US Small Business News Round-up - 2009/06/22

Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from the United States:

Small Businesses have big impact on health care: There are pundits and politicians who repeat that business owners oppose President Obama’s proposal to give people the choice of [...]

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[Source: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG]

7 Smart Security Practices For Small Businesses

1. Protect your personal information. It's valuable.

2. Know who you are dealing with.

3. Use security software that updates automatically.

4. Keep your operating system and Web browser up-to-date and learn about their security features.

5. Keep your passwords safe, secure and strong.

6. Back up important files.

7. Learn what to do in an e�mergency.



7 Smart Security Practices For Small Businesses

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[Source: A Small Business Blog and Small Business Tips Related to Growing, Marketing and Managing a Small Business.]

5 Audit Attractors to Watch Out For

Be careful not to put a target on your tax return.

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[Source: Entrepreneur.com: Latest Articles]

What Are Sound Effects?

Learn the ins and outs of using a sound effect to polish your presentation or podcast.



What Is A Sound Effect?

A sound effect is a ready-made sound for podcasters or producers. Typically, podcasters need to only incorporate the sound into their production for instant success. This can be done with various editors running in a very short amount of time. Sound Effects make the creation of a podcast easier and professional. Sound effects are usually easy to edit and customize using any sound editor, occasionally more sophisticated sound require precise tuning.



Examples of sound effects can be found at Digital Sound Effects  



What Are Sound Effects?

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[Source: A Small Business Blog and Small Business Tips Related to Growing, Marketing and Managing a Small Business.]

It's Great To Be a Mompreneur

Yes, it's the hardest thing you'll ever do--but the journey is well worth the effort expended.


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[Source: Entrepreneur.com: Latest Articles]

Website Review Webinar - 2

Due to the overwhelming popularity and success of the previous Website Review Webinar there will be another. Subjects covered include the initial impression created by a website, structure, navigation, communication, SEO setup and more. The Web Critique Webinar will take place: Tuesday June 23rd at 12:00 EST. Sign-up Now!

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[Source: A Small Business Blog and Small Business Tips Related to Growing, Marketing and Managing a Small Business.]

Applications I Cannot Live Without

Applications I Can not Live Without!



FeedForAll

Used daily for updating RSS feeds.



The Bat!

Used hourly for managing email.



FTP Voyager

Used for FTPing up new web design layouts and images.



Dreamweaver

Used for Web Design.



MS Office

Used for correspondents and administrative tasks.



PaintShop Pro

Used for graphic editing and image enhancement.



RecordForAll

Used occasionally for recording audio files for podcasts.



RSS Submit

Used weekly to submit RSS feeds to RSS directories and search engines.



FeedDemon

Used to manage reading of RSS feeds on a regular basis.



GroupMail

Used for sending email newsletters.



PDF995

Used regularly for converting documents to PDFs.



TNT Screen Capture

Used occasionally for capturing screen shots



TopStyle

Used occasionally for making changes to Cascading Style Sheets -CSS



SureThing CD Labler

Used occasionally for designing CD inserts and labels.



FireFox

Used hourly for navigating the web, also use plug-ins for search marketing research.


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[Source: A Small Business Blog and Small Business Tips Related to Growing, Marketing and Managing a Small Business.]