I find it hard to give an elevator pitch about what I do. I found this hard at my old job also but it was because I performed a disjointed and somewhat non-interrelated set of services. None the less, I always hated that. I am in a somewhat better spot now as I can clearly […]

Unfortunately, unless there is interesting tech news and a computer somewhere in the South African bush, this blog is about to die for three weeks. It is going to be crazy hard to be gone that long, but I have a great team to cover for me. Talk to you June 1!

- Dan

Last night was the big open house event at the new Linford & Company offices. It was a very nice time I think. Lots of friends and colleagues came, everyone seemed to enjoy meeting others in the diverse crowd, and there were a couple of bottle wines left over that we got to take home! […]

So we just finished up developing some marketing materials, most important of which is our informational “sell sheet” on managed services. We found out that it is a difficult task to boil down the customer benefits of our managed services approach to technology support agreements, but here is the first release of what we came […]

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As we build our business, I feel that as a leader in setting the course for the future of that business, I am at a crossroads that demands an important decision. The decision I am concerned about […]

Thanks to our new family, the Linford & Company LLP family, we have a new office! Our main address will remain for now in Westminster but most of the actual work we do will be done out of the new office which is in the Cherry Creek North area, near downtown Denver. Here is the […]

So today I was working on devising this great way to export and reformat playlists from iTunes to my network drives where they could be picked up and played on my Windows Media Center in the front room so that I don’t have to create playlists in two different places/software (which I was successful at!). […]

A project we are working hard on has raised to my attention how challenging a small project can be when the user base related to that project is very broad. I have noticed this before but this time it is especially noticeable. There are some basic technologies that are used across an organization… by ALL […]

Dell is apparently getting creative with this video that just popped up on YouTube. Watch Mike the tech guy get ignored year after year as his company lets bad ideas drive business. If your IT guy talks business and knows technology, now is the time to start listening! We call it Business Technology… and know […]

A lot of the questions I face from potential or early stage customers as the owner of Trimtab Business Technology around our core business technology, managed services approach to doing business is basically something to the effect of the following:
$80,000 per year technology budget?! We currently spend a small fraction of this on technology. What […]