http://www.business-web.com Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:05:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a new site my company  recently launched. It's meant to connect technology buyers with technology vendors. Technology vendors can post their product demos, webinars, brochures, and more for free. Check it out.  http://www.vendordemo.com http://www.business-web.com/2008/01/28/watch-business-technology-at-vendordemocom/ This is an incredible company. We just bought a couple of dedicated servers from these guys and they are in my opinion Top(#1) in the hosting industry. Our sales rep was incredibly knowledgeable and their offering is just incredible. We'll be posting our dedicated server hosting evaluation soon. I mean ... http://www.business-web.com/2007/09/15/wow-softlayer-for-dedicated-web-hosting/ 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 ... http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/09/online-payroll-service-review/ 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 ... http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/03/free-incoming-fax-line-fax-service-review/ 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 ... http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/there-has-got-to-be-a-better-way-i-want-vendors-to-compete-for-my-business/ 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 ... http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/keeping-myself-more-organized-todo-list-project-management-etc/ 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 ... http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/ad-serving-management-solution-need-an-inexpensive-solution/ 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 ... http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/constant-contact-vs-intellicontact-email-marketing-pricing-comparison/ 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 ... http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/trying-out-constant-contact-for-email-marketing/ We have been using the standard 3-way calling feature on our  VOIP phone and have finally decided that we need to use a real service. When I did a search for phone conferencing service I found a overwhelming number of vendors. We tried Freeconferencall.com but we didnt' like the fact ... http://www.business-web.com/2007/03/26/phone-conferencing-service/