INSIGHTS
Is Facial Recognition the Next Big Tech Breakthrough?
Facial recognition technology, which was once firmly in the realm of science fiction, has gone mainstream. You have probably scanned your face to log in to a phone, verify a...
4 Ways to Keep Ransomware Away From Your Business
We don’t want our blog to be all about gloom and doom, and so we try to refrain from posting articles about hackers, malware, and other problems or disasters every week....
3 Ways to Manage Online Reviews for Your Small Business
One of the reasons we have been able to grow by leaps and bounds in recent years, despite the fact that we work in a very competitive industry, is that we get so many referrals...
The Hidden Reason You NEED the Right Managed Services Team
Naturally, we burn a lot of pixels on our blog explaining the benefits of the right managed services agreement. When you pay a low monthly or quarterly fee to have a team of...
The Top IT Mistake for Business Owners in 2022
Even though it’s still early in the year, we want to make a big prediction. We think we know the biggest IT-related mistake business owners will make in 2022. Does that sound...
7 Winning IT Attitudes for Business Owners and Executives
Have you ever noticed the way some business owners and executives seem to “get” technology and profit from it, while others always seem to be dealing with unexpected issues and...
3 Solvable IT Budgeting Problems
Not long ago, we wrote about one of the biggest pet peeves business owners have with managed services firms: namely, that technology specialists tend to use jargon and buzzwords...
Is Your IT Provider Speaking the Right Language?
Often, business owners come to us with a lot of gripes about the managed services provider they’ve just left. Many complain about slow response times, for example, or about the...
What Kind of IT Care Do You Need?
On our blog, we often refer to the benefits of “good IT care” or “a great managed services plan.” One thing that’s important to remember, however, is that those terms can mean...
Why You Shouldn’t Turn to the Internet for DIY IT Solutions
One of the very coolest things about our business is that we get to meet lots of entrepreneurs. The men and women who launch and manage successful companies tend to be bright,...
Should You Copy A Competitor And Get Cooler Tech?
Over the years we have seen business owners spend money on new computers or devices for a lot of reasons. Sometimes it was because their old equipment had worn out. On other...
3 IT Risks Business Owners Shouldn’t Live With
Entrepreneurs tend to think about seizing opportunities and growing their businesses as rapidly as possible. That’s the right mindset to have, of course, but it misses the other...
A Surprising Way to Stop Yourself from Overspending on Business Tech
We often hear from business owners who tell us they think they are paying too much for business technology. Whether it’s laptop computers, mobile phones, software packages, or...
Are You Using The Greatest Business IT Invention To Come Along In Years?
The great thing about technology is that it’s always changing and (mostly) getting better. Things that seemed like science fiction when we were children are commonplace today....
7 Things That Make You Love Your IT Provider
We have lots of warm feelings for the business owners and companies we serve, and appreciate that so many of them are willing to share their own positive reviews and referrals...
Two Ways to Respond to an IT Disaster
Experience has taught us that business owners will typically respond in one of two ways to an IT disaster. In today’s post we’ll look at why that is and how you can avoid the big...
Why A Change In Mindset Does And Doesn’t Work With Business IT
If you are a business owner or executive you are no doubt bombarded with messaging telling you that you need to embrace a “change mindset.” That means, in essence, that you...
One Simple Reason Every Business Should Have an Outsourced IT Partner
We spend a lot of time and pixels giving reasons to work with a managed services partner. You could say we are biased, of course, and that would be fair. However, we also think...