Friday, May 30, 2008

Free Office Priducts Are As Good as Pay Stuff Sometimes

There are so many open source software products out there now, it is a wonder why businesses still go out and spend thousands of dollars on software that they can get for free. Many of the open source options are just as good, if not better than their pricey counterparts.

Put away the Ebac dehumidifiers and stop sweating expenses you don't need to have. Take a look at some of the best free office stuff you can get and save yourself a lot of money.

Cutting Costs for Start Ups

The biggest challenge to starting a small business is the cost of opening the doors. All the expenses of just getting the place running ineeds to be considered, and before you even have an income stream there may not be enough money to keep you a float.

Careful planning, and serious thought about how to cut costs is a very important issue to cover when trying to get your ideas off the ground. Not everyone pays attention to anything more than the idea when it comes to running a business. The administrative side of the model just baffle many, and sure-fire ideas are lost because start up costs keep them from getting enough business to survive. This article on pinching pennies will help you make some things easier, and may afford you a few Orlando vacations to get a breather now and then.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The Revolution of Video Advertising

Advertising online has an incredible amount of potential for a small business. Be it just doing great Search Engine Optimization with your website by winning the war with your industry keywords, or just flat out paying the money to advertise on sites directly with things like Google Adwords. One of the biggest trends in online advertising is the use of video. Many find that places such as Youtube are an amazing source of free advertisement for their website and business. It is like giving yourself a chance to show your stuff off to hundreds of millions of people for FREE. At the very least a few tens of thousands will see your whackey pool floats videos and maybe you get at least one sale because of it.

Take a looka t this interesting case study on a business that has cashed in bigtime with the use of video marketing.