Thursday, June 4th, 2009 at 11:25 PM EST

We are starting something new. Every week we will post a short tip for entrepreneurs, customers and friends.

This week we have a simple message: Dont be afraid to test new tools that may help your business. Perhaps this is true for many areas of life but for small business owners and in particular in hard economic times look around, check out what others are doing and think about doing it yourself. It can be a small change that can really help your business.

New technology is a great example. Whether it is just the use of social networking such as Facebook or Linkedin. So many of us look at it as obvious yet so many still avoid it. Or, perhaps you dont even have a website (yes – i have seen many who still dont).

Phone.com Virtual Office is also a good example. A new service that can provide your business with so many benefits and at such a low price but may require a change in thought or in the way you manage your communications. We have many customers who thought hard before coming on board but now love the service.

If anyone wants to contribute just drop us a note to pr@phone.com