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Trust Small Business Over Big Business
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Trusting small business over big business shouldn’t be a stretch for anyone. There are a number of good reasons:
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Originally posted 2008-09-12 08:31:19. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Online Backup Data Storage is Cheap Insurance
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Originally posted 2010-03-02 11:30:32. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
QuickBooks Or Rather Intuit Sucks
Posted by: | CommentsIntuit Sucks. In case you missed that first part, let me repeat it. Intuit Sucks. Allow me to explain.
I bought 2008 QuickBooks Pro and installed it. It opens fine, it does what it’s supposed to do. And then I click on the “close” button and it just sits there on my screen. It refuses to close.
So I have to open up my Task Manager, find the QuickBooks .exe file, and shut it down.
Originally posted 2008-10-18 11:21:07. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
No One Searches the Internet For Our Business
Posted by: | CommentsI’ll be honest. I really didn’t think any business owner still believed that. I haven’t heard, “no one searches the Internet for our business” in years.
But I had a call yesterday from a potential client who told me that they wanted a website copywriter to make their web copy more sales and marketing oriented. When I asked him about search engine optimization, he told me that the only people who visit their website are the people they send there for more information. “No one searches for our business on the Internet,” he told me. I almost choked.
They are an IT Services company. He told me that he had an IT Services firm before this one for 8 years and they never got a single contact from the website. I’m not surprised. If their site is burried on page 50 of the search engine results, why would anyone ever find them on the Internet to contact them?
Originally posted 2010-04-21 07:38:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Is Free or Open Source Software Any Good?
Posted by: | CommentsThat’s a tough question. After a few frustrating experiences, I wrote off all open source software as junk. My complaints were usually justified.
Updates were haphazard and the software often had little or no documentation (that a non-tech person could understand). If you had a problem there was no 800 number to call to get help, The user interface was usually horrible (something only a “code-writer” could love), and, frankly, I distrusted anything created by someone who was doing it for a hobby.
While there are still plenty of examples out there of open-source software created by people who have no concept of the meaning of the term “user-friendly”, there are a lot of free software packages out there that are surprisingly good. And the next step up into the paid-level is usually reasonable.
Originally posted 2008-05-21 05:49:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
