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Cybersecurity Managed IT Industry Data

Cyber Claims Are Up 30% — Here's What Every Canadian SMB Needs to Know

March 30, 2026
The 2025 NetDiligence Cyber Claims Study analyzed 10,000+ real insurance claims. The average SMB incident now costs $264K — and the top targeted industries are the ones we serve every day.
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Cybersecurity Backup

Immutable Backups – Managed Cybersecurity Strategy

March 3, 2022
Backups are not the most essential part of your cyber security strategy; nothing is. Cyber Security should be approached in layers, much like a human immune system.
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Microsoft 365 Backup

Why Email Backup and Archiving Is Important for Business

February 25, 2022
Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace are now the ubiquitous cloud email platforms, but few people are aware that these services do not back up your data.
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Microsoft 365 Pricing

Microsoft 365 Canadian Pricing Update

October 5, 2021
Back in August, Microsoft announced changes to commercial pricing for Microsoft 365 -- the first substantive pricing update since they launched Office 365 a decade ago.
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Managed IT Cloud

5 Ways Managed IT Services Can Shift IT Headaches into Head Starts

August 25, 2021
Many business owners and C-level executives have cursed their business technology. The positive news is that by partnering with a managed services provider you can resolve those issues.
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Office 365 Pricing

Office 365 Canadian Pricing

November 10, 2018
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced a December 1st, 2018 pricing increase of 5% on Canadian Microsoft O365 subscriptions.
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Office 365 Guides

Share your Calendar in Office 365 Outlook

October 15, 2018
There are two reasons to share calendars; with people in your organisation and with people outside your organisation.
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Cybersecurity Phishing

Malicious Emails – 4 Easy Steps to Identify a Malicious Email

March 23, 2018
Most professionals in the technology industry will tell you that the weakest link in any security chain is the users. Learn the 4 steps to identify phishing emails.
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Gmail Tips

Part 5 – Customise your labels menu in Gmail

November 20, 2016
Labels allow you to organise your email messages into categories. They are similar to folders, however, unlike folders, you can apply more than one label to a single message.
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Gmail Tips

Part 4 – Filter your search in Gmail

October 28, 2016
Filters are some of the most powerful Gmail tools, serving to keep less important email out of your face, and allowing the cream to rise to the top.
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Gmail Tips

Part 3 – Use Gmail Shortcuts

August 22, 2016
One year ago, I invested about two minutes into learning keyboard shortcuts for Gmail. Since then, it's saved me roughly 15 minutes per day.
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Gmail Tips

Part 2 – Reply and Archive Simultaneously in Gmail

August 10, 2016
Although archiving on Gmail is easy with its "Archive" button, it can get tedious. Did you know you can archive emails when you click "Send"?
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Gmail Tips

Part 1 – Filter your Gmail

July 15, 2016
Filters are some of the most powerful Gmail tools, serving to keep less important email out of your face, and allowing the cream to rise to the top.
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Uncategorized

Telus & The Globe and Mail – Small Business Challenge

March 30, 2016
Do you need capital to take your small business to the next level? Telus is giving away $100,000 to a small business in Canada, again!
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Gmail Google Drive

Search Emails, Google Drive and Calendar Events Within Gmail

March 16, 2016
If you're searching for an email from your co-worker, not only will the email appear, but you'll also get a look at upcoming events and recent Drive files.
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Gmail Guides

How to Use Labels to Organize and Customize your Gmail

March 12, 2016
If you previously used an email client like Outlook you're probably used to putting messages into folders. The primary difference with Gmail labels is that you can apply multiple labels to a single message.
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Gmail Google Drive

How to Attach Google Drive Files in Gmail

March 10, 2016
With the new compose experience, you can now attach a Google Drive file to your Gmail message, just like your traditional email services.
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Gmail Guides

How to Attach an Email in Gmail

March 8, 2016
To learn how you can add an email as an attachment to another email in Gmail / Google Apps, follow these few steps.
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Gmail Guides

How to Attach a File in Gmail

March 5, 2016
I'm going to walk you through super quick and simple process of adding an attachment in Gmail.
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Gmail Guides

How to Compose an Email in Gmail

March 2, 2016
Today we're going to teach you how to compose an email in Gmail. When you hit compose, a window will pop up on the page you're currently on.
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Google Drive Security

Celebrate Safer Internet Day with a Security Checkup and Free 2GB on Google Drive

February 9, 2016
For the second year in row, Google is giving away 2GB on Google Drive. All you have to do is complete a Security Checkup.
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Security IT Management

10 Reasons Why Single Sign-on is a Must for all Companies

January 5, 2016
A single sign-on solution, or SSO, will help you keep up with the new world of IT. How do you make your employees even more productive?
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CRM Cloud

Base CRM – Simple, Slick and Advanced

December 10, 2015
A modern remake of the traditional CRM system has been a long time coming. I'm very impressed with the ease of use of Base CRM.
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Google Apps Integrations

DocuSign For Google Apps

November 15, 2015
3 Easy Ways to Digitally Sign Documents in Gmail or Google Drive with DocuSign. Free, one account, one login, all synchronized.
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Accounting Cloud

Xero Accounting 60 Day Free Trial Code

November 15, 2014
With the new year fast approaching, it's a great time to switch to Xero. Sign up for a 60 day Xero free trial with Cloud Collective.
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Google Business

How Google Works

October 20, 2014
Ever wonder how one of the biggest tech giants came to be? This slideshow from Google's executive chairman goes over some of the tech giant's fundamentals.
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Google Drive Backup

How to Setup a Google Drive Backup Using Duplicati

October 15, 2014
Google Drive provides all users with 15GB of free storage and upgrading the capacity is ridiculously cheap. Here's how to back up using Duplicati.
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Google Drive Microsoft Office

The Google Drive Plug-In for Microsoft Office

September 25, 2014
Google Drive is always making strides to work better with Microsoft Office. Now you can save Office Files into Google Drive straight from Microsoft Office's interface.
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Google Apps Sales

Top 10 Google Apps Tips for Sales and Marketing Users

August 20, 2014
Google interviewed Sales and Marketing executives across the world to discover the innovative ways they're using Google Apps to work the way they live.
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