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In most industries, job recruiting is conducted entirely online. This makes it easier to screen applicants and move the top candidates through your interview process. However, online job applications also mean stiffer competition—the average job posting gets a couple hundred applicants, if not more.

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Link to Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for Small Businesses

Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for Small Businesses

In most industries, job recruiting is conducted entirely online. This makes it easier to screen applicants and move the top candidates through your interview process. However, online job applications also mean stiffer competition—the average job posting gets a couple hundred applicants, if not more.

Link to How MSPs Can Help Small Businesses

How MSPs Can Help Small Businesses

As the resources available to small businesses are often limited, the teams behind these businesses often wear many hats to make the most of the available resources. This may lead to stunted productivity and sluggish business growth.

Link to What the Metaverse Means for Your Business

What the Metaverse Means for Your Business

The metaverse can be described as an interconnection of virtual worlds that employs artificial intelligence (AR), virtual reality (VR), and other immersive technologies and provides users with a digital second life.

Link to Marketing Strategy vs Tactics

Marketing Strategy vs Tactics

Marketing is one of the most important aspects of running a small business—you must get your company name and product or service information in front of potential customers, or else risk losing them to your competitors.

Link to MSP Security: Top Products & Services Guide

MSP Security: Top Products & Services Guide

In this era of rapidly advancing technologies and continuously evolving cybersecurity risks, managed service providers (MSPs) and other IT providers are constantly facing the challenges of effectively protecting the sensitive data of their customers.

Link to Best Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Software

Best Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Software

If you are trying to manage relationships with many outside vendors through emails and phone calls, eventually an important file is going to go astray or something else critical is going to fall through the cracks. If you're a small business looking to manage vendors, sales partners, and other third-party collaborations more efficiently, partner relationship management (PRM) software could be the answer you've been looking for.
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Beware Scareware – Promising Security, Delivering The Opposite

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PCWorld: Beware Scareware – Promising Security, Delivering The Opposite

According to McAfee, scareware is a multi-million-dollar business and more and more users are falling prey to purveyors of fake antivirus software that can actually steal information from buyers’ computers.

“Fake antivirus programs that encourage Web users to part with their hard-earned cash and download hoax security software is likely to be the most costly scam of 2010, says McAfee.

According to the security firm, cybercriminals make upwards of $300 million from conning web users worldwide into downloading scareware.”

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