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Five business continuity mistakes

Every business owner knows that having a business continuity plan in place is crucial to the success of their organization. Yet even if your business continuity framework is at the ready, when the unexpected does happen the question that many overlook is how confident they are in taking care of the backbone of the business… Continue reading Five business continuity mistakes

A metric more important than website traffic

Are you getting a large amount of traffic to your site but not seeing a corresponding match in product or service sales? This is a head-scratching dilemma that many small business owners will face at one time or another. The reason behind it can be summed up in one word: engagement. A high amount of… Continue reading A metric more important than website traffic

Find your website’s most important pages

For businesses that want to track how much traffic their website is receiving, a Google Analytics account is a no-brainer. However, while it’s easy to use this powerful application to measure traffic, how do you know if those visitors are engaged with your website content or just bouncing the second they hit your homepage? Engagement… Continue reading Find your website’s most important pages

Measure engagement with Google Analytics

When you were new to the world of websites and analytics, your goal may have initially been to increase your business’s site traffic to maybe 50 visitors a day. Once you hit 50, you then reached 100 soon after, and then 200. Yet with each higher traffic milestone realized, you didn’t see the corresponding sales… Continue reading Measure engagement with Google Analytics

5 mistakes to avoid when investing in IT

As a small or medium sized business owner, you likely have your hands full. Between managing your staff, looking for growth opportunities and keeping clients happy, you probably have little time to dedicate to new technology purchases. Being so busy, it can be easy to make a mistake when choosing an IT solution. That’s why… Continue reading 5 mistakes to avoid when investing in IT

Don’t make these 5 IT investment missteps

Running a business is time consuming. You likely are so busy managing staff, looking for growth opportunities and satisfying your clients that you have little time to search for technology solutions that can benefit your business. Even worse, you may be so frustrated with your current IT system that you make an impulsive technology purchase… Continue reading Don’t make these 5 IT investment missteps

5 IT investment blunders to avoid

Being a business owner, you know more than anyone that making mistakes is natural and that you have to be willing to fail if you want to succeed. You also know you can accomplish more – and more quickly – if you can learn from the mistakes of others before making the same missteps on… Continue reading 5 IT investment blunders to avoid

Dashboards assist in business functions

A dashboard is a business intelligence tool used to display metrics and key performance indicators (KPI) for organizations. The tool has grown in popularity over recent years, since implementing business dashboards has become cheaper and easier than ever before. Dashboards gather two or more KPIs and statistics and turn them into a visual interface. By… Continue reading Dashboards assist in business functions

How dashboards support business activities

The data dashboard has become increasingly popular for businesses over the past few years – it is a great data visualization tool that allows you to have an overview of your business at a glance. Since we all are more accustomed to taking in visual data than written words, dashboards are an important part of… Continue reading How dashboards support business activities

The purposes of dashboards for businesses

Most companies measure and gauge their performance and success by analyzing data. And the fact that we humans are visual creatures means our ability to interpret visual data tends to be far greater than with written words. This is the reason most businesses turn to dashboards as a business intelligence tool to present data in… Continue reading The purposes of dashboards for businesses