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May 11, 2022
Tracking Certificates of Insurance
Tracking Certificates of Insurance I can’t think of any of our contractor clients who don’t have to deal with Certificates of Insurance. A certificate of insurance is proof of insurance, what type, and when it expires. It’s our responsibility to track these expirations and receive updated certificates before any additional payments are made. Then during […]
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May 04, 2022
Another Good Reason
Here’s Another Good Reason To Stay On Top Of Your AR We had a client who sent us a copy of a form that had been filled out and sent to a City they were working with. The form was a request to change the bank and account information for future payments. The reason we […]
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April 27, 2022
Leadership -What’s New, Changes
Leadership – What’s Changed and What’s Next In 2021, I signed up for the Hero’s Journey with Darren Hardy. This is a year-long training course with a weekly call and homework, targeted to business owners and those in leadership positions in their company, in their community, or their family—so anyone who has a desire to […]
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April 20, 2022
FBI Warning
FBI Warning Within the Managed Service Provider industry (MSP’s), specific companies receive regular briefings from the FBI, trends they’re seeing. We’re not all invited to the party, but the FBI is interested in what we see within our client base, trends. Recently, we received a warning from the FBI about an aggressive effort by sophisticated […]
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April 12, 2022
How the Mighty Fall: Book Review
How the Mighty Fall: Book Review Jim Collins refers to this as his ‘dark book.’ His previous books share research as to how companies excel and grow, becoming or succeeding at being great. This research was focused on companies who ‘fell’ and the five (5) stages of decline as identified from the research. One of […]
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April 06, 2022
Sophisticated Bank Scam
Sophisticated Bank Scam On a recent call with our C12 IT Affinity group, one of the companies shared a client story that we just had to share with you! At the client, the financial person’s account was compromised. The hacker was able to change the password to the bank, and the only Two-Factor (Multi-Factor) Authentication […]
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March 29, 2022
Time to Laugh
We’ve been recording our short video updates for several years now. Larry had a little fun putting together a ‘blooper’ reel a while back and it started circulating at Syscon recently. In honor of April 1st, we thought we’d share some of the fun with you!
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March 22, 2022
Outlook Calendars, Phones
Outlook Calendars, Phones I pulled up my calendar on my phone and it had many entries for the one day I was looking at. I also noticed that some of those appointments belonged to others on our staff—very odd. Turns out that other mailboxes were checked on my phone (thanks Chris), which is why they […]
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March 16, 2022
MFA – True Story!
MFA— True Story! We recommend all our clients roll out Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). We have written some articles and even have a PDF summarizing what it is, why you need it, and how it works. If you need any of these, just call the office and we’ll send them. Basically, MFA means you provide multiple […]
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March 09, 2022
The Leaders We’re Grooming
The Leaders We’re Grooming And Changing Technology We see a growing phenomenon in our long-time clients and some of our newer clients, and we’re pretty excited about it. There’s an openness to technology solutions that hasn’t been there before. Don’t get me wrong—everyone seems to like the latest cell phone, bigger screens, and cars with […]
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