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    Small business

    This is an archive of all of our site's past entries in the Small business category. Click on a title to read the full entry.

    Digital Signatures

    I’m researching digital signature service for clients and wanted to learn a little more. What are they and are they legit? I found a page on the American Bar Association called Digital Signature Guidelines Tutorial. You’ll see a bunch of blue numbers throughout the page referring to footnotes, which I’ll refer to for location on [...]

    List criteria when comparison shopping

    From the archives… a tip from The Simplifier #61 (April 2008). The image was added today just for fun. Just as your cell phone has an impact on your daily life, so do the computer programs you use. Choosing a new software program out of a sea of possibilities can be daunting. You start learning [...]

    The (Digital) Task Manager

    Why all the hoopla about a task manager? Because it’s your time we’re talking about. You ought to be spending your valuable time getting done what needs to be done, not piddling it away perusing your task list repeatedly and hen-pecking out items. When you get methodical and use a system that supports your intention [...]

    The 30-Second Elevator Speech, Realized at Last!

    If you’ve never crafted a 30-second elevator speech you may not appreciate the challenging process the self-employed go through to create one. [If "elevator speech" is a new term for you, just imagine you found yourself in an elevator with a rich and famous person who is also your ideal client. You have 30 seconds [...]

    The Mastermind Group

    What do you get when you put four smart, interesting people getting together to help each along the wily, treacherous path of growing a business? The magic of a Mastermind Group! In August of 2006, I posted an article called Why your business needs a peer-led MasterMind on Mastermind Groups by Mark Silver. He did [...]

    Finicky paper feeds not allowed.

    While I prefer to put my energy toward all the great stuff that happens, there are a few not so great things that must make it on to the blog. A few months ago I reviewed the Brother MFC 5890cn (multi-function machine). My two main beefs with it were that you have to pull the [...]

    Adventures with the Brother MFC 5890cn

    I received a Brother Multi-Function Center (MFC) 5890cn (inkjet) to review. For those not familiar with the MFC concept, it’s one machine that has fax, scan, copy, and print capabilities. This one also has media slots for capturing photos, and is networkable by plugging it into your network router. Price-wise, it’s a low range variety [...]


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