October, 2011

The Business Startup Show at Earls Court, London is less than three weeks away and is set to be the largest yet, with over 20,000 visitors expected. New this year, the Great British Business Show will run alongside Business Startup and is geared towards...

Have you ever sat back and calculated how much time you spend on the Internet, whether for work or for pleasure? For some of us it’s a great deal of time. What’s more, all of us are prone to sticking with old habits and ways of doing things...

Are you at the stage where a server might be the next stage to growing your business, but the idea seems frightening? Have you considered the cloud? Join small business specialists Expressware for an informal exhibition showcasing the best in cloud...

Global small business trading experts Alibaba.com are sponsoring Global Entrepreneurship Week (14-18 November), and you can benefit from their advice and expertise. Packed with top speakers and practical sessions, Go Global will offer entrepreneurs...

For SMBs, search and online advertising can be a bit intimidating. Every organisation wants to be top of the list in search engine page results, but many people aren’t sure how to go about it. In this series of step-by-step articles on paid search...

If there’s one thing every small business knows, it is that these days, very little in the world of commerce comes for free. Which makes it all the more surprising that there is a pot of valuable free stuff in many small businesses, which is going...

Guest blog from HP's Business Answers blog - join HP's LinkedIn group for small business conversations and tips. Turn off the air-conditioning and open some windows. In the winter, turn down the themostat by 1 degree centigrade, to cut your heating...

Bob deLaubenfels writes the Office Publisher blog and posts lots of useful hints and tips like this one below. Bob welcomes comments on his tips and suggestions on others. Publisher is a great tool for creating and printing business cards, address...

The Office 365 Forum Assistant is a free Windows desktop gadget that you can download at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27547 . Once downloaded and installed, it appears as a desktop gadget: There are seven main things that...

If your laptop had just seconds to boot up – could it? The wait is over – power up in seconds with Lenovo’s RapidBoot, which cuts boot-up time to just seconds. Want to see it in action? See Lenovo put it to the test in Boot or Bust...

“I did 3 months’ research in just 2 days. I can’t do that anywhere else. It’s a must-attend.” IP EXPO is the UK’s biggest and best free IT event. Taking place on the 19th and 20th October in London, it’s an...

Guest post from Cindy Bates, Vice President of Microsoft’s US SMB Organisation. Read more from Cindy on her blog here . I thought this tied in nicely with Maria’s recent post on killing customer loyalty . I absolutely love the work I...