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A Simpler IT Infrastructure Can Help You Focus on Customers - Windows Server®, Learn More.
Dec 2009
The right server solution should help you save time, reduce costs, and get organized—leaving you more time to focus on the most important part of your business: your customers. Windows Server 2008...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Blueprint for Introducing Innovation Into the Wireless Networks We Use Every Day
Oct 2009
Few changes are occurred in the past couple of years in wireless industry: Handsets have become mobile computers running user-contributed applications on (potentially) open operating systems. It...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Oblivious Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks
Feb 2008
Wireless mesh networks have attracted increasing attention and deployment as a high-performance and low-cost solution to last-mile broadband Internet access. Traffic routing plays a critical role...
Provided by Vanderbilt University (Owen)
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White Papers
Resource Guide: High Performance Workstations
Dec 2009
High performance workstations are specifically designed to meet the rising challenges of specialized applications for a growing number of industries including engineering, entertainment, finance,...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
Quantifying the benefits of HP Server Automation white paper
Dec 2009
IT organizations can capture the expertise of their best IT staff and leverage this expertise across numerous servers, server types, and data centers. With HP Server Automation, HP customers have...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Dynamic Data Compression in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Apr 2009
Data compression can save energy and increase network capacity in wireless sensor networks. However, the decision of whether and when to compress data can depend upon platform hardware, topology,...
Provided by University of Southern California (Marshall)
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White Papers
Unified Communications and Your Business: What You Need to Know
Apr 2009
To create a consistent, seamless Unified Communications (UC) experience across your organization, you must first examine your existing infrastructure and business processes to determine what...
Provided by Qwest Communications
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White Papers
Smarter service data protection for SMBs
Jan 2010
As data volumes skyrocket, organizations of all sizes must work harder to keep their critical information safe. For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), rapid disaster recovery is just as...
Provided by Iron Mountain
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Downloads
Paragon Drive Backup 10.0 Server Trial
Jan 2010
This highly-rated tool set for backup and recovery provides powerful features to effectively protect valuable company data and systems. Experienced Windows users, Boot Camp users, system...
Provided by Paragon Software
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Whitepapers
"Inside the Midmarket: A 2009 Perspective An environment like no other"
Jul 2009
When you're determining IT priorities, it helps to know what businesses like yours are doing. With the "Inside the Midmarket: A 2009 Perspective" trend study results, you'll learn how midmarket...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
10 Steps To An Excellent Small Business Plan
Jan 2010
A small business plan is basically a document that serves as a tool for starting a small business or it can be considered as a guide that helps one to decide on the business objectives and the...
Provided by Hubpages
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White Papers
Five Key Reasons To Write A Business Plan For Your Small Business
Jan 2010
Many small business owners and startup entrepreneurs forego the steps involved for developing the business plan, and even though you may not need one to get your business in gear, there are some...
Provided by Hubpages
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White Papers
Why You Should Develop A Mission Statement: The Importance Of A Mission Statement
Jan 2010
There are small businesses all over the world. A small business is usually one with about 100 employees or less. There are small businesses in all types of trades. Some of these small businesses...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
Avoiding Strategic Errors In Your Small Business Plan
Jan 2010
When it comes to business plans many of us think that is something that just the larger companies should do. But the truth of the matter is that even if you are only running a small business you...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
Building A Business Plan
Jan 2010
Once you have a vision for your small business, it is important to start building your business plan. A business plan is helpful for allowing your business to gain the necessary funding to get...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
The Key Components Of Any Small Business Plan
Jan 2010
If you are going to start up your own small business, you need to have a great small business plan. Small business plans begin with ideas, so make sure that you look at your idea also. This paper...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
Tailoring A Budget For Your Small Business
Jan 2010
Depending on what type of small business you have will depend on what type of revenue you have coming in. No matter what type of revenue you have coming in you will want to make sure that you have...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
How To Keep Accurate Financial Statements With Your Small Business
Jan 2010
This paper explains how to keep accurate financial statements with your small business. As a small business owner, you have many things that you have to be concerned with every day. The thing is...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
Essential Social Media Tools For The Small Business
Jan 2010
If you're a small business taking the plunge into the teeming waters of social media, you're going to want to know about the various tools and services that help your brand manage its social media...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Creating Your First Small Business Budget
Jan 2010
Small businesses - the ones that succeed - are borne out of passion for something, whether it be a particular topic area, a particular methodology, or something else. Businesses succeed when...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Six Steps To Audit-Proofing Your Small Business
Jan 2010
You're getting audited. Those words are often enough to deeply scare any small businessperson. Nightmares of hours and hours of digging through receipts and invoices, meetings in which you feel...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Two Key Numbers You Need To Know To Manage Your Small Business
Jan 2010
When it comes to quickly evaluating how the business is doing, there are two numbers to pay attention to above all else. These two numbers tell very quickly how exactly the business is doing and...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
#1 Headache For Small Businesses Right Now? Sales
Jan 2010
Recently, the administration has made a point of ardently encouraging banks to lend more freely to small businesses. This federal prodding makes it seem as though fundraising is the average small...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
A New Type Of Pension Plan That Small Businesses Could Love
Dec 2009
Everybody wants a pension, but nobody wants to pay for it. Old-fashioned pensions, known as defined benefit pension plans, have fallen out of favor as an employee benefit because employers can't...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Small Business Tax Tips
Nov 2009
Tax season doesn't have to be stressful for you and your small business. Why wait until late March to strategize those affordable tax breaks and write-offs when there are money-saving approaches...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
A Hiring Hitch For Small Business
Jan 2010
Even as economists and policy-makers are counting on small companies to help lead the economy out of the recession, business owners seeking temporary workers as the first step in hiring are...
Provided by Bloomberg L.P.
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White Papers
The Easy Way To Build Virtual Trust In Your Small Business
Dec 2009
Virtual trust is the idea that anyone online can establish a trust in a product, service or individual without having any personal relationship or face to face contact. As reports of cyberfraud,...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
4 Simple Social Media Suggestions For Small Businesses In 2010
Jan 2010
2010 is upon us, bringing new opportunities to jump ahead of the competition using social media. The web is evolving rapidly and those small businesses that identify trends first will be able to...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Online Productivity Tools For The Small Business
Jan 2010
Small business owners may have more of a need than most to be able to access their chosen suite of productivity tools from more than one computer or platform. As a business or startup owner you...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
5 Ways Small Businesses Can Avoid Social Media Panic
Jan 2010
The notion of getting into social media might seem overwhelming for any small business. Spending time upfront before launch to create a plan with goals that includes how to translate that social...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Online Tax Resources For Small Businesses
Dec 2009
As the end of the year approaches, small business owners should start thinking about one of the less pleasant aspects of entrepreneurship: Filing taxes. Tax Day might not be until April 15, but...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Document Collaboration Tools For The Small Business
Dec 2009
With cloud computing continuing its reach into areas once dominated by desktop applications, it's a great time to consider how your small business could benefit from online collaboration tools for...
Provided by American Express
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Whitepapers
Business Agility Now! Establishing a Dynamic Business Network through Highly Agile Processes
Dec 2009
Today's business landscape seems to change in the blink of an eye. To be truly agile, your business must be integrated into a reusable IT infrastructure and interconnected across your network....
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
Podcast: The Latest on Governance, Risk and Compliance
Jan 2010
Regulatory requirements can be challenging and expensive to manage for any organization. This podcast will address some of the most common challenges and how software and applications can ease...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
4 Easy Low Budget Ideas To Market Your Small Business
Nov 2009
Marketing your small business doesn't have to be expensive or a long drawn out process. In fact, it's never been easier to build your image or your customer base on little or no money. The most...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Five Strategies For Preventing A Cash Flow Disruption From Destroying Your Small Business
Feb 2010
Many small businesses run with a very tiny cash reserve. Eventually, that small cash reserve comes to bite them - often resulting in the closure of an otherwise successful business. Don't let that...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Avoiding Small Business Tax Mistakes
Jan 2010
Some businesses push the envelope when it comes to properly reporting their taxes, while others make genuine mistakes because they're unaware of changes in tax law. Regardless of the intent, it's...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Ten Ways To Effectively Reduce Your Small Business Energy & Technology Costs
Jan 2010
Many small businesses struggle with the costs of keeping up with technological demands. From buying computers and covering shockingly huge energy bills to paying for ISPs to covering the phone...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Accounts Payable (AP) Can Be Outsourced And It Is Highly Beneficial In Small Business
Oct 2007
In small businesses Accounts Payable (AP) is an important activity as it directly relates to vendor relationship and cash flow. By successfully outsourcing it, small businesses can increase their...
Provided by Articles Factory
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Webcasts
IBM Cognos 8 BI Demo
Mar 2010
Complete capabilities in one product, on a single architecture. See key features for both business and IT users, including Framework Manager, the Administration Console, and integration with...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Starting A New Business: An Educational Brochure For Alabama Taxpayers
Aug 2009
Contact all necessary agencies that you feel may affect your business or yourself. Do not rely on secondhand information or someone else to contact all the agencies for you. There are forms that...
Provided by Alabama Development Office
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White Papers
Small Business Guide To Doing Business In Alabama
Apr 2010
There are a number of steps which should be taken before anyone starts a small business in Alabama. Detailed descriptions of all the areas involved in planning a business venture are discussed in...
Provided by Alabama Development Office
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Whitepapers
Solution Brief: ILOG Solutions for E-Government
Dec 2010
This solution brief explains how IBM ILOG solutions help government agencies accelerate policy implementation, automate key processes, extend legacy systems and reduce development time and risk.
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
Podcast: Planning for Recovery
Dec 2010
Uncertainty sets the tone of business planning these days and past precedents, 'rules of thumb' and trading history provide little comfort when assessing future prospects. After 18 years of...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Building Blocks Of CRM
May 2008
Achieving the long-term value of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) requires a strategy involving the whole business and should be approached at an enterprise level. Only a small, but growing,...
Provided by InterAktiv Technology Pte
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White Papers
CRM Strategy - How Can SME Embrace It?
May 2008
As the saying goes "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail". This is so true in CRM strategy deployment. A survey in 2001 by Accenture and Wirthlin Worldwide queries Fortune 1000 executives and...
Provided by InterAktiv Technology Pte
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White Papers
CRM For Small Business
Jan 2010
Does an investment in customer relationship management software make sense for small businesses? With some CRM programs, you don't need any IT staffers. While a small business might opt to install...
Provided by Mansueto Ventures
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White Papers
Entrepreneur Purchasing Recommendations For CRM
Jan 2010
Most business owners would tend to agree that they don't necessarily think of themselves as entrepreneurs, they are just people running a business, making things go, getting past challenges,...
Provided by Salesboom.com
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White Papers
CRM Benefits For Midsize Businesses
Jan 2010
With a CRM system in place, midsize companies can improve employee productivity, shorten sales cycles and increase revenues, minimize sales and support-related expenses, and build stronger and...
Provided by Business-Software.com
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White Papers
CRM For Small Businesses
Jan 2010
Customer relationship management (CRM) isn't just for large corporations anymore. In today's increasingly competitive business environment, where customer service is a key differentiator, the use...
Provided by Business-Software.com
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Whitepapers
ERP and BI: When 1+1=3
Dec 2010
Prompted by volatile markets and a troubled economy, the need to contain or reduce costs is key for small to medium size enterprises (SME's). In the pursuit of cost reductions and in the struggle...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
How Can CRM Help A Small Business?
Jan 2010
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has a reputation for being expensive and hard to align with organizational goals. The horror stories of Enterprise level project failing miserably are...
Provided by iport4business.com
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White Papers
What CRM Consultants Can Do For Your Small Business
Jan 2010
As a small business owner, you understand that every decision you make affects your company's success. Your business is dependent on your actions in a very real way: each day brings with it a...
Provided by CRM & Social Media Online
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White Papers
The New Small Business On-Ramp To Social CRM
Jan 2010
There's one company that looks to be creating a platform small businesses can use to turn a variety of online interactions into stronger customer relationships - and it's not even a CRM company,...
Provided by Mansueto Ventures
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White Papers
Small Business Should Embrace CRM In 2008
Jan 2010
Customer relationship management providers have tailored their offerings for the small business market, providing software-as-a-service options, integration with other technologies, and an...
Provided by Mansueto Ventures
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White Papers
Governance And Corruption Constraints: The Business Ethics Glass Ceiling In Middle East Corporate Governance
Apr 2010
Market based solutions to alleviate poverty have become increasingly popular in recent years. Unfortunately, there are very few examples of profitable businesses that market socially useful goods...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
African Entrepreneurs: Creating Opportunities For Success
Feb 2008
Africans must stop thinking of themselves as victims and work towards the development of the continent using aids that are coming into Africa, Bakayoko says. "And Europe and the rest of the world...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
SME Financing: Small Businesses Struggle To Survive The Downturn
Dec 2009
When it comes to securing financial support, entrepreneur Jack Ma, chairman and CEO of China's Alibaba Group, has this advice for small and medium-sized enterprises: don't rely on the government...
Provided by INSEAD
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Webcasts
Small Biz Tech: Hi-Tech Gadgets
Oct 2010
Saving time and money and boosting productivity can be just a few high-tech tools away for small business owners. Ramon Ray, the editor of smallbiztechnology.com, shows some of the latest,...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Where's The Money?: SBA Loans
Oct 2010
There may be some light at the end of the tunnel for small business owners seeking loans. Days after President Obama signed the thirty billion dollar small business jobs act about fourteen hundred...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Better Your Business: Rod Kurtz & Steve Strauss
Oct 2010
Rod Kurtz, executive editor of AOL Small Business, and Steve Strauss, the small business columnist for USA Today and author of the blog MrAllBiz.com, provide tips on how you can better your business.
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Business Answers: Selling A Struggling Business & Growing An Online Store
Oct 2010
Business strategist Carol Roth and Mike Michalowicz, founder of Obsidian Launch and author of the book "The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur," answer viewer questions about the potential for selling a...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Viral Marketing For Small Businesses
Sep 2010
As co-founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, a website that tracks when things turn viral, Jonah Peretti knows a thing or two about viral content. For a small business looking to start a viral marketing...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Better Your Business: Colleen Debaise & Amilya Antonetti
Sep 2010
Colleen Debaise, small business editor at The Wall Street Journal and Amily Antonetti, CEO of AMA Enterprises, provide some tips to help you better your business.
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Better Your Business: Divya Gugnani & Scott Belsky
Sep 2010
Divya Gugnani, CEO of Behind the Burner, and Scott Belsky, founder and CEO of Behance, provide some tips to help you better your business.
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Business Answers: Timing A Request For Venture Capital & Going Viral With A Marketing Campaign
Oct 2010
Forbes staff writer, Maureen Farrell and serial entrepreneur and author of the book "What If? And Why Not?" Jen Groover, answer viewer questions about timing your request for venture capital and...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Small Business Rules: The Make My Cake Rule
Oct 2010
Small Business Rules takes a look at Make My Cake, which was a Harlem staple before it was a successful small business. Their cakes were literally homemade before the business expanded beyond the...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
American Business: Bizdom U
Sep 2010
A little education never hurt anyone especially entrepreneurs. As part of NBC News' week-long look at the "Education Nation," one go inside a non-profit in Detroit teaching present and future...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
The Outlook For Small Businesses
Sep 2010
Why have small businesses been so slow to recover relative to the rest of the economy? Jim Grant of Grant's Interest Rate Observer tells Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget that regulations and...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Small Business Rules: The Native Land Design?
Oct 2010
This episode of Small Business Rules is going native. In 2001, Ben Collinsworth started Native Land Design, with a lifetime of landscaping experience but no formal business training. After a rocky...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Small Business Rules: The Waterloo Records Rule
Oct 2010
John Kunz and his store, Waterloo Records & Video, have been at the heart of the vibrant Austin music scene since 1982. 28 years later, this old-school music store is still a mecca for musicians...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Decision 2010: Small Biz Candidates
Oct 2010
The needs of small business owners are front and center in the political debate, and so it's no surprise that nearly 100 candidates with some small business experience are running for Congress...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Small Business Rules: The Jen Bekman Projects?
Oct 2010
As a relative newcomer to the art world, Jen Bekman Projects focuses on breaking open the industry to connect emerging and established artists with collectors all over the world. Small Business...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
American Business: Dead On
Oct 2010
At times, they couldn't play in tune, remember song lyrics or produce a hit record, but none of that mattered to their legions of fans who loved them anyway. The Grateful Dead may have called it...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Ways A Small Business Can Capitalize On The Growing Social Deals Trend
Nov 2010
Every week there seems to be a new social coupon website. Either they're being added to existing retail sites to clear inventory (think BackCountry.com's SteepandCheap site) or stand-alone sites...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
What Does The Future Hold For Small Business?
Nov 2010
Remember when the 2000s began? Seems like just yesterday, doesn't it? Well, the end of the first decade of the "Oughts" is in sight, and it's time to start looking ahead to the next. If you're...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How Small Business Can Increase Financial Success
Nov 2007
Not all small businesses are destined to stay small forever. Some will evolve into bigger entities through mergers and acquisitions. The author spoke with David Gomberg, president and publisher of...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Will The Holiday Shopping Season Be A Boom For Small Businesses?
Nov 2010
Heading into the holiday season, small businesses aren't particularly optimistic about the outlook for the U.S. consumer. Their biggest worry isn't taxes or insurance costs, but poor sales,...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Your 2011 Lead Generation Strategy Outline
Nov 2010
Lead generation is the number one item on every small business marketing plan. What strategies and tactics will you use to attract customers? Many small business owners and CEOs say they can't get...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Great Fall: Losing Your Business Reputation
Oct 2010
Some of your business planning should be devoted to handling problems in advance of their appearance. What's the game plan if you issue a faulty product? What do you do if an employee starts...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
More Secure. More Manageable. Intelligent Performance. That's Smart ROI
Jan 2010
PCs powered by a new 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor help businesses cut costs and increase efficiency, so you can reap a positive ROI for years to come.1 How? The all new 2010 Intel Core vPro...
Provided by Intel
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Podcasts
Podcast: The Latest on Governance, Risk and Compliance
Jan 2010
Regulatory requirements can be challenging and expensive to manage for any organization. This podcast will address some of the most common challenges and how software and applications can ease...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
4 Easy Low Budget Ideas To Market Your Small Business
Nov 2009
Marketing your small business doesn't have to be expensive or a long drawn out process. In fact, it's never been easier to build your image or your customer base on little or no money. The most...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Five Strategies For Preventing A Cash Flow Disruption From Destroying Your Small Business
Feb 2010
Many small businesses run with a very tiny cash reserve. Eventually, that small cash reserve comes to bite them - often resulting in the closure of an otherwise successful business. Don't let that...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Avoiding Small Business Tax Mistakes
Jan 2010
Some businesses push the envelope when it comes to properly reporting their taxes, while others make genuine mistakes because they're unaware of changes in tax law. Regardless of the intent, it's...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Ten Ways To Effectively Reduce Your Small Business Energy & Technology Costs
Jan 2010
Many small businesses struggle with the costs of keeping up with technological demands. From buying computers and covering shockingly huge energy bills to paying for ISPs to covering the phone...
Provided by American Express
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Case Studies
Survey Finds Widespread Use of Video Conferencing
Feb 2010
A survey commissioned by Global IP Solutions has found use of video conferencing technology to be widespread among business professionals. GIPS asked Research Now to survey 1,200 business...
Provided by Global IP Solutions
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White Papers
Customer Testimonial: Riverside Desktop Virtualization
Feb 2010
Riverside's I.T. department included only two PC technicians who were responsible for supporting more than 1,200 PCs, laptops and mobile devices across two medical campuses and multiple remote...
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
Accounts Payable (AP) Can Be Outsourced And It Is Highly Beneficial In Small Business
Oct 2007
In small businesses Accounts Payable (AP) is an important activity as it directly relates to vendor relationship and cash flow. By successfully outsourcing it, small businesses can increase their...
Provided by Articles Factory
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Webcasts
IBM Cognos 8 BI Demo
Mar 2010
Complete capabilities in one product, on a single architecture. See key features for both business and IT users, including Framework Manager, the Administration Console, and integration with...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
How To Budget For Your Small Business
Jan 2010
Starting a small business can be an exciting, yet stressful endeavor. The reason for the stress is that most small businesses fail within the first three years of opening. One way to make sure...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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Downloads
Discovery Wizard for Instant Messaging
Apr 2010
Instant messaging (IM) is often the tool of choice for communicating across the enterprise. It's quick and easy to speak with a remote employee, customer or vendor. However, public IM is...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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White Papers
Strategies for Going Public
Apr 2010
As the initial public offering (IPO) market gains momentum, more organizations are evaluating the option of becoming a publicly traded company, and the processes associated with an IPO. With all...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Whitepapers
What's Working in Small Business Marketing and Webinars
May 2009
Today small business marketers must make every dollar count by investing in proven effective tactics. Quantum Leap Marketing recently conducted a survey to find out how small business marketers...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Webcasts
The ROI of Marketing Events: How to Get the Most from Your Marketing Budget
Apr 2010
Do you know your numbers? If getting more high-quality leads from your marketing events spend is a top priority, then it pays to know the return on investment of your marketing events tactics....
Provided by Citrix Online
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Webcasts
SMB Super Powers - How to Succeed in 2010
Apr 2010
Even as the clouds begin to lift from the U.S. economy, marketing departments find themselves still asked to accomplish more with budgets frozen and headcounts static. In addition to managing...
Provided by Citrix Online
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White Papers
VoIP Conferencing: Learn How to Improve Meetings with VoIP
Apr 2010
Download our free white paper, VoIP Conferencing, and learn how VoIP-technologies are revolutionizing the world of audio meetings. This white paper explains in plain English what VoIP is and how...
Provided by Premiere Global Services (PGi)
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White Papers
Keeping Marketing and Sales on the same page leads to greater success.
May 2010
Aligning sales and marketing is an imperative in today's world of the empowered buyer. There has been much written about aligning around leads...but this is only part of the issue and will lead to...
Provided by Aprimo
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White Papers
Does Your Small Business Really Need An Internet Presence?
Apr 2010
The advantage of Internet promotion of your small business, though, is that the costs are small and the potential upside is high. There is no financial cost at all to promote your business on...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
7 Essential HR Resources For Your Small Business
Mar 2010
As a business owner, you know your product, service, market and customers. But sometimes one of the most challenging aspects of operating a business is employees. Not because the employees...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
A Short-Term Crunch For Small Business?
Feb 2010
By extending some of the stimulus provisions that apply to Small Business Administration-backed lending and by giving community banks access to Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, bills in both...
Provided by McGraw-Hill
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White Papers
How To Attract New Customers
May 2009
A faltering economy may not seem like the ideal environment for attracting new customers. But, even when consumer confidence is low, there is plenty a small business owner can do to instill faith...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Start-Up Series: Business Coaches And Mentors
Mar 2010
Entrepreneurs, by their nature, prefer going it alone. Listening to others tell them what can or can't be done just isn't part of their DNA-that's why they hung out their own shingle in the first...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Franchising Series: How Much Will That Franchise Cost?
Apr 2010
If you plan to open a popular franchise retail store, restaurant or coffee shop, you are looking at considerable initial costs in addition to whatever franchise fee the franchisor charges. The...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Seasonal Spirit On A Shoestring
Dec 2009
For many small businesses, the only thing to cheer about in the arrival of the 2009 holiday season may be the fact that it represents the end to a very difficult year. In keeping with that...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Finding A Tax Professional
Jan 2010
Despite the seeming ubiquity of tax-prep software like TurboTax, using a paid professional remains the most popular form of tax preparation-roughly six in ten Americans are expected to use a local...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
DIY Or CPA?: Which Tax Prep Method Makes Sense For Your Small Business?
Jan 2010
This is a point of lively debate within the tax community. In the 2005 Form 1040 filing instructions, the IRS included a controversial table that compared time and cost estimates across the three...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Make A Smooth Transition As You Add More Staff Members
Jan 2010
When your small staff grows by even a few employees, it's a big transition. One key to making it work is acknowledging that changes in operations and structure are necessary. All business owners...
Provided by MasterCard
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White Papers
Last-Minute Holiday Marketing Strategies
Dec 2009
With the holidays fast approaching, some small business owners may find that they never got around to implementing those grand marketing plans they had conceived to boost sales at the end of the...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Interns: Are They Right For Your Business And Vice Versa
May 2010
The internship has become a rite of passage for America's young workers, and with good reason. Internships are chances for students and recent graduates to put their potential to practice and...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Motivating Employees, Part III
May 2010
One of the most important tasks facing every small business owner is keeping his or her employees well motivated. Happy, well-motivated employees work harder and longer. But the benefits to your...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Health Insurance: Examining The Options, Controlling The Costs
Oct 2007
Perhaps the most burdensome issue facing small business owners today is health insurance. As costs continue to spiral and coverage options become more and more complex, many small business owners...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Employee Benefits And Retirement Planning: Helping Them Save
Jun 2008
Helping the employees save for retirement is not merely an altruistic gesture on ones part. There are huge benefits for one as an employer, and for the business as a whole. In today's increasingly...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Partner-Up
Jan 2009
One can never have too many people in his corner. That goes double for a small business owner. Without the resources for a massive advertising campaign, an entrepreneur needs to rely on a little...
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Managing Your Payroll
Jan 2010
For many start-ups and even some established small businesses, just being able to pay the bills and generate a little extra profit is a big enough challenge. As a result, seemingly innocuous...
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Stay Competitive As A Nonemployer
Jan 2010
The author says "Small businesses should be able to dazzle. If sole proprietors can't dazzle with customer service, then they should close their doors". One of the core areas to differentiate is...
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Paper Or Plastic
Oct 2009
The statistics staring at budding entrepreneurs are ugly-nearly two out of three new businesses won't survive past six years. A lack of a rigorous business plan, insufficient marketing, and poor...
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Vaccinate Your Small Business
Dec 2009
As the H1N1 flu outbreak looks to spread throughout the upcoming winter, many small businesses could find the disease a serious threat to their profitability and, perhaps, long-term survivability....
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How Do You Get Your Money's Worth For PR?
Feb 2009
Business owners large and small are looking for ways to cut expenses. So the question arises: Do I need PR? Here are a few reasons why one should say yes and feel good about the expense. PR is a...
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Hard To Say Goodbye
Apr 2010
It may seem unthinkable-intentionally retiring off one of your small business's products or services. But just as all businesses both small and large grow, mature, and change, so too do the brands...
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