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Data Risk and Ransomware: is your data staring down the barrel?

Data Risk and Ransomware: is your data staring down the barrel?

  “As you know, we at Hawkins & Co. are very technology-driven.  This means we have to be aware of IT-related threats that might…

Your Life & Business In the Cloud – Houzz

I thought I would change it up this time and write about one of my favourite apps that I use personally not professionally. In…

Phone Scammers – They Even Call Accountants

Imagine my surprise when I arrive home to find a voicemail that insists that I owe money to Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and if…

Your Life & Business in the Cloud –Rotessa

The easier you make it for your customers to pay you, the more likely you are to get paid. Getting paid faster improves cash…

Your Life & Business in the Cloud – Square

Business happens everywhere now and business owners are no longer tied to their desk or a storefront. To enable this they need technology that…

Your Life & Business in the Cloud – Plooto

Do you hate writing cheques? Do you work remotely? Do you hate going to the post office? Do you not own envelopes? Plooto is…

Your Life and Business in the Cloud – Receipt Bank

Let’s say you are a business owner and on a daily basis you are dealing with everything from hiring employees to taking out the…

The things I wouldn’t do if I waited for them to be perfect

I lived by the 80/20 rule long before I understood what it was. I used to think of myself as lazy and then I…

Your Life & Business In the Cloud #2 – Note taking software

Evernote has changed the way everyone in our office organizes information that needs to be searchable. It eliminates our need to go searching through…

The Benefits of Having a Vision – Zingerman’s Creating a Vision of Greatness Seminar

About 8 months ago my partner and I went to Ann Arbor to take the Zingerman’s “Creating a Vision of Greatness” seminar. It was…