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Christopher Akin is a marketing intern and senior at Vanderbilt University. “Vacation” is a vague term. What is vacation for one person can be torture for another. Ultimately, it’s about escaping the stresses and headaches of your present reality. Whether that’s drinking them away on a sandy beach, overshadowing them through a demanding excursion, or [...]

This blog was originally published on MSPmentor on Oct. 8, 2012. I had a conversation with a couple coworkers the other day about Twitter followers and what made someone click the ‘Follow’ button. We agreed that a company should care more about gaining quality followers who understood them and their industry, than completely useless spam [...]

This blog was originally published on The VAR Guy on Sept. 12, 2012 If you think you can afford downtime, ask the small-business owners who faced Hurricane Isaac in the U.S. Southeast. Many of them had to close their doors as the Category 1 hurricane left more than 900,000 people and businesses without power for [...]

You can have the best accounting system in the world but it won’t mean a darn thing if the data you input is bad. I can’t say it enough, “garbage in, garbage out.” It is the responsibility of accounting department personnel to make sure that transactions are valid and supported by audit trails. There is [...]

What’s a Business Experience Worth to You? I got a haircut yesterday. It cost me $35, plus tip – a price that, until recently, I would have never paid.  But this time I paid it. And the next time I need a fresh trim, I’ll pay it again. Don’t worry, you read the headline right. [...]

By Eric Quach I am sure the majority of us, whether writers or not, are familiar with the ever impeding plight known as writer’s block. We have all been called upon to write something in our lives, whether it be a strenuous term paper or just a succinct cover letter. A lot of these situations [...]

It’s a sad story, one that’s been told many times: Important data wasn’t backed up. Then a tragic event struck. It was a drive crash on a critical server, or a lost laptop, or a natural disaster that wiped out an entire office. All data was lost, which had dire consequences for the affected business. [...]

By Robin Robins, channel sales/marketing guru and speaker at all HP/Axcient Cloud Roadshow events Feb. 28 – March 15. The other day I was driving to my chiropractor when I noticed another burger joint had opened up, replacing a previous restaurant that sold – you guessed it – burgers. I suppose the other one failed and was [...]

This is first in a series of guest posts from presenters or sponsors of the HP/Axcient Cloud Roadshow.  From Jeannine Edwards, Director, ConnectWise Community: ConnectWise is excited to hit the road to join the HP/Axcient Cloud Roadshow as a Platinum sponsor! Join us in DC, Dallas, LA, Chicago, or New York to find out how you can leverage the [...]

As appeared in The VAR Guy on February 16, 2012. If you’ve dismissed the cloud as “just another marketing term” to hype the on-demand solutions that businesses have been using for more than a decade, then you’re missing the point. Dave Nielson of Cloud Camp defines cloud technology as that which is “on-demand, self-service, scalable, [...]