How are your preparations for GDPR compliance going ? Hopefully you are well under way with this now as the deadline of 25th May 2018 is fast approaching. Research by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in the UK in…
[Updated 22-6-2018] Unfortunately, this is not a simple question to answer so grab a coffee and let's get explaining. To some extent there is an element of "scaremongery" occurring around this issue at present in order to try and get…
I bet you are, like most British people these days, fed up with hearing about Brexit but as the time for us to leave gets closer, I'm sure there will be many other items we haven’t thought about that come…
Do you know what it is ? Do you know what you need to do ? Research by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in March 2018 shows that the SME sector is less prepared than others for the changes…
How many searches ? 3.5 million searches per minute are being performed on Google in 2017. This has grown by more than 45% in just the last year and continues to grow steadily. At the time of writing, there are…
An issue that I (and most IT administrators) often hear from users is that their email in-box is full and the account has stopped working. This happens all too often but with a bit of regular "housekeeping" to clean up…
How many business cards have you collected from people when you have met them networking over the years you have been in business ? And, have you subsequently sent them marketing emails or called them ? Did you know ……
A recent report based on 2016 data collected from a number of reputable sources*, concluded that despite a 2% drop year on year since 2014, "word of mouth" is still the most popular method of recommendation for consumers. The next…
I originally wrote this article some time ago for a local business magazine and thought as it is still as true today, I would tweak it and re-publish. Amongst the benefits, apart from it generally being cheaper so you can…
I am delighted to announce the launch of my new look Scalar Enterprises website and brand. This is actually the 5th design for the site over the years and has been quite a big project (it is amazing how much…