Archive for the 'small business' Category

Reviewing E-JUNKIE Shopping Cart… sharp product, sharp price

Robin K at E-JUNKIE asked me to provide some thoughts about her company’s shopping cart.
Here’s the banner link to E-JUNKIE:

ScrappyUntechie has high standards for simple, reliable, and cheap technology… so here goes.
E-JUNKIE is a few lines of code you add to your website that creates the shopping cart and payment process for your merchandise or [...]

Xara Xtreme running cirles around Adobe Illustrator

From reading ScrappyUntechie, you’ve figured out a few things about how my thought process works:
(1) While I don’t mind buying software that is worth the money, I am also very willing to look at established open source (and FREE) alternatives. Money spent on software can’t be invested in other areas of your small business.
(2) I [...]

Updates for your online identity

How many online profiles do you have… social networking sites, professional networking sites, personal web pages, online communities, membership organizations, and alumni associations?Some have your name, some have your photo, some have your email address, and some have a whole lot more. How many of them have you updated in the past six months? Past [...]

NPR & invisible marketing - don’t try this at home

This second Internet revolution is one where community and feedback add value to the content in ways we could not imagine. What are my peers reading? What did they like? Comments? Who doesn’t like what was said? What’s related to this topic? Are there online communities related to this topic? Want to chat about the [...]

Telephone tax refund is real ($30 to $60)

This is one of those blog postings that I’m reluctant to write.
Who in their right mind is going to believe that Uncle Sam wants to give you $30 to $60 with no strings attached? That’s the problem.
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is offering nearly every taxpayer a one-time payment to compensate for telephone taxes [...]