Author Archives: Carolyn Crummey

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Carolyn Crummey is a business and technology strategist and the owner of VirTasktic (www.virtasktic.com), an agency dedicated to providing high-level virtual services to small businesses and entrepreneurs. A lover of technology and small business, Carolyn has built a career on the intelligent use of technology to increase business efficiency and productivity, which ultimately leads to greater profitability. Carolyn works closely with her clients to understand their challenges and helps them integrate the best technology solutions into their businesses so they too can enjoy great successes.
You can follow Carolyn on Twitter at @Gemini52469 or @VirTasktic.

Are You Capturing Referral Business? Start-Up Referlia Wants To Ensure You Do!

We all know that starting and running a small business is not an easy adventure. With so many different tasks and areas of the business to focus on each day, many of us are simply trying to keep our heads above water, all while wondering ‘Isn’t there an easier way’? Well, when it comes to…

NYC Event 6/26: Selling To Why – Brain Based Selling

  If you are frustrated by a long selling cycle, anxious about not closing, upset by not having a compelling story or just winging your meetings then you definitely want to attend our upcoming NYC event,  ‘Selling To Why: Brain Based Selling’!       Ramon Ray        Jeremy Rawitz  Date: June 26th,…

NYC Events: Upcoming NYC Business and Technology Events (6/14 – 6/20)

Here is a listing of NYC Business and Technology Events for the upcoming week (6/14 – 6/20) that we thought would be beneficial to our small business community in the Greater NYC area. Have a business and/or technology event coming up in the New York City area that you’d like us to add to our…

NYC Event: Spice & Flavor Marketing: 49 Ideas to Jump Start Your Boring Marketing

Is your marketing bland and boring? Are you not attracting the attention that you need to produce sales for your small business? If so, then get ready to join Sameer Kumar and Ramon Ray for the NYC Event Spice & Flavor Marketing: 49 Ideas to Jump Start Your Boring Marketing!       Ramon Ray  …

SCORE Webinar: 10 Tips For Building a Business-Class Website

Smallbiztechnology’s Ramon Ray spent some time yesterday with SCORE and about 700 participants of the ‘10 Tips For Building a Business-Class Website‘ webinar. This webinar walks through the key concepts of having a business-class website, something so many small business struggle with. What’s a business-class website, you ask? It’s a website that is not just an…

Bye, Bye Telecommuting: 5 Tips on Reentering The Workplace and 12 Tips on Making It Productive, Pleasurable and Professional

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has made the return of teleworkers to the office a hot topic of coverage. We’ve covered it here at Smallbiztechnology and shared our thoughts on the Telecommuting Debate Pro’s and Con’s and shared tips on how you teleworkers can succeed outside of the corporate office.  Ultimately, though, we are seeing that workers are…

Display Your Business Hours With Style and For Free! It’s the ‘Business Hours Giveaway’ from Signs.com

It’s a silly little thing, but to me there is nothing more irritating than visiting a shop or restaurant and finding the door locked and no display of what their business hours are so I can return.  It’s an easy way to lose potential customers and really quite senseless, since it can be remedied with…

Tech Thursday (6/6): News From Nuance, harmon.ei, and GoDaddy

It’s Tech Thursday from Smallbiztechnology.com. Each week we take a quick look at business and technology news and updates for the small business community and share them with you in a quick and simple round-up.       Nuance Introduces Dragon Notes for Windows 8 Devices   New Dragon Notes App Lets People Quickly Capture,…

NYC Events: Upcoming NYC Business and Technology Events (6/7 – 6/13)

Here is a listing of NYC Business and Technology Events for the upcoming week (6/7 – 6/13) that we thought would be beneficial to our small business community in the Greater NYC area. Have a business and/or technology event coming up in the New York City area that you’d like us to add to our…

SalesForce.com Bolsters Portfolio with Acquisition of ExactTarget

First it was Radian6, then Buddy Media. Now ExactTarget is in the crosshairs of Salesforce.com and, as announced earlier today, is the newest acquisition at a price tag of $2.5 billion. Salesforce.com is a leading enterprise computing service that offers social and mobile cloud technologies focused primarily on sales, digital marketing and customer relationship management (CRM) applications. The addition…