Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Data Mining Utility Designed to Legally Extract Email Addresses and Create Mailing Lists Announced Many SOHO businesses fail to extract the email addresses of correspondents into a user-friendly mailing list that can improve their sales. Often, small firms with less than five employees don’t realize what a powerful marketing tool exists in their email communications. 12:14:41 PM    comment []

Opportunities For Entrepreneurs, Retailers Growing Using DVD Rental Kiosks As Film Distribution Channel Over The Next Two Years Hard on the heels of a story in The Wall Street Journal about the growth of DVD rental kiosks, a company is now offering individuals and store owners the ability to set up a rental unit in high traffic locations. 12:14:02 PM    comment []

Energy Savings For Smaller Businesses Is Facilitated By New, Downloadable Software; Free Trial Offered Energy Lens is an energy management solution that aims to lower the barrier-to-entry of energy management by focusing on those areas that help businesses save energy without delegating the task full-time to an employee, according to its developer, BizEE:  The company is offering a free 30-day trial of its software. 12:13:29 PM    comment []

Staying In Touch While On Vacation Important To Small Business Owners, Managers While their families may object, most small business owners still like to check into their office more frequently than their larger corporate counterparts while on vacation. 12:12:50 PM    comment []

Persistence Pays Off For Grandmother Who Creates New Toddler Category Perseverance can pay off for a small business entrepreneur. A grandmother with an idea for an easy-to-use toddler harness has won big. Louise Stoll, a 67-year old grandmother of eight, is the unlikely trailblazer who has created a new category of child safety-restraints designed for use on aircraft. 12:12:11 PM    comment []

Disaster Preparedness: Special Report And Free Disaster Planning Book The nation’s businesses face danger from two potential disaster points—natural events such as Hurricane Katrina and terrorist attacks. How individuals and businesses prepare for and handle these catastrophes often determines who will survive, and who will die. 12:11:14 PM    comment []

Firms Using Web Access To Pull Remote Employees Together, New Product Announced With Microsoft’s offering beta testing of its new small business accounting package by allowing companies to download the software, it could be argued that Software as a Service (SasS) has come of age. Companies can download this new accounting package by going to Microsoft’s home page but be prepared to wait, it usually takes 20 minutes even on a high-speed DSL line. 12:09:57 PM    comment []

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