Is Your Building Really Safe? A Vital Checklist
As an owner, you like to think you’re providing a safe environment for your employees to operate in and work from, but are you really doing everything you should be? Here’s a checklist of things …
How To Turn Data Into Information Without Spending A Bundle
First things first. Because it may have been a while since those Six Sigma classes, let’s take it from the top. If you gather together in one place a repeated collection of actions and variable …
How To Choose An Outsourced IT Company
Some departments are easy to outsource. Accounting is accounting no matter where you go. There are a few particulars with how your pay bands are set up and such, but from a practical standpoint, the …
Five Positive Things To Tell Yourself Before That Big Meeting
It’s the biggest meeting of your life, and you don’t want to admit it, but you’re scared half to death. You cannot blow this. If you ace this meeting, your career will soar. If you …
Infamous “Cryptolocker” Virus Returns with a Vengeance as “Cryptowall”
Cryptolocker cost thousands of people millions of dollars before antivirus software finally began to eliminate the number of attacks. Weeks after Cryptolocker began to lose a grip on the digital threat world, Cryptowall hit the …
Exercises You Can Do At (Or Near) Your Desk To Keep You Sharp All Day
Most of us work in offices these days. That’s nice in the sense that the coffee maker is close at hand and someone usually brings doughnuts. Plus the air conditioning. It’s not possible to sing …
The Dangers Of Having One Big, Dominant Customer
The customer is always right, except when they aren’t. If you’re the owner of a small business, then you may have seen this firsthand. If you haven’t, wait a while and you probably will. Problems, …
Are You “Linked In”? If Not, Maybe You Should Be
If you don’t know what LinkedIn is, or haven’t heard about it, you should go to the site immediately and check it out. Initially launched in 2003, consider it the Social Media network for the …
Eight Easy Steps To Creating A Social Media Strategy For Your Brand
Creating a comprehensive, actionable social media strategy around your brand isn’t all that hard, but it is difficult. The distinction is an important one. The work itself is fairly easy. You won’t strain either back …
Five Smart Things To Do On A Long Commute
Nobody likes being stuck in traffic during the morning commute, but if that describes your morning routine, then here are some ideas about how you can make the best use of that time. It might …
