Are you a small business (or know someone who is) looking for an affordable voicemail / PBX system? When I first started Schulz Consulting a good 15 years ago I spent a LOT of time trying to find the perfect voicemail system. Since I am out of the office most of the time I needed something ...
I received an e-mail recently from a telecommunications company touting how they are cutting prices to help small businesses struggling in the current economy.
Now, I’ve covered business long enough to know that few, if any, business owners change their operating strategies just to help ...
Small-business owners, you deserve a moment in the spotlight. In this regular column, we highlight entrepreneurs from all over the U.S. who can answer the question: “What makes you stand out from the crowd?” We know you’re proud of your accomplishments — now you can tell the world about ...
Great news - we decided to give Google Chrome comic books to the top two bidders (with their permission) in our auction for charity. Those bids, for $1,600 and $1,575, respectively, will be donated to Donors Choose, an innovative not-for-profit corporation that raises money for schools.
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With a plan in hand, they set out to make it happen. They borrowed what they could through conventional means but stopped short of looking for investors. Instead, they made deals with vendors. “We looked at our vendors as partners,” Hauser said.
When the co-founders of GotVMail Communications LLC were considering ways to promote their advanced virtual phone system to a wider audience of entrepreneurs in the spring 2008, they turned to an unlikely marketing resource: Oscar-winning Hollywood maverick Gary Busey.
The result of this ...
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Gary Busey has a way of generating publicity, whether it’s directing his own press interviews or making friends on the red carpet at the Oscars. Typically, however, it’s not the kind of publicity most companies want connected to their brands, unless that company is GotVMail ...
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 message.
The CEO and ...
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 the math work. Maybe ...
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 she traded sit-down lunches of elaborate caprese ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 GotVMail.
A virtual ...
(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 fast growing company in Needham, Massachusetts has the answer.
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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 ...
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