When working with social media in your business there are a number of metrics commonly used to determine whether the content you create and share is effective. One of the best metrics to employ is the number of shares each piece of content receives. More shares usually means higher visibility and therefore a greater impact.

For many business owners, cloud solutions have become a must-have. While there are cloud solutions for pretty much every business process these days, one of the most commonly integrated is cloud productivity suites like Microsoft’s Office 365. This business-oriented platform has a lot to offer, and like everything else from Microsoft, there are a number of versions to select from.

Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers in use today. With steady updates, fast speeds, and the ever useful tabs, it’s difficult to imagine working without it. For users who have the same tabs constantly open, did you know that there is a useful feature in Chrome that allows you to ensure that these tabs are always available?

What is Chrome’s Pin Tab feature

When using Chrome’s tabs, you will notice that tabs open from left to right.

Email has become the main form of communication for many businesses. When first launched, many people treated email as simply an electronic version of company memos and letters and therefore created and styled them as such. Over time, email has become much more informal, and while this is great it can lead to problems in overall clarity of communication.

The holiday season can be stressful and expensive for everyone, employees and business owners alike. While it is great to start a new year, it can be tough to justify or find the funds for new expenses, even if there is a real need. Instead, you may want to look for cost saving tools that can help improve business operations for less.

Apple WiFi Connection issues. There’s been some buzz around for a while involving certain Apple devices with WiFi connection problems. Users report that they sometimes have trouble connecting iPhones and IPads to WiFi. This thread on Apple Support Community contains many comments from people frustrated by Wifi issues with their newer Apple devices.

If you have an iPhone that you use for business it can be tempting to be constantly connected, after all, the device and various apps are designed to give users the ability to do almost anything. While this is great for business, it may not be ideal for a healthy work-life balance or if you really need to concentrate on a specific task.

Gmail has become the main email client for many small to medium businesses around the world. While most businesses have their own email addresses, Gmail is quickly becoming the standard program used to display emails. Because so many of our emails go back and forth over one subject, the platform threads them together into one message.

At work, the Internet is both a great tool that enables more efficient work and a massive distraction to many, especially those who are active on social media. Check with any employee and you can probably guarantee that they have accessed Facebook while at work.