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Establishing the current state of your marketing can seem like a huge, overwhelming task, especially if your company doesn’t have anyone dedicated to a marketing role. So what do you do when you know you have to do something? Fear not, because with this easy marketing audit you’ll be able to assess what your marketing impact looks like now and how you can create a plan for a successful future. Continue reading “How to Conduct a Marketing Audit”

5 Ways to Rethink Your Work-at-Home Situation

As countless people began working from home for the first time in their lives, time and again I’ve heard them express one especially common worry:

“How can I get any work done when I have so many distractions?”

The fact is, there’s no way to just poof away every distraction available. So to keep disruptions at bay, you need to start with how you approach them and the idea of work itself — in other words, the solution is to reassess how you think about productivity and where it can occur.

Read on to learn five points to consider if you’re worried distractions are keeping you from being the best smart home worker you can be.

Continue reading “Smart Working Through Distractions”

In facing the challenges ahead in tech, women continue to drive the industry forward through leadership, innovation and a perpetually courageous spirit.

At Wildix, we’re getting to know examples of these inspiring figures with our ongoing “Women in Tech” column. For this feature, we had the exceptional pleasure of interviewing Linda Stiles, HR Manager for Wildix UK Partner ElemenTel Ltd. Continue reading “Women in Tech: Linda Stiles — ElemenTel Ltd”

Amid the sudden surge in demand for smart working, one option that’s caught on with literally millions of consumers is Zoom. With its rise to the spotlight, the freemium videoconferencing app has drawn a lot of attention — but not always for the best reasons.

The explanation for Zoom’s popularity is most likely that it does what it says on the label: it provides a fast, approachable means of connecting people over video (albeit without providing the degree of end-to-end encryption it promises).

In a perfect world, this would be all an end-user needs out of a web conferencing app. But the problem is, we’re living in a world full of security and privacy threats. Continue reading “Wildix vs. Zoom: A Security Showdown”

The MSP’s New Enemy and How to Beat Them

For today’s MSP, the road to success is long, bumpy and full of suspicious hitchhikers who’ll rob you the second you let them into your car.

This isn’t anything I haven’t said before. I and the rest of Wildix have talked a lot about “enemies” in the marketplace — competitors for Partners and Wildix ourselves.

Surprisingly, these familiar, unpleasant faces are still around to bother us: there’s the old, outdated Walking Dead Vendors; the young, mismanaged VoIPTruz; and the gigantic, yet otherwise unremarkable Carriers. Continue reading “Enter the Vampire Vendor: The MSP’s New Enemy and How to Beat Them”