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As Your Business Grows, So Will Your Data: Are You Prepared?

Dell Small Business 360 are hosting a free online course that will help you understand what’s available to assist you with your small business data back up solutions.
“Market research firm IDC reports that storage capacity is rising 60 percent per year and many small businesses need to upgrade their capacity at a similar rate1*. Meanwhile, […]

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Windows Mobile Training

Become a Windows Mobile Specialist or a Windows Small Business Retail Mobile Specialist by studying a series of courses developed specifically around the features and benefits of Windows Mobile. Also available are online sales tools, and mobile device news.
Very useful if you want to train a new recruit up on the product both in terms […]

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Microsoft Office Outlook

I presented yesterday at my penultimate presentation in Farnham which was a lot of fun. Lots of questions were asked, so here’s some answers to some of those asked.
Not sure what version of Microsoft Office you have?
Open up any of your Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc…), click on ‘help’ in the toolbar and […]

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The Kent SBS Group steps up a gear!

I was having a chat with Gareth today who helps run the Kent Group and over the last few months, they’ve really taken some serious steps towards achieving a respected and professional organisation that will help support small businesses in the local region.
The Kent gang didn’t do this overnight, it’s taken a lot of time, […]

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Small Business Server UK Survey

In the last few weeks before I leave, I want to make sure that one of the products that underpins the Small Business Community is understood properly by the Channel.
I have had numerous meetings with the server teams at Microsoft to help understand where SBS stands in their market and how we can improve its position […]

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Videos on your website

For many years now, companies have been using short videos to help convey a message to their audience. It may be to announce a company’s ‘new look’ or get a feel for what the company is about.
I like watching these types of videos - I get to understand what I am looking at better and I […]

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What’s Stopping You? Event | Oxford

Each presentation I take as part of these events always comes with a few surprises. Many are one-woman-bands who are looking to for inspiration and answers on how and where to start in business. This time, there were a fair few who were comfortable with IT but still, and worryingly, a large number of those […]

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What’s Stopping You? Event | Business Link Women’s Conference (Part #2)

The spring 2008 sessions of the ‘What’s stopping you?’ event has kicked off again starting in Crawley last week. Again, another great audience who were keen and kept the presentation interactive (yesss!).
Already, I have met plenty of businesses who need help from local Small Business Specialists and so it’s been great to have the chance […]

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Implementing a disaster recovery policy to yourself

Today was a really rubbish day. Because of the stupidity of some strangers, something I depend on was damaged and as well as feeling pretty violated I had to spend the day sorting out a problem that took a matter of seconds to cause.
Here’s what I woke up to this morning:

For some sad reason I […]

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Microsoft Click&Go Marketing Campaigns

Eileen posted recently about one of the latest Microsoft Partner Marketing promotions that is available to Partners now.
 
Here’s the deal:
You can order 200 FREE postcards or 1,000 FREE emails which you can personalise with your logo and contact details to your target customers or prospects with this campaign. If you want more then you can […]

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