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…
Think you know Microsoft Office 365? Think again. The software engineers at Microsoft have been steadily adding new applications and services to Microsoft 365, formerly known Office 365. This Microsoft Cloud Software as a Service (Saas) solution provides businesses with familiar business productivity tools. There are many good reasons to create a professional email account…
According to to the Privacy Rights Clearing House, over 900 MILLION records have been compromised in 7,283 public data security breaches since 2005. While that number may seem HUGE, it’s actually a gross underestimation, because that figure does not include private security breaches.