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Work from home, or the road… As long as you make that deadline!

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The Hamachi VPN Client

A few years ago, I ran across a great, easy to use product that didn’t cost me a dime. It allows me to work when I am traveling, and to keep tabs on a server that is 60 miles away without moving from this spot. It even allows some of our customers to share network resources, like files and printers between offices that are across town. It’s easy to install, and easy to set up. The company that distributes it gives clear instructions - with screen shots - on how to set up your VPN right on their web site. It’s called Hamachi.

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Are you getting the most from software you already own?

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Like most small businesses, we have Microsoft Office software installed on all of the workstations in our office. A wide variety of information that is vital to the day to day functioning of our business is stored as Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. Much of this data is used for contact management, marketing, customer service management, transaction processing, and other important administrative functions.

In the course of business, we often see our new customers failing to utilize the full functionality of software already installed, particularly with Microsoft Office. For instance, we have seen new customers take 6 to 8 hours of labor to mail targeted materials to 300 customers. The materials and postage costs are unavoidable but the labor costs associated with compiling mailing lists and the time involved in sorting data based on customer type or zip code, not to mention personalizing each letter and addressing the envelopes, can be significantly reduced by utilizing the software that your business probably already owns.
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