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Great Image Recycle Processing for any website and CMS

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Atol Solutions, after intensive research has selected a tool for all our websites to reduce size of images to assure fastest page loads and minimize storage on our servers. The results of our testing were impressive, average reduction was 69% saving lots of space and bandwidth without losing resolution & quality, even some sites look even better. Also we have noticed that even SEO was improved tremendeously. 

We sure can recommend this tool and after initial conversion of the images future used images are compressed automatically. And above all their support is fantastic and fast.

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New Affiliate for Domains: NameSilo

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We surely recommend, as an affiliate, NameSilo as a good registrar for your domains against a most economical cost per year and you get FREE LiFETiME privacy on your domain. So take advantage and save $$ on your registrations, renewals and transfers.

 

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Working with the number 1 Property Manager in Turks & Caicos

Working with the number 1 Property Manager in Turks & Caicos

Trail Enterprises and Atol Solutions are enthusiastically working on the design and development of a new responsive and highly interactive website to be able to deal with its growth and rising number of clients and project. Trail Enterprises is the premiere property management company in the Turks and Caicos Islands, handling many of the best vacation homes the TCI has to offer. 

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How is Social Changing the Way You Do Business?

Today, a small but growing number of companies are using social tools and strategies to build a whole new mechanism for helping customers get more value from a firm’s products and services. These new approaches enable better new product and service development, more effective marketing and selling through educational content -- as opposed to standard promotional messages -- better after-sale service and support, and more control over what the market says about the company and its offerings. Becoming a socially enabled enterprise requires that organizations change the ways they support staff, interact with prospective and current customers, engage with partners and conduct business activities.
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Web Hosting 101 – The Only Resource You Need to Start a Website

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The Internet is growing and so are Internet-based businesses: if you want to build your dream project online, the first thing that’s needed is web hosting. And so Cloudwards wanted to create the most extensive and detailed guide on it so you can avoid hunting everywhere and use this guide as your one-stop source of web-hosting knowledge. This resource is filled with rich information, from the basics of web hosting to how to choose the right hosting service to fit your needs well.

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How to Stay Protected Against Ransomware

How to Stay Protected Against Ransomware

In today's world of hacking, spamming, phishing & all kinds of other threats, that makes life using internet via all kinds of devices more and more cumbersome, for the every day user - we need to protect ourselves and become more aware of these threats.

Even high-raking politicians apparently are not as aware as they ought to be. A small reminder is the current election in the USA. However it is also ones reponsibility in todays age to become more aware and learn what to do to stay protected. The blog is specifically about Ransomware and how to be more proteced against it. You do no want to pay people who have succesfully taken over access to your computer and information on it.

Ransomware threats like Cryptowall, TeslaCrypt, and Locky are on the rise, targeting organizations of all sizes. This paper explains how these attacks work, and why a large number of new infections continue to surface despite existing protective measures. It also provides practical short- and long-term steps that organizations should take to protect against them.

This documentent may be a bit technical, but surely one can get some great advise from it, as to what to do and what NOT to do.

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Fraud Alert: Phishing - The Latest Tactics and Potential

As one of the top cybercrime ploys impacting both consumers and businesses, phishing has grown in volume and sophistication over the past several years. The down economy is providing a breeding ground for new, socially-engineered attempts to defraud unsuspecting business people and consumers. With honest money-earning avenues less available, the cybercrime ecosystem is ready with off-the-shelf phishing kits.

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Call Center Improvement needed NOW~!

Living in the Netherlands and having experience in implementing Call Centers, as well as reviewing in working conditions with them I am urged to publish this great article by Focus. It deals with the needs of ultimately the customer and not the ticks or the transaction fees call centers receive. Endless lines of 0800 or 0900 numbers, at the expense of the customer need to be eliminated and put in balance. So please read this article and Call Centers Pay Attention!

 

BesPractices Checklist
1. Ensure that agents have the right skills and the right temperament.
2. Invest in your staff with time, training and coaching.
3. Give your staff the responsibility — and authority — to make decisions.
4. Make sure your metrics align with achieving solid results, not just a low cost.
5. Closely track customer satisfaction, and reward agents based on performance.
6. Implement your technology with the customer in mind.
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How to Clean Out & Organize Your Computer

How to Clean Out & Organize Your Computer

Who does not need help organizing and cleaning your PC. We came across a wonderful blog about this problem and like to share it with you, to benefit all!

If you haven't been organizing and discarding files as you go, it's likely your hard drive is stuffed with downloads, unwanted photos, file copies and other digital dust bunnies. This can reveal itself in slower performance, that unsettling humming noise, and the Mac's dreaded spinning wheel or Windows' inverting hourglass.

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How to Clean Out & Organize Your Computer

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Top 5 Mobile Security Threats

Top 5 Mobile Security Threats

Mobile malware is on the rise and business decision makers are rightfully concerned about the many ways that mobile technology is threatening their networks. However, the march toward an increasingly mobile workforce is not likely to lose momentum and so the real challenge may be how to prevent foreseeable problems. Early recognition of mobile security threats is essential and also an organizations best line of defense when it comes to an overall solution. 

Download this free white paper from Ziffdavis, to learn how mobile technology is threatening your network and what you can do to stop it.

  • Find out exactly what’s behind the rise of mobile security threats from privacy-violation apps to zombie armies
  1. Discover why hackers are honing in on smartphone devices with increasingly sophisticated attacks just as half of employees are bringing their own devices
  2. Explore the top 5 mobile security threats and how to prevent them from becoming an even bigger problem

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