There was a special small business section in Thursday Feb 22 NYTimes, with an article about how to make your (small) business have the external appearance of being at least middle-sized. I can't link to it because the NYTimes charges for articles more than a week old, so I'll give you a summary right here.

For logos, gotlogos.com creates one for you for $25. I checked them out and they are pretty decent.

UPDATE: More on logos in the post How to Get a Cheap Logo for your Business

For business cards, Vistaprint charges $40 for 500. I've used them in the past and would recommend them.

For colleague communication (the virtual water cooler), there is office.com. I don't have any personal experience with them, but they do have a free trial with collaborative calendars, reminders, address books and the like.

For a professional-sounding phone system, the $695 TalkSwitch 24 PBX from Centerpoint Technologies is recommended. This strikes me as the kind of thing which costs thousands not so long ago.

Finally, there was no web design recommendation, so I thought I'd add my one. There is a company called no diamonds web services which apparently does pretty good work…

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