Small Business Tips and Advice

So a little while back I spoke about the importance of selling yourself and your business -- having a good elevator pitch. That post was inspired by my own experience trying to pitch an article, in front of a camera in two minutes or less, to the editor in chief of ... (more...)

If you're anything like me (and my guess is that you are), you interact with many websites that require logins. So that you don't lose your mind (or have to carry around a huge cheat sheet), you use the same login/password combination for as many sites as you possibly can. ... (more...)

At the company where I work, TPC Systems, customers and staff often ask how they can send or receive very large files (over 10 MB via email). Recently, I found a very easy-to-use, free service for doing this called YouSendIt.For files under 100 MB, YouSendIt (http://www.yousendit.com) doesn't ... (more...)

According to statistics, spam represents between 90 and 98 percent of the approximately 100 billion emails sent each day. At its most benign, spam is unsolicited or junk email, typically advertisements for things you don't want or don't need. (Erectile dysfunction drugs anyone? How about a home mortgage? Stock tip?) ... (more...)