GSA Schedules – a Major Marketing Tool for selling to Uncle Sam! Having a GSA (Government Services Administration) Schedule is mandatory to be effective in the government marketplace. Billions of dollars of government sales are made through the GSA. GSA purchases via competitive bidding but government buyers prefer working with GSA Schedule holders. Government contracting [...]

Summary: The Internet is growing at an annualized rate of 18% and now has one billion users. A second billion users will follow in the next ten years, bringing a dramatic change in worldwide usability needs. Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because [...]

This article about raising venture capital is a little old but I think still usable. Use this pre-fab pitch to raise venture capital now! Don’t despair, CEOs. Venture capital is still out there, but it’ll take a slick pitch to get your hands on it. Don’t have time to hone your message before the next [...]

Did you know that most e-mails sent to or from someone within your company and with a company e-mail address become part of your company’s permanent record? With that in mind, do you really want to be writing sloppy e-mails to your boss or your underlings? Here are some tips to keep in mind when [...]

Here are some vague but interesting trends for web developers and others for 2006. – Ajax hype will continue but eventually fail – Web 2.0 is going to be the next ‘dotcom’ craze – Web applications will take off BIG time – The internet as a pipeline is just getting started – Interoperability is key [...]

Entrepreneur Magazine has published a comprehensive list of 2006 trends forecasts and what they call hot businesses. It has a lot of great information in it. Oh, the list is not perfect. It suffers from being too long and is not as tight as it should be. Certain trends it identifies are out there on [...]

WOW! Be sure to catch the latest Small Business Trends Radio broadcast. Start with the latest Today’s Trend segment, on the Top Ten Business Opportunities for 2006. Then enjoy Anita’s conversaton with Charles Jolley, CEO of SproutIt.com, a Web 2.0 company. Charles and Anita discuss all the buzz about Web 2.0 and the significance of [...]

Professional blogging has a very bright future. Writing blog posts for other blogs is truly a win-win situation for everyone involved. The professional blogger gets paid to post and the blog owner has postings magically appear at predetermined intervals. As business blogs become more commonplace as a means of communications for marketing, public relations, SEO, [...]

By Kamrin Farid, COO of Edible Arrangements 1. Too many chefs spoil the broth. “In a family business, if the lines of authority are blurred and no one is the clear leader, it is dangerous from a business standpoint,” said Kamran. “Tariq Farid is both our eldest brother and the CEO. The siblings all recognize [...]

If you are still passing important company information and records around by spreadsheet, your data is in grave danger, your business is in grave danger. A recent survey showed that close to half of company leaders felt their company’s information was trapped in spreadsheet “Hell”. Say it isn’t so! Could our ubiquitous number-crunching friend truly [...]