It is undeniable that the blogosphere is becoming a prime time source of networking, information, and advertising. With this in mind, we've been watching the evolution of blogging. Authors like Scott Hanselman and Sahil Malik, business owners like Joel Spolsky and Eric Sink all are using the blogosphere...

One of the things that plagues the contract IT worker is the worry over health insurance. I've been in situations many times when you're between companies/contracts and you get stuck footing a huge cobra insurance bill (I've had monthly premiums from cobra for the family at best $500 and...

As all my loyal readers know, I'm mere weeks from releasing Easy Assets .NET and so a lot of my focus is now turning towards marketing and sales. Remember that the goal of proper Asset Management is to save you and your techs using the help desk feature time and effort when working with your assets....

Hey, if Sahil can post a book cover, I can post a product box. =)

Sahil asks on this post : "Since most of your audience are computer geeks, how about an english friendly, non-mba description of what "Asset Management" is .. and why should I care?" Well, the MBA description isn't so bad. So here's a small business lesson that is common sense, but important to the concept...

I'm a big believer in letting the specialist do what they do best. I think that a lot of problems in the IT world are caused by people who want to be all things to everyone. It is important that we realize that although we may have a broad skillset and understanding (basic understanding of all pieces...

Well, the time is getting close now. Soon will be the official unveiling of the Easy Assets : Standard and Easy Assets : Enterprise packages. What this means for me is that I'm tightening the bolts on the application, finishing off user documentation, testing installs on any pc I can get my hands on...

I know I haven't been overly active lately but I'm in "Crunch Mode" for Easy Assets .NET. My ISV is taking full form now. The application itself is stable, solid, and overall I'm just putting in a few last minute tweaks based on feedback. The install package works flawlessly for existing sql server ...

I'm very pleased to report that Easy Assets .NET local install version is very close to "going gold". I thought I'd take this time to talk about the final pricing scheme I've come up with (thanks to a lot of thought and feedback from the IT community) and the importance of wrapping things up properly...

I've reached a mini-milestone with the local install, source included version of Easy Assets .NET and now I have started thinking ahead to how I should price this software. Pricing is perhaps the most difficult thing for an ISV to do. On one hand you want to be fair and not overcharge for your product...