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The Economics of E-Mail
"E-mail is the single most important tool for business communication." Despite this, businesses may not step back to assess costs and cost-effectiveness of different types of e-mail systems. This article takes a look at the major e-mail options, their advantages and disadvantages. This topic is the second in our 2009 whitepaper series: "Making every IT dollar count!" The full whitepapers are available on our website.

Why Hosted Exchange Makes Sense for Small Businesses
A Microsoft Exchange solution is rapidly becoming a must-have for any business, allowing easy communication and collaboration. But smaller businesses hit a roadblock when they see the costs of having an in-house exchange server. If you own a small business that could benefit from increased efficiency and workforce productivity, Hosted Exchange may be the perfect solution.

Microsoft ads brag that Windows powers cheap PeeCees
Is it just me or does anyone else think Microsoft needs a new ad firm? First, it was the Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld spots (surreally bad and mercifully short-lived), then the “I’m a PC’ campaign (which put most viewers to sleep). Now the Big M has a new ad campaign that basically brags that Windows powers cheap PeeCees.

How to Blog Your Way to a Successful Home Business
Andrea Scott, a home business expert, explains how to effectively use a blog to build a successful home business. She provides valuable blog promotion tips that lead to a profitable online business.

Lesson #3: Think Long-Term
“We weren’t trying to just go public and get rich,” recalls Gates of his early Microsoft days. “There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we’d sort of put one foot in front of the other.”

Conspiracy or coincidence?
I guess it comes from too many years of watching The X-Files, but it’s almost enough to make you believe there’s a conspiracy afoot.

What it Takes to Run a Successful Online Business
The first rule of thumb when starting an online business is to treat it as a business and not a hobby. Treat it like a hobby and you are guaranteed to fail.

Three ways to build your own stimulus package
Since his first menswear store opened its doors in 1954, legendary entrepreneur Harry Rosen has seen his share of difficult economic times. These experiences, said Rosen, speaking at a small business roundtable recently hosted by Microsoft Canada, taught him a valuable lesson: when the economy sours, it’s best to “focus on what’s important for your business and make good, solid investments that will not only keep you going through the tough times, but carry you into more prosperous times.”

Launching A Revolution: The Start of Microsoft
When Gates and Allen saw a picture of the Altair 8080 on the cover of Popular Electronics, they knew their lives were going to be different. They recognized that the home computer market was about to explode and that they had the opportunity to be at the forefront of it all. Immediately, Gates called Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the company that was manufacturing the Altair, and told them that he and Allen had developed a programming language for the computer.

Lesson #2: Develop an A-Team
“At Microsoft, there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top,” says Gates. “I’m afraid that’s not quite right.” While Gates has been the famous face of Microsoft for over thirty years, it took the help of numerous other trusted individuals to help realize the company’s success.

Lesson #1: Stick To Your Vision
When Bill Gates was asked by Fortune to explain the astounding success of his brainchild, Microsoft, his immediate response was, “Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.”

Lesson #2: Be Ruthless
“It's my job for Oracle – the number two software company in the world – to become the number one software company in the world,” says Ellison. “My job, is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace, and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.”

A Simple Method For Achieving More
Break your previous patterns! Past experiences mould the patterns in our mind, our beliefs, habits and how we behave.

Blogging Africa into the 21st Century
Discussion on Africa’s development is taking a new dimension. Bloggers have joined this debate and are employing new ways to initiate dialogue about Africa’s development round the world. The latest craze that seeks to use technology to push Africa into the 21st Century is the Carnival of Africa Enterprising. This is basically a traveling web magazine or blog that discusses business in Africa.

Optimize your Site for MSN
Even if most of us want to get our site or our client's site to the top of Google for a certain number of keywords, we tend to forget that we can also be top of Yahoo or Bing. But one question often comes to mind is if optimizing a site to be top of Google would also work on the other search engines at the same time? Even if Google is being used most of the time by people to search something, the other two main search engines represent together around twenty to thirty percent of the searches.

Selecting The Right CRM Solution For Your Business
If you're considering purchasing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Solution for your business this article gives you six points to help you select the right one.

Easy Way to Make a Website
If you have a small business you no doubt know that you can hire someone and pay them a substantial amount of money to build you a website, but what is the easy way to make a website? Just because you may be on a budget doesn't mean that you have to have a bad looking website, quite the contrary in fact. Today the process for having a great looking website couldn't be easier. The easiest way to make a website that looks like you spent a million bucks on it by using a website builder.

Fire Steve Ballmer. Or hire SuperNanny. Or Both.
Is no news good news? Most people expected something on the MSFT/YHOO front over the weekend, and such folks are generally reading the absence of information as bad news.

Web Hosting Company
You wouldn’t buy a house without asking the real estate agents a few questions first, right? You wouldn’t buy a pet without asking the vet about its medical history and such. By the same token, you shouldn’t sign up with any web hosting company without asking them a few critical questions. They are as follows:

Lick-worthy!
Steve Jobs offers us this definition of terrific design: "You know a design is good when you want to lick it." (From Design: Intelligence Made Visible, Stephen Bayley & Terence Conran)