March 8th, 2010 by Michael Giuffrida
I started my business in 1997 with the same basic mantra we use today; provide technology solutions to support business goals. While the technology has changed, the attitude hasn’t. Do what we need to do to satisfy the customer and bill them for an honest amount of time to do it. Well as we have [...]
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Tags: acceptable use policy, AUP, business success tips, PCI compliance, resource time management, small business, small business concerns, WISP, written information security policy
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February 21st, 2010 by Tracy Fox
I polled IT professionals from the ForeSite team and beyond to determine what key things every business owner, director of a school or nonprofit should know about their network to compile a 10 point checklist.
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Tags: CEO/CFO Technology Tips, small business concerns, Technology for nonprofits, technology resource for small business
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January 14th, 2010 by Bryan Czajkowski
Most of you tech savvy business people out there have had a LinkedIn account for years, but have you been truly using it to increase your business opportunities?
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Tags: Blogging, business success tips, generate business from website, inbound marketing, marketing strategy, small business concerns, Social media, uses of social media
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January 7th, 2010 by Michael Giuffrida
Without a doubt, the answer to the above question is THE BUSINESS! But it’s amazing how often we forget this when looking at new technology to implement in a business. Far too often, a cool new technology noticed by a business owner or the desire of their IT company to play with a new technology [...]
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Tags: being more productive, budget, business success tips, generating operational efficiencies, resource time management, small business, small business concerns, technology resource for small business
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December 30th, 2009 by Tracy Fox
5 signs that it’s time for a web site redesign:
1. Your site isn’t effective in helping you achieve your goals (more sales, brand recognition, community awareness, etc)
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December 16th, 2009 by Tracy Fox
A quick reminder for business owners that we’re nearing the deadline to purchase and install new hardware and software and qualify for the Section 179 deduction.
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November 30th, 2009 by Michael Giuffrida
When I was working from home the other day, I started to feel a sharp pain in my side. At first, it was just annoying but it really started slowing me down. I was working on filing the forms for my defense in the murder charges that had recently been brought against me which really [...]
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Tags: being more productive, budget, business success tips, generating operational efficiencies, small business, small business concerns, technology resource for small business, time management, time planning
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November 3rd, 2009 by Tracy Fox
Over the years, I’ve worked with businesses, schools and nonprofits to help them find the right technology resources to meet their particular needs and goals. In many cases, the “devil they know” is the resource that they continued to use year after year - either because they were concerned that change might not bring something [...]
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Tags: 2010 technology planning, business success tips, Network support, small business concerns, technology consulting, Technology Planning, technology resource for small business, web site design, web site development
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October 27th, 2009 by Jonathan Zawrotny
The commercials are out, the advertising machine is hard at work and now that October 22nd has passed, Windows 7 is at our doorstep.
Having been a tinkerer of computers since modifying the config.sys file on my father’s 386 to play games, the new offering from Microsoft immediately intrigued me. I decided to be an early [...]
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Tags: 7, beta, October 22, operating systems, Windows, windows 7
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October 20th, 2009 by Michael Giuffrida
Great question. Maybe you shouldn’t? We talk to clients about this all of the time and have counseled many businesses into and out of replacing network equipment currently in place. Often the issue if forced when there is an outage of an aging server but in our network support model we try to be more [...]
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Tags: 10 things to consider when calculating the ROI of relacing a network server, being more productive, budget, business success tips, generating operational efficiencies, small business, small business concerns, technology resource for small business
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