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 […]
Cost vs. Time Lost: Tech Tools And Work Productivity
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 […]
Face To Face Phishing: It’s Happening—Be Aware
Face To Face Phishing: It’s Happening—Be Aware The scenario happens this way. You answer the door and a guy (or a woman) is standing at your door, holding a laptop. They tell you that they have lost their cell phone, but that it has been traced to inside your residence. They ask if they can […]
New Year + New Decade = Great Time To Regroup
New Year + New Decade = Great Time To Regroup Wouldn’t it be great if all small business owners had a big red button that would re-set at the touch of a finger, everything that needed our attention? It’s a nice fantasy, but I’ve never found restructuring my work strategy to be that easy. Ever. […]
Is Your Business Winning Or Losing With Technology?
Is Your Business Winning Or Losing With Technology? As business owners, what can we do better in 2020? One of my own personal steps for review is a careful (often painful) review of my budget. I try to be brutally honest with myself about what worked and what didn’t and be honest about how well […]
4 Tips To Help You Plan For 2020 Business Goals
4 Tips To Help You Plan For 2020 Business Goals I’m already planning goals for my business in 2020 and I suspect almost all small business owners are doing the same. Before I think about product improvement or personnel upgrades, though, I think about whether my infrastructure can or cannot support those initiatives. Maybe the best plan […]
Here’s Something You Should Know
Here’s Something You Should Know Here’s Something You Should Know Here is a real kick in the pants. Did you know that one of the most targeted types of businesses for hackers these days is a Managed Service Provider? Yes—that’s me. Aptica is a managed service provider or MSP company. “Join the club,” you say? “Boo-hoo for […]
Passwords: A Protocol We Love To Hate
Passwords: A Protocol We Love To Hate As users, we hate passwords so much that we invented apps to take care of them for us. Now we need to learn how to use and trust our password manager programs. It’s always something with computers, right? Here’s what you need to know. Hackers hack to find […]
Aptica Is Hiring—Finding The Fit Is Hard
Aptica Is Hiring—Finding The Fit Is Hard Aptica is hiring. We are busy, and we need more help. It’s a common situation for small business owners, and mine is no different. I have been interviewing and I’m reminded daily: finding that fit for my office is hard. Aptica has an opening for an outstanding, experienced Reactive Operations […]
Empower Your Employees To Help Protect Your Business
Empower Your Employees To Help Protect Your Business In a survey by Wombat Security Technologies, more than 30% of employees didn’t even know what phishing or malware was. It would be worth your time to have an informal survey of your own employees to see what your percentage might be. This statistic alone should be […]