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How Webinars can Create a Stronger Company Workforce

Corporate profits are an all-time high across the globe. This has effectively made the business landscape more competitive than ever before. The rise of social media, advertising platforms, analytics tools, and other digital technologies has created an aggressive and cutthroat environment. There is no shortage of competition.

Employee webinar

It is not enough to fill vital roles in any organization with mediocre candidates. To really compete these days, companies need to hire top-notch, dedicated talent. Employees need to be superstars in their roles so that they can effectively contribute to a company’s dominance within its niche.

Unfortunately, many companies still cling to outdated training procedures and educational methods like a scared relic from a forgotten time.…

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Roadmap for Choosing the Best Web Conferencing Software

The importance of a good web conferencing solution is undeniable. As video becomes even more indispensable, more and more companies are fast finding out, the hard way, that it doesn’t pay to go for substandard systems. In a market that changes often with each new platform, tool or technology, choosing the wrong system could spell doom for your company.

Using web conferencing software

Here’s how to make sure you don’t make that mistake:

Evaluate Your System

It’s going to be expensive to overhaul your entire communication infrastructure. Take a good, long look at your system and determine which areas require an urgent switch or replacement.…

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Website Woes and Wisdoms: Handling the Dreaded Downtime Blues

If you are an entrepreneur, you probably rely on your website for a good portion and maybe even all of your income. While the internet can open your business up to customers all over the world, it also means that you are vulnerable to website downtime.

Website down

Simply put, when your website is down, you begin losing money. And with tens of thousands of websites hacked each day, along with many more down due to high traffic, hosting problems, technical glitches, and other causes, it is safe to say that sooner or later your website will crash.

When that dreaded day comes it is important that you know how to react so you can get your business up and running again as soon as possible.…

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How to Truly Take Your Business Payments On the Go

One of the most liberating parts of being your own boss is having the ability to call all the shots. At the same time, as a business owner you are going to end up working longer hours, with fewer breaks, and have far less vacation time available when compared to your subordinates. This is why it is vital that all business owners have the ability to literally take their businesses with them while they take a day off, go on the road, or just go out to run a few errands.

Work on the go

When it comes to taking payments on the go, portability is paramount.…

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Top 3 HR Software Solutions – Make the Best Choice

Within a company, all chaos can break loose if the proper management tools aren’t deployed and utilized. Especially in institutions or businesses with a very large number of employees, if you don’t have an efficient and productive way of organizing all the variables as well as a quick and easy way to access payroll solutions, it can be near impossible to keep track of everything after a certain point.

Business partners using HR sofware

This is where HR software comes into play as a saving grace. Through HR software, a company is able to seamlessly use the necessary actions in each situation by having a friendly interface with all the required information.…

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Why You Should Consider Using AI in Your Marketing Strategy

Are you struggling to communicate with your customers at all times? Fortunately, artificial intelligence (AI) can help you to improve your marketing strategy. In fact, it is estimated that the AI market will have a $5.05 billion revenue by 2020, and is a factor that will dominate the marketing industry in 2017. So now is the perfect time to incorporate AI into your own strategy.

So what is AI?

The first thing to do is understand what exactly AI is. It sounds like some form of futuristic technology, but it is in fact not a new concept. In fact, the term was coined by Stanford researcher John McCarthy in 1956.…

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5 Commonly Overlooked Network Security Threats

When it comes to network security, there are two types of companies:

  • Those that are serious about security, realizing that something or someone dangerous is lurking around every corner.
  • Those that don’t think anything bad will ever happen to them.

Where does your company fit in? Even if you’re serious about network security, it goes without saying that you could overlook a threat that could cause major damage, financial loss, and hundreds of hours of lost time.

Hacked

Despite the fact that no network security threat should be overlooked, some of the most common continue to sneak past companies of all sizes in all industries:…

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Tips to Set-up a Business Website on a Shared Hosting Plan

Regardless of the size of one’s business, every venture needs a web presence. A business website is an informational platform that allows companies to introduce their service and product to the world. It is the most convenient way to establish communication with potential clients or customers.

Business website hosting

A business website is also the unique identity for ventures on the web and is an essential part of branding or brand awareness. Despite the obvious advantages of a business website, research conducted by clutch.co (B2B Research Company) revealed that nearly 46% of small businesses don’t have a website.

Almost every small venture is open to the idea of setting up a business website but is unsure of how to go about it.…

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How to Strengthen the Weakest Points in Small Business Security

Small business cybersecurity is an important and often overlooked part of running a business. From employee security problems to information storage, you never want your small business to be vulnerable to information breaches. Unfortunately, small business owners and employees often overlook key security areas. If you want to improve your business’ security, check your weakest points.

Small business IT security

Never Store Your Customers’ Private Information

Most credit card hacks come from small businesses. You should already know not to save CVV numbers or full credit card numbers. If you keep a customer list with any sensitive data, including names and phone numbers, store that information in a secure cloud server.…

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6 Simple Tools to Boost Your Cyber Defenses

Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law holds that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This law manifests itself in the world of cybersecurity when network security professionals devise a new defense against hacking, and hackers respond with new tools and techniques to breach a network elsewhere.

Cyber security tools

An organization may not be able to stop hackers, but it can at least stay ahead of them with a few simple tools that will at least slow down their development of new hacking tools in response to any new cyber defenses that the organization might implement. Six of the better cyber defense boosting tools are as follows:

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