There’s nothing quite like striking out on your own. There’s enormous satisfaction is forging your own path by creating a business that you own and control. It’s a truly great feeling, especially in that first year when you’re generally fairly flush with cash, having poured every resource you could get your hands on into the enterprise, and the world seems filled with limitless possibilities.

Is your laptop looking less than its best? Maybe even a bit, well, grubby?

Here are some suggestions for the proper care of one of your most hardworking and useful possessions.

The Safest Cleaning Tools and Products for Your Laptop

The materials you will need for cleaning your laptop are a fifty percent solution of Isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) and distilled water.

Establishing, growing, and maintaining your brand on Facebook isn’t hard work, but it can be surprisingly difficult. Still, technological innovations aside, good branding on social media is, at the root, no different from good branding in other marketing channels.

Speed is everything in the world of computers. When you first purchased yours, however long ago that might have been, it probably dazzled you with its speed and performance. Even the biggest, hairiest applications could be opened with ease. You could surf the web with ten, fifteen, twenty or more tabs open at the same time and barely notice a dip in system performance.

We’ve got mice and pointers and hand gestures and swipes. The keyboard is starting to look and feel a little old school. Because of that, and because we spend all our time poking and swiping at our screens these days, we’ve kind of gotten out of touch with our keyboards.

The unfortunate truth is that there are some fairly bad guys out there, lurking in the corners of cyber space. They spend all their free time trying to dream up new ways of getting you to give them access to your banking or credit card information so they can rip you off.

There are really only two choices when looking to set up a cloud based infrastructure for your company. You can go the direct route, find a cloud provider, add someone or a small team to your IT staff that can learn the ins and outs of your cloud vendor’s API, begin tweaking it to best suit your particular needs, and slowly, iteratively begin a migration to the cloud.

No matter whether your business is a start-up or has been in the industry for years, everyone can benefit from having a good mentor. As we become more experienced business owners, we may feel that we don’t need mentors any more; what we fail to realize however is that there will most probably always be someone more experienced than us.

Disaster recovery isn’t one of those things you usually spend a lot of time thinking about. In fact, for more business owners than would probably admit it, about the first time you gave serious thought to the notion of disaster recovery was the time you actually needed to recover from a disaster, and of course, at that point, it was too late to make any difference.

You already know that the internet is a fantastic platform for customer outreach and brand building, but have you stopped to really consider the most powerful messages you could be sending? If you think about those, and clearly identify the messages you want to send, then you become much more effective.