Posts by Robert Sarkes
How Can I Make the Best Tax-Efficient Year-End Business Tech Purchases?
Have you started thinking about your 2020 taxes yet? Most business owners are just trying to make it through the year as unscathed as possible and adjust to the “new normal” of the pandemic. But you can actually do both by making smart tax-efficient technology upgrades that you can write off your taxes in a few…
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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Teach Employees to #BeCyberSmart
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) and it offers an excellent opportunity to put a special emphasis on employee IT security training. Keeping your San Jose business network and devices safe from cyberattacks is a year-round effort, but it’s easy for the lessons learned about security best practices to fall by the wayside in the busyness…
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Tips for Trouble-Free Online Meetings
Online meetings have taken on an entirely new level of importance during the pandemic. It became the only way to meet “face-to-face” with clients and coworkers for several months and is still a preferred method in many companies. Use of cloud solutions like Microsoft Teams and Zoom have skyrocketed as companies use it to conduct business activities…
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Efficient Businesses Run Off Efficient IT. Here’s How GEEK911 Can Make That Happen for You
Today’s competitive edge comes largely from how well you use your technology. Cloud solutions, automation, and how IT processes are put together have a direct impact on customer experience, productivity, and your bottom line. If your company doesn’t make the most of your IT, it can be left behind competitors that do. As many as 80%…
Read More5 Ways VoIP Can Help Organizations Get Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
When companies in Silicon Valley and the rest of the country had to abandon offices as the Coronavirus lockdowns began, many found they were being held back by a pretty large anchor. That anchor was their on-premises phone system. When you have to be in a specific place to answer your business lines, it makes…
Read MoreHow Is GEEK911 Supporting Clients During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
The coronavirus pandemic has impacted most of 2020 and continues to cause businesses to rethink the way they do things and make adjustments to keep their companies going. Many have had to switch to a completely remote workforce and may now be adjusting to a hybrid work/home model or contemplating whether to become a completely…
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Take I.T. Off Your Plate with an MSP Partnership
You walk into the office Monday morning ready for a productive work week, and a couple of hours in, you’re dealing with a server connection problem. Once that’s solved, it’s just another few hours before another IT problem redirects your time. Putting out IT fires all week can be a big drain on a company’s…
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Grow Your Business by Making an MSP Your Technology Partner
Today, business and technology are pretty much synonymous. Technology processes are so infused in the operations of a company in Silicon Valley, or anywhere else in the country, that if IT is inefficient, so is the business. There’s a big difference between companies that just use technology at the basic level and those that are…
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How to Effectively Handle Tech Challenges Introduced by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Just when you think your technology infrastructure is fine, a global pandemic comes along and throws everyone for a loop. That’s how many San Jose/Silicon Valley area businesses felt when they were faced with a lockdown and the resulting need to change their way of doing things. Going from onsite to remote IT support and connecting with…
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Tips for Addressing Shadow IT Issues During the COVID-19 Crisis
The Coronavirus pandemic meant “all hands on deck” for companies in the San Jose and Silicon Valley area when it came to their technology infrastructure. Businesses had to quickly adjust operations to make it possible for employees to work from home, and if they didn’t already have them, put new cloud solutions in place. For…
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