OK, use Google the way it’s supposed to be used – as a search engine, not as your personal bookmarks page or a phone book or 411 when you can’t remember a website’s URL.

Parody on HPs Cloud Computing Announcement. Very funny. http://www.theonion.com/video/hp-on-that-cloud-thing-that-everyone-else-is-talki,28789/  

We finally have authoritative details on the automatic backup system built into Windows 8. Called “File History,” the feature is far less capable than many of us thought it would be. The big news is that it WILL NOT do online backups.

  In 2006 RBS published version 8.53 of RBackup, and it became a superstar. Everyone loved it, and some decided it was good enough to run forever. They stopped paying for their Maintenance Subscriptions, which for some proved a costly mistake. There are currently thousands of end users running old, out of date backup software, […]

It’s still the wild wild web, I guess. Recently a colleague inadvertently published a link to a song called Yesterday – The Backup Song, a parody of the Beatles’ Yesterday with a funny lyric about data backups that I first published on my website way back in 1999. A quick search revealed that many people have claimed that song in the past 13 years since I published it, and it has been re-published without permission liberally, all over the Web.

Join CEO Rob Cosgrove and CTO Pinku Bharti for an ad hoc webinar where YOU get to design the content. Let us know in advance what you want to discuss. We will also answer questions and give demonstrations on the fly during this highly interactive webinar.

SMBs are heavily investing in both cloud technology in general and hosted cloud services in particular, with MSPs poised to reap advantages in several ways. According to a new report from AMI Partners, US SMBs with fewer than 1,000 employees will invest $34 billion in cloud services (including IaaS, SaaS, web hosting, UC and remotely […]

Join live on Wednesday, July 11 at 11am PT/2pm ET for the Channel Expert Hour webcast: “Presenting to Business People: A Guide for Geeks,” featuring Paul Glen, award-winning author and Computerworld columnist. Paul will walk you through essential steps to break through the geek barrier when presenting to business people. You will learn: Three questions […]

It was a very nice day – sunny and cool with a clear view of the sun. The telescope I used was a little Meade ETX-80 AT-TC with electronic positioning, 80mm refractor with a 400mm focal length, no filters.

• Every lead you eliminate from your list is a victory, because it means you won’t be wasting your time.  [For our perspective on this, check out Are Your Sales Prospects Playing Ball?]

• Listen carefully to what’s actually being said, rather than waiting for something to say that will give you hope of making a sale. [We wrote about the importance of listening in Sales Tip: Seriously, SHUT UP!]

• Once you’re in a conversation with a sales lead, your primary job is to eliminate the lead from your list. [At Go-To-Market Strategies, we can’t say enough on this topic. Check out our article, Lead Qualification: Getting to No.]

• The most experienced sales reps are the ones who know the 3 most important things to do with a sales lead are to qualify, qualify, qualify. [We couldn’t agree more and recommend you read our article Lead Qualification: 3 Steps to Success to help you create your own Lead Qualification Checklist.] 

• People won’t give you referrals unless you deserve them. [So true! Our article The Most Cost Effective Resource: Referrals offers 5 steps to building your own referral system.]

 HARTFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– A questionnaire posed to small business owners who attended the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Summit last week shows that the majority are at risk in the wake of a potential disaster.