Smart Working Tool Review – Outright Accounting Software

October 20, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

IN THE INTEREST OF FULL DISCLOSURE – Outright and Network Solutions partnered up this year for the Unintentional Entrepreneur series of events and have a blog of the same name (which focuses on those who have recently started a business). However this product review is independent and from the perspective of a guy with an [...]


15 Steps to Writing a Winning Business Plan – Grow Smart Business e-Book

October 12, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Many of you who follow this blog are small business owners and you have either wrote your first business plan or about to start on the journey. For some it might seem like an easy task but I will bet that it seems easier to summit Mt. Ranier that finish your business plan. It is [...]


Smart Working Tool Review – TimeBridge

October 9, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Last year I came across the product, TimeBridge from the company of the same name in a review by Web Worker Daily. I didn’t really think much about using the product. Then about six months ago TimeBridge integrated phone conferencing and then last month they added a business paid package withFreeConference.com and desktop sharing as well [...]


Smart Working: Avoid Burnout and Get Your Work-Life Balance Back

September 30, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

I will take a guess that if you are reader of this blog you probably have your own business full time or a side business that is growing to be full time. Taking the leap and being a full time entrepreneur is a bit jarring on the somewhat normal schedule you might have or have [...]


#GrowSmartBiz : Pat Troy Using Technology to work smartly

September 21, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

Small Business Conferences are about getting actionable ideas and implementing them in your business and Pat Troy signed up for this very reason to the GrowSmartBiz conference on Sept 29th.  Pat Troy , CAE and MCA is the Executive Director of nextwavegroup.com and very busy person. NextWave Group among other things is a Association Management company. [...]


Simple things to do to protect your domain name registration

September 17, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

I 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 Fisher

We 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 Fisher

These 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 [...]


137 Great Twitter Tips for Your and Your Business

September 3, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Everyone 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 [...]


The Small Business Web is Now Online and Connected

August 13, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Being 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, [...]