October, 2010

Guest post from Maria Ross, founder and chief strategist of Red Slice a branding and marketing consultancy based in the US. She is the author of Branding Basics for Small Business: How to Create an Irresistible Brand on Any Budget available on Amazon...

The Small Business Advisory Panel met last week to discuss the implications of the Government’s spending review on Small Businesses. Panellists included: Tanya Shirlow, Head of Small Business, Microsoft SMB UK Stephen Pegge...

When you run a small company, you’re the boss, the sales manager, the cleaner, and – yes – the IT manager too. So for the protection of your precious information, you need to get to grips with internet security. Take our fun quiz to...

Office 365 – cloud productivity for businesses of all sizes. Launched yesterday, Office 365 helps connect people together in new ways. Office 365 provides anywhere access to email, documents, contacts, and calendars so you’re always...

How to get a free trial of Office Publisher 2010 is one of the most popular search queries on the blog, so here's where you can find all the info you need: http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/publisher/publisher-2010-features-and-benefits-HA101808856.aspx...

Today marks the start of 'Get Online' week and the BBC's Connect one click at a time page is a good place to point friends, relatives and acquaintances who perhaps aren't as familiar with the online world as you - our blog readers - are. There's an...

Guest post from Cedric Chambaz, Marketing Manager - Search & SMB, Microsoft Advertising Devoting extra attention to your search marketing campaigns today can pay off during the year-end period - one of the busiest times of year. There is little...

Even if your shiny new business will never involve writing lengthy proposals and reports, the chances of your never needing technology are slim. Everyone needs to write letters and send out invoices. You’ll always want to make phone calls, and then...

'Location liberation' Not Microsoft-speak but all part of the video-conferencing, telepresence, webinar technological revolution. The latest development - out of Japan - is a somewhat creepy tele-operated android, which apparently helps you to actually...

1. Show your speaker notes on your laptop and your slides on the big screen With PowerPoint, you can use Presenter View (slides and speaker notes together) to see your own notes on one screen; whilst displaying the glamorous side of things (slides...

Blog courtesy of Eric Ligman and the Microsoft Partner SMB Community Blog . Here is some great news for all of the small businesses out there from Microsoft that I am very happy to be able to tell you about! As we all know, small businesses are...

Forget your own business for a moment, and let’s take a look at other people’s. How often has an email popped into your Inbox, and you’ve instantly wanted to delete it? That’s hardly a marketing triumph. And yet, occasionally,...