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used with permission from Microsoft Office Blogs Every day, inboxes are packed with more than one billion emails. For small businesses, the challenge to set yourself apart and establish what your business represents in a single email can feel daunting, but it's easier than you think. Follow these five simple—yet highly effective—strategies to convert the customer, close the sale, build your brand and continue to build your small business through effective use of business email. Create a custom email address for your business—Show you mean business, and get taken seriously with aproperly formatted email address. If you use your personal

Used with permission from HP Tech@Work Your inbox is probably here to stay. Here's how it'll be changing. We've been tethered to email as the primary form of business communication for a couple decades now. Yet study after study has proven that it's a productivity-wasting time suck. Just look at these numbers: On average, employees send and receive 122 emails per day They have around 199 unread messages in their inbox And they spend a whopping one-third of their workdays on email Having a full, disorganized inbox clutters your brain; getting to “Inbox Zero” (a term first coined by tech podcaster Merlin Mann) is considered a

We live in an information age, generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. That information can drive business strategy and spark astonishing innovation. At the same time, a data breach can spell disaster for organizations and for the people whose information they hold. Information governance helps keep data secure while making it accessible. Consider these scenarios. In July, Capital One discovered that a data breach had compromised the personal information of more than 100 million individuals. On the other hand, vast quantities of data that could fuel valuable analytics remain unused because businesses lack the resources to retrieve the