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Let's Get Small

VARBusiness' IT Strategies In SMB issue went online this week, detailing how to establish and grow your business by servicing small and medium-size business customers. Dig into VARBusiness' research on the purchasing plans of 400 small and midsize business, represented by nearly 1,200 data points exactingly translated to the web by yours truly. Take the SMB Challenge and you could end up in a future VARBusiness issue. And follow editor Rob Wright to Nevada, Missouri, to see how small businesses and small government are putting technology to work in the heartland. Rob is also following up his feature with another of his road trip diaires, and this one is a doozy: part one and part two are online now, with more to come.

The APEX Awards

Here's a happy item I've been meaning to get off my plate for a few weeks now: earlier this summer, CRN and VARBusiness were both receipents of APEX Awards, recognizing excellence in business journalism. CRN picked up an APEX for online writing for its ongoing breaking news, and one for newspaper writing for it's Top 25 Executives feature.

VARBusiness gained highly prized bragging rights by snagging several more: personality profile for Bill Gates and You, column writing for Bob DeMarzo's A Friend Makes A Sacrifice For Love Of This Country, magazine writing for the State of Technology, and feature writing for How to Beat the Soft Economy, Excited about Education, and the technology profiles on Portals, E-commerce and Content Management. CRN also received three print design awards, and VARBusiness snagged two.