Proactive Networking, Inc.

After about 4 weeks of procrastination, I finally got the pronetindy.com site up and operational. It really only took around 10 hours. There was plenty to do, moving all the applicable content over from the old site; creating a 301 redirects for all the old URL’s; formatting the text for the new theme; resizing images; [...]

I got an advanced copy of a CD that one of our clients has written and recorded.  I wasn’t overly excited to get it, as it is a children’s music CD.  I figured I would throw it into the car CD player to entertain my 3-year old while we were driving.  It is called “Wee-phabet [...]

The economy is in the tank.  The recession is “real”.  Guess what, small business keeps on trucking.   Why is small business is the least effected by the downturn?  Because small business owners are practical.  They are cautious.  Are you taking advantage of the competitive advantages that technology can bring to your business?  Now is the [...]

I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron.  I usually work from my desktop, but wanted a little flexibility when I wasn’t at home.  The base model came with a few good things, but I definitely wanted to upgrade some things like the Digital screen, integrated webcam, and of course integrated bluetooth and travel mouse.  Three months [...]

I have found it interesting that Dell has an “Acquisition Department”.  Their job is to find new business for Dell.  We used to buy components from Supermicro and then build the servers that we supply to our clients.  At one point we quoted a client a Supermicro server and they shared with us the price [...]

I’m embarrassed to report that I fell for a Phishing email a month ago. It happened when I signed up for a new Yahoo! Search Marketing account. I signed up for the account and ten minutes later I had an email similar to the following email in my inbox: There is an obvious part of [...]

If you want to continue answering mindless emails while you’re away on vacation, keep a few things in mind.  First, make sure you have access to webmail.  If you have POP email, you’re going to be frustrated.  Almost all hotels are blocking sending outgoing email from your POP account now.  This would be the time [...]

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Had lunch with a friend of mine today.  Asked him if he was doing any marketing on Google for his mulit-million dollar business.  He was not and didn’t feel it was necessary as they are getting plenty of new business via word of mouth.  (In all fairness he works for a traditional company that has [...]

In the first years of the decade we did a brisk business with upgrades to XP and Server 2003. I could easily find compelling reasons for clients to upgrade. So far with Vista, I am at a complete loss. Everyone at our office switched to Vista last year and (almost) everyone switched back to XP. [...]