Using Technology

Technology should be making your life easier, not causing you sleepless nights!  

In this section you'll find ideas, reviews and practical solutions to get technology working for your business, helping you to save time and deliver a better service to your customers.

This video will give you some examples and practical tips and tools that may help:

Using Technology

Technology should be making your life easier, not causing you sleepless nights!  

In this section you'll find ideas, reviews and practical solutions to get technology working for your business, helping you to save time and deliver a better service to your customers.

This video will give you some examples and practical tips and tools that may help:

4 Top Technology Tips

TIP 1: Don't use a personal email address for your business or you won't be taken seriously.

It’s not expensive and you don’t even need a website if you don’t want one, you just need to register a domain name and choose a hosting provider who offers email-only hosting services. You can always upgrade to a full web hosting package when you're ready for your first web site.  

TIP 2: Know how to divert your phone so you don't miss any calls. 

If you're out of the office a lot consider using a telephone answering service.  We work with Jam who offer a choice between a full inbound call handling service including diary booking, emergency call outs, product ordering, first line support, advanced message taking or a pay as you go telephone answering service where the call is answered in your company name and a contact name, number and accurate message is taken and then immediately forwarded to you by email or text message.

 

TIP 3: Prevent virus infections on your IT systems by installing anti-virus and email spam filter software.  Popular choices include:

• CA Internet Security Suite provides comprehensive protection against viruses, hackers, identity thieves, spyware and other online threats that can jeopardize your privacy and diminish PC performance. Buy CA Internet Security Suite 2010
  

• Norton Internet Security . 
  
• BitDefender
• Kaspersky
• McAfee

TIP 4: BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP!

The importance of backing up your data cannot be stressed enough! What would happen if you lost all your email correspondance, your customer records, your financial records? It could have serious consequences for the long-term survival of your business.  Even if you use online applications you still need to backup the data on your own system, and that on your cloud-based system too. So backup regularly, preferably daily, and remember to store your backups away from your computer system to protect them from theft, fire or flooding.

4 Top Technology Tips

TIP 1: Don't use a personal email address for your business or you won't be taken seriously.

It’s not expensive and you don’t even need a website if you don’t want one, you just need to register a domain name and choose a hosting provider who offers email-only hosting services. You can always upgrade to a full web hosting package when you're ready for your first web site.  

TIP 2: Know how to divert your phone so you don't miss any calls. 

If you're out of the office a lot consider using a telephone answering service.  We work with Jam who offer a choice between a full inbound call handling service including diary booking, emergency call outs, product ordering, first line support, advanced message taking or a pay as you go telephone answering service where the call is answered in your company name and a contact name, number and accurate message is taken and then immediately forwarded to you by email or text message.

 

TIP 3: Prevent virus infections on your IT systems by installing anti-virus and email spam filter software.  Popular choices include:

• CA Internet Security Suite provides comprehensive protection against viruses, hackers, identity thieves, spyware and other online threats that can jeopardize your privacy and diminish PC performance. Buy CA Internet Security Suite 2010
  

• Norton Internet Security . 
  
• BitDefender
• Kaspersky
• McAfee

TIP 4: BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP!

The importance of backing up your data cannot be stressed enough! What would happen if you lost all your email correspondance, your customer records, your financial records? It could have serious consequences for the long-term survival of your business.  Even if you use online applications you still need to backup the data on your own system, and that on your cloud-based system too. So backup regularly, preferably daily, and remember to store your backups away from your computer system to protect them from theft, fire or flooding.