Are you planning on doing spring cleaning soon? Spring cleaning digital files for your small business, that is. It's easy for us to neglect this area in our personal life, who cares if my password hasn't been changed in years and my contact list is so outdated it has my previous career's coworkers in it. But, in your business, it does matter. It helps with productivity, finding things easier, referencing things easier. The bottom line is that it saves you money and time. Below are … [Read more...] about Spring Cleaning Digital Files Like a Rockstar
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8 Digital Backup Strategies For Small Business
Being a self-employed business owner, I know first-hand when something happens to my computer or internet connection, my work stops. It creates quite a stressful situation. I am unable to get tasks done, for my client and myself. So, having reliable digital backup strategies are a necessity. You may think I am exaggerating, but the reality is no computer is 100% unbreakable. Updates, viruses, malware and Internet outages can wreak havoc on our daily schedule and consume … [Read more...] about 8 Digital Backup Strategies For Small Business
7 Steps to Clear Your Digital Clutter
Do you have digital clutter? You know, those files on your computer, your tablet, your laptop, your mobile device, external hard drives, cloud services, and even your DVR, you keep saving and never look at because you do not have the time or energy to deal with them. With the way technology and information are readily available, it’s not surprising you lose or forget the information you already have. Here are seven(7) steps to keep your digital clutter at bay: 1. Before uploading photos on … [Read more...] about 7 Steps to Clear Your Digital Clutter
12 Important updates to do to keep your Business Secure
It's a perfect time to update your technology to keep your business secure. Do you have a small business and never update your software? You are not alone. Many small business owners (and even large companies) forget to update their apps, software, phones, and computers. Recently, even hospitals were hit recently with ransomware and didn't even know it because their systems weren't up-to-date. Does this make you worried? Do you want to do something about it? If you are still uncertain if you … [Read more...] about 12 Important updates to do to keep your Business Secure
Easy Ways to Clear Digital Clutter for Small Business Owners
If you are not aware, I write an organizing blog to help people get and stay organized in their home. I created a version of this post on my organizing blog that is primarily for homeowners and individuals. This post also adds business files. When updating software or hardware, I like to go over the files individually and start deleting them. Below is a step by step review of how I do this for my personal as well as business life. Clear the desktop files … [Read more...] about Easy Ways to Clear Digital Clutter for Small Business Owners
How To Easily Spring Clean Your Cloud Files
A few weeks ago, I talked about spring cleaning your digital files. Within the post, I mentioned briefly about going through your online data as well. Well, this is one area that I needed to elaborate on, it's the cloud files. This area is updated so often these days that we don't look back on what we are keeping. Though we should, there may be some photos and files that we don't need to save. It's taking up too much space or is not useful any longer. So, why are you keeping them? I think it … [Read more...] about How To Easily Spring Clean Your Cloud Files
Small Business Microsoft OneNote Notebook Tips
What do you use to manage your posts, ideas, projects, client files, business research, etc....? Do you want to go paperless? Do you want to be able to search your records and ideas easily? Here is one application that works whether you use a PC or Mac or if you use mobile devices, like an Android, Android tablets, iPhone, or iPad. It's called "Microsoft OneNote." Below we are going to share with you OneNote notebook tips to help your small business. Here's my definition of … [Read more...] about Small Business Microsoft OneNote Notebook Tips
