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We are looking for an online payroll service and found the following:

www.paycycle.com
www.surepayroll.com
www.payroll.com (Intuit)
www.americanpayrollus.com

I am sure there are more out there but we are just looking for a quick solution for our own payroll. Most of these providers are in the same price range offering similiar services for automatic deducation calculation for taxes and other payroll [...]

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You can get your own incoming fax line at www.k7.net. We have tried the service and seems to work pretty well. We are not using it for our business but wanted to just posted it here in case someone is interested in this. You cannot fax out with this service but you can receive faxes [...]

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I think lending tree has a great model/tagline, “When Banks Compete, You Win.”  As a small business owner,  myself and our partners spend a lot of time searching for better ways of doing things. This often translates into identifying companies/solutions that we need for our business. But the current process sucks, we have to first [...]

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I am notoriously unorganized and some have hinted that I might have ADD. I just find it tough to keep organized given my mind very rarely rests and I have a ton of stuff on my plate and constantly is being pulled in different directions. I had thought about ways to better organize myself and [...]

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We need to serve up advertising banners across our network of websites. We want to only offer our direct customers access to our ad inventory so we need a system that allow us to easily serve up banner/text ads. We ran across Ad Server Solutions. We are fairly new at serving up ads so wanted [...]

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I just wanted to post the pricing info to compare the 2 email marketing vendors.
Here is the IntelliContact Pricing info from their website:

Plan
Contacts
Monthly
Annual

Clever
500
$9.95
$107.46

Sharp
1,000
$14.00
$151.20

Intelligent
2,500
$29.00
$313.20

Smart
5,000
$47.00
$507.60

Wise
10,000
$74.00
$799.20

Bright
15,000
$109.00
$1,177.20

Brilliant
25,000
$149.00
$1,609.20

Master
35,000
$219.00
$2,365.20

Advanced
50,000
$299.00
$3,229.20

Expert
75,000
$439.00
$4,741.20

Genius
100,000
$579.00
$6,253.20

Here is the Constant Contact Pricing info from their website:
 Contacts – Monthly Cost
50 – Free
500 – $15
2,500 – $30
5,000 – $50
10,000 – $75
25,000 – $150
25,000+ – not published
If I strictly just look at it [...]

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We are currently testing out ConstantContact right now. One of my customers uses them as well so they actually come highly recommended. They have a free version for those that want to play with it. What we care the most about is the usability of the system and also from a pricing standpoint is it [...]

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