IT For Small Business: DIY
When small businesses have IT problems, would you rather do it yourself? How do you know when it’s time to call the experts?
Continue Reading →IT For Small Business: Break-Fix vs. Managed Services
One of the problem with many computer-tech types is that they love to use lots of buzzwords, catch-phrases and jargon. Not all of them, but many of them. Unfortunately business management books often don’t include a dictionary. This leaves you to guess on how to translate what the geeks are saying, and to understand the [...]
Continue Reading →The Ups and Downs of Technology
Back in the 1980’s or 1990’s, some smart business person decided to leave his mobile phone on one night, and ended up answering a work call. Maybe they were working late anyway, maybe they weren’t; who knows. However that simple act has since changed the way we expect to be able to serve our clients [...]
Continue Reading →Trusting Your Outsourced IT
Did you ever think Twitter could be used as an analogy for tech support people? Some of you may know that I’m a fairly big hockey fan. Not just one team, but the sport itself. Sure I have my favourites, but I read a fair amount of news about different teams, and am happy watching [...]
Continue Reading →New Website!
CPG is pleased to announce that our new website is now live, and up and running. After 2 short weeks of website design work, we now have a finished product. If you’re reading this from a website that imports some of our content, such as LinkedIn or Facebook, then why don’t you come visit us? [...]
Continue Reading →Connectivity
As I write this, I’m actually sitting in a room with my laptop plugged into my cell phone. The cell phone is providing the internet access I require. For those not in the know, this is referred to as ‘tethering’. By doing this, I am able to accomplish almost all the work I need to, [...]
Continue Reading →Another Major Shift
A couple weeks ago I gave a presentation to the Richmond Chamber of Commerce on understanding new technologies. Things like cloud computing, Software As A Service, and explaining what they mean to and for businesses. Then a few days later I received a news item that seemed very timely to that presentation. This one will be [...]
Continue Reading →Seminar announcement
CPG Systems is pleased to announce that we will be presenting a seminar to the members of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce titled Beyond The Buzzwords: The Economics of New Technologies on November 4th at 8 AM at the Richmond Chamber’s offices. In this informative and educational session, you can learn the true meaning of [...]
Continue Reading →AVG Free Update Warning
Avg Anti-Virus Free Edition (http://free.avg.com) is one of the internet’s most popular downloads. And why not? For almost every computer (yes, even Apple machines), anti-virus is essential. And what better price for software than… free? The people at AVG seem to follow a pattern though, and it’s almost time for that pattern to come full [...]
Continue Reading →Why Better Business
CPG Systems recently went through the process of getting accredited by the Better Business Bureau here in the BC Lower Mainland. We’re really quite happy to have been accepted. And even though many see BBB as a cakewalk to get into, I was actually a bit surprised at the thoroughness of their process. Let me [...]
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