Kickstartnews Revue - Podcast #40 - Show Notes for February 26, 2006

Here's the lineup for show #40:

• Hot News: We're watching the wires for stories that concern small business. It's all about protecting your assets, motivating your people, and not worrying about your Blackberry;
• Letters to the Editor: Time for two e-mails this week. Somebody is asking about the BullsEye web research software. Somebody else has external QUE CD/RW driver woes;
• Kickstartnews Confab: Which employee gets the next new monitor or computer or desktop printer? Is it the old seniority shuffle or are you really assigning new equipment based on need;
• Big City Byte: Have you ever received a so-called overnight shipment two days late? What did you do about it? Who paid for the shipment in the first place? Managing Editor Howard examines the realities and the legalities of delivery bragging by the major couriers and the major online vendors.

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Kickstartnews Revue - Podcast #39 - Show Notes for February 19, 2006

Here's the lineup for show #39:

• Hot News: We've been watching the wires for stories that concern small business this week. It's all about treating customers properly, protecting your hardware and software and communicating with confidence;
• Letters to the Editor: A reader wants to know whatever happened to the After Dark screensaver. We've also got some sound recording queries and somebody wants to know what's best for multi-track work on the PCs;
• Kickstartnews Confab: It's all about personal time at work. How much so-called personal time do you take during the work day - is any personal time at all an infringement of employers' rights to get the best and the most out of employees, and how do you deal with the abusers;
• Big City Byte: Have you ever walked toward the exit of a big box department store and been asked to submit to a bag and receipt check? Most of us have. The policy has been around for decades if not longer. But there's a new generation of shoppers hitting the stores these days, and they're really not happy about having to submit to bag and receipt checks. Howard examines the realities and the legalities of this pervasive policy.

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Kickstartnews Revue - Podcast #38 - Show Notes for February 12, 2006

Here's the lineup for show #38:

• Hot News: We've read over two dozen separate news items about Internet moves being made by Verizon, AOL, Comcast, Time-Warner Cable and some other large telecommunications and media companies. It all has to do with the old social liberal fear about the privatization of the web, and the class struggle between the so-called haves and the have-nots. This time the social democrats might have a point. Also, some chinks are appearing in the NetFlix armor? Or maybe not;
• Kickstartnews Confab: Home-office and small business life in the big city vs. home-office and small business life in smaller communities. Contributing Editor Lianne is a big city girl—but Managing Editor Howard started out in a much smaller city. They compare notes and decide whether or not there's really any difference;
• Big City Byte: Serious business consumer issues have come up with respect to rule changes and law changes which impact home-office and small business owners. If you're doing business in the U.S., Canada and the UK, or if you're thinking of starting your own business or formalizing an existing one, you need the most up-to-date, accurate information.

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Kickstartnews Revue - Podcast #37 - Show Notes for February 5, 2006

Here's the lineup for show #37:

• Letters to the Editor: We've got three reader and listener e-mails this week - the best tools to use for someone who wants to add data recovery services to his computer business, using your own photos as stationery in Send Photos Gold, and the most economical way to develop a customized database;
• Kickstartnews Confab: Getting to know your business competition. Is it ever truly possible to build collaborative friendships with competitors? What's the difference between observing and analyzing what the competition is doing and finding opportunities to build and grow;
• BOAT - Business Online and Technology: Managing Editor Howard Carson and Tugboat Enterprises CEO Judi Tyabji Wilson get into a roundhouse debate about shows and exhibitions. Which ones to attend, how to pick and choose, and eventually, when the time is right to become an exhibitor yourself.

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