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Data Center Nightmare

2012-01-30T19:51:00.001-08:00

In response to the governments raid on Megaupload in VA.
I been observing the the quick decision made almost over night to suddenly move everything to the "cloud" by business, schools, churches, etc. and not once have i heard a reason that i personally believe. It seems as though it's used as a symbol of their success when they can say in a conversation "we have migrated to the cloud" and that's it like they graduated. This case is important and I agree with Ray, the government can destroy everything. Now what? Hire an attorney to fight the government because they lost your data? If I was on the jury I would say where is your backup? Restore the latest backup. Sounds crazy but since when do you not have an off site backup. The point is this is a bad situation and there most likely more to come and people have let their guard down and were easily convinced that because the cloud is virtual and so big that data isn't lost. The clouds are dumping rain now. Where is the next shower?
So you are a small company and now have no access to your data. Is the government going to assist customers of Megaupload or say it is a foreign owned company? You know that is going to come yet they had jurisdiction to seize. At the end of the day their isn't any protection on the Internet and the day I saw grandma put the knitting away and get a phone with Internet I started preaching to all my clients changes were coming. What once was only used by IT professionals and large companies is not shared equally with toddlers to grandmothers. Where were these new Internet surfers given the rules of the road? They haven't seen the real problems that the original groups have and haven't had to recover from a complete failure. Sad but true this might be their first recovery.

End of Year drawing near!

2011-09-20T00:15:00.000-07:00

As the year quickly comes to a close it is time to start reflecting before the season swings into full gear. Did you successfully engage in the resolutions you made last year? Are any of them going to be recycled this year? Do your friends and associates know wether or not you kept them all year? most important, do you feel like you gave it your best everyday? When its all said and done that is the only important thing that matters. How do you feel about yourself and did you let yourself down. So many times we go through certain situations to only be disappointed when at the end of the road you're all alone. Tthat's a great lesson in life, i knew a guy years ago that always sold himself short because everything he did was for the benefit of others. Dont get me wrong he truely loved to do that, but for all the wrong reasons. One day he suddenly realised that no matter what he did or how much of his soul he gave there were people that didnt appreciate him and it took years for him to recover. Who's truely doing wrong? if someone was always happy and gave you money everyday would you take it? Would you also feel like that is what they wanted to do and it made them happy if they were always smiling? Well business is the same principle. Plan your strategy, act accordingly. A business without a plan is planned to fail!

Harvest the power of fear!

2011-08-22T01:45:00.001-07:00

What do you do when you finally get to a point in business when the surroundings of what has always been exciting suddenly seems out of place and hard to understand? When the goals and expectations of your life long dreams suddenly don't make any since or possibly don't even seem irrelevant to your situation? This period more times than not is misunderstood, misdiagnosed and denied its time in the spot light. ironically that's the time it needs to motivate you to the next level and that feeling is there to make you pay attention. I've been fascinated with the human mind for as long as i can remember. When I went to college one of the most remember able classes I took one semester was sociology. it was then i learned just how powerful the mind can be at times in life when we need it the most. how strange that sounds! In order to begin to use this you need to understand just one simple fact I learned and to this day haven't been wrong. Every action and decision in life since the day you were born is based on fear! and these two innate fears i believe are the roots of all that we know today. the fear of falling and loud noises. Sounds too simple and saying that sounds scary. I bet you're shaking your head that it's not true I would. Once you believe this one fact and focus on using it to your advantage you will have great use for that subconscious mind that use to hinder the leaps of faith you must be willing to take to get ahead. Harvest the power of fear!

Diligence pays off!

2011-06-17T22:03:00.000-07:00

After months of development CG Software announces the release of version 6.7.13. By far this has been the largest release done in the last 5 years primarily due to the changes in expectations by users. “We stepped out of our normal comfort zone on this one”, says James Palmer, Managing Partner in CG Software. “Everyone has to take their chances, without that what would life be? We chose to hire a fresh new group of programmers with new ideas and energy. More importantly we made a decision this year that we were going to find a group that has never programmed in this industry so that they could bring their combined knowledge to the Salon and Spa industry. Last week it paid off when the final piece was completed and at the meeting the new ideas started to flow.”

I spent some time behind the screens with CGS and their staff last week and they have got some great new projects rolling out later this year. This version is a must for the people in the industry that want to propel their business above all the rest. CG Software has done their homework! For information on v.6.7.13 contact sales@cgsoftwareinc.com at (866)417-9719.

100% Booked!

2011-06-02T00:40:00.001-07:00

When you get into work and look at the scheduler what is the first thing to come to mind when you see one time on the books? Typically this is lost revenue. For years you have been coaching the staff on how to work the books and they have done their best. How do you fill these openings? Do you spend money on marketing? Get harder on the staff to manage time better? The answer is none of these. Time and time again this hasnt worked and if it did the employee turn over is so high how do you keep up? We have a proven answer! ServiceAvailableNow! Call to find out more information on how to fill your open slots today!

Costly Decisions!

2011-05-06T23:34:00.000-07:00

Interesting Analysis:

If a ComeAgain® client continually leaves tickets on hold with no since of urgency to releasing them. If left on hold they say there until the transaction is purged out of the transaction.mdb. At the least that's four months, and for 60% of our clients never purge. So for at least four months they can't use client (Mr. Smith) when the client does come in at least once if not more they create a (Mr. Smith) same names are allowed in the database.

Effect: if the wrong one is selected either scheduling or POS, no history. Client claims there is a glitch, “history disappeared”, “someone deleted lab data, security in system doesn’t work”, etc….

Now, the ‘otherside’ no one thought about, while they have let the on hold problem go on for this time they have been marketing to their clients and Mr. Smith was receiving all marketing at least twice on every campaign. Now the cost of saving money on support ($50 - $100/avg.) has turned in to possibly years of lost revenue for the salon ($151.67 - $303.33/yr. – maintaining a middle aged male’s hair) and ($38.95 - $77.85) lost in tips to the employee.

What would you do?

Location Expansion Modules

2011-05-05T22:09:00.000-07:00

January 15, 2010 - ChainLink™ Module, Smart Rewards™ and TimeClock - Now Avaliable with ComeAgain® and TimeGate® CG Software, Inc. now releases ChainLink™ Module for Real-time Prepaid Account Tracking. Pilot Salon opened Monday Synchronizing 6 Million Dollars in Prepaid Accounts without missing a beat! CG Software, Inc. releases V.6.37.01 to a hand full of Pilot Salons to test its latest feature "Smart Rewards™" Track employee hours with our all new TimeClock software. Allow employees to clock in and out with their ComeAgain® or TimeGate® user name and password from any computer on the network. Run employee hour reports from any computer through Report Menu. From your admin console add, edit delete punchs. Help stream line your business by having gross pay calculated automatically.