You try to eat well and you exercise when you can, but you understand that it may be a good idea to top up with a supplement once in a while. Isn’t it? Chris the Kiwi has a kind of scary story about that idea. He is a super buff nutritionist and trainer to the stars, and he thought he …
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Your company is in a heated battle with those other guys. Every minute counts, and your boss is counting on you to come up with some way to get an edge. Your’e up for the challenge. You’ve got great ideas and you can see plenty of stuff in your company’s workflow that needs fixing. Problem is, you have no idea …
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You want to drive more business from your website, and you know getting more search traffic would REALLY help. So maybe you pay for a top spot in the search results. But did you know 7 out of 10 links clicked are actually organic results? People know that businesses pay for the top spaces and have to earn the organic …
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For a lot of organizations, the relationship between marketing and sales is…well…tense. First, the marketing budget is never as big as it needs to be, and when that money actually gets spent it’s hard for most companies to know what return they get on investment. Sure, the campaigns attract lots of prospects. But when sales begins to follow up, they …
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You’ve got tons of important files. Files that you need to store, back up, sync versions of, or share with your colleagues, all from any device or location. You’ve heard of cloud solutions, but you don’t feel comfortable uploading your data to some random server. Whoever owns that cloud or works for the company that operates it can read your …
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Daily deals are supposed to be great for everyone. Customers get a bargain, businesses get new customers, and deal sites get great offers for their readers. But here’s the truth about daily deals: When too many one-time customers take advantage of a deal, some businesses can actually lose money. And website publishers waste tons of time trying to reach businesses …
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Hasn’t the cloud made life great? J/K. We’re all moving to the cloud for the same reasons: to save time, save money, gain flexibility, security, blah, blah, blah. That all sounds great, but the transition can be painful. When it’s time to get your apps up in the cloud, they won’t run on your PaaS—wrong language, framework, database…. Anyway it’s …
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Most people know we have substantial national debt, but few people realize how out of control it is. It’s not that we’ve never been in debt; just never like this. In the past, we would go into debt when the times called for it—like when we liberated ourselves from Britain or saved the world from a ruthless dictator. Then in …
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Long, long ago the only presence your business needed was a sign and an ad in the yellow pages. Then along came the world wide web and all of a sudden you needed an Internet presence. So you jumped on the bandwagon and got yourself a website. Now it’s a few-ish years later and your site’s never been updated. It’s …
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Firewall. Could anything sound stronger or more secure? But your firewalls are more like fire extinguishers, dousing your business productivity and security with tangled rules and complicated policies. You’ve been there—putting in thousands of man hours trying to manage and troubleshoot hundreds, if not thousands, of rules on multiple firewalls from different vendors with separate teams all across the globe. …
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