Simple things to do to protect your domain name registration
September 17, 2009 :: Shashi BellamkondaI cringe when I get an email that one of my bills was not paid because I did not update my credit card info and I get a finance charge on top of it. At the same time I have seen cries for help from folks who discover too late that the domain they registered [...]
Smart Working-Great Sites for Tech Questions and Tech Tutorials
September 16, 2009 :: Steve FisherWe all wish we had enough time in the day to learn how to get the most out of the technology we buy and use every day. However, most of the time is that we do the best we can and many things we learn the hard way during a project or toward the end [...]
Smart Working – Small Business Value of Using Twitter
September 14, 2009 :: Steve FisherThese days everyone is “all-a-Twitter”. It is on the tip of everyone’s tongue’s. Every mainstream media outlet and celebrity has a Twitter profile and revels in the real time aspect and direct contact they can have with viewers and fans. One of the coolest things on Twitter is the use of hashtag symbol (#) to [...]
How to Effectively Market Your Small Business in a Downturn Economy?
September 14, 2009 :: Shashi BellamkondaAs part of the GrowSmartBusiness.com activities that include the Small Business Summit on Sept 30th in DC – Network Solutions hosted a #GrowSmartBiz webinar on August 26th on the topic “How to Effectively Market Your Small Business in a Downturn Economy?”
The GrowSmart Biz conference details are at http://tinyurl.com/gsbiz and use code GSB999 to get a [...]
Happy Labor Day and Some of the Best of Solutions Are Power
September 7, 2009 :: Steve FisherHere in the United States we are celebrating Labor Day which is the “unofficial end of summer” and when everyone is heading back from summer vacation ready to get back to work. We won’t be publishing anything else today but in the mean time there are two things we wanted to share with you:
Grow Smart [...]
137 Great Twitter Tips for Your and Your Business
September 3, 2009 :: Steve FisherEveryone these days is “on the Twitter”. The last year has shown such a swell of Twitter usage and the innovative ways this real time data engine is picking up steam with no signs of slowing down any time soon. With the recent news that Twitter is going to provide authenticated business accounts with analytics [...]
55% of Small Businesses that Blog have increased traffic
August 31, 2009 :: Steve FisherI was perusing my blog feed and Hubspot’s Inbound Marketing feed always has interesting submittals. One in this list of articles really caught my attention:
55% of small businesses that blog have increased traffic
For many in the social media world, this is a “no duh”, but for small business owner thinking about blogging, this is some [...]
Meet the GrowSmartBiz Conference Panelists that Will Discuss Marketing & Innovation
August 25, 2009 :: Steve FisherNetwork Solutions® is pleased to announce Steve King of Emergent Research and SmallBizLabs, Ramon Ray of SmallBizTechnology, Bob London of London, Ink, Marissa Levin of Information Experts and John Arnold, Constant Contact as the panelists for the GrowSmartBiz Conference topic session: Driving Small Business Performance with Marketing & Innovation.
These panelists will share their marketing tips, [...]
The Small Business Web is Now Online and Connected
August 13, 2009 :: Steve FisherBeing a small business has its share of challenges and one area that can be particularly frustrating is implementing back office tools to handle such things as invoicing, time tracking, project management, CRM and accounting.
As a small business owner myself I was particularly interested when back at SXSW a bunch of companies that included BatchBlue, [...]
New York Unintentional Entrepreneurs Meet August 13th
August 13, 2009 :: Steve FisherHave you heard of the Unintentional Entrepreneur? It is a new partnership between Outright and Network Solutions.
Outright and Network Solutions started the 5 city tour of the Unintentional Entrepreneur events to educate new business owners on bookkeeping basics, small business tax tips, getting started online and building your web site and brand and Effective and [...]



