Times are changing – cope with Business Intelligence (BI)

If you were to look back on why so many small business fail, you’ll find a million and one different reasons. These reasons can be, essentially, boiled down to a simple reason – they failed to predict and adapt to a constantly changing environment. If businesses...

Webinars explained-part one

Seminars and presentations are a great way to share your knowledge and experiences with peers and customers. The major problem with them is that people have to travel to attend them, limiting the number of attendees and the strength of your message. To reach a bigger...

Connecting to public Wi-Fi isn’t secure

As businesses go global, or expand into new territory, managers and owners have found themselves travelling between locations, often connecting to the office via public Wi-Fi connections in airports, coffee shops, public buildings, etc. If you use public Wi-Fi to...

Watch out for fake Facebook notifications

On any given day, the vast majority of employees receive upwards of 100 emails, a varying percentage of those emails will often be notifications to social networks like Facebook, notifications many will open without looking. Hackers know this, and have started to take...

Go beyond data back up with Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

Natural disasters happen. Small business owners are well aware of this and many have taken steps to ensure that potential damage to their business is minimized and they can remain operational – a practice commonly known as business continuity. The vast majority...