How can you improve your data breach prevention efforts? Recent Data Breaches Seems like every time you turn around, you’re hit with news of another major data breach. Just in the last few months: 150 Million My FitnessPal accounts were hacked Panera’s website had a security vulnerability that revealed the names, addresses, and birthdates of…
Whether you outsource your technology needs to an IT services partner or you have internal IT support, as the small business owner, you are the one responsible for keeping the business running. That means you need to know your logins, even if you never plan on using them. Conversations with a Small Business Owner I…
Today, it’s easy enough to go pick up a computer from Best Buy, Costco, Amazon or other tech retailer. The question is whether you get the RIGHT computer for your business. There’s a reason these places are considered CONSUMER electronic stores – not BUSINESS electronic stories. The most common mistakes when buying computers for a…
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…