Small Businesses all over this country use AOL to run their businesses when they start. Many of them even try to secure an AOL email address that has their name in it. But for some of these businesses as they grow they have been advised to transition to something more professional.

AOL is a useful service for chatting with friends or creating a personal email account to communicate with friends or family, but it has limitations when you are trying to run a business. However, that is not my purpose in today’s blog. My purpose today is to discuss change.

If you have made the decision to change from AOL to using another email program you need to keep in mind that it will not look and act exactly like AOL! No matter what type of technology you use change means adapting, moving on, and accepting what will be different. If you are not prepared to be open and adapt then you should not change.

Blackberry vs Palm well everyone has an opinion, but if you start on a Blackberry and transition to using a Palm Pilot with email remember that it will take you some time to get use to the differences. If you are not willing to stop and learn; maybe even read the manual then you need to ask yourself if you are ready for change.

Technology frustrates so many people and there are days where I am right there with you; but if you start off not understanding that change means adapting to something new then every step of the way you will feel nothing but pain. And many times you will just give-up and go back to what you are comfortable with. So before you make any serious changes to new technologies stop and analyze the change and decide if you are ready. Your success depends on it.

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