Home Office Software

Desktop Publishing Software is a great way for a cost-conscious business owner to take the 'do-it-yourself' approach. Here I will provide you with a list of products which can get you on your way to creating professional looking publications and documents.

Nov 1, 2000 - Faith Sloan

Here I will point you to some valuable software utilities that any small business owner should consider purchasing. You should make sure that you're always protected from those nasty virii that those mean, evil programmers are distributing via the internet.

Oct 1, 2000 - Faith Sloan

If you are like many people who start and run a very small business, writing a business plan sounds like a formidable task and you put it off indefinitely. After all, you know what you want to do with your business right? You are going to sell your product and service and make money. The how-to is in your head. Why should you write it down when you're inundated with more imporrtant tasks? Why oh Why? The answer is: focus, reality check, and truly achieving your goals.

Aug 10, 2000 - Faith Sloan

E-commerce is simply about profit. It's about offering your products and services for sale online and closing those sales while at the same time building a loyal customer base. That is your mission isn't it? In sales, knowing your customers' needs is the first and foremost rule to abide by. But how will you encourage your Web site visitors to tell you everything you want to know about them?

Jul 1, 2000 - Faith Sloan

Breakthroughs emerging this year in video-conferencing dwarf advances made in the past decade, especially as it relates to use by small and home businesses.

Jun 1, 2000 - Faith Sloan

Ron Visconti wrote: Layoffs, Mergers? The new workplace, just a passing phase? Think twice. William Bridge's bestselling book, "Jobshift: How To Prosper In A Workplace Without Jobs" discusses a new workplace that has already arrived and is here to stay.

May 1, 2000 - Faith Sloan

If you're like me, you're tired of trying to remember all of those usernames and passwords for you favorite sites. You're probably over completing those long, drawn-out, redundant forms on the web when you want to make online purchases or to even view compelling content on the web.

Apr 1, 2000 - Faith Sloan

E-commerce gets all the buzz these days. What is e-commerce? How do I know if I'm doing it right? There are many solutions you can implement to get you on your way to selling products via the World Wide Web. But the first step is to become familiar with the components of an online storefront. Next you'll find out that one of the biggest challenges in creating a successful online store is choosing the right software solution to meet your customers needs. Choose the 'wrong' solution and you might as well burn your hard earned cash. There aren't any magic formulas. This article will focus on the essentials of an e-commerce web site. Next month's article will help provide you with an overview of available software and which factors should be considered during your software selection phase.

Oct 8, 1999 - Faith Sloan

Last month I provided you with a primer on contact management. This article compares the features of GoldMine and ACT!. Contact Management software can be considered to be far more important than your word processing software on the business scale. Get with the program and mine those contacts!

Sep 1, 1999 - Faith Sloan

We all have encountered hundreds and thousands of people over the years. These contacts can be an unbelievable resource for us if we 'mine' this information intelligently. This article is a primer on Contact Management Software. Next month's article will compare a few contact managers on the market today.

Aug 1, 1999 - Faith Sloan

A virus is a piece of self-replicating code; in other words, it is software which is designed to copy itself. You would think that software creators would have something more productive to do with their time. But since some have chose the tainted route, we have tools which help us to ward off those evil buggers. Dr. Solomon's Toolkit is the preventative measure you've been looking for!

Jul 1, 1999 - Faith Sloan

Would you like to learn how to use the most popular computer software applications? Do you know someone new to the internet who is wondering how to get on and start surfing? Would you like instant answers to your questions about how to do a specific task in your word processor or tax program? Want to learn Microsoft Word, ACT!, UNIX, JAVA, HTML, or C++? Here are a few sites which can meet your needs. Web-based distance learning is booming. Check it out!

Jun 1, 1999 - Faith Sloan

There are a number of tools that can be used for building and maintaining a Web site. In order to better understand the market, I will categorize these tools in two ways: First are the "off-the-shelf" products and then there is the "online" or "server-based" approach.

May 2, 1999 - Faith Sloan

Why can't our web browsers and our email clients get along or go their seperate ways?

Apr 1, 1999 - Faith Sloan

Planning to purchase accounting software in the near future? Well, you better do your homework first as this is not for the faint hearted. Here are 4 software packages you should mostly definitely consider. They all can get the job done but have different strengths.

Mar 1, 1999 - Faith Sloan

So you got your web site up for all the world to see. You've registered in most of the search engines and have been picked up by the spiders and web crawlers. You're expecting an entourage of visitors and a tremendous increase in generated businesses. Now, reality smacks you up side the head. Your site statistics indicate that not many prospects are visiting your site.

Feb 16, 1999 - Faith Sloan