When you’re ready to go home at the end of your working day, I have no doubt that you carefully lock up and secure your business’ premises and, in all likelihood, set your alarm system so it will detect any…
Read moreTechnology is constantly shifting and advancing, and it can be a challenge for small businesses to keep up with the runaway pace. In fact, in a survey of 500 small business owners conducted last year, 63% of respondents reported feeling…
Read moreConsulting firm Accenture forecasts that the retail cloud market is expected to more than triple from $4.2 billion in 2011 to $15.1 billion this year, making this industry sector one of the more enthusiastic adopters of cloud technology, especially when…
Read moreCloud adoption by businesses seems to be growing to almost universal proportions, with one recent survey of 930 IT professionals reporting that 93% were using or experimenting with some form of cloud services. But while the cloud offers cost efficiencies,…
Read moreNegotiating the terms of a lease can be stressful for any small business owner. Rent is one of the larger recurring expenses that businesses pay, and the terms and conditions of your lease will be something you’re going to have…
Read moreAny complex suite of software tools includes a broad range of features and capabilities. Some of them take time to uncover, and even long-time users rarely get around to exploiting them all. Certainly, over the decades that I have used…
Read moreIt may be true that a picture is worth a thousand words. Certainly, images greatly improve the story-telling and visual appeal of any website, and most business owners know that they should be using lots of images on their sites….
Read moreLive-tweeting an event like a conference is a great way to make use of the real-time, content-driven nature of Twitter by extending the reach of your event while increasing the engagement of people attending the event. It provides good content…
Read moreMicrosoft’s Office 365 is the latest version of the most venerable suite of productivity tools. And it seems to be winning over users with Microsoft reporting it had more than seven million subscribers in the first quarter of its 2015 fiscal…
Read moreThere’s no doubt that today’s smartphones are incredibly convenient for the large majority of business users. Their impressive computing power, large screens and massive app libraries allow business users to churn through virtually any workload, even when they’re in the middle of…
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