If you’re in business for yourself, but find that you can’t compete with the prices other businesspeople are selling what you want to sell on eBay, your best option is to attract regional (as in local) clients only. Local works, and people like local. Ask any local business owner. The best way to attract local clients from the internet is still by...

We’ll start this one by first defining what "ancient crappy PC" means. Concerning the hardware, it is any PC over 5 years old. Any PC in the workplace over 5 years old is obviously owned by the company as no OEM would dare lease computer boxes for over that length of time, due to the fact the liability is too great. Concerning the software, it is...

The best box that Apple makes is the Mac Pro. The best box that Dell makes is the Precision Workstation, commonly abbreviated as PW. Both are business machines first and foremost. It is very easy to configure either to run you $20,000 for final cost. How to do it? Simple. Check off every single possible option you can throw in when configuring it. First, the Mac...

Last week I wrote about Office Accounting Express 2008, Microsoft’s free offering for small business accounting, however if you want to give the industry leader in this category a try take a look at QuickBooks Simple Start Free Edition 2009. The name says it all here. This offering is designed to get you started (/hooked) using the QuickBooks product. This...

On Monday I wrote an article about Office Live and Google Apps. In that article I said: Neither has any blogging capability whatsoever. I was corrected on this concerning the Microsoft offering. By whom? The Microsoft Office Live Team themselves (see comments in that article). Microsoft Office Live does do blogs and rather easily by using Live Spaces. This is...

In business, branding is important and this involves a logo. The logo is a visual piece of art representing your product or service. There are rules to making logos; it isn’t something where you can just whip up any old thing and throw it out there. Why? Because if it’s designed improperly it will inevitably cost you (possibly a lot of money). If you...

Talking about using social media for business purposes practically walks on the third rail of the Internet. A lot of people who are using social media sites like Twitter or Facebook are particularly sensitive when it appears they are being marketed to. In my opinion, the fact that Twitter users get nervous when they see a “internet marketer” use...

When you make money on the Internet, you most definitely need to be aware of how affiliate programs work. They are common and can be a great way to make money online. In fact, I have employed this option myself many times and have made many thousands of dollars. When you sell a product as an affiliate, you are selling somebody else’s product. The deal is...

Have you ever wondered how a useless bag of crap like Paris Hilton manages to make a fairly significant income? Or Britney Spears? It isn’t because of their talent (obviously). What is it? Because they’re interesting. But, how does that translate into dollars? Because they attract ATTENTION. A club owner in Las Vegas, for example, wants to generate...

Making money on the Internet, to many people, conjures up images of the gold rush. You put up a website and out pours money. This was, no doubt, the image conjured up in the 90′s with the dot-com boom. Today, this attitude has evolved into one of skepticism with a little dose of confusion mixed in. The thought of making money in your pajamas on your...