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As a technology expert who has watched the digital transformation of businesses that you never thought would do it, I’ve seen one department consistently struggle: Human Resources. HR is the side of the business that needs some consistency. Whatever else happens, HR has to handle the people-side of a business while buried under compliance forms, payroll disputes, and whatever else they are confronted with. This environment is a recipe for burnout.

We talk a lot about Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and how it’s a game-changer for SMBs, but there are a lot of ways to muck up the implementation if you’re not careful. The reality of the situation is that VoIP is not a “set it and forget it” type of solution; it requires careful planning and precision to take full advantage of the value it brings without frustrating your clients and employees. Today, we want to cover three of the most critical VoIP implementation mistakes and what you can do to avoid them.

In 2026, we spend most of our days managing cloud architecture, deploying automated security patches, and chatting with AI bots. If we dial the clock back exactly 40 years to 1986, however, business technology wasn't just a different world; it was a different dimension.

In business, it’s often the case that you spend more time talking about work than you spend actually doing the work. How many emails have you sent recently that could be described as “email tennis?” We won’t mince words; this endless back-and-forth discussing meeting times, checking calendars, and re-typing the same responses day-in and day-out is increasing your administrative friction and wasting your time.

For most small businesses, the manual reporting cycle is tedious, involving numerous different websites and applications, exporting data, and then trying to consolidate it all into one single spreadsheet to determine how well (or how poorly) your business performed last quarter. It’s necessary to look at historical data like this to better run your business, but it’s not necessary to waste so much time doing it. By the time you’re done running reports and putting all the data together, you have no time or energy left to actually analyze it, and that’s a problem.

The most sophisticated firewall in the world cannot stop a human being from making a split-second mistake. Cybercriminals are not just hacking code; they are hacking your employees. By exploiting high-stress environments and the natural desire to be helpful, hackers create click-first, ask-later scenarios that can bypass your entire security stack in an instant.

If you asked your team what they remember from the last annual security compliance video, we bet they’d be hard-pressed to remember anything of importance. That’s because most small business security training is like going to the dentist; you go once a year, and only because you have to. The unfortunate reality is that most people are going about security training from the “annual compliance” perspective, which isn’t doing your business any favors, and more importantly, doesn’t change their behavior.

How often do you find your day, meant to be spent on running your business, instead being spent on keeping your business running? How frequently do you see your day being eaten away by all the minor issues and interruptions that arise?

How many times have you felt like it’s impossible to keep up with today’s rapidly evolving business technology? You’re not alone; small businesses all over are finding it to be expansive and fast-moving, making it hard to stay ahead. If you’re sick of underutilizing your resources, maintaining broken systems, and overspending on your IT, then it’s time to start looking for savings.

As an IT expert who has spent years under the hood of various professional service firms, I’ve noticed a recurring pattern. Many lawyers are brilliant at practicing law but are often held back by a digital anchor; outdated servers, fragmented files, and manual billing processes that eat away at billable hours.