INSIGHTS
7 Surprising Environmental Factors That Can Affect Your Tech
When technology isn’t working the way it’s supposed to, or lasting as long as it should, businesspeople tend to look for easy fixes. They assume a piece of hardware was...
Why Switching Software is Trickier Than You Think
There are a lot of reasons businesses might decide to move from one software product, suite, or package to another. In some cases the switch might have to do with pricing. In...
12 Problems a Good IT Partner Can Help You Solve
We often use the Fantastic IT blog to explore high-level technical topics, but that doesn’t mean we can’t deal with the day-to-day issues and annoyances that might be plaguing...
3 Technologies That Are Quietly Changing the Small Business World
Everyone knows that artificial intelligence, mobile computing, and advanced robotics are poised to completely transform our world in the next few decades. What many business...
Are You Following an Old Approach to Hardware Upgrades?
In a lot of small and medium-sized businesses, hardware upgrades make up a significant portion of the IT budget. However, we often come across situations where businesses are...
How to Choose Tech for Your Employees
Buying pieces of technology for your employees is a little bit different than purchasing them for your own business use. For one thing, you know exactly what you need and why it...
Are You Managing Your IT Upgrade Budget the Right Way?
In a lot of small and medium-sized companies, IT budgets tend to fluctuate wildly from one year to the next. Often, this is because owners and executives will make big...
Adjusting Your Tech Anxiety Level
Does the thought of dealing with new technology in 2019 fill you with excitement, or does it leave you with a sense of dread? In pop culture, it’s almost always older people who...
7 Ways to Get More From Business Tech in 2019
The New Year is here, and that means business owners and executives throughout Southern California are going to be thinking about ways they can improve their businesses. In our...
Using Smart Data and Automation To Make Your Business More Efficient
We have reached a strange point in the development of business technology. On the one hand, we have new and exciting tools that are revolutionizing every aspect of...
5 Fantastic Side Benefits Of Having A Managed Services Agreement
If you own or run a business, the chances are good that you are already aware of the big benefits associated with having a managed services agreement with a reputable outsourced...
Is Your 2019 IT Budget Realistic?
With the end of the year looming, we know a lot of business owners and executives will be setting budgets and priorities for 2019. And if this year is like every other in recent...
Why Speed Is So Underrated In Small Business IT
When it comes to working on computers, tablets, or phones, we all want our devices to work quickly. If they move slowly we might become frustrated or irate, but most business...
Using Managed Services for a Stronger Bottom Line
We have noticed something interesting about the way our clients have embraced managed services over the years. As it turns out, most of them learn to appreciate different aspects...
Are You Ignoring a Key Part of Your Tech Setup?
As we have noted in the past, the best technology care is proactive. It’s about managing conditions so that hardware lasts longer, software runs flawlessly, and everyone on your...
The 3 Lines of Data Security
In the process of meeting with business owners and executives every week, we have learned quite a bit about the way they think when it comes to technology. One thing we have...
How to Help Your IT Provider Help You
Most of the time, a good outsourced IT provider is simply going to work behind the scenes and help you keep your business running smoothly while staying out of the way. However,...
Does Your Small Business Need an Advanced CRM?
In the last few years, the growth of advanced CRM solutions (cloud software packages like HubSpot and Infusionsoft) have allowed small businesses to utilize data in the way their...