While Canadian consumers are increasingly turning to the Internet for their shopping needs, buying goods and services online can still feel somewhat impersonal. A store’s appearance or a friendly conversation with a salesperson can make a transaction memorable. eCommerce doesn’t have…
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People and businesses are producing, sharing, storing, and streaming more content than ever. Cisco forecasts that by the end of 2018, annual global data centre IP traffic is set to reach 8.6 zettabytes and 78% of workloads will be processed…
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Every business aims to run in the most efficient and productive way possible. Technology, including Internet connectivity, software, data management, and telephony can all play a large part in that. And every business owner rightly hopes to get the most…
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According to eMarketer, retail eCommerce sales in Canada rose by 17.4% in 2014 over the previous year, and are expected to grow 73% by 2018 – continuing to greatly outpace the growth of traditional retail sales. Not only are consumers purchasing…
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Our use of Internet bandwidth and consumption of bandwidth-heavy content is growing fast and will only accelerate. We often hear about this in a consumer context, but it does have ramifications for business, too. What can you expect, and how…
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Your website may be getting relatively decent levels of overall traffic, but after further analysis of your site’s analytics you find that visitors aren’t doing what you want them to do. They’re loading the home page, and then nothing happens…
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Major data breaches are on the rise. Last summer, a Russian crime ring stole 1.2 billion username and password combinations and half a billion email addresses from various organizations around the world. According to a 2014 study by the Ponemon…
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Any 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…
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When you have visiting clients or partners, it’s important to ensure that your office is set up to help facilitate productive discussions and collaboration. The balance is in making your clients feel at home in your space while also protecting…
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It 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….
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