Siamak Taghaddos was strapped in his airplane seat on a shuttle from Boston to New York when he lowered the tray table in front of him. Instead of the traditional putty-colored surface he expected, the tray top revealed a colorful, imprinted surface with a commercial…
Gary Busey, the actor offers creative excuses for skipping work (“I had to stay home because I ate my kid’s homework”) and advice on starting your own business (“Being a successful entrepreneur is 80 percent hard work and 50 percent luck—and having accountants that make…
A few months ago Jessie Snider, 23, began to feel the pinch of the rising cost of gasoline, food and, well, everything. Then she realized the $75 to $80 she was spending each week on lunch was really cutting into her paycheck. So in March…
Darren Shafae operates Paper-Check.Com, which is a proofreading business. Without web-based technologies, his business would probably be far smaller.
“I have taken the best of ideas I have seen, and refined them to meet our needs and improve work flow and customer and employee satisfaction,”…
CHICAGO (Reuters.com)—It started as a lark. Warren Werbitt, founder and chief executive of Montreal-based printing company Pazazz, thought it would be fun to send an irreverent video bemoaning the public perception of the printing industry as an outdated business to a small group of clients,…
A lot of business can be conducted over the internet, but phones aren’t going away any time soon. “For many of our businesses, their phone system is their lifeline. It’s the first thing that their customer interacts with,” says Erik Arvidson, public relations manager of…
(Scot Yount, NECN: ) - The computerized world we all live in has given lots of business people new freedom. There’s no need to be tied to the office—or even have an office. But, how do you “sound” like you have a big office? A…
Siamak Taghaddos, GotVMail’s co-founder and CEO, talks with Alexis Glick, anchor of the Fox Business Network’s Money for Breakfast program, about how GotVMail can “Help make Small Business Sound Big”, the history of how GotVMail was founded, and how GotVMail’s Virtual Phone System can benefit…
When entrepreneur Stephen Schramke founded Bainbridge Island, Wa., data mining firm, Logic361, he knew the algorithm he had developed for saving companies up to 40% of their Google Adwords advertising costs would spread as wildly as the blackberry bushes outside his bayside office. What he…
There are things in life that just work as promised. Refrigerators. Clock radios. Flattery. Children’s Motrin. FEMA. Velcro. Blue jeans. Big Macs. Seinfeld. Jack Daniel’s.
These things make me happy. They consistently do their job. They do not inconvenience me. Except for FEMA (that’s the…
When Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser got together at Babson College to launch a startup aimed at providing very small businesses and entrepreneurs with a voice-mail service, they knew their chosen market had traditionally proven an elusive target.
“We’re going after the consultant, the solo…
You’ve been thinking about it for a while now. Yeah, I’m talking to you, the aspiring event planner. You too, would-be financial consultant. And that goes double for you public relations “wanna be.” In fact this message is for anyone who has a dream of…
One of the beauties of the Internet is that anyone with a good idea can start a company and still keep their day job until the company starts generating enough revenue to replace the needed paycheck. That was Warren Sager’s situation. He worked for an…
The choices for business telephone services have exploded in the past few years. What’s more, some of these choices represent completely new product categories that did not even exist until recently.
If you are baffled by all the choices, trust me, you’re not alone.
I…
The telecommunications area is changing so quickly it is outrunning the capacity of the small business community to stay knowledgeable. As I talk with business owners, I get a sense of some confusion due to the wide variety of options. That’s why I have been…
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