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How to use Twitter for your business - NYT article
Using video as well as text on your website is better than just text - Scoble’s blog

The above two things sum up nicely what is happening now on the Internet. Twitter is getting a lot of attention (you can follow me on Twitter) and the use [...]

There is one luxury one enjoys when one plans an operation as compared to when one runs an operation. That luxury is the fact itself that the operation is not running.
When the operations runs, when the salesmen start going out, when the server hangs, when the Internet drops, when agents don’t show up, when money [...]

It has happened to me a lot of time, the last time it happened, it cost me around 600 dollars. I sent out a hosting and email proposal on behalf of my company. I made the document in Microsoft Word, all nice and tidy. The email was written not in haste but with care (it [...]

What to outsource? And where is the best place to outsource? Not only valid, but extremely important questions, both.
But let’s start with the why!
Why outsource?
That should not even be a question. If you think you do not outsource, you are wrong, that is how common it is. Every time you buy any business service from [...]

BlackBerry is known for its business prowess. Google is known for being Google!
Put the two together and you have yourself a business phone running the top business applications to

improve your productivity
live a more mobile lifestyle (that work-from-anywhere thing)
just be cool

I have a gripe or two with Blackberry. As an owner of a Blackberry 8800, I [...]

I got an email from one of my friends over at Facebook. He has sent me a video link. As this friend doesn’t normally send out stuff like these, I though perhaps he has something really important or interesting to tell/show/share. When I clicked on the link, the first thing Facebook did was remove all [...]

Forget the fact that more than one million businesses use Google Apps.
Forget the fact that Google Apps will improve your business productivity.
Forget that it is by Google. Forget that Google themselves use Google Apps (that includes Google Documents, Presentations and Slideshows - also online forms etc) to run themselves.

It was not long ago that companies thought that having a website was a drain on their time and money. That time has come and gone. Now companies, big and small, in Lahore or Faisalabad, want a website. They can see the benefits. It is a different story that many of them fail to realize [...]

Marketing on the whole is getting harder.
It is getting easier for businesses to put up ads, that is for sure. Geographically set ads appear on Facebook, localized ads now appear at places where ads are served by Google Adwords, for example. A sufficently localized advertising experience by all means. This is excellent for companies that [...]

It is essential that your business gets online. But putting up a website for your business is not enough. It never was and perhaps never can be. When was the last time your act of printing brochures to sell to customers was enough to get the customers in? Who is going to distribute the brochures? [...]