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Don’t Be The Victim of a Cyber Attack – A Staff Guide

IMPORTANT: PLEASE CIRCULATE TO YOUR TEAM The biggest risk to your organisation are the people working within it. Infections generally get into your system because someone inside was tricked into opening an unsafe file or link. Everyone who uses your computers or network has the potential to infect your entire system – all files they […]

Phishing, Vishing and Smishing

What is it? Any website, email, online service, phone call or text message that poses as a company, person or brand you recognise. Any contact like this is designed to convince you to hand over valuable personal details or your money, or download something that infects your computer. The three terms are all plays on […]

Unclogging Your Inbox In 3 Simple Steps

A cluttered email inbox can be difficult to navigate – not to mention you might miss an important email! Keeping your inbox clean will give you peace of mind and help you keep all your email correspondence organised. If you suffer with inbox insanity, try these handy techniques on how to keep your Outlook email […]

4 Things That Kill Your Website

If you’re like most business owners, your website is your shop front, your brand on display and an essential sales and marketing tool. You’ve spent amount of money building it and attracting visitors. In short, it’s business critical, and it would be a disaster if that shop front were smashed, your reputation was tarnished and […]

Top FREE Programs Every PC Needs

Keeping your PC and computer system backed up, secure, and fully functioning can be expensive. There are a multitude of packages and software that helps protect against malware, backs up data, loads multimedia, modifies images and much more. But you can get these programs without breaking the bank. We’ve made a list of the top […]

10 Tricks That Can Make Anyone An Excel Expert

One of our support team was on a call this week with a business owner that was having a bit of a nightmare with Excel. Turns out we found a solution using a few tricks that sorted things out in a jiffy, and it made us think… why not share some of these ‘tricks’ with […]

Shiny Object Syndrome

At the weekend I had a conversation with a friend of mine; a fellow business owner. Let’s call him Chris, because that’s his name. We had a really good catch up – discussing our various pains, struggles and also our recent successes in business. It was like a game of table tennis. We were going […]

Savvy Services To Help You Track Your Marketing

We had a question come in on the online training we ran recently, and experience tells us that if they’re wondering what the answer is, then they’re probably not the only one. Here’s the question… ———————————– “We are constantly marketing. What we’re trying to work out is what the most effective message, and most effective medium.” ———————————– And the answer […]

How To Spy On What Your Competitors Are Saying About You

Want to know what your competitors and customers are saying about your business? With Google Alerts you can keep an eye on what’s being said about your business on the web. All you have to do is visit www.google.co.uk/alerts and you will see a screen similar to the one below: Once there you can specify […]

An Oversight That Could Cost Your Business £50,000…

We all know that pirated software is illegal… But what you probably don’t realise is that actually these days there are organisations like the Federation Against Software Theft and the Business Software Alliance who have the power to enter your business premises, unannounced, and perform an audit of your systems. If you’re found to be […]