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30 Online Invoicing Apps for Small Businesses

As a majority of our customers being small businesses, we always try to bring you helpful articles and resources to make business easier, and take advantage of the latest technology. Being a web software provider, we're obviously a big fan of anything running on the web. While our software provides tons of great features, we do not offer anything related to billing or invoicing your clients (yet?).

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Brief Maintenance Scheduled for 11:00PM EST

OfficeMedium will be going down at approximately 11:00PM EST for brief server maintenance. The downtime shouldn't last more than 10-15 minutes. During that time, our website and your software will not be accessible. As always, we scheduled this time for Sunday night, which is often the most convenient for businesses.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

80 Ways To Use Twitter as a Business Owner

Twitter is not only here to stay, it's taking over the web. Everywhere you look now, Twitter is involved. Where it could be a fun and interesting tool on a personal level, it apparently holds great opportunity for business owners as well. Businesses are learning about the great potential that Twitter holds, on a marketing, brand building, and sales tools.

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OfficeMedium Gets Google Web Searching

Working on the feedback of our users, we've decided to quickly throw a new feature at you today (the list is getting pretty big). Someone suggested that since our Intranets serve as the complete workspace for the user, and that because everyone searches Google at least 100 times a day, wouldn't it make sense to be able to search Google from within the software?

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How to Choose the Right Collaboration Software

I recently came across a well-written article on Inc.com, one of my favorite business and entrepreneur focused websites. The article is about choosing the best collaboration software for your business. In my opinion, it's more about highlighting the merits of utilizing collaboration software in the business settings, as opposed to relying on extremely annoying email.

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Creative Ways to Reduce Small Business Costs

One of the main selling points of our collaborative software is our price. But it's not just the inexpensive price that is important. The important thing is how much using our web-based, on-demand software can save you in comparison to traditional software solutions. For small businesses especially, reducing your costs is paramount to your growth and survival. Some business owners make the foolish mistake of not taking the time to identify every money saving scenario.

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Determine If Your New Idea Is a Real Business

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Starting a business is a great thing. It's fun, exciting, and sometimes it can be very rewarding. Just about everyone wishes they didn't have to work for someone. So give it a shot. Well, you might want to take some time before diving right in. You have time, right?

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How to Get a Business Loan

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Just about every business needs a good amount of capital to either get started or continue growing. While there are a number of different options for funding a business, a business loan could be a very attractive one, especially with lending practices beginning to heat up again. But that is for you to decide - so do you research before proceeding.

So to continue with our business-related, resourceful blog posts, we're bringing you a quick rundown on how to get a business loan from AllBusiness.com.

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7 Year-End Business Tax Tips

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While the end of the year is usually a fun time, filled with holidays and parties, everyone has the dreaded issue of taxes lingering over them. Tax is the topic that everyone has to deal with, but no one takes the time to learn about. That's where the Internet comes in handy. The good people over at Entrepreneur.com provided a helpful list of year-end tax tips. These strategies could help you save some extra money in 2010.

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Free Trial Available Without Billing Information

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We're always big on making your experience as simple, smooth, and enjoyable as possible; and not just on the software side of things. You wanted a free trial period - you got it. You wanted lower user prices - you got it. And you asked for something again, and of course, got it. You can now sign up for the free trial without submitting any billing information; making it as easy as possible to get started using our software.

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