Every organization needs a website. However, the days of a 10 page site are over. Your website should be useful for customers and enticing for prospects. Maybe it’s time for a makeover? Play the us and them game. Create a spreadsheet with a column for your website and columns for competitors. Then list look/feel, menu options, message/text, [...]
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Is this year going to be better than last year? I can already say yes, but can you? The reason is the elimination of several bottlenecks in our business. It took most of last year, but two major issues holding us back were eliminated by process change. We estimated the changes would save us approximately [...]
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One day in late October, the day ended at 91 and then just like that the next morning it was freezing and the high was in the 50′s. Then the Northeast got dumped on and just like that it was flashback to ice storms of 2007 for Oklahoma – only this time the 5 inches of [...]
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Here are two contrasting stories of network security for National Security Month. What follows, does not depict real events or persons. In the business world, corporate data is protected by two separate, yet equally important groups: the Information Technology staff, who maintain systems, and management that control budget and strategy. These are their stories: Scenario 1 “Zeus, this [...]
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At some point in your life, it happens. The washing machine stops spinning out or simply dies. What a major inconvenience to have wet and soapy clothes. You may have to go buy some underwear for the next couple of days or try to find a laundromat. It costs as much to repair as it does [...]
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You can almost feel the pendulum swinging back from so, so far left – whether it is politics or religion and definitely technology. I often wonder where we would be today if the government hadn’t forced Microsoft to unbundle the browser and open the door to also be bludgeoned by the European Union. How better off [...]
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In technology, you better be willing to accept change and leverage experience. A potential client recently asked about my background and when hearing I had a Management information Systems degree from 1989 said “then you were born to work with technology”. In actuality, growing up in rural Oklahoma I didn’t get my hands on an Apple IIe until seventeen. Now as [...]
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Recently, a few prospects and clients have asked what I pay to rank highly in Google. The answer is virtually nothing in dollars, but a great deal in time, effort, and thought. That is what you have to figure out. Do you want to even play in the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) game and what [...]
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We Sooners are known for first to aid or fight for wars or disasters. Given the auspicious start for our state, we’re also a bold and stubborn lot that unfortunately trails the nation in business trends and technology. For over 30 years, our firm has provided flat cost professional services for IT. This decision was obviously a [...]
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Back to the future in the late 80′s, I started with a company that did automatic identification (bar coding) and data collection for Fortune 500 manufacturers and distributors. At that time, single hand laser scanner and data terminals started at nearly $4,500 and label printers at $7,000. My first day was spent cleaning and organizing. [...]
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