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Displaced Executives seek Quality Franchise Opportunities
Tuesday, April 14, 2009Many Americans look to franchising as they TAKE CHARGE of their personal and financial future. These entrepreneurial minded individuals are not waiting for government bailouts or big business solutions; they are eager to join a high quality franchise team and begin to build a future for themselves and their families.
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Wall St. Survivors
Sunday, April 5, 2009After 14 years at Goldman Sachs, Milton Perez foun himself out of a job as a vice president and technical project manager.
It took 11 months to find a new boss - himself. he opened CMIT Solutions, an information technology service franchise that works with small businesses.
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Amid recession, Austin makes a remarkable ascension
Monday, March 30, 2009Austin makes meteoric rise in rankings of top places for business and more jobs are expected to be created in the near future.
A new list shows that business in Austin is thriving compared to other hard hit parts of the country. It’s a trend that doesn’t surprise some who do business in the Capital City.
In their first big release earlier this year, Austin based Twisted Pixel introduced video gamers to "The Maw," an animated character with an endless appetite. Much like the overeating creature, its creators have grown quickly.
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Computer virus could cause big problems
Friday, March 27, 2009SALT LAKE CITY -- It could end up destroying data or it could send a simple "pop-up" storm to millions of computers. A computer bug called "Conficker" is expected to unleash something to infected computers this coming Wednesday, April 1st.
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Business-Services Franchises Offer Second Careers to Former Execs
Thursday, March 19, 2009Last December, Ken Mallette, 37, was downsized from his job as an accountant in a large regional accounting firm. In late February, he opened a firm of his own - a Padgett Business Services franchise in an office he set up in his home in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Franchisees: Buying a known quantity
Friday, March 13, 2009In April 2006, Armando D’Accordo vowed to change his life as he looked up at tubes sustaining him while he was being taken away in away in an ambulance from his high-pressure job at Cendant Corp. Having escaped a heart attack—the chest pains were caused by extreme hypertension—Mr. D’Accordo, who’d also had a recent bout with cancer, wanted more control over his destiny.
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Safe and Secure: Businesses learn to limit ID
Saturday, March 7, 2009Loveland business owner Kendall Payne shreds documents and locks client files to protect her customers from identity theft.
“We shred anything with any names, addresses, policy numbers — anything with information that may identify someone,” said Payne,
owner of Payne & Associates, a Loveland insurance company.
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Floods, Fire, Theft & More!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009Scott Brennan, the owner of CMIT Solutions of Fox Valley North in the Chicago area, shared some useful tips on data backup and disaster recovery on WGN TV.
This short news segment might just help you avoid a very expensive, time‐consuming computer crash or server problem.
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Worm Infecting Millions of Computers
Friday, January 23, 2009In the most severe outbreak in years, a computer worm continues to spread after infecting millions of personal corporate computers and servers. The worm is called Downadup or Conficker, and takes advantage of a Microsoft Windows vulnerability. About 1.2 million networks were contaminated as of Thursday, said Mikko Hyppoenen, chief research officer at Helsinki-based Internet security software maker F-Secure Oyj.
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CMIT Solutions Holds Ribbon Cutting
Friday, January 23, 2009Chamber ambassadors ActionCOACH and CMIT Solutions and new Glendale Chamber member Cherry Creek East Corporate and Professional Offices hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony on December 10.
The ceremony celebrated the businesses' new offices and business growth. Both ActionCOACH and CMIT Solutions are excited about their growing businesses and optimistic prospects for 2009 - all reasons for celebrating! The ribbons was officially "cut" by Mayor Larry Harte, who commented, "We're proud to welcome Chris into our Greater Glendale community. He and his staff have clearly done a tremendous job renovating this building. We all look forward to working with him."
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I Thought It Would Never Happen to Me
Thursday, January 1, 2009Of course you hear of businesses that have been destroyed by fire. From time to time I thought about it, but it never dawned on me that the adjoining business could catch fire and the fire would spread to my business. All my client information from the past 17 years was gone. So too were all of my financial, personnel and inventory records. It was going to take me months to reassemble all the information. While doing so, I ran into a computer consultant who told me I could have avoided all this if I had used a modern, automated backup system. He told me what to look for.
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Work-at-home options on rise for small businesses
Monday, October 27, 2008As gas prices climbed this year, so did interest in small businesses offering work-at-home options for employees, said Shirley Peterson, owner of the Fort Worth franchise of CMIT Solutions.
CMIT Solutions offers IT help for small businesses, including software training and setting up networks.
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CMIT Solutions to have Grand Opening Thursday
Sunday, October 12, 2008MATTHEWS - Small to mid-sized businesses in the south Charlotte and Union County area have a new partner for their information technology needs; CMIT Solutions, a provider of managed services and IT support. The company will have a grand opening event at the Matthews Chamber of Commerce office, 210 Matthews Station St. from 7:30 am to 9 am on Thursday.
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Life After Corporate Life
Friday, October 3, 2008Couple joins ranks of small businesses looking to start over.
Emory Simmons lost his information-technology job at Wachovia Corp. So he created a new one. Simmons and his wife, Carolyn, launched CMIT Solutions, an IT consulting firm, in August. The couple joined a group of entrepreneurs facing challenges as they move from corporate castles to the risky realm of small business.
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Nailed It
Monday, September 15, 2008Jeff Connally, president and CEO of CMIT Solutions, an IT services company with about 100 franchise locations across the US, talks about the company's recent DM campaign, "Aspirin."
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Labor Day Advice: Surviving a Layoff
Monday, September 1, 2008After being laid off three times in 20 years, Jan Gissel looked for yet another corporate job for more than six months until she finally asked herself, "Do I really want to do this?"
The first layoff, from a mom-and-pop public relations firm, "came as a total shock," said Gissel, who now owns a CMIT Solutions franchise in Tustin providing computer services to small- to mid-sized companies. "I had become part of the family; how could they lay off 'family'?"
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Ken Williams has opened a CMIT Solutions franchise
Sunday, August 10, 2008Ken Williams has opened a CMIT Solutions franchise at 13504 N.E. 84th St., Suite 103-313. CMIT monitors company computers 24-7 and has a 24-7 call center, and provides professional services and products to small and mid-sized businesses.
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Tomball resident keynote speaker
Thursday, August 7, 2008Tomball resident Joe Nichols Jr. delivered the keynote address at the CMIT Solutions annual conference, held recently in Orlando, Fla.
Nichols, owner of a freight logistics franchise, addressed the gathering of CMIT franchisees, partners and vendors, delivering a message on how to achieve success against all odds.
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Getting Connected: Tarrant Wi-Fi Spots
Tuesday, July 29, 2008Tarrant County grows more connected by the minute. And that makes carrying around your laptop computer, either for work or pleasure, a lot more practical. We all know the familiar destinations for wireless Internet access - Starbucks, McDonald's - but there are so many places getting connected that it would fill pages to name them all. And if you're willing to invest in a broadband wireless card and monthly service plan, the choices are almost endless.
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Using Technology to Save Gas
Saturday, July 26, 2008I got an email that Microsoft was running a contest (it ended 5 July) for small businesses to win 5,000 gallons of gas. That's what When I got an email about $20,000 - depending on if your gas id $3.79, $4.79 or etc. However, the contest is over - sorry.
In any case, I think the contest site is worth 5 seconds to check out - Bumptheslump.com. The tips it gives, such as using Microsoft Outlook to track makreting efforts, using Microsoft publisher to do in house printing and using Small Business Server to have a virtual office are quite focused on generating awareness for Microsoft products. However, the tips, nevertheless are useful.
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In Their Words
"So at one point in history, your backup may be reliable and up-to-date, but with the information being so critical and with it changing literally thousands of times a day, having that backup through the Guardian system, almost a minute-by-minute backup, makes me feel very confident that the information, if we ever had a disaster here, if we had a fire, a tornado, or something of that disastrous...