Someone in the office says their computer is slow. It is three years old, so everyone figures it has reached the end of its laptop lifespan and it is time for a new one. Sometimes that is true. A lot of the tim...
A lot of small business owners have an IT budget with one line on it. It says something like “computer stuff,” and it covers Microsoft 365 and whatever broke last year. Then the server dies in Janua...
Picture the waiting area at a body shop, a dental office, or a restaurant. There is a little sign on the counter with the guest wifi name and password, and customers connect while they wait. Most owners assume ...
Here is how it usually goes. A business decides to drop a cloud subscription, maybe an old scheduling app, a CRM nobody liked, or Google Workspace because they are moving to Microsoft 365. Someone clicks cancel...
Most small businesses do not have a BYOD policy. They have a habit. Somebody asked if they could get work email on their phone, somebody said sure, and now half the staff has company email, files, and customer ...
Somebody in your office probably has administrator access to their computer right now, and nobody remembers why. It usually goes back to one afternoon. They needed a printer driver, or a program wanted an updat...
Most owners look at their IT when something has already gone wrong. A file will not open, a laptop will not start, or an invoice got paid into a scammer’s account. By then it costs more to fix than it wou...
One morning the email stops. Nobody can send, nobody can receive, and Teams is spinning. Someone reboots a laptop. Someone else reboots the router. Twenty minutes later somebody checks their phone and finds out...
Here is a question I ask new clients, and it usually gets a long pause. When someone leaves your business, what happens to the files they were working on? The answer depends entirely on where those files lived,...
Your website is one of those things you set up once and then stop thinking about. It sits there, it shows your hours and your phone number, and nothing about it looks broken. That is exactly why a neglected web...