to Make Sausage

How Marc Cinque upgraded his sausage company, Premio Foods, to increase cash flow and reduce waste.  Read more

The Platform Predicament

Selecting a platform for your app  Read more

How to Choose a Cloud Computing Vendor

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly prevalent in the small business world. The following is a guide to choosing the right vendor for the job.  Read more

3 IT Tools You Can't Live Without - Pt. 2

Why my company could not survive without a useful application called Nagios.  Read more

How Inc. 5000 CEOs Use Technology

A survey of executives at fast-growing companies reveals that securing data and serving customers better are among their top priorities.  Read more

3 IT Tools You Can't Live Without - Pt. 3

VMware is software that provides a completely virtualized s...  Read more

Christopher McCann, Co-founder of StartupDigest 

Young Silicon Valley entrepreneur Christopher McCann answers questions about starting a successful e-mail newsletter business.  Watch video

4 Tools for Collecting Customer Feedback

Get Satisfaction, UserVoice, and other tools help businesses tap customers for ideas.  Read more

Elevator Pitch: ShopKeep

ShopKeep makes point-of-sale software for small businesses. Can it raise $1 million from investors?  Read more