Small Business Resources

Organize bulky power plugs with these surge protectors. They are called the Power Squid, because it looks like a squid, with the main hub, and then multiple short cords, with plugs at the end of each. Now your bulky power converters that don’t fit next to each other in standard surge protectors will all fit with one power center, the power squid.

Small businesses need to be efficient, and buying more than one power strip to fit a few plugs is not efficient. Now you can just buy the number of surge protectors you need and utilize every plug of the power strip.

Power Squid

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A small business has to be able to be mobile, but nothing is more frustrating when you don’t have enough battery life to power your devices.

Laptops for Less has many options for batteries of laptops, PDAs, and more. They have excellent pricing, a money back guarantee, and most orders ship the same day.

Laptopsforless.com

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Keeping time of your employees work schedule can always pose some problems.  Make sure you have a decent time clock, to keep your employees straight about coming to work and putting in a full days work.

There are many choices, some are punch cards, while others are time clocks that scan your fingerprints.

Most of the digital products automatically add up employee times for you, which is a big bonus during payroll.

Search under Office Equipment and Supplies and then under Time Clocks for their full listing of Time Clocks

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While this site is mostly geared towards home purchases, there are plenty of reasons why you would want to shop at shop.com for your small business.

Basic items for your break room, decor to make your waiting room more stylish and comfortable, or electronics to enhance productivity, like digital cameras.

shop.com

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This full service electronic shop has many products that are necessary for a small business.  When purchasing items like, refrigerators for the office, or microwave for the office, Vanns has plenty to choose from.

Of course they offer many products which you would not typically place in your office, but we think keeping an office fun, and vibrant can keep employees happy and working hard for you.  So consider buying a sound system for the office, or installing a TV in the break room.

Vanns com Electronics

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Keeping track of employees’ time is a must for small businesses. Using web time clocks is an inexpensive way that is convenient for employees to clock in and clock out.

You have the option of having a single computer with the web time clock software installed, or you can have a networked time clock allowing multiple computers to punch in and out at.

Web time clocks can generate payroll reports to automatically add up employee hours, saving you hours of time each week.

Click here for more information on web time clocks.

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Your small business may need more computing power, but buying new computers may be toward the bottom of your list. For an inexpensive way to boost your computers performance, upgrade the ram.

Upgrading ram is really simple as it requires no software configuration. You simply open up the computer, and add additional computer memory sticks next to your existing computer memory sticks. And your done. It really is that simple.

The most difficult part may be finding out what type of computer memory chips you need to buy. Once you figure out what to buy, it’s pretty simple.

This place has great prices on computer memory sticks, and also sells flash memory as well.

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Avoid extra phone lines, and fax equipment, use an e-mail fax system. When you sign up you pick your area code, and a number is assigned to you. Give this fax number out, and when someone faxes you, you receive your faxes in an e-mail. This avoids wasting paper as it is paperless, going directly to your e-mail. You can now access your faxes from anywhere you can get your e-mail. Because they are electronic documents you can organize them and keep them for your records easily.

This E-Fax solution is great because it is a flat-rate incoming fax-to-email Internet Fax Service.You get an unlimited number of incoming faxes, with no per page fees.

Click here for more information.

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Every business needs to have some things printed up professionally. This small business printing can be limited to business cards, forms, or postcards, but it usually doesn’t look professional if it is done in the office as opposed to outsourcing the printing to a bigger company.

We’ve found using local printing services is extremely expensive and typically does not result in quicker production time.

Small business need to focus on the bottom line and save where they can. What I like about this printing company is they are constantly offering free printing when you order your standard items. You can sometimes get 80% off of what you intend to buy, (like custom business card printing), but then also get 12-15 sample items free. These sample items are actually fully customized normal marketing materials that you would otherwise have to purchase, but are just in smaller quantities.

As a small business, getting 25 magnets with your business information on them, or getting 100 free postcards with your marketing is a big deal sometimes. They even offer free business checks printing.

I say take what you can get.

Vista Print - offers the best quality and a great price - now 50-80% off with this link.

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How can digital cameras be useful fro business professionals?

There are a number of reasons why every business professional should have a good digital camera in the office. If you try to rely on your own personal camera, you’ll never have it when you need it. You need a dedicated camera for the office.

Using digital images in presentations, on your website, or just documenting your products and your company production is so much simpler now that digital cameras are so commonplace.

I suggest this company for some great deals on digital cameras suited for business professionals.

Digital Cameras for Business Professionals

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