Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Better Ways to Deposit Checks

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Many service businesses are paid in checks, especially if it is an invoice-then-pay type of system. Even in a small business, sometimes the volume of checks received require multiple trips to the bank each week- sometimes daily. It's not as if you have plenty of spare time to ...

A New Way to Search for News

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

The folks over at WebWorkerDaily never miss a beat.  They find all the quirky web applications and generally announce them before they are released to the public.  Occasionally, they come back to something one of the big companies like Microsoft, Apple, or Google produce.  This week, they published an article ...

Spring Cleaning: Cleaning Out Your Inbox

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Spring is a time when most people think about cleaning. Clean the house, the windows, the office, the basement, etc. One thing that needs cleaning just as badly as all those is your email inbox. Over the past few days, I have been sorting through my Gmail ...

Help for a Corrupt Quickbooks File

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Knowing that people around the globe are fighting with their QuickBooks files, I decided to give some help for those who have run into a seemingly insurmountable wall: file corruption. This information is also included in a downloadable article I wrote called, "Nine Things You Never Thought You ...

My Favorite Business Web Apps

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

If you hadn't noticed lately, the web is partying like its 1999. We are back into the thick of web start-ups and entrepreneurs once again rushing to grab cleverly misspelled domain names in the hopes of being the next big thing on the Internet. The latest craze is software as ...

What’s Your 140 Character Pitch?

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Much has been made in the blogosphere about using Twitter for business. Twitter, you will recall, is a micro-blogging site that limits your posts to 140 characters. People use it for anything from telling everyone what they ate for lunch to asking for advice to pointing people to ...

Woopra: Your Website’s New Best Friend

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

After waiting about 20 days our sites finally got approved for Woopra beta.  For those of you that don't know what Woopra is, according to their website: "Woopra is the world's most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. And it's free!" At this point, most small ...

Not Just Another Pretty Face(book)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Mike has been blogging of late about Seth Godin's new book and the associated social network, Triiibes.com. A little bit of browsing and you'll notice that Seth's "tribe" is used Ning to create this social network. That got me thinking...is this the next step in the evolution of ...

Small Business Owners Take Note: Google Knol is Open

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Late last year Google announced the Knol Project. Finally, last week they opened it up to the public. It is a user-based article submission site quite similar to Wikipedia. According to the original press release: "A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone ...

How Your Office Can Survive a Disaster

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

In the past I've discussed the importance of securing your data and keeping sensitive data off of the Internet.  Those are two aspects to keeping your customer and your data secure.  A third way to keep that data secure is to ensure it is backed up regularly.  Here at Pursue, ...

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