Flash is what you find on those fancy web sites that look slick and cool and feature rich. Traditionally flash web sites take a web developer, with expertise in flash programming, to create flash web sites. Another draw back when considering the design of flash web site is that search engines do not pick up flash web sites, unless they are properly programmed. (Have a look at this web site for more information on this).
Technology can help small businesses grow, control costs, and operate more efficiently. Sometimes one particular solution can help achieve all of the above, like using a hosted collaboration solution as a company intranet.
Website traffic analysis is basic and important - we want to how many users are visiting our sites, and when, and what they are doing once they get there. Google Analytics is one of the most well-known tools, and there are many others that track basic statistics.
But imagine that your website is a traditional retail store, and then imagine knowing that people are buying, but not knowing anything else about them. How would you serve them better? Connect and build a relationship with them? Get them to buy more stuff?
School starts in September for our children and college students. Most of the items for sale are more "consumerish" but some of the consumer technology, is quite useful for small office home office scenarios or very small businesses. Printers is one such technology for example.
Conference Calls can be an expensive part of doing business. You pay per minute charges and if you do many conference calls the costs can add up.
If you've been reading Smallbiztechnology.com even for a short length of time, you've probably come across at least one article on virtualization. Instead of having 10 servers (or more) you can use less servers and use smart software to segment the power of the servers into virtual machines.
Chris Barclay, Director of Product Management at Virtual Iron and Jerry Melnick is Chief Technology Officer at Marathon Technologies Corporation help us understand more about virtualization.
If you've been reading Smallbiztechnology.com even for a short length of time, you've probably come across at least one article on virtualization. Instead of having 10 servers (or more) you can use less servers and use smart software to segment the power of the servers into virtual machines.
Chris Barclay, Director of Product Management at Virtual Iron and Jerry Melnick is Chief Technology Officer at Marathon Technologies Corporation help us understand more about virtualization.
One of the most powerful features of Amazon.com's service is the recommendations it gives to customers who are looking for books and other products they purchase.
Sometimes we think the worlds of online and offline sales and customer relations are different. They're note. The only difference is one is digital and one it physical. One is with bytes and bits and one is with hand shakes and smiles. The goals are the same - loyal customers.
Posting and hosting online videos is all the rage. Why? Text is a nice way of explaining things but when people SEE something it's more informative, interesting and if you will - enjoyable.
