Business is a lot like football. To stay in the game, you need to be able to play both defense and offense. And while having a great defense might keep you in the running for the playoffs, I don’t believe a great defense ever wins the Super Bowl. So here we are with our businesses […]
Some Thoughts About “This Moment”
As the long month of April slowly gives way to what could be the long month of May, I’ve been assessing how things are going in my local business economies. I hear people asking, “How long can we keep doing this?” Then we look at our parents and our children and we think to ourselves […]
Looking For Opportunities Now: Is Your Tech Serving You?
Looking For Opportunities In Unprecedented Times: Is Your Tech Serving You? As a businessman, I am neither “glass is half-full” nor “glass is half-empty.” I am in the camp of “the glass is still solid and it can be refilled.” My vessel is sound, so I’m not going to waste a moment pondering the fill […]
Hackers Are Exploiting Bored People
Hackers are exploiting bored people with random surveys on social media. What is actually happening is that personal identification information is being stolen by identity theft criminals. Here are some of the questions being asked. These answers are commonly used to help verify the identity of a person with their security questions. Where are you […]
Hackers Gonna Hack—Use Password Apps And 2FA
What could possibly go wrong? You’ve already seen the warnings about the barrage of new phishing scams, internet frauds, etc. I’m sure you knew they would come at this time of international crisis. Hackers gonna hack now especially because they know that more people are working online all day, every day. They also know that […]
Which One Are You? We Are Available To Help
Everything that is happening today reminds me of war movies I saw as a kid. When the big scene hits, everything is happening at once. Bombs going off. Machine gun fire. Men yelling. The drone of warplanes getting ever closer. This sets up the opportunity for the hero to step up and take command of […]
CLEAN YOUR CELL PHONE (But Be Careful)
I’ll bet there is not one parent of a teenager who has not at least once looked down at their child’s phone and thought “Wow. That’s gross!” But honestly, if you think about it, if you didn’t teach that teenager how to clean a cell phone, why would they even think of it themselves? The […]
The Comfort Of The March Business Rut
By this time in early March, all the “I-told-you-so” articles of lapsed gym memberships and forgotten New Year resolutions are already over. We enter every year with fresh hope that those aspects of our daily lives that are not our favorites can and will be changed this year. I like that about humanity. I like […]
RISK: Pain and Glory For Small Business Owners
Being your own boss. Owning your own business. Such initiative is part of the American Dream, but you must be daring and be able to take risks. And risk is both pain and glory for small business owners. The reality is that business ownership is not necessarily for everyone. Every town in America has seen […]
Cost vs. Time Lost: Tech Tools And Work Productivity
We all recognize a “crash”. Your computers don’t come on at all, or your network suddenly stops working. You’re down. You can’t work. What will be the cost of this loss of productivity? A worse situation, I believe, is a technology slowdown. An almost imperceptible slow leak of IT reactivity like hardware that is slow […]