Now that the craziness of tax season is over, it is a great time to get some strategic planning done. While tax season is still fresh of mind, we recommend you make a list with these items: What was the biggest frustration during the season? What was the one thing that you and your staff…
In a press release from the White House on March 22, 2022, the President states: “ I have previously warned about the potential that Russia could conduct malicious cyber activity against the United States, including as a response to the unprecedented economic costs we’ve imposed on Russia alongside our allies and partners. It’s part of Russia’s…
We all know things can be crazy and seem overwhelming during tax season. Here are 5 tips to keep you productive during the busy season: Clean your desk and your “virtual desk” regularly. While daily cleaning of your desk may seem like a dream, we should at least try to do it weekly. Get all…
Spear phishing is an email targeted towards a specific individual, organization, or business. The intent of these emails is to steal data for a malicious purpose. The information they are after can be many things such as: bank accounts, credit cards, social security numbers, EIN, or other sensitive information. Accountants are often the target of…
Who listening here has perfect employees? Can your employees make the right decision over 100 times a day? Without proper e-mail protection and training that is what we ask our employees to do. We have discussed training before, today we are going to discuss e-mail protection options. Good e-mail protection add ons can either help…
Are you still using a “Free” Email service for your business? You need to stop today! Gmail, Verizon, Comcast, Yahoo, AOL, and many others offer you a free email address. This is ok for organizing a golf trip, or sending cat videos to grandma but not for your business. Here are 5 reasons you shouldn’t…
We talked before about why we don’t want to hoard emails but today I want to talk about specifically why you shouldn’t use email as permanent storage for day to day business work flow. E-mail is great for communicating with your vendors and clients but it should not be the sole place we store items…
Welcome to the earliest emails in my inbox. There are soo many important e-mails here. Oh look it is a 20% sale on all Nerf guns at Jamesway next week. Here is another one from my uncle, if I don’t forward this email to 10 people in the next 10 minutes I am going to…
We see countless businesses still using a gmail, comcast, or other isp email address on their website and business cards. Domain names are so inexpensive, and security is such a priority, this is a mistake. Not only does it look unprofessional for you to be utilizing a free email service, IT IS! By using a…
Now that we are in tax season you should make your clients aware of multiple tax and IRS scams that will be circulating this year. Please make all your clients aware that the IRS doesn’t initiate contact with taxpayers by email, test, or social media. There are two major types of IRS scams we see…