Dual Monitors Make Multi-Tasking Easy
If you’re a small business owner and are looking to upgrade your company’s desktop PCs, it’s time to invest in dual monitors. Having at least two monitors per workstation is one of the most efficient ways for increasing productivity in the office. These days, few people do only one task at a time. In fact, depending on your business, multi-tasking is more likely to be the rule rather than the exception. Often, it is the little things that add up to be the biggest time stealers in your day- like constantly switching back and...
read moreReally, a New Website in This Economy?
Yes, sorry, another article mentioning “this economy.” It’s hurting nearly everyone’s bottom line, but I still feel it’s a good time for you to stand back and take a hard look at your website. With “this economy,” now is not the time to invest in a new or upgraded website, right? Especially not if your site is less than, say, 15 years old! Maybe you invested in a brand new site in 2001, so it should be fine as is for at least, oh, I don’t know, 20 years, maybe 30? Websites are just like bricks...
read moreGood, Fast & Cheap: Pick Any Two
In this brief entry, I’m going to share with you something I’ve learned through hard lessons in the IT industry. There are certain rules to live by in life, like the Golden Rule, the 80/20 Rule, and, of course, Wexelblat’s Scheduling Algorithm (it’s a rule, but programmers love algorithms). It goes something like this: Pick any two: Good, Fast, Cheap. It turns out that you can’t eat your cake and have it too (actually, this expression is truly supposed to be written that way around). Let me put it in...
read moreDemand Results From Your Website… More of the Iceberg
Once again, this month’s topic is about Search Engine Marketing and how to make your website be your best salesperson. Treat your website like a salesperson, holding it accountable just as you would a human salesperson. After determining your expectations for your website it’s time to implement the changes necessary to meet those goals. A typical scenario for search engine marketing: Your current site is reviewed and evaluated for a number of important factors. The site is redesigned using Search Engine Marketing best...
read moreSocial Media: Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Back in January, I wrote an article about the science, art, and magic of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). In that article I discussed a number of things you could do to your site to improve its search engine ranking. Now, all these months later, I’m writing this follow-up to explain how social networking sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, can further help your endeavors. We recently met with a Search Engine Marketing firm, Site-Seeker, to discuss an event we’re co-hosting next month. Our conversation flowed to...
read moreVirtualization for Your Hosted Solution (Including Websites!)
If you’ll permit the grandiosity, I believe that virtualization is the best thing since the invention of sliced bread (probably even better than that, actually). I say this because Fandotech has been in the throes of virtualizing much of itself recently and is seeing the benefits of this effort. When I say we’ve been “virtualizing,” I should probably tell you what I’m talking about and how this can benefit you. Here’s the breakdown: The Old Way Let’s discuss a hypothetical typical client that...
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