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When does a person begin to consider someone who is persistent has crossed the line into being overly aggressive or even harassing? There is a company I had spoken to at one point about possibly providing data services for the one company I work for. They have a quality product, at a very reasonable[...]

I’ve read a ton of business blog posts in the past about firing customers, but up until recently have never had to act on any of that information. But as of this past Friday, have finally gone and fired my first client. I have to say I didn’t pursue this particular venue without a bit of trep[...]

I have two hosting companies I deal with on a regular basis. The first of course being HostMySite.com, while the other is the big player over at Rackspace. For the most part, both companies offer dedicated managed servers running Windows or Red Hat, with 24x7 Support and quality networks and top not[...]

Day Two at the SMB Nation conference started a little slow, as I think a lot of people had lots of fun the previous night. Between the happy hour and the dinner that many of us partook in, we were all feeling a little rough that morning. But once things got going it was another great day, with a bun[...]

We are currently in the process of looking for new connectivity and voice providers for our office, due in most part to long standing issues with the current provider. I have never personally been a big fan of ATX, but the list of things that have been wrong are just overwhelming if you ask me. One [...]

After a recent installation of a Juniper SSG-140 Firewall, I came to question the philosophy behind the development of the product. Don’t get me wrong, the product works, but it feels like the setup is needlessly complicated for the sake of complication. Frankly, I think the biggest problem stems [...]

I know this sounds counterproductive, or even backwards. But use your Lunch time everyday to your advantage. Almost every day I use my lunch time to get done multiple minor tasks that I simply haven’t had time to do through the rest of the day. There are a couple of tricks that are required to get[...]

So many technology consultants these days all seem to have the same list of partners littering their websites, with much of it being equivalent to those pieces of flair that employee’s of Chotchkie’s love to flaunt. Everyone is a partner with Symantec, Cisco, Microsoft, and a large list of other[...]