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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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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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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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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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Forefront Edge Security and Access Demonstration Toolkit

Mike highlighted this one and because lots of you fedback to me that you want to understand the opportunities regarding security on products such as Exchange or SharePoint, I thought you might want to download it and check it out for yourself.
The toolkit includes nine VMs which demo four scenarios:
Secure Remote Access with IAG (Intelligent […]

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Mr. Busy Campaign paves the way for future marketing campaigns aimed at small businesses

The Mr. Busy Campaign will be bidding SBSCers in UK and Ireland a hurried goodbye as he gets replaced by three new campaigns.
Here’s what the Mr. Busy campaign achieved:

101 Partners took part in the campaign within five weeks
24,000 end users were reached
98% of Partners told Microsoft that they would like to see more of these […]

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Small Business Forum | 29th November 2007

Hi Guys,
A thread has already started up regarding an event a Small Business Community event that we (as in me and the guys at Westcoast) will be hosting. So I thought I would talk briefly about it here just to give you the heads up.
Although the finer details can’t be released to you just yet, […]

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Disaster Recovery

Many of us understand the phrase ‘prevention is better than cure’ and indeed this has never been truer than in the case of protecting your IT and the information stored within it.
A few months ago, I was lucky enough to present to the Women in Business Conference on the subject of what IT can do […]

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Data Protection | You and the NHS

“We are worried patients are not going to have all the information they need to know what is going on with their records.”
British Medical Association 
This year, the Government is intending to ask UK GPs to transfer the electronic medical records of their patients onto a national database called the ’spine’. This system is designed to […]

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