Small business ideas, tools

Get some ideas from this piece from the 9/17/06 NYTimes on running a business on a small budget. See if you find anything new. By way of example in our practice, we use eFax for faxing that is referenced in the piece. For the package we use we get a local fax number and virtually unlimited faxing for $12.95 per month. I think the only issue that we run into every so often is a ceiling on how many pages we can receive per month. One recent month we had a trial and were exchanging all sorts of large document batches and we hit our ceiling but that's the only time it's happened thus far. 1and1.com is our Web host...we pay under $10 per month for them.

The article mentions bartering too. I haven't done any bartering in the small business realm but I've heard other lawyers doing it. The Greatest American Lawyer had a post about his bartering for services recently.