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Using Video to Compete with Large Businesses

Using Video to Compete with Large Businesses

Pop Quiz: is there a particular part of the search results you see to the left that stand out? Here’s a hint: the search query Read More

Technology Freeze- When did we become so reliant on the Internet?

Technology Freeze- When did we become so reliant on the Internet?

I’m writing this on a mid-Monday afternoon just after the end of the Christmas Day Blizzard here in the Connecticut. We’ve had more than 18 Read More

What’s Hot for 2011: Automated Marketing Systems

What’s Hot for 2011: Automated Marketing Systems

You’ve probably heard on the TV show The Biggest Loser, that angry and energetic trainer Jillian Michaels also hawks vitamins. So my wife buys Read More

Amy Porterfield

The Secret Weapon To Optimizing your Facebook Page, Part-1

Is social media marketing a central focus in your company’s current marketing plan?  In a recent study earlier this year by White Horse, 46% Read More

The Explosion of Cyber Monday

The Explosion of Cyber Monday

As reports predict that Cyber Monday sales were up nearly 20% from last year and the Monday online holiday explodes into Cyber Week we asked Read More

What will be the hot tech gift this holiday season?

What will be the hot tech gift this holiday season?

After a somewhat encouraging Black Friday and ensuing holiday shopping weekend (up 6% over 2009) today is Cyber Monday and many feel this may be Read More

No Need to Reinvent the Wheel: Create Value By Offering Services Other Companies Won’t

No Need to Reinvent the Wheel: Create Value By Offering Services Other Companies Won’t

A successful business doesn’t have to be about creating something that doesn’t exist-sometimes augmenting what’s lacking in other products can be a road to success. Read More

Foursquare – is it on the road to nowhere?

Foursquare – is it on the road to nowhere?

I’ve been ‘using’ Foursquare’s location based application for about 9 months now.   People ask me all the time WHY do I use Foursquare to let Read More

Lessons Learned from Blockbuster’s Demise: Stay Ahead of Technology

Lessons Learned from Blockbuster’s Demise: Stay Ahead of Technology

It’s a wrap for video stores. Blockbuster Inc., a business phenomenon just a few years ago, filed for bankruptcy a few weeks ago.

The video-rental Read More

“Time Travel” aka Troubleshooting a Dot Matrix Printer in 2010

“Time Travel” aka Troubleshooting a Dot Matrix Printer in 2010

Took a ride with one of our consultants earlier this week to see a client who was having trouble printing checks from Sage MAS 90 Read More

Small Business Guide To Local Online Listings

Small Business Guide To Local Online Listings

One growing trend on the internet is the idea of localization, taking the larger internet and boiling it down to just what’s around you. What Read More

The Secret of Successful Software Implementations

The Secret of Successful Software Implementations

It’s the dirty little secret of successful software implementations. No one really talks about it. It’s taken for granted and underappreciated, usually. Like the Aunt Read More

Internet Access at 35,000 feet – GoGo is Just So So

Internet Access at 35,000 feet – GoGo is Just So So

I’ve been on a flight or maybe two that offered internet access this year but they were short flights – under 3 hours so it Read More

Featured Small Business Tools – Volume 1

Featured Small Business Tools – Volume 1

Welcome to a new ongoing Vistage series on featured technologies. We will be highlighting two great tools for small business with every post in this Read More

Redefining Innovation’s True Reward: Amassing Intellectual Property and Value Creation

Redefining Innovation’s True Reward: Amassing Intellectual Property and Value Creation

What is the ultimate goal of process-driven innovation? Open a bottle of Coca-Cola – and read its performance reports – to get a true taste Read More

Is Your Software Working for Your Business?

Is Your Software Working for Your Business?

Many consultants talk about customizing software as if it’s akin to selling your soul to the Devil. They site a litany of reasons why it’s Read More

How I Showed Up in Google in 22 Hours – The Achrontastic Maltesia Update

How I Showed Up in Google in 22 Hours – The Achrontastic Maltesia Update

Some of you may recall my last blog entry included a made-up term “Achrontastic Maltesia” as an experiment to see just how long it would Read More

Asking the Right Questions

Asking the Right Questions

I just got out of a meeting with the CEO at a client where the meeting began by him asking me the question “What technology Read More

Why Does Activision/Blizzard Want to Pull its Members Pants Down?

Why Does Activision/Blizzard Want to Pull its Members Pants Down?

Activision/Blizzard’s online role playing game World of Warcraft (WOW) continues to amaze me.  With more than 11.5 million monthly subscribers it is one of the Read More

The dirty secret to successful online marketing and Achrontastic Maltesia

The dirty secret to successful online marketing and Achrontastic Maltesia

What I’m about to tell you is the number one secret to achieving results on the Internet. I’m also going to back that secret up Read More

A World Without IT Support

A World Without IT Support

I had a dream.  I was the CEO of a business, and we didn’t have to buy any servers or have an IT department.  Our Read More

Will Dell Computer’s breaking of its promise be its downfall?

Will Dell Computer’s breaking of its promise be its downfall?

If you read the article in the NY Times this past Monday http://nyti.ms/cLeFl6  you saw that Dell Computer had a series of problems with its Read More

But it Doesn’t Work Like Our Old Software!?

But it Doesn’t Work Like Our Old Software!?

I heard it again.  “It doesn’t work like our old software”.   You work in this business long enough, and there are some standard catch phrases Read More

Should I Listen to My IT Guy?

Should I Listen to My IT Guy?

If you run a company, you’re probably used to your “IT Guy” telling you that you need to do this and that.  It seems like Read More

Doing Business on an iPhone

Doing Business on an iPhone

Late last year, I traded in my Treo for an iPhone. No, this decision wasn’t based solely on the fact that I could now use Read More