Ever needed to reduce the size of a large batch of images at one time so you could email them? Or have you needed smaller images for a gallery on your website? Need all your photos to be the same size? Here’s what you have been waiting for. The Shrink O’Matic!!! If this sounds like a spoof of low-budget infomercial it isn’t. Well it is but The Shrink O’Matic does actually exist.   What is [...]

When I do Featured Freebie I try to find things that are 1) free(of course) 2) Useful for small businesses and 2) something that I would gladly pay for if there was a charge to it. The Square Card Reader is one of those products. Basically Square will turn your apple or Android mobile device into a mobile credit credit card reader. It’s ideal for businesses without a standard location, for salespeople who work out [...]

Often, I have to train a client on using their CMS. Since it is not always feasible to do face-to-face training (due to distance or budget) I would have to conduct the training over the phone. Along with that I needed a way to share my screen so that I could make sure that both, I and the client, were following along on the same page. This is where Mikogo came in. I was introduce [...]

I am the kind of person that is always looking for a way to make my business more mobile. As a solopreneur I need to have the same capabilities away from my home office that I do while I’m there since I have no one else to call on to do it. LogMeIn is one of the tools I use to make that happen. What Is LogMeIn LogMeIn is a suite of software services that [...]

  This week’s featured freebie is Skype, another communication tool I found impossible to avoid. It took me a while to appreciate the benefits of Skype initially. I downloaded it and never saw any reason to use it until I got my first international client and she requested we conference via Skype. Skype allowed me to communicate with my client without any international fees. That’s when I realized the power of Skype and began to [...]

Google Voice by far is my favorite freebie. I think so highly of it that I think this product could easily justify attaching a usage charge (although I hope they Never do). What Is Google Voice? Google Voice is a telecommunications service by Google launched on March 11, 2009. Google Voice had some 1.4 million users in October 2009, 570,000 of which used the service 7 days a week. The service is configured and maintained [...]

Featured Friday freebie is a new Dogg Blogg feature where we present a free or low cost business tool for the small business owner each Friday (obviously). Today’s feature is Dropbox. I started using this tool only a week ago for file storage and sharing from the suggestion of a friend and colleague. What is Dropbox? Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service  that enables users to store and share files and folders with others [...]