We nearly always forget to carry business cards and we may not be alone in this. “InTooch” (sic) is an iPhone/Android app aimed at making business cards unnecessary.
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Trying to get publicity for your business is a time-consuming process. But when Joy did public relations for a company inCalifornia, her boss said her p-r work landed more sales than all their ads put together. In short, public relations works. (We read a study recently that claimed over half the stories in newspapers and broadcast news are initiated by press releases.)
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“Small Town Rules,” by Barry Moltz and Becky McCray, $25 is new from quepublishing.com.
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If you’re a budding entrepreneur living outside the U.S., you might get a “startup visa” under a law proposed by Senators Richard Lugar and John Kerry.
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Chile is trying to become the next Silicon Valley. The government is offering $40,000 to each potential entrepreneur plus a visa, free office space, assistance with networking, mentoring, and fundraising. The program, called Start-Up Chile, is still in the pilot stage. It will officially launch in mid-January. You can read about some of the teams here. Some of them are tackling water problems, others have tracking systems for solar panels, another is a travel planner. Vivek Wadhwa, who helped conceive the program, says this will work where government-run technology centers tend not to.
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StreetSmart meeting lets you make free conference calls and has some extra features.
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Email can come back to haunt you. Here’s a way out.
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Outright.com lets you record expenses by phone.
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New “Office on a Stick” from Corel.
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Adobe invented the PDF, so understandably the granddaddy of PDF editors is Adobe Acrobat. But at $300, it does a whole lot more than most people need or want. Recently we found something cheaper. It’s “PDFZilla,” the Godzilla of PDF converters. We got it for $30 from pdfzilla.com.
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