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Are you wasting money with Break/Fix IT services, like so many other businesses today? There’s a better way: Managed Services.

By choosing an expert provider to be your outsourced IT department, handling your entire IT environment, you can save money, increase efficiency, and enjoy a better end-user experience.

Let’s slow down; just what are Break/Fix and Managed Services?

Break/Fix service is the traditional style of outsourced IT services, which works by fixing your computers once they’re broken. In a nutshell, when something goes wrong — data loss, hardware failure, virus, etc. — you then get in touch with your Break/Fix support provider, and have them fix it. This costs associated with this kind of support add up quickly:

• Wasted employee wages during downtime
• Lost revenue and business from customers during downtime
• Unpredictable costs for repair and support, leading to exceeded budgets

Managed Services — a set of best practices, processes, and tools that, when combined with technical knowledge and proper facilitation, delivers an ideal result for businesses — is the modern model for IT support, offering a range of vital solutions to your business all for one monthly rate:

• Active monitoring of your IT systems around-the-clock
• Reliable and automated data backups
• On-site support to prevent productivity loss and/or downtime
• Hardware as a Service, providing all the technology your business needs

Think of it this way: while a Managed Services Provider is available around-the-clock, and compensated through your (and other clients’) monthly flat rate, Break/Fix service is unpredictable when it comes to costs and repair times.

• A Break/Fix approach may be a lower cost on paper but it can get expensive rather quickly – which means your overall ROI isn’t as great as it could be.
• Managed Services are designed to maximize your budget and provide the support and solutions you need to stay focused on your important work and keep under budget.

How Managed IT Services can save you money and your butt – ahem, business.

Before we get into a big spiel about our services, let’s just consider a few key points:

1. It is “InfiNet-ly” better to have an action plan and to know what’s going and what to expect rather than running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
2. Having a budget and a spending plan helps you map out your needs rather than being hit with a random “$xyz” bill.
3. “Outsourced vs Your Technology People” – We are your technology people, which means we monitor your assets and we have often and recurring on-site visits (we get to know your people and your business.) We strategize, budget and build your technology to optimize your business growth. In short, your success is our success.

Make InfiNet Solutions your outsourced IT department right away – blend all your computer networking support and services with all your hardware for even more monthly savings. 

Have questions? Contact us at [email protected] or (402) 895--5777.

Nonprofit organizations need to make smart use of social media channels to effectively engage with their current support base and find new donors and volunteers who are passionate about their cause. Learn how your organization can utilize social channels and why they are so important for nonprofits today.  

The new nonprofit needs a digital marketing strategy to show the world that they are making an impact. Social media is an especially important component in engaging your existing supporters and attracting new donors and volunteers. Staying on top of the latest social media trends and best practices is essential for making sure that your organization doesn’t fall through the cracks, having your mission being ignored when the proper and smart use of social channels can exponentially boost your message.

The digital marketing and social media spheres have opened up whole new realms of possibility for nonprofits to engage with people who care about the causes in question. Here are some ways that nonprofit leaders and organizers can make an impact using social media.

Effectively Demonstrating the Impacts Through Videos and Testimonials

Using images on Instagram and Twitter, maintaining a YouTube channel, and posting videos to Facebook are ways that organizations can draw attention to themselves. For nonprofits specifically, donors want to know what exactly their money is going to and what would compel them to donate their time as well. Use these channels to directly show the public what their money supports: who/what is benefiting as a result of that support? How does the community benefit? Why would these actions make someone feel good for donating or showing up to volunteer? This is critical for getting sustaining donors who will support your organization over the long term and not just send a donation during holiday appeals. No amount of budget reports and mailings will achieve this unless you literally show people how their donations are being used in video and image, and what an impact their donations have made.

Find Potential Donors and Volunteers Through Highly Targeted Outreach Efforts

Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and other social channels are excellent opportunities for finding people who are passionate about your case. Whether targeting users organically or running a paid traffic campaign (note that paying for traffic is not the same as paying for fake followers!), your social media manager can create campaigns that are as broad or extremely targeted as necessary.

If your organization is resource-rich and well-known, running a social campaign based on keywords or a newsworthy event can be effective. Common attributes among donors, like income level, interests, and other demographics can also be highly effective. For smaller organizations, like community and civic groups that have a local angle, social campaigns can be narrowed down based on geographic region all the way from zip codes to entire states in addition to utilizing keywords and demographic attributes.

Connect Face-to-Face with Supporters via Video Chat Like Google Hangouts and Snapchat

Running a webinar or virtual roundtable is made straightforward and free using Google Hangouts, Snapchat, and other channels like Facetime and Periscope to engage with supporters and attract new ones. Video chat is highly underutilized in the nonprofit sector and needs to be embraced more because people want to see more than just an appeal to get their money or their time: use just a half-hour Snapchat session to connect with thousands of visitors around the globe to talk about why your organization’s cause is so important. A more private Google Hangouts session that offers more hands-on discussion can be an effective time investment for getting future financial support, but even more, the talent that can assist your organization with its mission. Video chat will bring out more engaged supporters who are doing more than simply watching a video or reading an email campaign.

Test and Analyze Social Campaigns for Ultimate Efficacy

A beneficial aspect of digital marketing, social media included, is that social analytics can be easily measured to determine which campaign was effective and which one was not. It can be hard to tell if an appeal letter had an impact but if a YouTube video had several thousand views that led to your website and subsequently resulted in many donations, you’d know that your message was made clear. Analyze your social campaigns and content for their impact and determine why they did or did not result in success.

Success also may not necessarily mean donations: was your goal to increase awareness of the issue at hand by seeing many shares, retweets, and so on? To get email subscribers? Volunteers? Keep an eye on how much traffic and impact each campaign generated, and don’t forget to do A/B testing to see which image, wording, or other factors will get the best results from your supporters.

Social channels are an excellent resource for nonprofits that should not go underutilized. They provide an efficient method for engaging with existing supporters and garnering new ones and cultivating a significant social media presence, and the following can also prove to be helpful when seeking large amounts of funding through grants or private foundations. Social media is also a very public-facing means of contact that literally shows the world how your team conducts itself and approaches the cause supported.

Nonprofits need to make smart use of social media by forming cohesive campaigns that align with a specific goal and refining them based on the results that they generate.

The internet has changed over the years, but people remain the same. See what’s different, what’s similar and how the past can define the future.

There’s a famous clip from The Today Show in 1994 where the hosts try to figure out what the internet is. Millennials watch it and giggle as the stars puzzle over seemingly simple concepts like email and web pages. The hosts weren’t silly or stupid, they were only trying to come to terms with a disruptive technology that has since taken over practically everything we do. There are articles from experts in subsequent years that promise the internet would die off soon, much like Hula Hoops or flagpole sitting. We’ll look back at the results of a survey from the early days, and what the average person was doing when they used their precious phone line to connect.

Email

The Pew Research Center took a survey in late 1995 about how Americans were making use of the internet. People check their email on average 15 times a day in 2017, and some are always getting alerts as to every new piece of mail that pops into their inbox. But back in 1995, 29% of more than 4,000 people testified that they only checked their email once a day. On average, they sent three emails a day and received only about five.

CD-Roms Vs. Internet

If Americans had to choose between CD-ROMs at the time and the internet, it seems that people would choose CD-ROMs. Around half the people surveyed had CD-ROMs, and attitudes and usage patterns suggest that the web just wasn’t cutting it for them yet.

Adult Entertainment

Most people wanted to eliminate any type of adult entertainment from the internet entirely, though the margins were somewhat slim with a 52 to 41% vote for banning it. At the time, censorship seemed perfectly reasonable, much like the movies or television.

Websites

Only 1 in every 5 users had ever signed onto the web, even though the first website was already 5 years old. Survey participants appreciated connecting with strangers via chat and skipping postage costs via email, but the days of idle surfing weren’t quite here yet.

Privacy Concerns

The concerns over privacy have waned and waxed over the years, but it’s not a new concept. Half of the users admitted to worrying about someone invading their privacy in 1995. While that concern would filter out some in 2008 and 2009, it was revived again after Edward Snowden laid out the brutal truths he’d encountered in national security. Americans are more concerned about their privacy regarding businesses and government than they ever were before.

Understanding the past is a good way to keep us moving forward — until the time another generation can ask questions that will seem obvious to the generation that follows.

InfiNet Solutions is the trusted choice when it comes to staying ahead of the latest developments and can provide you with tips, tricks and news. Contact us at (402) 895--5777 or send us an email at [email protected] for more information.

There are times in your business life when you must reassess, reevaluate, and look for outside help in keeping your business operations and IT network on track. As Omaha IT consulting specialists, we employ time-tested data and IT security strategies that take all contingencies into account, leaving no system safeguarding stone or more economical plan for the optimization of your IT unturned.

With InfiNet in your corner, you’ll receive ongoing IT consultancy as part of outsourced IT solutions that cover the widest spectrum of IT contingencies.

We understand and provide for the many challenges faced by network administrators, and as such have built our practice on being able to offer them the most versatile, scalable, and economical IT solutions possible.

How We Offer Better IT Consulting Solutions

You need better IT services in Omaha, and we have them in spades. No matter what IT network eventualities you may face, our responsive Omaha IT consultants deliver better IT solutions by way of:

• Iron-clad data and cyber security protection
• IT consulting for health care facilities provide compliance readiness assurance.
• Key strategic partners who help us help you.
• The most reliable business telephony solutions in Omaha.
• Proactive problem-solving as opposed to reactive fixes.
• Fully-scalable cloud computing services.
• A cost-controlled, all-inclusive managed IT services option that makes the most economical sense.

We offer the best IT consulting services in Omaha NE for smaller, growth-oriented organizations. We also cater to the unique needs of companies across industries who need to meet strict compliance guidelines or IT performance standards that ensure their survival as business entities.

But, enough talking about our IT network consulting capabilities. We want to hear your IT story.

Ready for an Omaha IT Consultation That Will Get You Back on Track?

Does your organization need an IT discussion that can evaluate exactly where you stand and what you need to survive catastrophic data loss or another disaster?

Let our experienced Omaha IT consultants guide you to complete IT network optimization starting with a quick and easy IT consultation. Call one of our effective InfiNet agents today at 402.895.5777 or email us at [email protected] for more details on how to get started!