Top 5 Keys to Small Business Online Success
Photo Source / Desaturated from original A strong online presence can make or break a small business. Businesses can use the Internet to reach countless customers, professionals and other contacts. Here are the best ways to utilize the Internet for a small business: Improve Traffic Improving the traffic to a website requires some work. SEO…
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Improving Business Agility With Managed Cloud Hosting
You spend 12 months in a development cycle, only to discover your competitors beat you to market. You had an idea of what they were working on, but you already invested a significant amount of research and development time into your idea. Now you’re playing catch up. Business agility is an increasingly important business focus,…
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Gartner:’scalability’ is one of the main reasons why businesses are moving to the cloud.
Businesses who are making plans to use a cloud hosting service in 2015 may have already discovered it is not an all-or-nothing processes. For the most part, a large percentage of businesses use what is referred to as the ‘hybrid’ approach: part on-premise, and part cloud. In fact, according to a recent Gartner report, the…
Read MoreTop 5 Business Continuity Planning Failures
We’ve all heard stories of businesses that have lost thousands of dollars due to a disaster. Although we hear the horror stories, most of us are guilty of thinking that it can’t happen to us. Each year, over 75 percent of companies experience an outage and only 13 percent of those outages were the result…
Read MoreBoost Sales & Avoid E-Commerce Shopping Site Security Risks
Each year the stats come out to support the fact that consumer confidence is rising when it comes to online shopping, with more and more people enjoying the benefits of shopping online – U.S. e-commerce spending topped $263 billion in 2013, with the U. S. Commerce Department and Forrester Research projecting that U.S. consumers will spend…
Read MoreWhy Website Performance Matters in E-Commerce
At Applied Innovations we have the pleasure of working with a variety of different customers, all with very different needs. I work with senior managers from large enterprises who have an in-house IT department and dedicated resources and I also work with the small business owner working his one man show. All different scenarios with…
Read More5 Information Security Mistakes To Be Aware Of
For many, information security mistakes are a fact of modern life. As devices proliferate and technology works it’s way into our lives in every way, information security becomes a growing concern. Through this blog post we discuss 5 common information security mistakes and how you can protect yourself in the future. Information Security Breaches Are Alarmingly…
Read More5 Quick Tips to Improve Web Performance
What does it mean to have a well-performing site? A well-performing site can mean many things to many people, but generally it is the amount of time it takes for the website to load for a customer. How important is this? Very important. If you read our eGuide: 6 Steps to Increase Web Performance and…
Read MoreWe’re Launching a New Ticket System
Applied Innovations is excited to announce that we will be migrating our ticket system and online help portal to SmarterTrack as of March 2, 2015. SmarterTrack is a powerful communications platform that provides an online help desk for initiating, tracking, managing, and reporting on a number of different communication channels. SmarterTrack provides a centralized outlet…
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Disaster Recovery plans may use a Risk Assessment analysis; ‘incident response manager’ may be needed.
A lot of business owners have different ideas about what a disaster recovery plan is all about. To some, it’s backing up to a tape, external drive, or hosting service. Regardless, behind most any recovery strategy is the notion of getting the company back up and running in an efficient manner. Usually, this is successful…
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