Welcome. TechQED.com is a portal for information on how technology can help small business and entrepreneurship. An effort aimed at providing much needed help and pointers to resources for small businesses.

Let's face it. Despite considerable progress in information technology (IT) and its tremendous potential to help businesses sustain and grow, the small businesses are almost always at a disadvantage. Sure, the technololgy is out there but for a small business owner, with typically less resources, navigating this maze of of IT products and hype is not easy.

At TechQED, our goal is to reduce the confusion surrounding the sourcing (i.e. how do we go about getting the IT products and services we need), adoption (which ones do we choose to use), use (i.e. we actually adopt and implement it in our small businesses), and successful exploitation (i.e. we leverage IT to sustain, grow, and even obtain a competitive advantage) of IT for the small businesses and entrepreneurs.

As a start, we discuss some of the most common IT related issues facing the small business.

• Web sites (domain name, web hosting, web design & development, e-commerce, online marketing)
• Point of sales systems (cash registers, computerized cash registers, check out lanes, bar code scanning, credit card processing, merchant accounts, etc.)
• Small office or store front computer networks (how do we create and manage simple local area networks for our offices and retail stores)
• Wireless plans and capabilities (from obtaining the right cell phone plan for you and your employees to leveraging the growing potential of wireless technology to help your business)
• Enterprise wide applications (for growing businesses wishing to integrate all their information systems)