Posts for small-to-medium business users facing questions about their technical environment.
Learn how to use Microsoft Word styles, themes and templates to create consistency across your documents. Microsoft Word features Styles keep your formatting consistent within a document. Themes keep your look and feel consistent across multiple documents. Templates allow you to re-use text, and keep your look and feel consistent across multiple documents. 1. Using…
Small Business IT Strategy Sometimes it’s not what we DO that hurts our business growth, but rather what we fail to do… like planning out our small business IT strategy. Data silos pop up because we don’t have an IT technology plan. We don’t always ask the right questions to help us decide between cloud…
No matter what your business actually does – real estate, retail, manufacturing, services – you are dependent on technology. You are a technology business! Technology to find and keep customers. Technology to you get paid. Technology to improve efficiency. Many old-school businesses have experienced significant growing pains as technology has become more and more essential…
Small businesses don’t have time to waste. Unfocused meetings and tedious follow up on projects can drain your energy and your bank account. How do you regain control without micro-managing your team? Typically, the problem isn’t the project planning, it’s in the follow up. Having the right small business project management tools is critical. To…
Hurricanes. Floods. Fires. Tornados. Natural disasters remind us that we can’t control everything. What we can control is how we prepare in advance and how we respond afterward. Disaster recovery planning is critical! Imagine that a fire burnt your business to the ground overnight. How quickly could you get back up and running? I worry…
Which small business software is right for you? One of the most fundamental options you face today is whether to buy a cloud solution or a on-premise solution. For this article, I wanted to share the pros and cons of each option so you can decide your own winner of cloud vs desktop software. Cloud…