INSIGHTS
Outsourcing IT: One Big Trap to Avoid
Sometimes, we meet with clients who are just coming out of a very poor relationship with a previous managed services vendor. When we unpack the details of poor service, long...
One Hidden Benefit of Having the Right IT Partner
Human nature works in a way that most of us think of skills as being almost binary – you either have them or you don’t. If you’ve seen the movie The Matrix, you might remember a...
Do Device and Computer Brands Still Matter in 2021?
Although it’s the sort of thing you might not notice if you don’t work in the tech industry, an interesting trend has been developing over the past few years: mobile devices and...
One Huge IT Lesson From the Pandemic
Business schools will still be dissecting trends and takeaways from the pandemic decades from now. For those who have to manage sales, revenue, and expenses in real time, though,...
What Does a Managed Services Agreement Include?
If you have spent any amount of time in our blog, then you know we often make the suggestion to find a managed services provider for consistent, reliable tech support at a...
Are You Sabotaging Your Own IT Team?
If they were being honest, most of our clients would probably admit that they prefer IT specialists to be out of sight and out of mind. That is, they want their technology to...
Why So Many Entrepreneurs Ask the Wrong IT Questions?
Many business owners, when faced with a situation where some of their technology isn’t working the way it’s supposed to, will ask themselves a simple question: can I fix this...
Are You Ignoring an Important Part of Your Tech Budget?
Usually, when a business owner or chief technology officer mentions their technology budget, it’s in the context of the money they will need to spend on renewals, upgrades, and...
3 IT Boosters That Have Nothing To Do With Tech
Because technology is our area of expertise, we spend a lot of time thinking (and posting) about actual hardware and software. Most of what we have to say about productivity,...
Are There Benefits to Being in a Tech Ecosystem?
Spend enough time online, or with a salesperson in the technology industry, and you’ll start hearing about the benefits of a particular ecosystem. But are they real? Before we...
4 Ways to Avoid Ransomware Problems
We wish we didn’t have to spend so much time posting content about ransomware. And yet, in our business, these sorts of articles are unavoidable. That’s because every time, the...
The Digital Kidnapping Conundrum
Lately, some in the business world have begun comparing ransomware attacks to another crime with a similar profile: kidnapping. In certain parts of the world it’s actually not...
A New Wrinkle in Ransomware Attacks
The good news about ransomware is that awareness is higher than ever before. Companies are more vigilant about the risks of such attacks than they ever have been in the past. The...
Should You Ever Overfund Your IT Budget?
Although business owners are well known for cutting costs wherever they can, we sometimes meet with entrepreneurs who make a habit of overfunding their IT budgets. Why would...
Are You Treating IT Like A Crash Diet?
With summer coming into full swing, you’re going to see a lot of articles, videos, and social media posts floating around with the “best ideas” for stepping into a beach body....
Fantastic IT Receives First Review on Clutch!
Present-day advancements in technology have pushed the demand for IT services to skyrocket over the years. Businesses are struggling to keep up with the fast-phase changes in the...
3 Ways to Fight Ransomware Attacks
Every time we post an article about ransomware, we hope it will be the last one that is needed. And then, two or three months later, another major attack becomes front-page...
Why You Should Always Be Careful About IT Advice
As a general rule, business owners and executives find it difficult to manage technology. That’s because there are a lot of details and concepts that fall outside their area of...