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Everyone loves Google. They are easy to set up, they are everywhere and you can access 20 things with one login. But all that connectedness and “free” has a price. Here are 3 reasons why it’s worth your money to pay for your business email instead of using Gmail. More…

Everyone has a computer at their business. It’s nearly impossible to work without one! Do you know what is on your computers? Are you sure? Here are three reasons to do an audit on all of the computers at your business. Remove Aggravation The best reason to do a…

Working from anywhere can be a curse and a blessing. On one hand, it’s nice to be able to take care of a customer’s emergency. On the other, how can you ever be “off-duty?” And let’s not even get into the issue of cell phones and mobile devices leading people to…

As businesses store and create data, it becomes more and more likely to disappear. Even more annoyingly, it seems that backup solutions that used to work fine, are not working so well any more. While this is nothing new (remember Zip Drives?), it DOES mean that it’s a…

A few weeks ago, I asked if your backup solution was sufficient and David shared a bit about “unrecoverable read errors.” There was another piece of the story that I wanted to share, though. What is RAID5? Without getting into a lot of technical gobledygook, RAID 5 is…

Now that we know WHO will be helping your business recover, its good to have a plan about what needs to be done first. Communication Whether its theft or fire, it’s essential to communicate what is going on to your employees. If you only have a few employees, just…

There are various aspects of business continuity plans (disaster planning) but the easiest to implement is backing up your data. Having this aspect of your disaster planning completed will cover you in the case of both small disasters (computer theft or breakage) and…

So you have a presentation to make. Maybe it’s a new customer or maybe you’ve been asked to speak at a professional group or conference. Since many people are visual learners it makes sense to have a PowerPoint presentation. Here are 3 mistakes that you don’t want to…

I was introduced to DISC personality profiling through my professional sales trainer. He stressed the importance of knowing your own profile, and using the skills learned in our sales training to ascertain the personality of the people we were communicating with. I…

While researching different ways to Get(ting) Things Done (GTD), I stumbled across a book that struck my interest since we are big fans & users of Evernote: Evernote: The Unofficial Guide to Capturing Everything and Getting Things Done . I emailed Mr. Gold who was…