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Outsourcing has become a fairly common element in business processes today. What started off as a means to cut business costs and take advantage of cheaper resources based offshore has now become an essential part of running a business today. This blog looks at two...
Assessing your MSP in the first appointment
Handing over your IT to a MSP is a major decision. Who do you choose and more importantly, how? While there’s no rulebook that will tell you exactly how to proceed, here are a few hints that can help you decide how invested your prospective MSP is into you. Assessing...
Hiring seasonal staff? Here are a few things to consider from the IT perspective
In many industries, there are seasonal spikes in business around specific times. For example, CPAs/Accounting firms, though busy all year, generally see a spike in business around the time of tax planning, IRS return filing, etc., the retail industry sees a boom...
Things to Know About the Cloud Before You Sign-up with a Cloud Services Provider
More and more SMBs are migrating to the cloud and that is not a surprise considering the numerous benefits the cloud can offer them. For a SMB, the cloud is a cost efficient and secure answer to their growing data needs and IT security requirements. The cloud grows...
How the Cloud saves smaller firms money
OK. You pay someone to store all of your data in the Cloud, as opposed to keeping it on your own server and backing it up. And you pay on an ongoing basis. How is it possible that the Cloud saves smaller firms money? Is it going to be cheaper than just making a...
5 Ways SMBs Can Save Money on Cybersecurity
Small-to-medium sized businesses and large enterprises may seem worlds apart, but they face many of the same cyber-security threats. In fact, in recent years, cyber-criminals have increasingly targeted SMBs. This is because it’s widely known that SMBs have a smaller...
Your Business, Your Tax Deductions, and Section 179 Tax Code
The Section 179 Tax Code can help refresh your hardware and software Has your server been chugging along for years without any end in sight? Is your organization overdue for a software refresh? Section 179 of the Federal Tax Code can help. If you’ve been on the fence...
Think you are too small to be targeted by a cybercriminal? Think again.
When I meet with clients, especially SMBs, I often hear them say that they feel their business is too insignificant to be targeted by a cybercriminal. Why would someone go after my business when there are bigger ones out there, making more money? Here are a few...
Thanks for clicking through, this isn’t the blog you were expecting, but you’re safe, read on.
Number 8 on the original post was this: DON'T CLICK LINKS. But you did. If that email had been a phishing attempt (it was not), you would have fell victim. Once a link is clicked, hackers do illegal things your business: Download malware directly to your computer....