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You’d like to save money on your insurance premiums, wouldn’t you?  But let’s take a look at how most consumers think of their car insurance. They go to the car dealer, and make their best deal on a vehicle.  After they make their purchase, then they begin to shop around to get coverage.  Although they may at first have sticker shock over the cost of coverage, they shrug their shoulders and think to themselves there is nothing they could have done, and purchase a policy, which is required in most states. Then they are unlikely to ever think of their…

It sounds funny, but there is such a thing as “winterizing” your insurance. This means preparing yourself and your loved ones for the additional risks that can abound as winter approaches. According to the New York Times, you can expect the unexpected when it comes to winter weather. In March 1947, a heavy winter snow followed quickly by warmer temperatures and torrential rain over a two-week period in England and Wales led to the destruction of over 27,000 homes and businesses. This was one of the worst natural disasters in British history. If that same storm were to happen today,…

It’s hard to imagine, but not even three decades ago households had no idea they could someday own a computer printer in their home. To those of us who use printers on a daily basis, we wonder what the world would be like without this amazing technology. The evolution of the modern printers of today started in 1938. Chester Carlson invented a dry printing process, commonly known as Xerox, which was the foundation of the modern day printer. The patent placed by Carlson would lead to what we know commonly today as the home printer as well as ink &…

Website building software, free online templates, and professional web designers make it easier than ever to create your own website. Yet there are a few basic traps that many beginners fall into. If you’re in the process of building a website, you’ll want to avoid these common mistakes. Creating a Busy Landing Page It’s vital to make a good first impression on first-time visitors to your website. Your landing page is the first thing that they will see, so this is one area that should be paid special attention. Whether using a professional design team or a template, take care…

A data centre can be a very good investment for your business in more ways than one, first let’s jump in and explain what a data centre is! A data centre is basically a giant warehouse with up to half a million computers stored within its air conditioned walls, they are stored in racks of up to 50 and they are called rack mount servers. The image above is a rack mount with 5 data centre servers stored within it, you can also see the hard drives on the left hand side down down in two rows, this is where…

With today’s advances in technology, an increasing percentage of businesses are able to operate on an international level. While in the past the cost of international communication was prohibitive for many small businesses, new long distance calling and internet technology makes it increasingly cost-effective. This is due to changes in mobile phone technology as well as the advances of VoIP programs. VoIP Technology Voice over Internet Protocol takes analogue audio signals and turning them into digital data, which can then be transmitted online. It allows you to place free phone calls over the computer, bypassing the phone company at the…

U.S. Property and Casualty insurance companies are enjoying a very profitable underwriting year in 2013. For the last few years, private passenger auto insurancehas been the profit center of the industry with home insuranceand commercial insurance posting poor underwriting results due to weather-related property losses.  2013 has been a record low year for hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires. That follows several years of horrific property losses due to weather. Many industry pundits point to high underwriting profits and wonder why premiums aren’t being reduced. Companies, like Travelers, think it’s premature to price their coverage as if the bad weather is behind…

You’re in the planning stages of starting a new business and suddenly realize you’ll need “insurance”. Unless you’ve owned a business before this might seem like a daunting task. You’ve purchased your personal auto insurancethrough the same agent for eight years, but when you start talking to him about “insurance” for your new business he turns a disturbing shade of green. He then suggests you might want an agent who specializes in business insurance. Many small in-home businesses can be added to your home insurance policy. Others in-home businesses cannot. Your independent insurance agent should be able to help you…

If you’re tired of being duped into buying hosting from a bad company, or if you just don’t want your money to go to waste, then I urge you to keep reading. For many people, hosting is serious business. Your entire business and even livelihood can rest on how well your host works. Not only that, but your SEO and marketing campaign can suffer if you have a bad host. Here are a few things that you need to check to ensure that you found a good host. Customer and Technical Support What type of customer support can you expect…

The success of Skype and other VoIP providers has led to a race to integrate this technology with smartphones. At the moment, most consumers on a mobile phone contract pay approximately two-thirds of their plan towards their regular minutes and an additional third towards their data fee. As VoIP technology improves, however, this percentage could reverse as there will be a greater interest in using Internet-based apps to place phone calls. It’s become increasingly common for consumers to do away with the landline at home altogether, but many businesses still prefer this traditional model. For VoIP technology to become more…