July Customer Spotlight: CARE Church

We appreciate all of our dedicated customers. This month, we would like to recognize CARE Church as our June Customer of the Month! They are a church with 3 ministries: church ministry, care corp, and a child development ministry. They are all outreach ministries that help people spiritually and financially.   What they have to…

The Importance of a LinkedIn Summary

The LinkedIn summary is a crucial part of your LinkedIn profile. Everyone who wants to build the strength of their LinkedIn profile needs to add a well-written summary. Time and thought need to be dedicated to this section. In this summary, you want to include your passions, accomplishments, and your mission statement as an individual.…

July IT Tip of the Month

Backing Up Gmail Emails Locally Recently I was tasked with creating a local backup for my team’s old emails. Extra storage space is always for sale from large providers like Google. Creating local email storage backup will save your team money on your ever-expanding email inbox as well as make these emails searchable/viewable offline if…

Fresh News from 3CX – July Edition

During COVID-19, every person, employee, and business owner has experienced major changes in the workplace and day to day operations. 3CX’s Web Client platform though has made these transitions easier.  With the power of the 3CX Web Client, employees are able to work more efficiently while working remotely by never skipping a beat because they…

News from the CEO – July Edition

We are all adjusting to the new way of doing business. Remote working is the new normal. Our team at SmartOffice USA is working hard to make this transition go seamlessly for our customers. 3CX, our VoIP phone system, has made several changes over the past few months to make WebMeeting work even better. Please…

Marketing Through a Pandemic

What you CAN & SHOULD do: Update customers on changes in your operations- Communicate any hours, service, safety protocols, or operation updates that have been made via your website, email lists, social media accounts, your Google Business profile Don’t cut back on marketing- Customers are spending more time on social media… this means you should…

Using a LinkedIn Mission Statement

As a business owner or employee, you hear of how LinkedIn can bring you business and generate sales. However, using LinkedIn does not just require a sales strategy. Average sales strategy doesn’t work with LinkedIn. The trick to LinkedIn is relationship marketing. You want to get to know your connections and understand who they are…

May IT Tip of the Month

Often when working with gmail in the background on a PC, it can be more efficient to get an occasional glance of what emails are coming in as opposed to interrupting tasks and switching to gmail’s screen. To enable helpful notifications, go to your gmail inbox within the Chrome browser. Open your “settings” menu via…