Technology
Online Banking for Small Business: How to Protect Yourself
If you’re a small business owner, you’ll want to make sure you’re protecting your company’s assets and funds. Whether you’re the one doing the book work or have someone else doing your finances, you need…
What You Need to Know Before Buying a New Business Phone System
If you’re in the market for a new business phone system, the choices can seem overwhelming, making it tempting to just put things off. In the long run, though, you’ll end up paying for it in…
Critical Steps for Protecting Customer Data in Your Small Business
Protecting customer data in your small business takes good planning, training and vigilance because serious threats come from all sides: Hardware, Software, People, and Systems. Hardware “Skimmers” are responsible for many of the infamous retail…
12 Free Tools to Help You Launch Your Startup
How do you turn an idea into a great product, with no budget? If you’re strapped for cash, there are many great tools out there you can use for free. You can use the same…
9 Inbound Marketing KPIs to Keep Track Of
Napoleon Bonaparte said, “War is ninety percent information,” and information is exactly the kind of weapon you can equip your business with when you track the performance of your inbound marketing activities. One of the…
Big Data: Information is Not Knowledge
Say that you have a log file of every contact to your website. Or that you are a cell phone company with a multi–billion record log file of every call made from every location to…
Note to Businesses: We’re All in eCommerce Now
One needn’t look any further than Amazon to bear witness to the growing power of eCommerce. This past holiday season offered up a spate of direct and anecdotal evidence to suggest that eCommerce in general,…
Why Top eCommerce Sites are Building Physical Stores
At present, e-commerce giants are recognizing the importance of having physical stores alongside their online shops. The question is, why? Undoubtedly, technology significantly affects how people do business nowadays, especially when it comes to shopping….
The Definitive Guide to Planning a Successful Office 365 Migration
Several SMBs have taken the leap to Office 365, and are leveraging the benefits of this suite of collaboration, workflow, and office apps. If your organization is also queuing up for the transformation, it will…
Best Value: In-House IT Training vs. Hiring New Staff
The time has come—a significant software update is in the works or you’re taking the first steps toward a truly cloud-based environment. Great planning lets you identify key areas of concern; perhaps extra bandwidth is…