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Seven Benefits of Non-Compete Agreements

Small and midsize businesses can more effectively protect their trade secrets and customer relationships by requiring employees to enter into non-compete agreements. 1. Non-Compete agreement can enhance the value of your company 2. With non compete clause you can qualify for trade secret protection 3. Non-compete agreements do protect your customer relationships and enhance your clients’ confidence 4. Require all training employees to sign the non-compete agreement to protect your investment 5. Make sure you clarify expectations with employees 6. With a non-compete agreement signed you prepare the rules of a potential litigation 7. Although hard to prosecute, your competitors… Read More »Seven Benefits of Non-Compete Agreements

Insuring Cloud Computing

While cloud computing may seem vague and confusing, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies recently completed a working definition for the term after years of work and 15 drafts. So what is Cloud Computing? According to the official NIST definition, “cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction”, with the following 5 characteristics: • On-demand self-service • Broad network access • Resource pooling • Rapid… Read More »Insuring Cloud Computing

Texting is New Calling

According to the data released by  Nielsen, the cell phone’s primary purpose of making calls is no longer valid with teens. The voice usage of teens (13 – 17 years old) has dropped from 685 to 572 minutes in one year, while the data consuming increased 256% to 320MB per month. In the same time, the texting has also gone up to on average of 7 text messages (sending or receiving) within each waking hour, totaling to 3,417 messages per month. The boys texting averages at ~2,800 texts per month, while girls are almost at ~4,000 messages per month. Paperless Advise: 1. Unlimited text… Read More »Texting is New Calling

How to Compete for Clients with Large Retailers / eTailers

The fact: the chance are slim to none that any local retail store will ever “beat” the large retailer or etailer, like Amazon. Large retail monsters have massive marketing budgets, a strong online presence, great name recognition, and enjoy a reputation for being low in cost. Still, you can compete against retail “elephants” on a client by client basis. Sometimes, you’ll earn a long time returning customer, other times you won’t. But if you don’t make a continuous effort, you’ll never win. The path to successfully compete with the big companies requires a basic understanding of their marketing strategies, including… Read More »How to Compete for Clients with Large Retailers / eTailers

Eleven Cybersecurity Tips for Small Businesses

Broadband and information technology are powerful factors in small businesses reaching new markets and increasing productivity and efficiency. However, businesses need cybersecurity tools and tactics to protect themselves, their customers, and their data from growing cyber threats. Here are ten key cybersecuritytips for businesses to protect themselves: 1. Train employees in security principles Establish basic security practices to protect sensitive business information and communicate them to all employees on a regular basis. Establish rules of behavior describing how to handle and protect customer information and other vital data. Clearly detail the penalties for violating business cybersecurity 2. Protect information, computers and… Read More »Eleven Cybersecurity Tips for Small Businesses