Category Archives: IT Business

Long-term Strategic Planning for SMB Consultants

Posted: 1:30 am
February 3, 2007
Gaypile, IT Business
1 Comment

It’s been a busy week. I got a lot of email/queries about my posts of the pending doom of the SMB IT Consultant. That is not what I said but frankly it’s foolish to believe that it’s nothing but bright … Continue reading →

Dummies Guide to Voicemail

Posted: 3:39 pm
January 30, 2007
IT Business, Vladville
5 Comments

I was out of the office for the better part of last week and finally got a chance to sit down and plow through my voicemail. One thing is apparent, people don’t know how to leave a voicemail. So here … Continue reading →

LinkedIn Stays Alive: $12.8 million

Posted: 8:33 am
January 29, 2007
IT Business
1 Comment

Bit of sad news today.. LinkedIn connects with $12.8 million. Yep, they got more money to allow every weirdo that knows your email address to ask you to join their network of other people that won’t do business with them. … Continue reading →

iMeToo Announced

Posted: 5:26 pm
January 9, 2007
IT Business
1 Comment

The word “innovation” has a special definition in the Microsoft dictionary, but with today’s announcements Apple pretty much wins the 2007 Meeee Toooo! award for excellence in delivering four new groundbreaking products… that already exist. Today Apple announced a cell phone, … Continue reading →

Selling the first day of January

Posted: 1:20 pm
January 2, 2007
IT Business
1 Comment

Today is the first official business day of 2007 calendar year in United States and for many companies the first day of the new fiscal year. That means new budget and more room for toys. Today is the day when … Continue reading →

Should I become a Microsoft Certified Partner?

Posted: 6:37 pm
December 26, 2006
IT Business
3 Comments

I started this conversation with one of my biggest partners in South Florida today. You see, he’s been a good Microsoft partner and selling a bunch of their software, lining up references, signing up people for Software Assurance and basically … Continue reading →

Microsoft Small Business Specialist Community Quarterly Webcast

Posted: 7:53 pm
December 11, 2006
IT Business, Microsoft
on Microsoft Small Business Specialist Community Quarterly Webcast

What she said. Do yourself a favor and register for the SBSC Quarterly webcast right now. It’s tomorrow at noon and the last one we sat in on was more valuable than most conference sessions targeted at SMB last year. … Continue reading →

Microsoft Small Business Value Program

Posted: 7:14 pm
December 5, 2006
IT Business, Microsoft, SMB
on Microsoft Small Business Value Program

I mentioned the Jimmy Joe Bob launch that CompUSA had. The following is the flyer they had on the promotion that I figured might be helpful to some of you trying to position the marketing materials for the coming year … Continue reading →

Are we ready for 64bit?

Posted: 5:20 am
November 25, 2006
IT Business, Vista
1 Comment

On the servers, yes. On the Windows workstations and peripherals, not quite. There has been a fair bit of discussion on whether we are ready for 64bit platforms and more to the point, are we building systems that can power … Continue reading →

Important: OWN Blog Goes Live!

Posted: 12:29 am
October 21, 2006
IT Business, Vladville
8 Comments

It is my great pleasure to announce the first ever Own Web Now Corp blog. Click here to add it to your RSS2 aggregator. If you do any business with OWN or ever intend to, you need to add that blog to … Continue reading →