4 Things All Successful Business Owners Must Know About Their Technology!
An integral part of being a successful business owner is keeping tabs on all of the moving parts of your business. There is, of course, the ever important focus on profitability. You must have an excellent reputation, and offer an appropriate service level. You have to know about your overhead costs. You have to know about cash flow, income, taxes, and make sure that all the moving parts are moving in the right direction. One such area that you have to have a basic under
Attention Small Business Owners: Move IT to the Cloud!
Now is the time to consider moving all of your technology to a cloud solution. Moving your servers, your applications, and your desktops to a proper cloud network is the way to go for a multitude of reasons. Perhaps you have some resistance forces that do not want you to move to the cloud for their own selfish reasons. Here are the typical roadblocks (excuses): My particular application will not work in the cloud (Yes, it will! Even power users can work efficiently in a pro
Never Buy Hardware Again – Are You at a Technology Crossroad?
The same technology cycle has continued for years in small businesses everywhere. About every five years your aging servers have to be upgraded. In tandem with expensive technology upgrades, you must purchase hardware, servers, storage, maintenance and backups. Your employees and your industry ask for the latest in applications. If you do not provide proper technology tools, then your productivity may decline. Without current security measures, you may expose your company
Is Your Business Being Oversold on Bandwidth?
One component of your business being profitable is managing costs properly. Pretty much all businesses have internet service which is charged monthly. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is selected by you primarily because they offer service to your building. They also compete with a limited amount of other providers to your location, and therefore your choices and prices are limited to their offerings. They typically tell you that they have a great package and can combi
