Are You Smart About Tech For Your Business? Tech can be our friend or tech can be a bane of your business’s existence. Whether you’re bogged down in email or if your site gets hacked or your website or computer get hammered by ransomware, technology can make running your business easier and more effective if you have a plan in place.
Here are a few things you will want to look at right now and take care of so you’re using tech to its best effect for your business.
Are You Smart About Tech For Your Business?
- Make sure your social media pages, website and domain name are in your name. Don’t hire a company to build your site or your pages and have everything in their name you need to own it from the get go even if you’re hiring a pro to build and monitor it.
- If you have tech — social media pages or a website or a cash register, learn to use it. If your entire staff doesn’t come to work one day would you know how to keep your business operational? You need to know how to do it all, even if you don’t always have to.
- Make your passwords safe and don’t keep them in a location that’s easy to get to. Also, don’t keep a file on your computer that reads, “passwords.” Use a password program like Dashlane or Last Pass to generate strong passwords and store them for you. Make certain your password for the password program is extremely long and strong and keep it in a location that cannot be easily accessed.
- Keep documents and information off site. You may want to upload documents and other items to the cloud and make off site backups. If you’re a paper heavy office, scan that information in and take a copy of it all off site.
- If you have an employee leave the company, make certain you immediately revoke his or her rights and access to your website, their email and any other sensitive information. Change the passwords on social media and keycodes on the doors.
Technology is great. You just need to use it correctly and safely!