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By Tyler King    |     August 20th, 2010
Tutorial: Create a Wiki in Google Sites
Last week I talked about how a wiki can be a great organizational tool for your team. As I mentioned in that post, there are a bunch of different tools to help you set up a wiki, but my favorite is Google Sites. In this post, I'll go over how I set up my wikis using Google Sites.
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By Tyler King    |     August 18th, 2010
Why you shouldn't base your software off open-source projects
When building new software, it can be tempting to start with an open-source project and make modifications. This post outlines some of the reasons why this approach can lead to mediocre software.
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By Bracken King    |     August 17th, 2010
What is your software worth
How much is your software worth? Without devolving too much into my poor grasp of economics, I'll explore two different ways to think about it.
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By Tyler King    |     August 16th, 2010
Amazon's affiliate program pays you for referring business
If you have your own website or blog, then you know how hard it can be to monetize your traffic. Last month I wrote a post about different ways to make money with a blog, and I want to dive deeper into one of those methods: the Amazon affiliate account.
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By Tyler King    |     August 12th, 2010
Set up a wiki to keep your team organized
Starting a wiki for your business is a great way to help your team collaborate and stay organized. A wiki is basically just a website that anyone on your team can edit, and the flexibility allows you do track absolutely anything you want.
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Tags: Software, Tips, Wiki
By Tyler King    |     August 11th, 2010
Google Small Business blog offers tech tips for SMBs
Earlier this week Google launched a new blog with tips and tools for small businesses. Since Google products are so important to most small businesses, it's definitely worth following.
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Tags: Google, Tips
By Bracken King    |     August 10th, 2010
Create application shortcuts in Google Chrome on a Mac
One of the best features of Chrome is the ability to create "application shortcuts" that let you launch web sites as stand alone applications. Unfortunately, application shortcuts are disabled in Chrome for Macs. I'm a big fan of webapps, so I wrote a little script that lets you create your own Chrome application shortcuts on a Mac.
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Tags: Chrome, Mac
By Tyler King    |     August 9th, 2010
SheerSEO Review - Track and analyze your site's SEO
SheerSEO is an online tool that helps you stay on top of your site's SEO performance. It helps track keyword rankings, referring sites, social networking activity, and more. In this review I'll describe the pros and cons of the software.
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Tags: SEO, Reviews, SheerSEO
By Tyler King    |     August 6th, 2010
Planning is important, but most people don't plan the right way
It's pretty common these days to suggest that planning isn't very useful. Most lean start-ups seem to prefer spending their time "doing" instead of "planning". This post explains why planning is important for all businesses, but that businesses are simply discovering more efficient ways to approach it.
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By Bracken King    |     August 5th, 2010
Check out our new white paper on customer management software
We recently put together a white paper about how customer management software can help small businesses improve relationships with their customers. Check out a brief summary of the major points from the paper, or read the full 7 page paper.
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