Cryptolocker cost thousands of people millions of dollars before antivirus software finally began to eliminate the number of attacks. Weeks after Cryptolocker began to lose a grip on the digital threat world, Cryptowall hit the streets.
If you didn’t get to meet Cryptolocker proper, consider yourself lucky; the only thing you could do was completely delete the encrypted files on your computer or pay an outlandish fee of $300 to have the host hackers unlock them for you.
Most of us work in offices these days. That’s nice in the sense that the coffee maker is close at hand and someone usually brings doughnuts. Plus the air conditioning. It’s not possible to sing enough praises about the wonders of air conditioning.
The customer is always right, except when they aren’t. If you’re the owner of a small business, then you may have seen this firsthand. If you haven’t, wait a while and you probably will. Problems, sometimes serious problems can arise when the greater bulk of your business comes from a single source.
If you don’t know what LinkedIn is, or haven’t heard about it, you should go to the site immediately and check it out. Initially launched in 2003, consider it the Social Media network for the working professional. Over the years it has prove that from a business perspective, it is an excellent place to make and expand contacts, and is fertile recruiting ground.
Creating a comprehensive, actionable social media strategy around your brand isn’t all that hard, but it is difficult. The distinction is an important one. The work itself is fairly easy. You won’t strain either back or brain in the doing of it. Getting it right though, takes some finesse.
Nobody likes being stuck in traffic during the morning commute, but if that describes your morning routine, then here are some ideas about how you can make the best use of that time. It might not make the daily commute any more pleasant, but it will at least make it a bit more productive.
The drive to better ourselves is embedded in our DNA. From the first time our earliest ancestors made the shocking discovery that a rock made a better tool for smashing things than a bare fist, the race has been on. These days, of course, it’s far less about finding new and innovative ways of smashing things, and far more about other, more intangible skills.
From a business perspective, cloud computing is useful in a variety of ways. It can, for instance, allow you to more easily grant and control access to company data, enabling easier collaboration with remote, far-flung users. It can allow your employees to more easily work from anywhere there’s an internet connection.
Hiring is probably the biggest headache a business has, regardless of its size. Finding qualified people who fit your company’s lifestyle and ethics is not an easy task. Even harder, once you’ve found them, how do you keep them happy and loyal, instead of working with one foot already out of the door? Here are some suggestions on how to keep your best people happy:
Show Them They’re Valued
No one likes to feel unappreciated.
Sometimes, less is more. Sometimes, it is the simplest strategies that work best. In the ongoing quest to find new, better, faster, and more efficient ways of reaching out to, and connecting with, our customers, maybe we sometimes over-engineer solutions, when what we really need to do is to pull back just a bit.
