Received an email the other day (actually my 2nd notification it said) and it starts with: "Recently you were selected as an inductee into the Distinguished Professionals Online Registry Among Executives. This selection was based on our research committees efforts to identify top professionals around the globe. " Pretty impressive isn't it? But the more I look at it the top starts with: Dear <#contactname#>, So I think to myself how can they not even know my name after their "research committee" hand selected our business and myself for this distinguished award. Now if you go to the link it takes you to a form to fill out and if you try going to the actual domain itself it takes you to an "Under Construction" page for the domain of www.distinguishedprofessionalswhoswho.com I suppose they were so busy in their research for distinguished people and businesses that [+]

How to Choose an Online Backup Service If you’ve ever suffered computer failure and lost valuable data, photos, videos, or music, then you know the importance of data backup. While you certainly have the option of copying your data to a disk—which is certainly better than no backup at all—a growing number of individuals and businesses are opting to sign-up with an online backup service. These services automatically backup your data using your internet connection, and will continuously save new data as it’s being created. But, with so many online data backup services now available, how does one know which to choose? Are they all work pretty much the same? Do they all offer the same features? While no one can say which service is right [+]

When you started your business what did you have in mind? Was it to open a computer business that would offer services like virus removal and spyware removal? Was the idea to just have lower prices then other big box companies around? Was it that you just thought to yourself why not? Well anyone that starts a business I'm sure has their reasons for doing such. But, now that you have your business up and running you have to decide just what exactly your business is going to offer. There are the typical things like: Virus removal Spyware removal Hardware upgrades Software Upgrades Tune-ups Those are pretty much the normal shop will do each and every other day.  I always envisioned opening a computer repair business and doing more than just the normal. I did not want to offer exactly what others offer in their business model. [+]

How many other business owners do you know that just say things like "word of mouth"? That is the answer they give for "What kind of advertising do you do?"...In reality I find that very difficult to believe or at least believe it to an extent that they never had to do anything else in order to make their business successful. Now if all they are doing is removing a virus here and there then great, but that's not really a market that I care to base my business model off of. In the technology industry you have to stay up on the latest trends and be able to implement them into your business model. Well the same goes with advertising your business in your community. Back in the day who would of thought the internet would turn into a marketing [+]

For some unknown reason people seem to think they can build a website and amazingly it will just show up in the top of the search engines. Now many moons ago that might have been possible but not in this day and age. Getting ranked on search engines is a continual battle and only the strong survive. It use to be enough that you could get a good domain name, put a great title, some keywords and a great description on all your website pages and you were golden. Well nowadays that is all still great to do, but if that is all you are doing then you are not going to see the results you expect. You now not only have to make sure you website is coded exactly right, but you have to keep up on the search engines and [+]