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Money Alternatives for Christmas Bonuses
Small businesses often provide employees with monetary bonuses at Christmas; this long time tradition is a nice gesture to show thanks for hard work and dedication to a company. Though the thought is always from a good place, monetary compensation and bonuses can easily turn into resentment or jealousy by employees towards management or [...]
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Looks Cloudy Episode 135
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Looks Cloudy Episode 134
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Is Google the Right Place to Build Your Cloud Infrastructure?
Google has announced the availability of its new cloud infrastructure service “compute cloud”; the infrastructure service was built to rival Amazon’s AWS or Amazon Web Services. Google is aggressively pricing its offering but is it enough to sway business customers to choose its solution or move from Amazon? One of the biggest concerns for many [...]
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Looks Cloudy Episode 133
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Things to do for your Customers during the Holidays
With Thanksgiving upon us and Christmas right around the corner, many businesses will be getting ready for minimal staff, vacations, and festivities; but before you tidy into your own traditions, don’t forget about your customers. The holidays bring a great excuse for sales people and business owners to get out and visit customers, send thanks, [...]
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Looks Cloudy Episode 132
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Microsoft Feeling Nostalgic might buy WinAmp from AOL
Talk about a whole bunch of funny. AOL? Winamp? Shoutcast? Who even knew these were still around, and whoever would want to buy Winamp and Shoutcast? Well, Microsoft of course! I’m guessing Microsoft has been consulting with Justin Timberlake after his hope to revive MySpace, either that or the next version of Windows will be [...]
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Looks Cloudy Episode 131
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Leaving a Tip for your Customers
Have you ever heard the term knowledge is power? Well, imagine a world where every time you were provided a service, you learned something; and I don’t mean a lesson about what not to do next time, but instead you were provided a piece of information that added value to your life. Imagine this, you [...]
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Is Your Company Ready for a Makeover?
IT companies, though usually on the pulse of technology, can sometimes be far behind when it comes to image, colors, logos, and materials. This is usually based on comfort, and a fear or aversion to change. Even large companies with recognizable brands like Microsoft tend to move slowly when it comes to image changes. The [...]
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Looks Cloudy Episode 130
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Is SMS/Text a good Marketing Tool for MSP’s?
For some MSP’s, marketing has been a struggle and source of discomfort. For those MSP’s, the thought of marketing has often found them seeking advice or hiring third party companies to facilitate their marketing efforts, while others just find themselves not marketing their services at all. Mobile and social marketing is changing this by providing [...]
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Looks Cloudy Episode 129
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Gain Focus and Delegate to grow your Business
There is this thing that affects many entrepreneurs and business owners; it’s called “shiny penny syndrome.” Shiny penny syndrome is the act of putting all of your focus and energy into something, until you see a shiny new something, that you then put all of your focus and energy on, of course leaving the last [...]
