Need Some Brain Food? Follow These People on Twitter

by Stephen Gross | Oct 11, 2012 | Business, Social Media Marketing, Tech Tips for Business Owners

Admit it: Your Twitter friends just aren’t that engaging. They’re wasting your time tweeting about what they ate for breakfast or what happened to their favorite character on their favorite reality show. You crave more from Twitter. You actually want to learn...

Facing an Emergency? Turn to These Apps

by Stephen Gross | Oct 4, 2012 | Business, Social Media Marketing, Tech Tips for Business Owners, Technology

These are dangerous times. Mother Nature is unleashing droughts and record-setting high temperatures. It seems a new tornado is ripping through the Midwest every day. And those are just the big emergencies. What if you lock yourself out of your car when your toddler’s...

Avoid the Most Common PowerPoint Mistakes

by Stephen Gross | Sep 27, 2012 | Business, MS Office Tips and Tricks, Tech Tips for Business Owners

PowerPoint presentations are the vacation slide shows of the business world: we’ve all sat through boring ones that seemed to last forever. Fortunately, there are several tips that you can follow to avoid creating a PowerPoint presentation that bores your co-workers....

Be a Better Procrastinator with These Facebook Tips

by Stephen Gross | Sep 13, 2012 | Business, Social Media Marketing, Tech Tips for Business Owners

Facebook is a great way to waste time. Don’t want to read that business report? Why not log onto your Facebook page? Not in the mood to put the finishing touches on that PowerPoint presentation? Now’s a good time to post about your upcoming family vacation to Disney....

Take the Steps to Protect Your Business Accounts from Hackers

by Stephen Gross | Sep 6, 2012 | Business, Security, Tech Tips for Business Owners

A recent New York Times story should serve as a warning to business owners: They may not be protected should a cyber criminal clear out their bank accounts. The Times story highlights the 2010 case of an engineering and construction company in California that lost...

What Does your Web Browser Say About Your Personality?

by Stephen Gross | Aug 30, 2012 | Business, Tech Tips for Business Owners

We all browse the web today. But we don’t all use the same browser. There are plenty of choices out there — everything from the traditional Explorer to Firefox, Opera and Chrome. But what does your choice of browser say about you? Plenty, according to a popular online...