Bank Account Stimulus – Referral Program

Scott Cover - August 26th, 2009 | Comments(0)
Foundations Technologies wants to help you increase the balance in your bank account by increasing our referral fees by 50% for any new clients referred to us by you during the month of September. Just refer a new client to us and if they sign a contract for services with us that month you receive a[...]

Remote Server Reboot Devices

Scott Cover - May 19th, 2009 | Comments(0)
We are preparing to roll out new Remote Reboot Devices for our fully managed customers over the next two months. All existing clients will be contacted to schedule an installation in the near future. Any new customers that are brought on board will have this installed as part of the on-boarding proc[...]

ExchangeDefender IP Connection Script

Scott Cover - April 27th, 2009 | Comments(0)
I put together a little script for our roll-out of the new ExchangeDefender platform for our clients. This is put in with addition to any firewall rules on all clients (just in case the firewall is not capable of IP rules that granular). This automatically puts the ExchangeDefender IPs into the allo[...]

Bootstrap Maryland – The FTI Contribution

Scott Cover - April 21st, 2009 | Comments(0)
Jared Goralnick of SET Consulting has started a non-profit group called Bootstrap Maryland that’s mission statement is simply: "Bring together young entrepreneurs and the necessary tools for running a lean and successful technology business. We want to see Maryland, DC, and Virginia flourish wi[...]

Setup Fees – Why We Have Them

Scott Cover - March 2nd, 2009 | Comments(0)
While doing a sales call on a new proposal recently I had the prospect question about the setup fee on our full service package and what it entails, since it is not an insignificant amount. I took my time to explain the nuances of the setup and everything it covers, and realized that a post may be i[...]

New Network Monitoring Roll-out

Scott Cover - October 31st, 2008 | Comments(0)
We have begun the roll-out process for our new monitoring platform this week, which is great news for all of our clients. With this new system we will be offering free basic monitoring for our clients Internet and Servers. The basic monitoring will simply include is it up monitoring and alerting, wi[...]

SMB Nation 2008 Wrapup

Scott Cover - October 10th, 2008 | Comments(0)
It may be Friday, but I'm still working to recover from my trip to SMB Nation in Seattle last weekend. Great event, with lots of excellent content, lots of great vendors and plenty of good times. We all enjoyed ourselves, it was nice to finally meet some of the non-Ben's from Calyptix, and plenty of[...]

Calyptix Security Expands Sales Team

Scott Cover - September 24th, 2008 | Comments(0)
My good friends over at Calyptix Security have posted a new press release regarding their expansion of their Sales and Channel Team wtih three new additions. The major goal is for them to expand their channel success and continue to build their brand recognition. This comes at a great time as SMB Na[...]

On The Horizon

Scott Cover - August 25th, 2008 | Comments(0)
There are a bunch of things going on in the background with my company and this blog right now, so expect to see a bunch of changes appear here in the very near future. I’ll probably not be blogging until everything has been finished, so I wanted to make sure I took a moment to let everyone know t[...]

Product Advocacy

Scott Cover - August 13th, 2008 | Comments(0)
A lot of companies sell a lot of different products. But very few companies advocate any of the products that they sell. There is a small, but very noticeable difference between the act of selling and the act of advocating a product. The question then stands, what makes you an advocate of a product [...]