Kimberly Alt

An essential step to starting a business most entrepreneurs don’t immediately think about is legally establishing a business name. In addition to separating out your business income and expenses with a separate bank account, one of the first things you’ll want to do as a sole proprietor, assuming you aren’t ready or don’t have the funds to incorporate, is to form a DBA (Doing Business As). That way you can market yourself and receive checks in the name of your business, instead of your personal name…

Benchmark is one of our favorite email marketing software solutions for small businesses and nonprofits because it offers free surveys, polls and event marketing, as well as the option of purchasing a private IP address ($28.95/month). Most email marketing service providers don’t offer these features…

Comparing online backup services is a complicated task that can be not only overwhelming but also confusing. Each company offers different features with unique services, but the end goal is the same — to help you keep your data safe in the case of a computer crash. So, which one is best for your needs? We have a clear winner in this CrashPlan vs Carbonite review…

Do you depend on Google Drive, Microsoft Word and other individual services for your team’s organization? Wouldn’t it be nice if there was one service that housed all this functionality and more in one place, so you and your team could seamlessly work together, manage projects and timelines, and reach goals? Teamwork Projects claims to do all this – you can assign tasks, collaborate, communicate, mark things off your to-do lists and more, all in real-time. Read our review to see if they back up the hype, with pros, cons and pricing…

This online backup comparison of Backblaze and Crashplan will help you determine the right choice for you and your business. First, ask yourself who will be setting it up. If the answer is you, are you a tech savvy person who knows about online backups? The answer to this question could influence your decision about which company is best for you. Find out which company is easier to use and which is more customizable below…

Office fires can ignite unexpectedly destroying countless important documents including HR documents, confidential business papers and more.

Fortunately, fireproof file cabinets can safe you from a huge headache of having to track down all those documents and give you peace of mind during emergency situations.

Choosing the right hosting or domain company for your needs can be stressful. Choosing the wrong company can not only be frustrating, but it can also put your business in jeopardy. Below we will take a look at who IONOS By 1&1 is, what they offer, and how to decide whether they are right for your needs…

You went to your computer and moved the cursor around. Nothing happened. Panic has set in. All your pictures, documents and files are on that computer. Your family pictures from the past 10 years, vacation pictures from last summer, tax files, grad school papers and more are saved to that computer. And now, it’s all lost. If you had purchased an external hard drive and backed up your computer you would still have all of those files. But you didn’t, so now they’re all gone. Hopefully you’ve never found yourself in this situation but, just in case, we’ve done a megaton of research to make our recommendations for the best in various categories so you can pick which will work most effectively for you. Because, now you know just how important it is to backup your data…

Is your site slowing down? Are you losing traffic because your content is taking too long to load? You might want to look into getting a CDN which can not only speed up your websites (providing an SEO rankings benefit since Google is known to take page speed into account), but also provide security (block malicious bots and users), thereby saving bandwidth and reducing your hosting costs…

You’ve come up with an amazing invention and now you need to make sure someone doesn’t steal your idea. What do you do? You file a patent. But how do you patent an idea? We give you an overview of the steps in the patent process, so your invention stays safe in your hands…