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Nicholas SalemDecember 6, 2020
We make cost-based decisions every day. Weighing value is more complicated. Yet whether the business is buying new laptops or thinking about upgrading its existing office software to get the newest release, value has a real impact. The eBook Let’s Make a Deal: Evaluating Price versus Value explores the importance of weighing price and value, with an emphasis on value, to make the best business decisions.Learn: Why we focus first on priceWhy determining value is difficultWhat these considerations mean to IT decisions and selecting a service provider Value is a tradeoff between benefits received from a product and service plus the price. It’s a balancing act you can better understand in the IT sphere with our latest eBook. Download our eBook First Name * Last Name Email * Team Size * -Select- 1-10 11-50 50+ Company Website * Submit
Nicholas SalemNovember 28, 2020
There's a lot riding on your year-end online fundraising efforts, even more so this year when many events and activities have been paused during the coronavirus pandemic. The year-end giving season is always a valuable opportunity to engage with supporters and fans, whether your goal is fundraising or deepening relationships. There is considerable evidence that charitable giving has been strong this year, despite the personal and family hardships that many have encountered. Nonprofits and charities play a key role in the social and emotional fabric of our communities, and your supporters demonstrate that through their generosity. No doubt your team has begun planning its year-end fundraising campaigns. Here are 10 online fundraising techniques to help you supercharge your year-end efforts. 1. Think Multichannel Year-end charitable giving appeals succeed when they are multichannel — when you're able to reach out and connect with your supporters through postal mail, real-world events, email messaging, and social media. With the current pause on real-world events, it's even more important to coordinate messaging…
Nicholas SalemNovember 23, 2020
There are few things as frustrating as IT issues getting in the way of your work. Even the simplest of problems can break your flow, ruin your productivity, and waste your time. IT should be working to boost your day instead of slowing you down. Tripping up on a computer glitch can happen at any moment. Working to fix one can take hours. You might try a few steps that have worked before, ask a colleague for help, or try a web search to see what turns up. All of these take time from you or your colleagues, and often make the original problem worse. When you outsource your help desk, your IT problems become our IT problems. We take charge of righting the ship to keep your tech on the right track. Setting Up Your Business for Success Many businesses try a break/fix model to deal with IT issues. This means waiting for problems to happen before contacting IT to resolve them. Break/fix adds…
Nicholas SalemNovember 21, 2020
Black Friday, and the big "doorbuster" sales are moving online. With the busiest shopping period of the year going virtual, there’s going to be greater load on the business IT. If your business wants to be part of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, prepare for a sudden surge in traffic volume. If your technology can’t handle the traffic, you’re going to lose revenue. A crashed system could be catastrophic for your bottom line, plus, it'll hurt brand reputation and customer satisfaction long term. Consider these strategies to get ready for the online crush of shoppers. #1 Migrate to the Cloud Your current server may do the job on a regular given day, but is it going to be able to handle 100 times the activity in a single day? You need the ability to quickly scale up as needed. That’s one of the great advantages of cloud services. It’s difficult to predict your growth rates and seasonal demand shifts; however, using cloud services helps…
Nicholas SalemNovember 20, 2020
Cybercriminals target businesses. No matter their size. After all, your business is a hub of information cybercriminals can use to steal funds or identities and blackmail victims. What would you say to your clients if they found out their information was freely available on the internet? You’re not bouncing back from that quickly! The ebook Business Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Client Data outlines the threat and explores cybersecurity actions you can take. Learn: Why a business can make a better mark than Fortune 500 enterprisesThe costs of failing to protect client dataFour strategies you can take to boost your cybersecurity Download our eBook Name * First Last Email * Team Size * -Select- 1-10 11-50 50+ Company Website * Submit
Nicholas SalemNovember 16, 2020
By now you know that the cloud isn’t going away any time soon. In fact, cloud computing has become a natural step in business growth, thanks to the numerous (and continually growing) benefits. More and more applications are coming out in web-based form and staff are exceptionally comfortable with this type of change. So when is the right time to move your business computing to the cloud? Many businesses are facing this question now that cloud computing has become a mainstream norm. After all, you’ll be able to roll out new apps in days, not weeks, and nobody ever says ‘no thanks’ to increased security and efficiency. Like any strategic business decision though, timing is everything. Here’s how to assess your need before you make the switch: 1. Age of servers and workstations If your workstations and servers are reaching their end of life and a large capital investment is coming up, you’ll be able to minimize the expense by moving to the cloud. You…
Nicholas SalemNovember 16, 2020
In IT, staff augmentation is one of the ways to extend an internal team. Having an in-house team can be tricky, not to mention the time and money needed to find the right engineers. Staff augmentation combines the benefits of outsourcing and in-house hiring allowing companies to hire qualified IT people quickly. Let’s dive deeper into the topic of staff augmentation, its benefits, comparison to other models and how to find a staff augmentation company right for you. What is staff augmentation? Simply put, staff augmentation is the use of outside specialists on a temporary basis to augment the capacity of one’s organization. It is a type of outsourcing strategy where employees are hired in order to fill gaps on projects in compliance with the current business objectives. This personel is hired based on the skills needed and can be hired for short or long-term cooperation with a client. Service like this gain momentum because of the specifics of IT industry and shortage of talents. In the IT sector. Types of staff augmentation…
Nicholas SalemJuly 29, 2020
It seems unthinkable, but one day we will leave our houses, get the train to work, and meet friends for dinner. The rhythms of everyday life will resume, yet everything will have changed. What does that mean for the charity sector?
Nicholas SalemMay 11, 2020