Mom & Pops Small Business Services

Ed Castagna, phone and fax: (732) 764-0756, email: ecastagna@worldnet.att.net
Mom & Pops Small Business Services
234 Dorn Ave
Middlesex, NJ 08846

The next small business problem to solve: News

If you operate a small business (less than 50 employees) and feel the time has arrived to automate your business.

If you want to keep track of clients, inventory, schedules, accounting, estimation, billing, vendors, payroll, advertising and you don't know where to start.

Mom & Pops can help you decide what and how to automate using computers. We can help you not lose control as you automate your business. We will work together to:

• Figure out what a computer system would have to do for it to be useful in your business.
• Choose between computer programs already written for your business.
• Choose between different manufacturers' computers currently available which are able to run your chosen computer programs.
• Design a customized system if we find that one is not already available or adaptable.

The locality of these Services is Middlesex, NJ and surrounding area as that's where the business is located. But a lot can be done over the Network. If you are not in the local area, let's discuss if we can resolve your needs remotely.

The Services Offered to Small Business Customers :

• Business needs assessment of your unique needs.
• Business computer support (Ed is the Programmer/Analyst) including:
  • Computer program selection.
  • Computer program design and development.
  • Computer selection.
  • Computer program testing.
  • Computer program troubleshooting.
  • Computer system administration.
  • Computer system security.
  • Computer networking and program integration.
  • Web/Internet hook-up and Web Home Page Development
  • Catastrophy protection.
  • Computer problem case management
• Business courier services (Dad is the courier)
• Business word processing support (Mom is the word processor/typist)
• Business media support (Dan is the graphic artist)including:
  • Art (Dan and Janet are both artists)
  • Animation (Dan animates TV Video)
  • Print Media (Ken and GB are print artists and print photo-quality technician respectively)
  • Advertising (Walt is the copywriter)

Pop keeps us straight by being available for a little discipline as is needed.

Currently the family is small but designed to handle the needs of the small businessman and businesswoman. PIX

If you are a Small Businessman or Businesswoman:

Explore and discuss your needs in collaboration with the experts who are currently members of the Mom & Pops Small Business Services; send me a note;call the number listed above, or send a fax to the number listed above. If you have a specific need which cannot be handled via email please feel free to call at the number listed above. Leave a phone number where I can reach you and the times you are available. I'll respond via phone. All information sharing will remain as confidential as the media it is sent on. If you're already hi-tech and your Web Browser is setup to support sending mail you can send me email at: Start up the Web Browser Mailer and Send a message to Ed.

If you are an expert willing to offer services as part of the Mom & Pops team:

Let me know your expertise; drop me a note. If you have an expertise which reflects person to person interaction, give your business name and the county and state where your business is located: Start up the Web Browser Mailer and Send a message to Ed.

Some Programs which you may wish to have available on your computer are:

• WINZIP from WinZip Allows you to receive compressed files with a file extension of .zip. These files are zip archive files.
• PGP from MIT Allows you to encrypt files (can only be read by the person you are sending it to). After you've installed PGP, Save Ed's PGP Key into pgp directory naming it eds_key.asc. Add it to your keyring using the PGPKeys program Key Import. After Imported, you can send me an encrypted email message. Please send a regular text file. And I'll let you know if I got it encrypted.
• ChangeDetection.com gives notification of a web page when it is changed to your email box. If you ask ChangeDetection to tell you when there are changes to the News Page (get the web address from visiting the news page Monitor News Page) then you'll automatically be notified when there's new projects to be done at Mom & Pop's which you may show an interest in collaborating on. I'm giving it a whirl.
• Adobe Acrobat reader Allows you to read pdf files (portable document files). Many web publishers publish in this format. In order to read the test document, you may need to define your browser to save the file to a specific directory on your hard drive, where you can bring up the Acrobat Reader and open it. Acrobat Test PDF File on this site Also, I found it necessary to change my control panel display to have settings of 1024X768 in order to get the resolution needed (and changing the size of fonts from small fonts to large fonts) to view the pdf documents with the reader. Otherwise, you had to zoom in on the picture so much that it's hard to read a block of text without moving around to get the next word.
• www.acm.org's secure web site Want to check your browser to see how it handles secure pages defined with the browsers https:// rather than http://.