An interesting and very relevant post in businessweek.com today called attention to two important topics: Language and internet services that small businesses may not be using to their advantage because they don’t know what they are or what expensive and time consuming tasks they replace.
Read the whole article here:
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/tips/archives/2009/11/what does the c.html
About language: Almost every business or group category has its own verbal shorthand. But the internet gang outdoes them all! Why? I suppose because it is made up of very creative visually minded people who attach appropriate but sometimes unfathomable names to applications, software, businesses of all kinds that thrive on the internet. Who would have thought that “Google” would end up as a worldwide superstar?
And now we have “Cloud” computing. It sounds lovely, doesn’t it? It sounds lazy. It makes you think you can just take a nap on a ball of fluff and all your work will magically do itself. Well, that’s not too far off! It means no software - no IT department - no expensive servers - and a whole lot of other stuff. stuff that we may be using without even knowing.
If you want to boost your business in the lazyest way possible, read this article!
