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Given Twitter’s simple web interface and straightforward purpose, it’s a wonder that so many business owners are unsure how to use Twitter and misunderstand the benefits it can bring to their business when used effectively.
What is Twitter?
In a nutshell, Twitter enables users to send messages (hereafter referred to as “tweets) to people that subscribe (hereafter [...]

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Encouraging innovation is one of the most critical activities for any industrialized nation.  Since 1985, Canada has offered incentives to encourage Canadian businesses of all sizes and in all sectors to conduct research and development that will lead to new or improved products, processes, or materials.
The largest of such programs is known as SR&ED (Scientific [...]

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We are excited to report that David Suydam, President of Toronto-based Architech Solutions has agreed to join the TechSMB team as a regular contributor, focusing on written content in the areas of general business management, web application development and software integration.
Architech Solutions is a technology consultancy founded by David four years ago, helping progessive SMB [...]

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MS Word Part I: Fix Those Ugly Tables

by Ben on November 12, 2008

This post is the first in a series of articles designed to help small business owners create more eye catching documents in Microsoft Word, quickly and easily.
Tables are one of the most important methods for communicating related information in Microsoft Word 2007. While it’s fairly simple to add a table within the application, adding a [...]

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For a business owner, there are few things more frustrating or time consuming than trying to format a document to look the way you want. Whether it’s a sales proposal for a potential customer, an internal document describing a business process or an end of month sales report, Microsoft Word has the potential to be [...]

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