A Free Lunch - No such thing,
Twitter, Wordpress, Joomla , Flickr, Youtube all offer opportunities for small businesses to utilise enterprise grade tools, for Free. Google offer a complete range of free tools that will help any business get established whilst keeping costs low and support overheads at manageable level
Small businesses can access many quality IT solutions for free and almost free across a range of common business functions. From typical office applications, web publishing tools, financial software, CRM Software and much much more are all available free of charge and can provide all the functionality needed for many small and not so small businesses. Also you can take advantage of all the latest tools of the Internet to market and run your business.
The web is fast developing into a source of excellent tools and this can only be to the benefit of businesses and individuals who can piggy back on the giants of the industry like Google and Microsoft, who are engaged in a battle to provide high quality free tools, in order to gain market share and build their individual brands.
