Small Business Shift

Do you ever wish files from your home computer were available at work or on your phone? Do you clog your inbox with emailed files? Dropbox might be the solution.

It’s been a long time coming, but Google Voice has grown up – you no longer need a Google Voice invite to use Google’s free phone service. I’ve been using the service for a while, and it’s been great – read on to see why.

The future, when word of mouth is all-powerful, is on its way. Is your business prepared?

The search engines use links between websites to help determine which are the most important. Your business can benefit from this, by looking to attract links, and appearing before your competitors in relevant searches.

Google is going to be gradually opening up “Tags” to the entire US. Tags is an advertising feature for local businesses, allowing companies to get a special marker next to their business location, for $25/month.

You’ve seen phone books littering the ground because so many are unwanted. Some of the first political action to make the Yellow Pages opt-in, and end this litter, has begun

The following is a guest post from Nicole Hayward, Marketing Director for OnSIP. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment on the blog or email Nicole (AT) junctionnetworks (DOT) com. SaaS: Helping Businesses Everywhere

David Mihm just published the 2010 edition of his excellent Local Search Ranking Factors. If you want to understand how the experts are thinking about local search, it’s a great resource.

You might have seen my last post on why Twitter is bad for your business. The argument basically says that not that many people actually use Twitter (probably <10% of the US population), and it ends up distracting companies from other online marketing venues. A few people responded that they have had success using Twitter, […]

You’ve probably read stories about businesses using Twitter. As the examples show, there are great ways to use Twitter to grow your business. But for most companies, it’s just a distraction.