March 16th, 2010 by Michael Giuffrida
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? If you want to reap the benefits of a LinkedIn account, you need to commit to actively using it on a consistent basis. At the [...]
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Tags: being more productive, business success tips, call to action, Effective call to action, eliminating competition, generate business from website, Internet search, marketing strategy, time management, uses of social media
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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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January 14th, 2010 by Michael Giuffrida
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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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
Posted in Operations, Solutions, Technology Budgeting, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
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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October 6th, 2009 by Michael Giuffrida
Have you ever Googled yourself or the company you work for? Come on, you know you have! It’s human nature to wonder what others are writing about you and the company you work for. Before accepting your new position, didn’t you Google your new company to see if you could find any negative information? Googling [...]
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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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October 6th, 2009 by Michael Giuffrida
How often should key words and phrases appear in your web content? What should be in the
and <meta> tags? Does it matter where on the page your key words are?</p>
<p>There are many things to consider when writing for the web, and the questions above are answered in a white paper on “Prominent Content” by Andrew Predmore, one of ForeSite’s developers.</p>
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<h2><a href="http://www.foresitetech.com/blog/2009/09/29/its-time-again-for-technology-budgeting/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to It’s Time Again for Technology Budgeting">It’s Time Again for Technology Budgeting</a></h2>
<small>September 29th, 2009 by <!--COMMENTING OUT LINK TO ABOUT PAGE<a href="/blog/about/">-->Michael Giuffrida<!--</a>--></small>
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<p>As many people in the business community are trying very hard to make the most out of a year when all the cards seemed to be stacked against us, it is easy to put off the task of figuring out what we will spend next year to move our businesses forward again. While budgeting for [...]</p>
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