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Voyage Technology has been serving the Beaver Dam area since 1999, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support, and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

How to Calculate Your Next IT Project’s ROI

How to Calculate Your Next IT Project’s ROI

Depending on the sector your business falls into, you’ll want to implement technology solutions designed to help you be successful in the context of that sector. Part of that means investing in new solutions that can yield a satisfactory return on investment, or ROI. But how do you know if a solution can yield a good ROI, and most important of all, what kind of math goes into ensuring you’re not overspending on IT that doesn’t produce results?

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Tip of the Week: How to Boot Your PC In Safe Mode

Tip of the Week: How to Boot Your PC In Safe Mode

Diagnosing issues with your PC can be challenging, and that’s because an operating system is inherently a complicated piece of technology. If you’re looking for a way to isolate the problem and diagnose it, we typically recommend you work with a managed service provider (like us) to make it happen. If you’d like to try things out for yourself, however, you can use Safe Mode to examine your PC in its base form to see if you can find the root cause of the issue.

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The IT Safety Lecture

The IT Safety Lecture

The more IT you use, the more conscientious you have to be to ensure that an action you—or your staff—takes doesn’t unwittingly put your business at risk. Today, we’ll go through some ways for you to do your best to stay secure. Let’s get started.

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How to Ensure Your Project is Carried Out Successfully

How to Ensure Your Project is Carried Out Successfully

What actually goes into a successful project implementation strategy, and how can you make sure your business is starting from an advantageous point? Today, we want to explore some of the ways your organization can best prepare for a project so that it has an optimal outcome. Whether you want to streamline your project timeline, implement tools to help see it through, or just make the entire process easier to manage, we’ve got tips for you.

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The Psychology Behind the Scam

The Psychology Behind the Scam

Scams are often so convincing that it’s difficult for even experienced individuals to detect them, but why is this the case? It all boils down to human psychology. Modern security training can help you identify these telltale signs, but it doesn’t really explain the why of things. That’s what we’re out to explore today.

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Why Double and Triple-Extortion Are So Scary

Why Double and Triple-Extortion Are So Scary

Ransomware is bad, and you can’t take any chances with it if you want to keep your business safe. Understand that it might seem like we’re exaggerating, but we’re not; ransomware really is as bad as it comes, and when you’re faced with double or even triple extortion, you’ll be put in a tough spot that no business owner wants to find themselves in. Today, we want to cover what these terms are and why they’re so bad.

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Regular Data Backups Work Wonders for Eliminating Downtime

Regular Data Backups Work Wonders for Eliminating Downtime

How much do you know about your business’ data backup infrastructure? Do you know how often data backups occur, or if they’re occurring at all? Regular backups are the key to a successful, sustained business, and multiple backups per day are your “Get out of jail free” card when you’re facing a data loss incident.

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Listen, You Need to Take Data Backup Seriously

Listen, You Need to Take Data Backup Seriously

Backup is a decidedly unsexy topic to discuss, but it’s important nonetheless. You can’t trust that your files will always be there—not unless you take action to ensure they’re well-protected and preserved for when you need them most. While you’re busy with other parts of running your business, you need to know with certainty that your files are safe, and we can offer that.

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Presenter View is Your Secret Weapon for Killer Presentations

Presenter View is Your Secret Weapon for Killer Presentations

Presentation anxiety is very real and can present itself in various ways, from dry mouth to sweaty palms to a sudden loss for words. It’s a legitimate phobia that people have, which makes it all the more helpful that modern presentation tools offer a feature to help mitigate its impact: Presenter View.

Let’s talk about how to put Presenter View to use in either Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides.

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Happy Global Wellness Day! Is Your Tech Working For or Against You?

Happy Global Wellness Day! Is Your Tech Working For or Against You?

Today is Global Wellness Day. As such, we wanted to invite you to consider a few ways to prioritize not just your mental and physical well-being, but your digital well-being as well. After all, technology is what keeps us connected to the world at large… and if we don’t approach it appropriately, it can create some challenges that we should all want to avoid.

Let’s talk about some simple best practices that can help promote workplace wellness and a healthier balance in our lives.

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A Simple Guide to Handling a Business Data Breach

A Simple Guide to Handling a Business Data Breach

A data breach—when a company’s sensitive data, from customer details to company secrets to financial information, is exposed—certainly isn’t a good thing for any business to experience. Once an organization knows it’s happening, it’s time to go into panic mode.

While this is an understandable response, it is crucial that you are prepared with a strategy to navigate such a situation should it ever arise.

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How to Win Back Customers After IT Issues

How to Win Back Customers After IT Issues

Let's be honest, technology can sometimes cause big headaches for businesses. Maybe your main computer system crashed right when you were busiest, or you had a scary data problem. These tech troubles can frustrate you and your customers.

Remember Y2K, around the turn of the millennium? It was a time when everyone worried that all computers would crash. The whole thing actually made many companies upgrade their tech and get better prepared. The lesson is that even big technology problems can lead to good changes.

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3 Technology Tips to Make Traveling a Breeze

3 Technology Tips to Make Traveling a Breeze

What are your plans for the summer? If they involve getting out of the office and going on a vacation, then you’ll want to be armed with a couple of technology tips to help you make the most of your time in a safe and secure environment. Here are three tips you should keep in mind this summer.

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How to Break the “Who Cares” Mindset

How to Break the “Who Cares” Mindset

More often than not, you have an employee on staff who rolls their eyes whenever you have to send out another cybersecurity email or reminder. This “who cares” mindset is dangerous and can infect your business in a profoundly disturbing way. Today, we want to get into why this “who cares” mindset is so dangerous and what’s really at stake when you have an employee who can’t get on board with your security policies.

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Learn How Resilience is Reshaping the Cybersecurity Landscape

Learn How Resilience is Reshaping the Cybersecurity Landscape

While the goal of cybersecurity is always to prevent threats from taking advantage of your infrastructure, this is becoming more and more challenging as time wears on and threats evolve to changes in cybersecurity discourse. A recent podcast episode from Illumio, “Trust & Resilience: The New Frontlines of Cybersecurity,” explores how trust has become a vulnerability that attackers exploit in new and creative ways. How can cybersecurity as an industry pivot in response to this trend?

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A Password Manager is an Essential Security Measure for Businesses

A Password Manager is an Essential Security Measure for Businesses

Modern cybersecurity requires you to lock down numerous access points to protect your business, using various tools to accomplish sufficient security precautions. The password manager is one such tool that can genuinely save your metaphorical bacon.

Let’s explore how this essential tool works and why it is valuable for your business to implement.

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How to Keep BYOD from Tanking Your Business Security

How to Keep BYOD from Tanking Your Business Security

Imagine for a moment a world where you don’t have to distribute devices to your employees and can instead rely on your team to provide them. With Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, businesses can leverage employee-owned devices to their advantage for work-related purposes. There is a catch, though: you have to make sure they’re used safely.

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Making Sense of Technology Compliance

Making Sense of Technology Compliance

For businesses, staying compliant with data regulations isn’t just about avoiding hefty fines; it’s about building trust with customers, protecting sensitive information, and keeping operations running smoothly. Ignoring compliance isn’t an option. A single slip-up can lead to legal trouble, financial losses, and serious damage to your company’s reputation.

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How to Transition from Multitasking to Single-Tasking for Greater Productivity

How to Transition from Multitasking to Single-Tasking for Greater Productivity

Multitasking might commonly be seen as a super skill that all employees and business professionals should master, but is it really all it’s cracked up to be? The truth of the matter is that multitasking doesn’t work, even if it looks like it does. In fact, all it succeeds in doing is making you work slower while increasing your stress and decreasing productivity.

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Happy New Year! Stay Ahead of Cybersecurity in 2025

Happy New Year! Stay Ahead of Cybersecurity in 2025

The new year brings exciting opportunities—but unfortunately, it also brings new chances for hackers and cybercriminals to cause trouble. That’s why it’s so important to stay alert and prepared for the cybersecurity threats we might face in 2025.

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