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Hot Tip: Spam the Spammers

By Leigh Buchanan |  Jun 1, 2001

Here's how one company made lemonade out of lemons by sending its own advertisements back to spammers.  Read more

Information In The Bank

By Jane Saladof MacNeil |  Jun 1, 2001

To keep his IT team focused on building the business, the CEO of TechTarget.com decided to outsource the company's storage needs.  Read more

E-Mail Newsletters: Formats That Work

By Christine James |  May 30, 2001

Because most Internet users spend more time sending and receiving e-mail than doing anything else online, sending e-mail newsletters is one way to keep vi...  Read more

Hostage Situation

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Mar 15, 2001

Get the benefits of an ASP without all the headaches.  Read more

Database Groundwork

By Ilan Angwin |  Dec 15, 2000

You've thought about consolidating your business records into a database, but you hesitate because of the time and the effort required. Think again. <...  Read more

Database Groundwork

By Ilan Angwin |  Dec 1, 2000

You've thought about consolidating your business records into a database, but you hesitate because of the time and the effort required. Think again. <...  Read more

Healthy Skepticism for ASPs

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Nov 15, 2000

Application service providers (ASPs), software companies that manage data for you on the Web, are struggling to convince small-business owners that the AS...  Read more

Tracking Tech Time

By Jane Saladof MacNeil |  Nov 15, 2000

At first glance the job he'd done on the pet-themed Web site seemed a job well done to Todd Jones. His Internet consulting company, Semtor Inc., had built...  Read more

Bulletin Board

By Inc. staff |  Nov 15, 2000

A look at various tech trends, including electronic signature software programs, professional services automation, and high-wired limos.  Read more

Tracking Tech Time

By Jane Saladof MacNeil |  Nov 1, 2000

At first glance the job he'd done on the pet-themed Web site seemed a job well done to Todd Jones. His Internet consulting company, Semtor Inc., had built...  Read more

Video Births the Internet Star

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Nov 1, 2000

New technologies stand to make Internet video as useful and ubiquitous as the telephone. How will it work for your company?  Read more

Online Relationships

By Ilan Mochari |  Oct 1, 2000

These three companies from the 2000 Inc. 500 are using the Internet to enhance their communication with staff and customers alike.  Read more

Making the Switch

By Ilan Mochari |  Sep 15, 2000

When a high-tech trend threatened the future of his business, Michael Edell radically reshaped his company. Two years later, he's suffered record losses and ...  Read more

Data Chasers

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Sep 15, 2000

Replace your outmoded off-the-shelf software with custom applications on the Web.  Read more

Making a Date

By Stephanie Izarek |  Sep 15, 2000

Does your scheduling system create unpredictable workflow and client turnaround? Here's how Doug Kinnear, president of the Kinnear Dental Laboratory, keeps h...  Read more

Credit Crunch

By Sarah Fister Gale |  Sep 15, 2000

When slow and costly credit checks began to cost this lease financing service time and customers, it turned to an automated online credit approval service.  Read more

Making the Switch

By Ilan Mochari |  Sep 1, 2000

When a high-tech trend threatened the future of his business, Michael Edell radically reshaped his company. Two years later, he's suffered record losses and ...  Read more

Credit Crunch

By Sarah Fister Gale |  Sep 1, 2000

When slow and costly credit checks began to cost this lease financing service time and customers, it turned to an automated online credit approval service.  Read more

Cut-Rate Collaboration

By Mary Kwak |  Jun 15, 2000

Free intranet services provide a simple way for smaller companies to communicate with employees, customers, and suppliers.  Read more

Bidding on Linux

By Dan Orzech |  Jun 15, 2000

It's cheap and it works. But can you run your company on Linux?  Read more

14 Common-Sense E-Mail Marketing Rules

By David Townsend |  Jun 9, 2000

Fight the good fight against spam, and stay on the right side of the law.  Read more

Bidding on Linux

By Dan Orzech |  Jun 1, 2000

It's cheap and it works. But can you run your company on Linux?  Read more

Four Ways in which Flash Kills

By Matt May |  Jun 1, 2000

Many of you may now be familiar with the story of Boo.com , which Read more

I have Windows 98 (or NT) on my office PCs. Should I upgrade to Windows 2000?

May 2, 2000

Information Technology mentor Glenn Weadock responds: This is the question on the minds of millions of Windows users since Windows 2...  Read more

I have Windows 98 (or NT) on my office PCs. Should I upgrade to Windows 2000?

By Jennifer LeClaire |  May 1, 2000

Information Technology mentor Glenn Weadock responds: This is the question on the minds of millions of Windows users since Windows 2...  Read more

John J. Kilcullen: My Biggest Mistake

By Anne Marie Borrego |  May 1, 2000

John J. Kilcullen Chairman and CEO of IDG Books Worldwide, creator of the Dummies series of how-to books. T...  Read more

Upstarts: ASPs

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Apr 1, 2000

Say good-bye to software as we know it and hello to ASP start-ups.  Read more

Create Stickiness with Streaming Media

By Ronni Rhodes |  Apr 1, 2000

OK! You've finally gotten customers to your Web site after a large investment in time and effort, not to mention money. What? They're not staying long eno...  Read more

ASPs Open New E-Commerce Opportunities

By Mary Hillebrand |  Mar 10, 2000

New high-speed Internet access services like DSL and cable modems areopening the door to a new vision of computing. Many software companies are looking to...  Read more

ASPs Open New E-Commerce Opportunities

By Mary Hillebrand |  Mar 1, 2000

New high-speed Internet access services like DSL and cable modems areopening the door to a new vision of computing. Many software companies are looking to...  Read more

Accounting Doesn't Have to Be Mind-Numbing

Oct 22, 1999

Perhaps the hardest part of accounting is getting over the psychological hang-up that most people seem to have about it. Many of us are loath to balance o...  Read more

New Ideas for Fighting Spam

Oct 11, 1999

An organization focused on controlling spam has come up with new proposals that give Internet service providers more effective weapons to fight unsolicite...  Read more

What Data Warehousing Can Do for You

Oct 1, 1999

Data Warehousing Advice for Managers by Patricia L. Ferdinandi. AMACOM, 208 pages, $29.95. There's been a lot of buzz ...  Read more

Checking Data More Than Twice

Sep 22, 1999

Whether they are test-marketing a new fruit drink, beta-testing computer software, or running clinical trials on an antibiotic, companies share a common c...  Read more

Housing Crisis

By Deborah Asbrand |  Sep 15, 1999

Considering bringing a substantial technology project in-house? First read how Market Insights' founders fell victim to poor planning, bad advice, finicky te...  Read more