In order for your small business to succeed in a market filled with "big box" stores, or other well-known established businesses, you might work longer hours and wear many hats. You also might be competing with businesses online. This is where small business technology can help. Technology resources can help you and your small business become more efficient, and help you better understand the marketplace. Solving Business Technology Needs All independent businesses should have the basics:

• Business Computer - Even a modest computer can handle all the day to day tasks that most small businesses generate. You can either use a desktop or a laptop; they're exactly the same except for portability. They key idea is reliability. To help keep your computer reliable, learn how

Have you seen the section called Trackbacks on people's blogs? Or maybe you've seen in a blog's comment section, it lists links next to people's names instead of an actual comment. I used to wonder what the heck that was. The more I visited others' blogs, the more I saw the word "trackback". Suddenly, my curiosity got the better of me and because I can't stand not knowing something, I looked it up. I had to see what I was missing out on. So what is a trackback? Susan, from 5MinutesforMom.com said it best, "A Trackback is like a remote comment." Well, lo and behold, I've learned trackbacks can be extremely useful in a number of ways.

1. For one, trackbacks can extend a conversation from one blog

Sometimes, it’s easier for us to remember to promote our businesses online, especially since we’re probably online a good portion of the day anyway. But what we tend to forget is before the World Wide Web, all we had was the physical world of business. Even with the prevalence of online promotion, I think we should also get back to our roots and work those tried and true methods that haven’t failed us yet and won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. So do you think you’ve exhausted all the ways to promote your website in the offline world? Probably not! And yes, I’m guilty of not doing more of these too so this is a reminder for me as well. This list should give us new ideas and hopefully inspires more ...