Do you have a PC Virus that needs to be removed? Is your laptop or desktop running slowly? Do you need a network configured? Do you need a server installed or managed? Could you recover your precious data when disaster strikes?

Call for a free PC repair estimate in and around Cobb County Georgia. You will receive a not-to-exceed price.

If its not fixed you don't pay.

EndiGrow provides laptop and desktop setup and repair for all Windows operating systems while specializing in Windows 7:

 

Often, I feel I have no time to assess my current needs because I am so busy putting out fires - fires often caused by lack of planning in the past. I grab at the nearest solution and plug it in to my existing processes as best I can.

At other times, I am fairly sure what I need, but do not know of a solution that will work or one at a price I can afford. So, I continue to use time worn solutions even though I know there must be a better way.

Sometimes, my existing solutions are working well at my current level of business but do not match new opportunities for growth recently encountered.

How do I end this cycle and gain control?

EndiGrow, as an experienced consultant, can generally help you in just a few hours:

Do you have a Business Plan? Is it up-to-date? Does your plan include sections on:

Are you planning on obtaining outside funding in the next year. If so, there are generally two business plans according to SCORE:

Will your External Plan be ready and up-to-date when you need it?
Does your External version meet certain minimum requirements?

A proper plan can take weeks or months to do completely but while much of that must be done by you, you do not have to do it all yourself.

EndiGrow, can help you at any stage of your business planning process from a few hours of assessment and review to full research and development of both your Internal and External Business Plans.

If you keep in touch with your customers, they are more likely to think of you first when they need what you sell.

At first, your business can manage with simple customer lists on paper or in a word processor or spreadsheet. None of these tools allows you the flexibility to make the most of your current customer base as the business grows. At the same time you do not need anything fancy.

EndiGrow has developed tools tailored to the needs of small business. These can be used as is or adapted with just a few hours effort to your specific needs. Then I can train your staff and provide technical support.

EndiGrow can also provide assistance with your marketing plan:

 

When Toyota revolutionized manufacturing with what is known today as Just-In-Time or Lean Thinking, they focused on what the Japanese call muda - waste. Eliminating wasted labor and material results in a direct effect on the bottom line profit. I know waste after the fact, but how do I identify waste before it happens?

Process improvement is not just for the Big-Boys in your industry. It is even more critical for the entrepreneur. It is how I identify what works and what does not.

Having undocumented processes that are a kind of group knowledge or culture in your business will work for a time.

The Keys to the EndiGrow service offering involve helping you:

I call it Uncover, Discover, Discard and Develop

Many entrepreneurs start a business with maybe one computer and a dream. As the business grows, solutions developed early on need to be duplicated and information shared.

In today's business world this often requires a network at your place of business. It may also require that team members have access to your data and information outside the office. That access needs to be easy to learn and secure from prying or malicious eyes.

EndiGrow has experience:

What I cannot setup, I can coordinate for you as a part of the total service offering.

I can handle basic cabling needs and coordinate your most complex data network requirements. I now support and install Phone Switches or Phone Equipment. I can work closely with your current vendors including CBeyond, AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.

The cost of network hardware has dropped rapidly in the last five years. The effort to implement a basic network has been reduced by smart hardware. But just because it was easy to setup does not mean you network is secure or stable.

Many entrepreneurs start a business with maybe one computer and a dream. As the business grows, solutions developed early on need to be duplicated and information shared. The unplanned progression towards a server based computer system often goes like this:

EndiGrow can help - and not just in installing a Server and protecting your data. I have experience supporting systems at each of these levels. I know how to make it work efficiently at price you can manage.

Server Design, Implementation and Support involve:

1. a. developing a server vision in light of your business plan,
2. b. creating a set of hardware and service design specifications
3. c. creating a project plan to implement the design
4. d. communicating and negotiating with vendors,
5. e. monitoring progress,
6. f. installing or supervising installation and testing,
7. g. incorporating the new equipment into a disaster recovery plan and
8. h. monitoring the server status and performance after install

 

In today's business world your customers and even your vendors expect you to have a website. The effort to set up and maintain a simple site is well spent, even if it only adds to your legitimacy and helps people contact you.

Many entrepreneurs, setting up a site for the first time, over estimate what the site will do for revenue. They spend far too much for very little clear return on their investment.

EndiGrow can help you setup a basic web site in a very short amount of time.

If your revenue is going to be driven from your web site with online payments and customers tracking their own orders, you need a site that is much more involved. I can help you assess your needs and find a developer who can deliver results sooner and for maybe far less cost than you could find on your own. I can help you develop a clear set of specifications that web designers can understand and follow. Often there is a near ready made solution for your needs that allows you or your staff to maintain and update content.

EndiGrow can help you setup a complex web site in less time and possibly at a lower cost than you could on your own. If I cannot, I will let you know up front.

Entrepreneurs operating on a shoestring and needing a database often start with Excel or even Word. This may work well at first but it easily gets out of hand. The largest of my competitors may have whole IT departments to support databases that do essentially the same tasks on a larger scale. In some ways, this gives us a competitive advantage in flexibility - but it can be a headache.

Is there a middle of the road or transitional solution?

For most entreprenuers, database requirements are fairly simple but unique - unique because by definition entrepreneurs are blazing new trails. I thrive on new and more efficient ways of delivering existing goods or services or inventing whole new industries. Therefore, many existing canned solutions fall short of meeting my needs.

Custom solutions do not have to come at great expense. EndiGrow uses working solutions from my existing customer base to assemble customized solutions without building new solutions from scratch. If the functions you need could benefit others, EndiGrow may even consider sharing the cost of development.

Many entrepreneurs only get DRP religion after going through the hell of a disaster.

But with proper guidance, DRP is not as expensive or difficult as many fear.

EndiGrow helps you assess:

As with insurance, a DRP plan with 100% protection is often not affordable, attainable or desirable. I help you determine what level is right for you.

As your business grows, your computer and network infrastucture requires regular upgrades to meet changing needs.

As systems and hardware age, they need regular preventive maintenance and sometimes repair.

EndiGrow can act as your on demand IT Department. For a monthly retainer fee, I can be on-call with a range of plans to meet your budget and uptime requirements. This service is based on a Service Level Agreement where you choose the level of service that suits your needs.

If you own your own business and have a repair need right now, I can give you a free estimate even if that means coming on-site (if the equipment is within my current service area).

According to the on-line encyclopedia "Wikipedia", Malware or Malicious Software is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent.

The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.

Infectious malware: viruses and worms are designed to sneak into your system and do harm. There is no direct monetary gain for the authors. Today, some draw the distinction between viruses and worms by saying that a virus requires user intervention to spread, whereas a worm spreads automatically.

Concealment: Trojan horses, rootkits and backdoors - By disguising a malicious program as something innocuous or desirable, users may be tempted to install it without knowing what it does. This is the technique of the Trojan horse or trojan.

Rootkits can prevent a malicious process from being reported in the process table, or keep its files from being read.

A backdoor is a method of bypassing normal authentication procedures. Hackers typically use backdoors to secure remote access to a computer, while attempting to remain hidden from casual inspection.

Malware for profit: spyware, adware, botnets, loggers, and dialers- Spyware programs are commercially produced for the purpose of gathering information about computer users.

Adware is showing pop-up ads, or altering web-browser behavior for the financial benefit of the adware creator.

Other malware for profit directly uses the infected computers to do work for the creator. The infected computers are used as proxies to send out spam messages for instance.

There are as many ways to profit as there are warped programmers to write the code.

It may not be possible to be completely immune. One expert said the only way to full immunity is to encase your computer in concrete and chains and drop it in the ocean. In general, the greater the protection the more difficult it is for legitimate users to use the computer.

Entrepreneurs as risk-takers are more likely to be careless and overly optimistic than overly protective.

EndiGrow can help you: