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Helping Alan – Mac Tools and Tech for Freelancers

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Relevant for: Freelancers, Project Managers, Digital Workers

First off, I’m not going to be talking about your industries tools. You’ll know whether you need Microsoft Word, or Quark Express, or don’t have a website but what often kills small business creators is how to manage all the other essential parts of making their own income. Here’s a list of some great core tools, both web and Mac for the state of business as it is now.

This article will focus on essential tools for managing income producing endeavors in 2010 that take little to no learning curve to use and will simplify how to do business. It also covers why doing them on Mac is a great choice.

If you’re already running a business or are interested in starting one, it has never been more possible, and the tools have never been more accessible at little or no cost.

This article is part 3 of a 3 part series including resources and tools for freelancers, entrepreneurs and small business owners. See part 2 for online entrepreneurs and part 1 for the more traditional offline small business owner.

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Helping Alan – Mac Tools and Tech for Entrepreneurs

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Relevant for: Entrepreneurs, Project Managers, Online Marketers, Real Estate Entrepreneurs

First off, I’m not going to be talking about your industries tools. You’ll know whether you need Microsoft Word, or Quark Express, or don’t have a website but what often kills small business creators is how to manage all the other essential parts of making their own income. Here’s a list of some greate core tools, both web and Mac for the state of business as it is now, for online entrepreneurs.

This article will focus on essential tools for managing income producing endeavors in 2010 that take little to no learning curve to use and will simplify how to do business. It also covers why doing them on Mac is a great choice.

If you’re already running a business or are interested in starting one, it has never been more possible, and the tools have never been more accessible at little or no cost.

This article is part 2 of a 3 part series including resources and tools for freelancers, entrepreneurs and small business owners. See part 1 for small business and part 3 for the freelancers. Continue reading →

Helping Alan – Mac Tools and Tech for Small Businesses

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Relevant for: Small business owners who have relatively no internet reach

First off, I’m not going to be talking about your industries tools. You’ll know whether you need Microsoft Word, or Quark Express, or don’t have a website but what often kills small business creators is how to manage all the other essential parts of making their own income. Here’s a list of some greate core tools, both web and Mac for the state of business as it is now.

This article will focus on essential tools for managing income producing endeavors in 2010 that take little to no learning curve to use and will simplify how to do business online. It also covers why doing them on Mac is a great choice.

This article is part 1 of a 3 part series including resources and tools for freelancers, entrepreneurs and small business owners. See part 2 for online entrepreneurs and part 3 for freelancers. Continue reading →

Helping Dave – Trend MLS on a Mac (Easy Guide)

Relevant for – Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Realtors

UPDATE: TrendMLS now supports Firefox, which means you can now view it on Mac without any issues! Download Firefox here and login to TrendMLS!

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Today’s free support goes out to all the real estate agents, mortgage lenders and anyone else who needs access to a particular website called trendmls.com on their Apple computers. For one reason or another Trend MLS (a real estate database website) REQUIRES, yes, that’s right, requires you to use Internet Explorer on their site. Unfortunately there are still websites out there like this. They are built on old platforms that require software that isn’t very secure (IE just isn’t as protected as Firefox and Safari), and not cross platform (meaning, Mac and Linux users are out in the cold).

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