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Do you have a home office?
If you're running a business out of your home with one or more computers,
including laptops that you may be using for travel or as your primary computer,
you have a home office.
You may also have several computers in the house that are not part of your
business, and are used by family members or other home office users.
As a businessperson, you want to take advantage of all the benefits a
computer can provide, from networking to email to backups at the lowest cost.
Here are some things you should consider: (For more information on any
of these topics, click on the highlighted word.)
- Networking
- Do you want to connect all your computers to the internet?
- Do you want to connect all your computers to each other?
- Do you want to share your printers, scanners, cameras, CD-ROMS, and DVDs?
- Email
- How are you going to access your email when you're on the road?
- Do you need more than one email account?
- What can you do about spam?
- Backups
- Backups are critical to your business. Tape drives, external hard
drives, writeable CDs and DVDs, ZIP drives and Raid Drives are now available at
reasonable costs and are easy to operate.
- Software Support
- What software do you have?
- What software do you need?
- Computer Maintenance and
Troubleshooting
- Do you how to clean up your computer?
- What should your routine maintenance include?
- Internet Connections
- What Internet connection should you use?
- Website
- Do you want a web presence?
- Presentations
- Do you use presentations in your business?
- What's the best software to use?
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