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Recent Focused Energy News

March 2008 News

Focused Energy, LLC is proud to be a part of the Third Annual Microsoft Small Business Summit held March 24-27, 2008.

Get tips, tools, and advice from top minds in entrepreneurship. View and register for the free online Small Business Summit at www.focused-energy.net or www.sbsummit.com.

Registration is Free!

November 2007 News

Focused Energy, LLC begins Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering training program. Focused Energy’s principal consultant Donald McGill, already certified as a Microsoft Small Business Specialist, continued improving the company’s core technical competence by beginning an MCSE training program. Completion of this program requires passing 6 exams on topics ranging operating systems (Windows XP and Windows Server 2003), advanced networking and communications, and medium and large business network management (Active Directory). This training will further broaden the range and depth of services Focused Energy can provide its current and future customers

October 2007 News

Focused Energy, LLC attends SMBNation Event in Redmond Washington. Focused Energy representatives attended a National conference targeted at Microsoft Small Business Specialists. Presenters from Microsoft, Small Business related software vendors, and hardware manufacturers educated participants on topics ranging from the future of Microsoft products in the small business space, new products designed to improve the speed of software backups, to software designed to improve the quality of customer service provided by IT professionals. Over 300 attendees from nearly all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and Eastern Europe attended this prestigious event.

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The Web has an amazing number of helpful, insightful, free resources that can help answer a variety of business or technology questions or help you to think through an approach to a particular issue. The following list of sites and downloadable documents are a partial listing of resources that have provided a great deal of value to me.

Website Resources

AllBusiness.com - Lots of useful forms, contracts and articles
Blogs for Small Business - Has useful links for small businesses
Entrepreneur.com - Information for your business at every stage of your growth
Microsoft Small Business Center - A great blend of helpful technology and business information for small business people
SCORE - (Service Corps or Retired Executives) Advice on technology and all functional areas of your business from former business executives
Smart Biz - Insightful articles, calculators, whitepapers, etc.
Small Business Chamber - Great blend of information regarding small business perks and tools