Comments on: Is The Small Business Web The Next Big Thing?

By: Market Dojo

Market Dojo — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:07:57 +0000

Great article. We have recently started our new company offering business-to-business online auction software and we have used quite a number of web applications to support us, including ClearBooks who have posted a comment further up. We use OggChat for our Live Chat support, Mikogo for our screen-sharing, Skype for calling, Get Satisfaction for our forum, Google Docs and Google Mail and Zoho for the CRM. In total these fantastic services cost less than $50 a month to run. I can imagine that go back a decade and it would cost us a fortune to operate these services. Web apps are fantastic value.

By: Create Freshbooks Invoices in Salesforce

Create Freshbooks Invoices in Salesforce — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:20:32 +0000

[...] as it can; indeed, it was one of the founding members of the Small Business Web initiative, which seeks to build closer ties between its members’ apps. It’s a smart policy to have, because users are increasingly faced with a “patchwork [...]

By: Christophe

Christophe — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:59:07 +0000

As a small business ourselves and SaaS supporters, we are using online applications at http://www.GetApp.com that don’t always fully integrate. Integration is often mentioned as the number one issue prior to buying a new app by businesses.
There are two kinds of integrations: 1)bottom up or one to many, where you integrate your app with a platform provider usually also publisher of a core business app such as CRM (Salesforce.com) or email (Google). 2) one to one, mainly by using an API to integrate an app with another

We encourage the SBW initiative, it is refreshing to see such an initiative from app providers themselves. We don´t see ourselves competitors at GetApp.com. We are a SaaS Apps portal which is 100% platform and provider neutral. Our main objective is to make it easy for enterprises to find useful information before buying, that includes an app store showing integration points.
There over 400 handpicked app providers registered and some of them are starting to show their app to app integrations.
If you are a SaaS app provider, please join the party, you should find a roof under our 300+ app categories.

By: The Small Business Web Directory: Discover Apps That Work Together — JOSHUASCOTT.NET

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:27:24 +0000

[...] small anymore — there are currently more than 50 apps listed. It has grown substantially since Scott first wrote about it this time last year, when it was comprised of just five founding companies. It’s great to see [...]

By: The Small Business Web Directory: Discover Apps That Work Together – WebWorkerDaily

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:01:24 +0000

[...] anymore — there are currently more than 50 apps listed. It has grown substantially since Scott first wrote about it this time last year, when it was comprised of just five founding companies. It’s great to see [...]

By: WWD’s 2009 in Review, Part 1

WWD’s 2009 in Review, Part 1 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:02:36 +0000

[...] tool of ours, moved out of beta; GrandCentral was finally relaunched as Google Voice; and Scott wrote about the Small Business Web, a collaborative effort that would lead to greater integration between many of our favorite web [...]

By: jasonbarone

jasonbarone — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:30:09 +0000

I think building an ecosystem like is going to be phenomenal. I don’t think the cost will be the number one problem because most small businesses or startups probably won’t opt to using 4, 5, 6, 7 apps at first. Some may not want to use Shoebox, may do in-house bookkeeping, may not need be doing email campaigns, etc. This type of systems gives us the ability to pick and choose what we want to use and pay for those services, as opposed to paying one large bill and not using most of the features (Salesforce.com as an example).

When I was shopping for a new solution for a client, I looked for integration. I needed a CRM, with the ability to send out email campaigns. MailChimp sounded excellent, and Batchbook worked perfectly with it. So we pulled the trigger on it.

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:17:23 +0000

Great write-up! Small business is opening up to the internet both in ecommerce and also in internet based business and amrketing. Your post is so inline with this.

By: Small Business Website Design

Small Business Website Design — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:31:21 +0000

Great concept…shame they haven’t conducted more publicity for the site. Despite Googling, I hadn’t come across the site before finding this page. From a business perspective it’s right up my street so I’ll be watching the sites development with interest.

By: Outright and Network Solutions Connect to Bring Business Online

Outright and Network Solutions Connect to Bring Business Online — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:02:15 +0000

[...] I really like about this offer is that it is very much in the spirit of the Small Business Web movement that I think is tremendously important for the long term success of web services. While [...]

By: Dobes Vandermeer

Dobes Vandermeer — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:32:08 +0000

The small business web is launched, it seems: http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com/

I guess we’ll see how this works – presumably there will be more relationship among the members than it being a directory, and yet it’s supposed to be “open” in a sense. I guess anyone who integrates with someone else’s API can get in? Or do you need a lot of users first?

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:43:21 +0000

RajR,
Great question, and that is actually a problem we are trying to solve at http://www.lifestreambackup.com. We currently backup up flickr, photobucket, twitter, google docs, zoho, wordpress, and basecamp from a single account, for $30/year. Our current service is targeted towards lifestreamers, but we will offer a small business product soon.

By: ClearBooks

ClearBooks — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:13:30 +0000

The small business web looks like a really good idea. Many more websites like our ClearBooks accounting app will be keen to join.

By: Simple Bookkeeping, Easy Tax Prep Make Outright Really Shine

Simple Bookkeeping, Easy Tax Prep Make Outright Really Shine — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:00:21 +0000

[...] members of the Small Business Web initiative I wrote about recently, it’s not surprising that Outright integrates well with [...]

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:47:24 +0000

It is definitely the next big thing. There are so many small businesses out there who have been neglected by the enterprise. The web has given them a multitude of small business tools to choose from. Our own app, Intervals has seen tremendous growth in the small business sector. And as the small business owners become more familiar with online tools, the tools themselves are going to have to evolve to meet their needs.

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5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:01:35 +0000

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