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Tip of the Week: How to Use Named Spreadsheet Cells and Ranges

Tip of the Week: How to Use Named Spreadsheet Cells and Ranges

Spreadsheets are a staple in the workplace, but even with these tools to help manage data, it’s easy to lose track of it as the size and scope grows larger. Today, we want to help you better reference your spreadsheets through the use of naming cells.

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How to Kickstart Productivity for Your Business

How to Kickstart Productivity for Your Business

Productivity fuels your business and its profits, so it makes sense to consider it when examining your business’ performance. Small and medium-sized businesses, or SMBs, have opportunities to improve operations through the use of productivity technology. Let’s explore some of these strategies!

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How to Make Your Conference Room the Place to Be

How to Make Your Conference Room the Place to Be

The conference room for any business is bound to be pretty interesting, and it can tell you all there is to know about a business. This is why it’s especially important to ensure your conference room gives the right impression, especially if you have clients who frequent your office. Let’s go over how you can make your conference room the best it can be!

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Tip of the Week: Productivity Paranoia Can Result in Burnout

Tip of the Week: Productivity Paranoia Can Result in Burnout

In 2022, Microsoft introduced the concept of "productivity paranoia," highlighting managers' overwhelming concerns that remote workers might not be operating at peak efficiency. As remote and hybrid work models persist, however, a new manifestation has surfaced: the pervasive feeling among workers that they must constantly prove their productivity while working from home.

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Tip of the Week: 3 Great Features of Microsoft PowerPoint

Tip of the Week: 3 Great Features of Microsoft PowerPoint

PowerPoint has made a significant impact on the world, so much to the point of being synonymous with presentations. It’s the premier presentation software first introduced by Microsoft, and with countless cool features to explore, we’re confident that you can find a lot of use for this software. Today, we want to share some of our favorite lesser-known features to help you get more out of your presentations.

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Tip of the Week: Making It So People are More Likely to Listen to You

Tip of the Week: Making It So People are More Likely to Listen to You

Communication is critical to successfully working in a group, regardless of your role in that group, including your capability to be heard when you have something to contribute. Let’s review a few ways you can help make it more likely that your collaborators will ultimately hear you out.

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Tip of the Week: Use Habit Stacking to Build Better Habits

Tip of the Week: Use Habit Stacking to Build Better Habits

Technology is a great enabler of productivity, and you can use it to build better habits that can compound your productivity over time. Let’s look at a concept called habit stacking that can be used to great impact.

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Want a Better Relationship with Your Employees? Start Here

Want a Better Relationship with Your Employees? Start Here

The relationship you have with your employees sets the pace for not only the kind of company you want to run, but also the kind of employer you want to be. Many employers fall short when it comes to managing their employees in ways that are respectful and beneficial to the continued betterment of both employee and organization. We’re here today to help you with some simple ways you can improve relations between your employees and management.

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This One Simple Trick Can Make Your Out-of-Office Messages That Much Better

This One Simple Trick Can Make Your Out-of-Office Messages That Much Better

If you take vacations or are going to be out of the office for any specified amount of time, then it helps to set an out-of-office message so that your coworkers and clients know that you’ll be away. You can make them more effective, however, with a couple of simple practices, namely one particular personal detail.

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These Workplace Stretches Can Take the Tension Out of Your Workday

These Workplace Stretches Can Take the Tension Out of Your Workday

Taking care of your technology is vitally important, and that’s something that we as a managed service provider will always espouse, but the truth is that your technology is only as effective as the people using it. Therefore, you should make sure to take proper care of your team, too, and one way you can do this is by sharing these workplace stretches with them. The right stretches can improve physical health, which in turn improves other aspects of their lives—including their work.

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Tip of the Week: How to Put Together a Winning Presentation

Tip of the Week: How to Put Together a Winning Presentation

Presentations can be a challenge for many people in the modern office. We wanted to make it a little easier to put together a great one, so we’re sharing some of our favorite tips for putting one together.

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Do You Know How Much Bandwidth You Need? Here’s How to Find Out

Do You Know How Much Bandwidth You Need? Here’s How to Find Out

Small businesses depend on a reliable Internet connection to remain competitive, and without the appropriate bandwidth, staff productivity and communications can suffer. To keep your business from suffering from a lack of bandwidth, we recommend that you read today’s blog article which discusses the intricacies of bandwidth in business computing.

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Understanding the Murky Nature of Shadow IT

Understanding the Murky Nature of Shadow IT

Shadow IT—while it sounds like the title of some B-movie suspense thriller or airport gift shop novel, it’s a very serious business issue that can easily make its way into your operations. Let’s review what shadow IT is, and what can be done to minimize the threats that it causes your business.

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Tip of the Week: Keeping Track of Your Chrome Tabs

Tip of the Week: Keeping Track of Your Chrome Tabs

Google Chrome is by far the most utilized browser on PC and mobile, meaning that most people use Chrome for a majority of their jobs, their finances, and just about anything else you could use a browser for. Since it’s so widely utilized, we thought it would be good to give our readers a few tips on how to get the most out of their Chrome experience. Today, we provide a few tips on how to best utilize the tab feature in Chrome. 

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Reconsidering What Your Workstation’s Power Button Can Do

Reconsidering What Your Workstation’s Power Button Can Do

We’re all familiar with what the power button looks like, and what it’s supposed to do. What fewer people are familiar with is what the image on the button really means, and the different things that the power button can be used for.

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An Introduction to Working With Google Drive

An Introduction to Working With Google Drive

In the nearly ten years it has been available, Google Drive has firmly established itself as one of the best cloud platforms for businesses to use. In case you’re just getting started with it, we’ve put together a cheat sheet to help you out with a few processes.

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Improve Your Business with Workflow Automation

Improve Your Business with Workflow Automation

Technology is a big part of the front end of almost every business. This is doubly true today as most businesses have built—and actively support—a robust web presence. Technology, however, is also used to power a business on the back end. Today, we’ll discuss a couple ways that today’s businesses are benefiting from automation behind the scenes, as well.

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Tip of the Week: Four Ways IT Can Improve Your Business

Tip of the Week: Four Ways IT Can Improve Your Business

With 2020 in the rear-view mirror, there are many opportunities for your business to embrace technology in 2021 to your benefit. Let’s go over a few ways that you should make use of your IT moving forward.

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Tip of the Week: How to Work Remotely in a Healthy Way

Tip of the Week: How to Work Remotely in a Healthy Way

Many people now have experience working from home, which means that many people now have first-hand knowledge of just how draining it can be. And no wonder—the place you’d go to relax and unwind after the workday has suddenly become a place of work. In these conditions, it is even more important that your team can establish boundaries between “home” home and “work” home.

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3 Crucial Parts of Your Business’ Backup Strategy

3 Crucial Parts of Your Business’ Backup Strategy

Unless you’re very, very new here, you’ve probably seen how much we prioritize that a business prepares a comprehensive data backup strategy to help secure its continuity. Many recent events have only reinforced the importance of such a backup strategy, so let’s take a few minutes to review what needs to go into yours.

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