After moving to Google Chrome browser and Gmail for e-mail, there were a few add-on’s I found that really help me day to day. The first is WiseStamp. Gmail, by default, does not allow for html signatures, which means they are plain text, nothing fancy. WiseStamp allows you to put html based signatures into Gmailincluding [...]
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Explore Your Options
WednesdayJan 20,2010
Recently, I have seen so many small businesses purchases the first product or service that solves their immediate problem without exploring multiple options or considering long term plans. The natural response is they don’t know the options. Know that there are always options. Ask the person trying to sell you their product what other options [...]
March Madness: The Network Killer
MondayJan 18,2010
ATTN Business Owners: Don’t make this IT’s problem.ATTN IT Departments: Business Owners will make this your problem.It never fails. Calls start flooding in about slow response times of critical applications. What just happened? Every year employees stream March Madness over the internet killing the companies internet bandwidth. The company policy doesn’t state they can’t stream [...]
Eliminate Your Weakest Link, With Small Business Technology
ThursdayDec 31,2009
Do you remember the game show “The Weakest Link”? A group a people answered questions in turn and at the end of the round the person with the least amount of right answers (the weakest link) was eliminated. Your business is no different. It has weak links. Something or someone that is causing slowdowns, delays, [...]
Common Security Tips to Keep You Safe on the World Wide Web
SundayNov 22,2009
Here are a few common security tips that will help you avoid the majority of problems related to accessing the internet.1. Use a good antivirus program, schedule automatic virus definition downloads and daily scheduled scans early in the morning. Create a task on your calendar to check the status of the definition downloads and scans. [...]
Simple, How I Get to the Internet and Troubleshooting Steps
SaturdayNov 21,2009
Many small business owners, like yourself, or a member of your staff double as the “IT Guy”. Nothing wrong with this, but it does take time away from your business. Learning how computers work, operating systems, applications and connecting everything together is no small task. Let’s discuss a few common network troubleshooting steps to speed [...]
Productivity Tip #57: Cut out the Voicemail Garbage
FridayOct 30,2009
How many messages by noon? You get into the office on Monday, check your voicemail one by one to find out what’s important and what’s not. By noon you have 23 more messages to check. What a waste of time listening to vendors sell to you over voicemail. (Author excluded of course… ) There has [...]
Sticky Note Messaging Method
MondayOct 26,2009
Are you using the Sticky Note Messaging Method? You know, Look at your computer monitor and your co-worker’s computer monitor. See all those colored sticky notes with important customer messages. Most of use have a note pad right beside us to take down important information while we’re on the phone, then forget where we put [...]
Broadband Expansion to Benefit Small Businesses; News@Cisco
MondaySep 14,2009
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Network Management for Small and Medium Business
SundayFeb 1,2009
Network and Systems Management is an important process for any business, regardless of it size. The ability to know when, where or even how a process failed can save time or lost resources which equates to money. Definition Network Management is a broad term that includes many components. FCAPS (Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security) is [...]