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As nearly every other industry, accountants rely on their technology infrastructure in everything they do, from compiling tax returns, to keeping clients’ books, to sending a file internally or externally. Keeping that technology running at peak efficiency improves...

A good deal of our lives is spent in our email inbox. There are very few businesses, if any, that could run without email to communicate with customers, vendors, and each other. But sorting through all those emails can take time and can eat away a chunk of the...

When email is first set up in a desktop mail program or smartphone, most people don’t give much thought to whether they should choose IMAP or POP3 they just follow the prompts, so they can get it working as soon as possible. Webmail clients like Gmail and professional...

In part one of our series on network security, we discussed the dangers of an insecure network and how businesses can suffer major breaches and resulting losses without proper security. Now, we’re going to tell you the best way to keep your network secure. Small...

Networking computers and devices to communicate with each other and the outside world is a business necessity. It’s allowed many conveniences such as printing wirelessly from several computers to one device and utilizing cloud backup systems. But for all the modern...

In part 1 of this blog series on backups we discussed the 7 most common data backup mistakes. Now, we’re going to give you some simple tips to back up your IT systems correctly. One of the worst feelings is when a computer has just crashed and won’t reboot, and you...

Anyone that’s suffered data loss, which unfortunately is most of us at one time or another, knows that backing up your data regularly is critical. Data loss can happen anytime without warning due to computer crashes, lost/stolen devices, viruses, or natural disasters....

You’ve got marketing metrics coming in from Mail Chimp, lead funnel data from Sales Force, and website conversion stats from Google Analytics. Each one is in a different report, disconnected. Trying to tie them all together into one actionable picture can be...

In the pre-internet days, information used to be stored in paper form in folders and locked away in filing cabinets. Today, most of it takes a digital form and it’s stored in cloud databases and on local hard drives. All those files take up much less space and it...

Wouldn’t it be nice to get a text message when that important customer email comes in instead of having to continually check your inbox? How about having your company Twitter account notify you, send back a cool reply, and update a marketing list if a popular user...