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Welcome to Small Business Technology Report - from Smallbiztechnology.com! Small Biz Big Things - San Francisco - Feb 2012 7th Annual Small Business Summit - NYC - March 2012 Live Online Event - Join me at the Small Business Success Summit by SocialMediaExaminer.com . Live online event - Feb 1 - Feb 25 Small Business Summit  (NYC) March 2012. Awesome line up of speakers - Austin Craig, Orabrush; Scott Hintz, Tripit The 7th Annual Small Business Summit is one of the premier events where growing businesses can hear from experts, network, have fun and eat great food. InfusionCon 2012 - April 2012 is going to rock. Join me, Gary Vaynerhchuck and many others there. Please visit Klout and click on the topics you think I'm most influential about. Please LIKE our Facebook Page Follow me on Twitter Watch our YouTube Channel  smallbusinesstechnologyguide.com Download a GIFT (free) copy of my latest book "Technology Resources for Growing Businesses" or buy it at Amazon.com What's inside... Ditch Microsoft Office With Microsoft's Blessing…Well Almost Most Of Your Customers Have Smart Phones. Should You Advertise There? How the Stop Online Piracy Act Affects Your Small Business Customers Buy More If They Feel Safe When Buying From Your Web Site "Clock" In to the Cloud with the Replicon Cloud Clock Save All Those Emails Efficiently with MailArchiver Never Miss a Word Again with Livescribe (Video) ,  Well it's Thursday again and so many great things are happening. Yesterday I attended a big Salesforce.com event, attended by Marc Benioff as well! December 7th is my BIG Entrepreneur's Holiday Party - I really hope you attend. On Monday I told you about my new video series, Ramon's Taste of Tech at ramonsTASTEofTECH.com . If you want to get a quick bite of insight in how to better use technology in YOUR business, you really want to check out this video series. The first video takes a look at an online backup solution from Mozy. I'd like your opinion of the series, please. One person told me it seems too commercial like. I don't mean it that way, but my vision is to focus on and speak about ONE particular technology in each video segment. Please have a look at let me know, ok? Ramon Ray, Editor & Technology Evangelist, Smallbiztechnology.com ramon@smallbiztechnology.com I'm really happy that Small Biz Big Things 2012 is launched - taking place in San Francisco on February 7th. Speakers (seasoned entrepreneurs and business leaders) from Eventbrite, Orabrush, Tripit and InfoArmy will share their years of experience to help your business grow! The 7th annual Small Business Summit , New York City, is also around the corner and takes place March 2012. Exhibit and/or attend - either way your business will grow.      Ditch Microsoft Office With Microsoft's Blessing…Well Almost Microsoft Office is one of the most famous and widely used software products on the planet, for business. However, over the years a growing number of businesses have been turning to online software from Google Apps, Zoho and others, who have been gaining market share in the small business space as Microsoft lagged behind. Microsoft’s relatively newly launched Office 365 continues to make gains and improvements. Office 365 is Microsoft’s online collaboration, communication and... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • Most Of Your Customers Have Smart Phones. Should You Advertise There? You know that most all of your customers have a smart phone. As you’re trying to figure out ways to reach new customers and engage potential customers one of the platforms that many businesses are not tapping into is advertising on smart phones. Small businesses are clearly on board with online marketing overall, but interest in mobile is up sharply, according to Ad-ology Research. More than 20 percent of small business decision-makers say they plan to commit more resources to mobile... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • How the Stop Online Piracy Act Affects Your Small Business If your small business has never been involved in anything that infringed on a trademark or copyright, the recent frenzy over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) may have escaped your notice. It doesn’t apply to businesses like yours, right? You may be wrong about that. SOPA is good news for the entertainment industry and its related industries. It allows copyright and trademark holders to contact advertisers and others who do business with sites that encourage or even allow infringement to... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • Customers Buy More If They Feel Safe When Buying From Your Web Site Think about these two scenarios. A. You go to a grimy part of town and are looking to buy fresh milk in a grimy store. B. You go to an upscale part of town and are looking to buy fresh milk in a well lit, upscale store. Which store makes you feel better about buying the milk? I bet store B – the store and location that looked safe and overall would have real tasty fresh milk. This is the experience your customers feel when they visit your online store to purchase something. There... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • "Clock" In to the Cloud with the Replicon Cloud Clock Clocking in just got easier with the new Replicon Cloud Clock. It’s an entirely cloud-based time clock that makes it easier for you and your employees to check in for the day, and check out when the day is done. “We had lots of requests for a device,” said Lakshmi Raj, co-founder of Replicon. “People don’t always have access to a computer, and there was a big need for a device in their [office] location.” Replicon is a time and expense software firm that... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • Save All Those Emails Efficiently with MailArchiver An example of the connectivity report that MailArchiver generates. How many times have you had to scramble for a deleted email, only to ask IT go to and get it for you? Or how about dealing with that guy in the office that has to hit “Reply All” with every single email? All that and more can be solved with MailArchiver from GFI Software. “MailArchiver is a central repository for emails,” said Phil Bousfield, General Manager of the GFI Infrastructure Business Unit.... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • Never Miss a Word Again with Livescribe (Video) Hate it when you’ve taken notes during a meeting, but then you can’t read your own handwriting? Or you forget what a phrase or sentence is supposed to refer to? Well, with the Smartpen from Livescribe, you’ll never miss a word again! The Smartpen works just like an ordinary pen, except that this pen also comes with audio recording capabilities. So, while you’re taking notes, you can record everything that’s being said at the meeting. The pen also comes with a USB... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend •

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