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September
2011
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Welcome |
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What a VAR Can Do |
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Holding a Web Meeting? |
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Business Continuity Tip |
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Straight Talk on BI |
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You're In Sales |
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Quote and Cartoon |
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Business Continuity Tip |
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When Times are Tough, There's
No Room for Risk
used with permission from
the HP Midsize Business Center
Don't Stop fortifying against risk
Four
ways to mitigate risk in a tough economy
Every business
deals with risk. But medium-sized businesses, with smaller
IT staff and tighter operating budgets are often more
exposed to risk than larger companies. This reality is never
more evident than in a down economy: When the repercussions
of a business disruption are as grave as they are, how do
you insulate your business from risk?
"For mid-sized
businesses, the financial impact of business disruptions is
tremendous," said Anil Miglani, senior vice president,
AMI-Partners.
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Quote
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I
have never been jealous.
Not even when my dad finished fifth
grade a year before I did.
Jeff Foxworthy
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Just for Laughs |
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Welcome
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is your organization's most important asset.
We can help you design, build, and manage
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and deploy Office 365!
The Benefits of an Office 365
Workspace
used with permission from
the
Microsoft Small Business Website
 Truth
be told, no one wants to work 365 days a year. However, we
do need our technology to be available around the clock
because you never know when that hot sales prospect will
want a product fact sheet or when you'll need to coordinate
a last-minute cross-country meeting. In most workplace
instances, having integrated, always available communication
and collaboration solutions streamlines the way we work and
can be just the ticket to greater productivity and cost
savings.
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What a VAR Can Do for Your
Business
by Peter
Alexander
used with permission from the
Microsoft Small Business
Center
Technology can go
a long way in helping your business stay competitive, meet
customer expectations and improve operational efficiencies.
But most small businesses simply don't have the resources to
evaluate technologies and aren't sure where to find the
right technology partner. That's where a value-added
reseller can help.
A VAR enhances an
existing product, such as hardware, with additional
features, such as software, and then sells it as an
integrated package often tailored for specific industries.
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Holding a Web Meeting? 5
Pitfalls to Avoid
by
Christopher Elliott
reprinted with permission from the
Microsoft Small Business Center
 Think hard now. Can you
remember your first virtual meeting? For many of you, it was in the
latter decades of the 20th century, and you likely called it a
"teleconference." If so, chances are you can recall how simple
- but
expensive - the technology used to be.
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Straight Talk On Business
Intelligence
used
with permission from the
Microsoft Small Business Center
You
run a small or midsize business. Maybe it's not rocket
science...then again, maybe it is. There's nothing small (or
even midsize) about the complexity of managing your own
business - it's big-time. On any given moment of any given
day, you might be working furiously to track the
effectiveness of your sales efforts, monitor your inventory,
juggle receivables against payables, and reduce
inefficiencies in production.
You've got all the
data - somewhere. It's in this sales report, that stock
list, those account ledgers, these production updates. In
other words, it's siloed here and siloed there.
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You're In Sales No Matter
What Your Title
by Debra J. Schmidt -
used with permission
If
I ask you right now whether or not you are in sales, chances
are you would say, "No, I'm in accounts payable or customer
service or marketing." You might even say, "I'm the CEO."
No matter what
your job is, you are in sales. Every time you interact with
a customer, you are selling your professional credibility,
the company's products or services, and the company's image.
So, even if you don't work in the sales department, read on.
When a customer
has a bad experience in shipping, in accounting, in
technical support or any other department in your company,
you can bet that negative word-of-mouth will follow.
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