Smartphones: So Much More than Angry Birds

By Chris Duggan, Regional Vice President of Cbeyond’s San Diego Office Many forward-thinking small businesses are increasing sales, improving their market presence and gaining an advantage over their competitors by utilizing technology. Today, high-end mobile devices do much more than just play music, run games and surf the internet. Due to their capabilities and ubiquity, [...]

Crisis Preparation Tips for Small Businesses: How to Maintain Operations and Protect Data When Disasters Strike

By Chris Duggan, Vice President of Cbeyond’s San Diego Office The recent power outage that impacted nearly five million Californians shows how vulnerable businesses are in the face of disaster. If such an event were to take place again in the coming days, would your business be able to resume operations quickly and without losing [...]

How to Write the Perfect Elevator Pitch

By Tara Adams, Cbeyond If you’ve ever been to any sort of networking event, cocktail party, wedding or similar social gathering, you’ve likely been asked some variation of the question “What do you do for a living?” You could give a long-winded description of your company and job description, and run the risk of boring [...]

Join the Cbeyond Team for FREE in the Walk for Wishes February 26th, 2011 at Sea World!

As a proud sponsor of the Make a Wish Foundation’s Walk for Wishes, Cbeyond is giving 50 lucky people the chance to participate in the Make a Wish Foundation’s Walk for Wishes completely FREE! Be a part of the Cbeyond team and join a group of people looking to make a difference in a child’s [...]

Cyber Security 101 for Small Business

You never really know the tragic impact that data loss can have on your business until it happens to you.  In San Diego, we’re not only vulnerable to viruses, theft, hard drive crashes, and accidental file deletion—we also have wild fires and earthquakes to worry about.  These types of catastrophes can happen at any time [...]

10 Tips to Network Effectively

By Tara Adams, Marketing Communications, Cbeyond It’s often said that it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. As a small business owner, it’s important to network to market your business and the face behind it—you. It’s also a great way to build a referral network—a group of people that will send business your [...]

Technology Innovation: Not just for Big Business – 10 Tech Tools San Diego Small Businesses can Leverage to Grow

As new technologies emerge the tools we use for our lives and businesses change.  Where I used to read or watch the morning news, I now use my smartphone to check my Twitter feed for the latest updates – in 140 characters or less. There’s no question that big businesses are able to quickly and [...]