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Halloo Case Study: Jefferson Spine Care’s Improvements

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Jefferson Spine Care in Mount Shasta, California is an orthopaedic spine clinic that offers a variety of services relating to the back and spinal column, including artificial disc replacement surgery as well as surgeries relating to back, hip and leg issues. With health care taking a new forefront all over the United States, Jefferson Spine Care is offering the means to improve and repair the center of all human life, the spine.

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Siri May Kill Google, But What Does That Mean For You?

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Recently, Google’s Eric Schmidt sent off a letter to the Senate Subcommittee On Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights. It’s not exactly the kind of thing that happens every day, so plenty of places sat up and took notice. But what was Schmidt’s letter about? It was about a whole new threat to Google’s operations, one that represented such a threat that Google was hardly able to be classified as a monopoly because of its sheer existence. This threat was called Siri, and it may well kill Google.

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Review: Why Starbucks Is More Than Just a Quick Cup of Coffee

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Sure, they’ve got a ton more than a cup of coffee. But I’m not talking about choices on the menu. Take your frappuccinos, cappuccinos, and all-kinds-of-ccinos as much as you want. This isn’t about caffeine.

This is about commerce. Small businesses. The cornerstone of America.

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How Your Small Business Can Make Twuffer Part Of Your Marketing

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Speaking here as someone who has used the WordPress blogging platform for several years, one of the greatest things about it, bar none, is that you can use it to schedule your posts in advance. And that’s great for a lot of reasons. You can hit your followers up every day with some new nugget, but you can write them up all on Saturday night for regular dispersal throughout the week. But you can’t do that on Twitter…until Twuffer appeared.

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The Kindle Fire & Your Small Business

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Well, folks, the Kindle Fire has been out for some time now, and the word that’s coming back so far is something of a mixed bag. It’s not the iPad killer some had thought it to be–at least, not yet–but it does have more than a little potential to be useful, if nothing else.

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Review: Seeing New Sights With Insight.ly

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Such a clever URL — insight.ly. Why not just call it “Insightly”? It’s all just a mystery.

However, what isn’t a mystery is the high-quality resource for CRM in business, ‘Insightly,’ a computer app organization designed specifically for the Google Apps. Not an unsightly thing.

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Review: Zoho Is That Zephyr in the Sky

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Like a driving force of nature, customer relationship management (or simply put, CRM) revolutionizes the corporate world. It’s a business tactic that arose upon the advent of the internet and social media.

One day, someone just thought — hey, if I’m able to visit an online chat room and talk with someone on the other side of the world, I must be able to conduct business with somebody as well!

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The Importance Of A Cloud-Based Telephone System For Black Friday & Small Business

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Black Friday, ladies and gentlemen, is rapidly approaching. And what most small business folks–especially those heavily involved in retail sales–know is that this is the time of year when you expect to make most of your sales. That’s where the term comes from, after all: the time of year you can switch from the red ink denoting losses to the black ink denoting profits. But while you think of the things you need–sufficient product, expanded employee hours, maybe a little security to work the door to keep the shrinkage down and your flow of movement high–consider adding one more thing to your roster, perhaps the most important of all: a cloud-based telephone system.

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Review: Challenging Times for the SBA

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Loopholes, loopholes loopholes — it’s all about the loopholes. So says this one small business article about the ease of fraud from contractors looking to gain an advantage on government work! Loopholes, indeed.

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Four Reasons to Move Your Faxes Online

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The most expensive part of owning a fax machine is the ink toner. But there are other reasons than simply cost to go digital with your inbound faxes. From liability to organization to increased sales, using a “Cloud-based” fax solution is easy and will add to your bottom line in ways you never expected.

Here we list the top five reasons to stop using the hissing, beeping, sometimes not-even-working fax hardware.

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