As a business owner, you try your best to plan for the future. You start by creating a business plan that spells out your corporate goals, the products or services you’ll offer, how they fit in the marketplace and appeal to consumers, and how you plan to market them. While you can’t plan for every […]
Continue ReadingIn business, downtime is unavoidable. Even restaurants have to close occasionally to fumigate or deep clean, so it’s no great shock that websites sometimes suffer from downtime as well. However, it’s important to differentiate between planned downtime and service blackouts. When you plan downtime for maintenance or upgrades to your website, you have the opportunity […]
Continue ReadingTraditionally, businesses have relied on customers visiting stores in order to purchase goods or services. This meant having posted business hours and ensuring that the store was open on time to welcome customers. These days the internet has significantly changed the way many companies conduct their business operations. Certainly brick-and-mortar stores are still popular, but […]
Continue ReadingYou don’t have to look far to find statistics related to the effects of website downtime – many claim that businesses lose tens of billions of dollars annually due to websites being unreachable. On a company-by-company basis, the numbers will differ, with larger businesses that suffer downtime having greater potential for loss. Unfortunately, downtime cannot […]
Continue ReadingMeasuring success and productivity within a business organization used to rely on end results. These days there is software to monitor everything from keystrokes to the amount of time a computer has been idle in order to generate reports for employers to gauge how much their employees really accomplish in a day. While small businesses […]
Continue ReadingIf your website struggles with server lags or occasional downtime issues, it can hinder your biz. But if your site becomes inaccessible without your knowledge, you may end up facing a much harsher set of consequences: lost revenue, disappearing data, angry customers – or worse. Moreover, nothing gives a website a bad rep in an […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re an online retailer, then you’re probably acutely aware that holiday sales will make or break your biz. The month-long time span between late November and December is a money machine for many retailers – in fact, most merchants earn up to a third of their sales during this short window of time each […]
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