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 […]
Security: How Can You Know You Have It?
Security: How Can You Know You Have It? Security: How Can You Know You Have It? Security is a big, big issue in these times, and the effort to be secure has become a major daily responsibility. How can you know you are secure? Whether it’s a small gesture like locking your front door when […]
Password Manager App: This Is Now A No-Brainer
Password Manager App: This Is Now A No-Brainer I know the thought of having to add even one more step to daily IT safety routines can bring cringes and groans, especially to anyone who has not yet had a major, catastrophic, time-consuming hack. But it’s time. Get to know your new BFF—your password manager app. […]
Working On The Puzzle of “Fit” With Your Suppliers
Working On The Puzzle of “Fit” With Your Suppliers When you own a business, you spend much of your time working on puzzles. Your ever-changing market can be a puzzle. Maximizing employee productivity can be a puzzle. Staying on the leading edge of your industry can be a puzzle, and sometimes just finding the leading edge of […]
Internet Privacy: What Google Knows
Internet Privacy: What Google Knows What don’t we google these days? I’m using the word as a verb (the action of looking something up) rather than the proper name of a company, with a capital “G”. We google how to fix our plumbing, restaurant reviews, where movies are playing, sports scores. Even if you can’t […]
Don’t Settle When It’s Your Business Technology
Don’t Settle When It’s Your Business Technology “Don’t settle” is a hot topic for me. Often when I take on a new client, I can be surprised at what I see this business has been using for their IT. It can be obsolete hardware, outdated software, strange network configurations, poor security and data preservation techniques, […]
Know This About VPN–Virtual Private Networks
Know This About VPN–Virtual Private Networks Know This About VPN–Virtual Private Networks VPN continues to be a buzzword these days, especially as more and more people use remote devices to get business work done. Gone are the days when we would all power-down our computers at 5:00 p.m., not to think about work again until […]
What Is Internet Of Things?
What Is Internet Of Things? Of the many seemingly magical advancements in electronics, the Internet of Things (IoT) is the one I think you will incorporate most into your life and work in this new year. Through internet connectivity, we can now have our devices “talk” to each other. Did you forget to lock up […]
Aptica Needs A New Team Player–Is It You?
Aptica Needs A New Team Player-Is It You? New year, new career? Aptica LLC, a regional IT consulting company serving Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Angola IN, Battle Creek MI, and Toledo, OH, has a position open. We need the special talent of someone who is motivated, energetic, and who enjoys using their natural interpersonal […]
Cyber Security: Protection Against Outside Hacking Begins Inside Your Business
Cyber Security: Protection Against Outside Hacking Begins Inside Your Business Cyber Security Every person who works on a computer as a part of their job will most likely take some time during the day to, you know, just check around on the internet. You might check on your favorite news source, look on Amazon to […]