June 13th, 2013 by Brendan Wilhide
We all love a bargain. There’s just something great about a good value. Not all bargains are created equal, however, and that’s especially true when it comes to a new website. Today we’re going to review how a cheap website hurts your business.
Your Cheap Hosting Hurts You
Are you hosting your website with a company known [...]
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Tags: assessment, cheap, content, digital marketing, hosting, Strategy, website
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May 7th, 2013 by Brendan Wilhide
Last week our own Janaura Bishop and Mike Giuffrida participated in the 2013 InPractice Conference at the Hartford Hilton in downtown Hartford. InPractice is daylong conference for attorneys and others in the legal profession that emphasizes technology as a resource for the legal industry.
Janaura gave a presentation called “Why Your Website Sucks,” a provocatively titled [...]
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Tags: best practices, development, digital, legal, Marketing, Strategy, website
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April 23rd, 2013 by Michael Giuffrida
While we may not be the first company to build a nap room at our corporate headquarters, we are way ahead of many others – and it’s paying off! Our nap room (which opened in the fall of 2012) is just one part of our “culture of engagement” at ForeSite.
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Tags: Corporate Culture, employee, employee benefits, engagement
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April 9th, 2013 by Tracy Fox
We wanted to follow up and expand on some of the key points from last month’s Google seminar for folks who had questions about using eMarketing techniques for services or small businesses, and for those who want to learn more but were unable to attend.
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Tags: digital marketing, emarketing, small business concerns, small businesses
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October 30th, 2012 by Michael Giuffrida
As a business owner in New England, I have gotten used to having employees watching the weather radar days in advance of a storm and wondering whether or not they will have to brave the storm to get to work. While I often lament that it would be great if we were somewhere that it [...]
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June 21st, 2012 by Michael Giuffrida
The classic buy vs. build question permeates many aspects of our business and personal lives. Whether we are talking about a personal residence, a commercial building, a new line of business, or a piece of software there is an analysis that we must do to weigh the trade offs and calculate the value of each [...]
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December 6th, 2011 by Michael Giuffrida
After an overwhelming response and more questions about our series on Cloud Computing, we decided to wrap it all together and add some extra content in this free eBook. This eBook contains all of the great information that was in the individual posts in the series but valuable, additional content has been added by our [...]
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Tags: being more productive, business success tips, cloud, cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, generating operational efficiencies, Network review, small business concerns, technology resource for small business
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October 25th, 2011 by Tracy Fox
ForeSite sees many small businesses (and even medium-sized businesses) not taking the time to plan their IT growth. Using “Band-Aids” for common IT issues (without realizing the ramifications to the network) is common practice. And it’s negatively affecting the bottom line.
We’ve identified three common IT issues you can look at to see if you can improve your bottom line.
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Tags: backup, bottom line, business success tips, generate business from website, generating operational efficiencies, google analytics, growth, IT issues, microsoft office, resource time management, small business concerns, storage, technology resource for small business
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October 19th, 2011 by Tom Allen
In today’s IT world, we know all about protecting our perimeter. We have firewalls, antivirus and malware protection, and IDS/IPS.
While all that is necessary and considered best practice, we need to not forget about the inside threats. This post will describe some of these inside threats and what you can do to mitigate risk.
The principle [...]
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Tags: antivirus, firewalls, ibpi, internal network, ips, laptop, malware protection, network, network security, perimeters, protect, wireless networks
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October 14th, 2011 by Justin Stackawitz
Post courtesy of Justin Stackawitz of Granite Communications http://www.granitecomm.com
There are a lot of misconceptions about “VoIP”. At one time, this was an up and coming buzzword in the telecommunications industry. Today, though, virtually everyone is at least familiar with the term Voice Over Internet, or Voice Over IP. This kind of ubiquitous familiarity, regardless of [...]
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Tags: business success tips, Technology Planning, VoIP
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