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What is MSN Outlook?

by Stephanie Mayo on October 27, 2009

MSN Outlook is Outlook Live connected with MSN Hotmail. As the world’s largest free Web-based e-mail service which currently has 187 million accounts across the globe, MSN Hotmail’s Microsoft Office Outlook has advanced email tools that allows users manage their files more efficiently. But with millions of users, many are still unaware how to use [...]

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What is Google Voice?

by Stephanie Mayo on October 20, 2009

A lot of people say using Google Voice could be a life-changing experience. But what exactly is Google Voice? How important it is to your business? Can this service improve business productivity? Google came up with Google Voice for voice communications. Formerly known as Grand Central, Google Voice was actually purchased and repackaged by Google. [...]

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What is Google Apps?

by Stephanie Mayo on October 16, 2009

In your daily use of the Internet, you may have heard of the term Google Apps. But what exactly is Google Apps? Every day, you are being bombarded with a lot of Google plugins, widgets, and applications. As the leader in search engine tools, Google offers various Web applications with the same functionality to traditional [...]

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Sustainability and smart environmental thinking will help small business to think innovatively and work with what they have. The very tenets of green thinking, i.e. reducing energy and waste, will help small business owners cut costs and be more profitable. Being innovative is what distinguishes the companies that successfully emerge from hard times and those [...]

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Home Based Business Tax Deductions Simplified?

by Stephanie Mayo on July 1, 2009

Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation Aims to Simplify Home Office Tax Deduction to Better Assist American Small Businesses June 25, 2009 Washington, D.C – Today, U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) along with U.S. Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez (D-Texas) announced the Home Office Tax Deduction Simplification and Improvement Act of 2009, bipartisan, bicameral [...]

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The recession may have accelerated the move toward home based business offices but it can’t be denied that the trend toward working from home was significant before it even started. If you are contemplating working at home, here are some of the benefits and challenges to consider about having a home based business office. Home [...]

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Have a news release about your business to share with Southwest Florida ? Send it to business @naplesnews.com and to our Business and Government Content Editor Dave Osborn at djosborn@naplesnews.com. We’ll post these on the Business page at naplesnews.com every day and …

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—Editorial, Investor’s Business Daily February 25, 2009. Offshore Drilling: Just Do It That’s how the American voters feel

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Jay Conrad Levinson

by Stephanie Mayo on February 23, 2009

Well, I am off to hear Jay Conrad Levinson speak tomorrow in Orlando.  Should be interesting.  I will be listening for small business tips to write on when I get back.

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Posted on Tuesday January 27th, 2009 at 18:12 in 2009-meeting, all-benefit, and-other, barack-obama, energize-and, Florida , idealism, january, make-it-clear, people-and, same-young, small business . The social media outreach that worked so well for Barack Obama must be put to work for businesses individually and collectively. That lesson came home to me at the January 15, 2009 meeting of Project innovation which is designed to .

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