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We’ve now completed our move to our new offices in Bexley Village.
In addition, We’ve hired Casey Blain to assist with website design.
Several of our business clients have expressed a need to store their data off-site and we’ve been looking at ways to help them in a cost effective manner.
After much searching and following up blind leads, we came to the conclusion that if you want it done properly, you’ve got to do it yourself, as the saying goes!
So we’re pleased to announce that in the next few weeks, we’ll be launching IAS Data Storage, a new site dedicated to advising existing and potential new clients just what we can offer them. But here’s a taster:
- You’re allocated storage space to use as you like in 10 gigabyte chuncks
- You can buy additional 10 Gb chuncks as and when you need them
- We’ll supply a suite of programs and set them up for you to make sure everything is protected
- We’ll set up a VPN link for you, so that you see your storage space on your computer(s) as a network drive
- If - God forbid - you suffer a theft, mechanical breakdown or fire and your office is in the NW Kent area, we’ll even bring your data to you on a portable hard drive and help you get back up and running again
- A GENEROUS referral program - free or discounted storage for every new client you recommend
We’ll get the new site with further product detail up on the web as soon as possible. When ready it will be available here: IAS Data Storage.
In the meantime, please also visit our main site: IAS Solutions
Something that recently caught my eye in philately (stamp collecting) made me think about how we value the goods and services we buy.
Ebay has a very active stamp collecting community, with anything up to 200,000 items for sale at any one time. The key item that determines whether you get a bargain or not is the catalogue value (or ‘cat’). The trouble is, there are several publishers of stamp catalogues: Stanley Gibbons (UK), Scott (US), Yvert (Europe) to name a few. Each of these have their own value that they’ve calculated for a particular stamp or set of stamps, and they very often are not in line. For example, SG tend to put a higher price on British Commonwealth issues than say Scott, to whom the commonwealth is just another bunch of countries.
When people ask me about Google Ads and whether it’s a good idea, you might be surprised at the answer:Â ‘yes’ and….’no’.
The fact is that for some business types, Google Ads just don’t work. Either an applicable keyword is just too obscure to get any hits, or the market is so competitive that the return on investment just is’t worth it. Take IT services - everybody wants a piece of the action and therefore the cost per click is too high for a small business to justify.
You know, there are days when you kind of forget what you discussed with which client at which meeting. It normally happens when you try to pack to many meetings into one day. Client visits are always a nightmare - you go there to talk about one thing or fix one problem, only to end up doing half a dozen other things. “Could you just….” never means a quick job.
I’ve been trying to avoid blogging for some time. It’s not that I don’t like new technology - working in IT means that I automatically qualify as a bit of a geek and thus love all the new shiny tools I can get my hands on.
