Independent / Small Business Owners

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Quote of the Month:
“The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.”
—Ted Nelson, American IT pioneer (1937 - )

Dennis Hutchinson is vice president of the Lexington, Ky., division of
ISOCNET (pronounced eye sock net). He talked about general guidelines for handling e-mail, which is necessary for business but has a whole host of issues associated with it.

Quote of the Month:
“If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”
—B.C. Forbes, Scottish financial journalist (1880-1954)

Marcus Simpson is co-owner of TCG America, a company providing IT services and consulting for small and medium businesses. We all depend on the Internet daily, so companies with employees need to have an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and be ready to enforce it. The advice is good for households with children, also.

There are 113 million domains registered, with 100,000 new ones each day. “It’s hard to keep track of which sites are good and which ones are bad,” said Marcus.

Quote of the Month:
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
—Eckhart Tolle, German author (1948 - )

Bill Powell and his wife Jackie own Serif Group, an advertising and graphic design agency. Bill also co-founded Inbox Orange with Lisa Wester, a permission-based e-mail marketing service, sort of an advanced Constant Contact. He said the role of advertising agencies has changed with Web 2.0 “We inform our clients of new things going on and best practices, we train them, then let them run off and use it themselves,” said Bill.