Category Archives: For Florists (and other small businesses)

Health Care’s Hidden Headache: More 1099 Forms on Tap

I'm leaching this article 100% from the Society of American Florists newsletter since it's so well written and too important to not share. Health Care’s Hidden Headache: More 1099 Forms on Tap By Drew Gruenburg SAF is working on Capitol … Continue reading

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Constant Contact adds Social Media

Recently Constant Contact acquired Nutshell Mail, a tool which specializes in social media marketing beyond CC’s core e-mail marketing business. Sometime in the last two weeks Constant Contact added a new contact import feature–import from a webmail account.  You can … Continue reading

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PHP and Yahoo Store

In my previous post regarding getting started with Yahoo store, I remarked that PHP seemed to be the direction Yahoo was moving its store.  If that’s the case, they’re pretty mum on the subject.  I asked YS support the following … Continue reading

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Getting Started with Yahoo Store

Yahoo! Store has come a long way in the past several years.  When we were bringing our wedding accessories site online in 2004, we looked at Yahoo! Store, and felt the costs were too high, and features too few, to … Continue reading

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Cuil – Gateway to Spam

So there’s a new player in the search engine space, founded by some really smart people from Google.  Named Cuil, pronounced “cool”, it differs from Goole’s algorithm: As Cuil’s founders describe it, the search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques … Continue reading

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Laplink PCMover is a Lifesaver

Wifey needed a new PC, and like all people who have had the same one for 6 years, she wanted everything to transfer perfectly.  The new one had to operate just like the old one, only better.  Aloha Bob used … Continue reading

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Using a Dynamic DNS Service with DD-WRT

When you have a phone number assigned to you by the phone company, it doesn’t change on a daily or monthly basis.  It’s static.  It only changes when you relocate to a different service area.  That’s because your phone number … Continue reading

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Adding Additional Clients to your WRT54GL/DD-WRT VPN

Setting up the VPN and the first client takes a while.  Additional clients are easy. First thing is to download and install OpenVPN GUI.  Find the Installation Package under Stable downloads. Next, you need to generate a new client key.  … Continue reading

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Turning a Linksys WRT54GL Router Into a VPN Server

[note: this post was written in Feb, 2008, and used the current-at-the-time version of dd-wrt.  My router has been working for almost 4 years, so I haven't repeated the process from the beginning with the latest version. The information below … Continue reading

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10 Tips for Choosing a Domain Name

INC.com recently published an article with 10 tips for choosing a domain name.  All are pretty good, but this one needs some elaboration: 2. Short and easy to spell — Shorter is better.  A short URL is easier to remember … Continue reading

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