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Could you be using IT to save thousands?

by Chris Pallett @ 13. August 2009 11:06

A customer popped into the office recently to settle a bill. “I never wanted to use the computer,” he told us forlornly. “It’s too complicated and does far more than I need. I only wanted a typewriter. My wife made me use the computer.”

Every day there are people suffering the trauma of trying to use a computer they do not understand or do not want to use? Why is a modern tool, built to make our lives easier, causing pain and despair?

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Snow to cost business billions, could have been avoided

by Chris Pallett @ 8. February 2009 23:00

Got our mailer and looking for the article about "putting a Google rocket up your website"?

Last week the country was battered by the heaviest snowfall in 10 years, 6000 schools have been closed and transport links severely disrupted.  Forecasters have predicted more heavy snow to be on the way.  The estimated cost to business according to the Federation of Small Business is several billion, with 20% of the working population not making it to work at the peak of the poor weather.

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