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.

Finding and choosing the right name for your new product can be a daunting task. You don’t want it to be something forgettable, but on the other hand, you also don’t want it to be something so bizarre that people will shy away from it simply because of its name.

You might be looking at the title of this piece and raising a curious eyebrow. There’s only one way to hold a meeting after all, right? Get all participants in the room, say what you came to say, maybe open it up for a little Q&A and call it done.

There are two pieces of technology currently converging that will allow outsourcing to take on new shapes and forms in the decades ahead. We’re already seeing it in practice in its primitive form. Those trends will continue as the technology continues to advance and improve.

You want to expand and grow your business. Who wouldn’t? Sadly, there’s something standing in your way, and that is the banks. Post-recession, they’ve been reluctant to get back into the game, which is strange, since lending to business wasn’t what caused the recession to begin with.