Make your tech guy sweat
Elliot Ross |
Tired of not knowing what your IT manager is up to? Here are five questions that will put him on the spot -- and help keep your business humming.

No. 1 profile: Allegro inside
Michelle Warren |
Software from Canada's Fastest-Growing Company powers handheld devices used by everyone from cops to copier technicians. And its best days may be yet to come.

Tech for tough times: Google Grabbers 2.0
Jim McElgunn |
PROFIT's story on one entrepreneur's search-engine optimization techniques drew so many kudos that we just had to publish another one. So, here are five more killer ways to boost your Google rankings.

Innovation: New and improved
Annette Bourdeau |
How should small businesses bring new ideas to market? Just ask the winners of the second annual Innovations@Work Awards.

Security: Stop, thief?
Chris Atchison |
Can you protect your business from today’s increasingly sophisticated crooks?

Sell more with CRM
Eleanor Beaton |
No longer pricey or hard to use, customer-relationship management software is a secret weapon of more and more small firms.

The Business Coach Podcast
Ian Portsmouth |
Episode 12: Social Media

NowPublic: The ultimate newsroom
Rick Spence |
NowPublic is recruiting an army of "accidental journalists" in an audacious bid to build the planet's biggest news organization.

Web 2.0 for the non-Web CEO: Start a blog
Kim Shiffman |
For the technophobe small business executive, a step-by-step guide to using the Net's most powerful new marketing tools.

Web 2.0: Power from the people
Mark Evans |
Today's lean-and-mean dotcoms have a business-building message for entrepreneurs in all sectors: take all the free help you can get.

FreshBooks: The only bills you'll ever love
Rick Spence |
FreshBooks is taking the trauma out of invoicing — and becoming the authority on how to do it right.

21 essential Web tools: News and information
Ian Portsmouth, Jim McElgunn, Kim Shiffman and Kara Aaserud |
They're a better way for entrepreneurs and small business owners to manage many important business functions. Use Feeds 2.0 for intelligent feed tracking, Google Alerts to follow breaking news, and SearchMash to search blogs, videos and more.

Get mobi
Jim McElgunn |
The new .mobi domain name will help companies and customers connect via web-based cellphones and handheld pcs. Here's how.

Unified managing
Danny Bradbury |
An integrated business platform combines data previously scattered across your firm into a single powerful management tool