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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

How to Scale a Growing Business Using the Right Technology

How to Scale a Growing Business Using the Right Technology

If you could generate more revenue without spending more, wouldn’t you?

If you share most people's goals and aspirations, the answer is a resounding and enthusiastic “yes.” Scaling a business is an imperative element of continued success, provided it is carried out correctly. Listed below: how you can help ensure your success, partly by implementing the right technology.

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Amazon Testing Biometric Checkout Technology

Amazon Testing Biometric Checkout Technology

Love them or hate them, self-service checkout registers in brick-and-mortar stores are here to stay, especially considering that research has demonstrated that Gen Z has about twice the level of buy-in to the automated point-of-sale terminals as Gen X does, and that self-checkout is the predominant modern form of payment. With this success, many have wondered how welcome biometric payment processing might be.

As it turns out, it would seem it isn’t.

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Tips to More Effectively Manage Your Time

Tips to More Effectively Manage Your Time

Effective time management is imperative for productivity and achieving your goals. Alas, it’s not always easy to be efficient. Listed below are three useful tips to enhance your own professional efficiency.

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The Benefits of a Monitoring Platform for Your Organization

The Benefits of a Monitoring Platform for Your Organization

Keeping a watchful eye over your business is something that every responsible business owner or manager should be doing. Sometimes you are caught up in too many elements of running a business to know exactly how your operations are functioning. Listed below are some of the biggest advantages that a conscientious monitoring platform can provide your business.

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How Data Affects Your Business Priorities

How Data Affects Your Business Priorities

Over the course of a year, a month, or even a single day, your business accumulates and utilizes a lot of data. You need systems in place to make good use of this data, otherwise your business is leaving efficiency on the table. Listed below are some proper uses for your data and how to make the most of this golden opportunity.

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Operational Issues a Technologically Sound Business can Avoid

Operational Issues a Technologically Sound Business can Avoid

Businesses need to be aware of the role technology plays in today’s operations. Not only do you stand to lose ground on your competition if you fail to properly invest in your technology, it can have other negative effects on your business as well. Listed below are eight things that can go wrong if you aren’t constantly looking to build a technologically savvy business. 

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Strategies to Avoid Network Bottlenecks

Strategies to Avoid Network Bottlenecks

Your network is an imperative part of your business, insofar as it is quite literally what powers your operations and enables you to work productively… at least, most of the time. Alas, there is always the risk of a network bottleneck, or a limited capacity for data to move due to a lack of available bandwidth. So, how can these bottlenecks be avoided?

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Advantages of a New POS System

Advantages of a New POS System

Having an efficient and reliable point of sale (POS) system is essential for any retail or hospitality establishment. A robust POS system provides numerous benefits that can streamline the operations of the business and enhance customer and worker experiences. Listed below are some of the main benefits of integrating a robust POS system in your business. 

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Options for Small Businesses Looking to Go Green

Options for Small Businesses Looking to Go Green

It's not unusual for today's businesses to turn more and more often to “green” technologies, partially due to the reduced environmental impacts that come with their use, and partially due to the operational advantages that many of these technologies also bring. Listed below are some of the options that even smaller businesses can embrace that bring these kinds of mutual benefits.

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How to Develop Better Habits

How to Develop Better Habits

Productivity is always a key focus for a business today, which makes any effort to improve it a welcome one. We wanted to take a moment and introduce you to a simple concept to make it easier to develop productive habits: habit stacking.

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3 Ways that MSPs Can Enhance Your Business’ Profitability

3 Ways that MSPs Can Enhance Your Business’ Profitability

In good times and bad, profitability is the priority for most businesses. However, this priority is usually a challenging one to achieve, but did you know that there are a few different ways that investing in a relationship with a managed service provider can help increase your productivity—and as a result, your overall profitability?

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How to Maximize Productivity for Your Business

How to Maximize Productivity for Your Business

We’ve talked about what productivity is, how it can be measured, and how to protect it from what could impact it negatively. To bring this brief series to a close, let’s talk about what you can do to maximize it as much as possible for your business’ benefit.

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How to Protect Your Productivity

How to Protect Your Productivity

We’ve been spending the past few weeks examining productivity and how to optimize it. It's now necessary to address the problems that could throw the proverbial wrench into the works. 

Don’t worry, though, we’re also going to touch on how you can avoid and/or mitigate the issues that might threaten your productivity.

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How to Track Your Productivity

How to Track Your Productivity

This blog recently discussed productivity, and how it can be defined. We wanted to continue our deep dive into the concept of productivity with an examination of the different ways that you can measure your own.

How can you keep track of your productivity? Continue reading.

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What Exactly is Productivity?

What Exactly is Productivity?

Productivity has been, is now, and likely will forever be heralded as one of the preeminent goals for any business. As such, it makes sense to understand as much as we can about it. To do so, we’ll be examining a different aspect of productivity for the next few weeks.

First up: what is productivity, exactly?

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How to Create a Desktop Shortcut to a Webpage

How to Create a Desktop Shortcut to a Webpage

If you’re looking to maximize your productivity, then having the web-based resources you browse to everyday is a must. You can take this idea one step further by assigning a shortcut icon to a specific web page you frequent. Listed below is the process for how you can do this.

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How a Power Hour Can Boost Productivity

How a Power Hour Can Boost Productivity

There’s no denying that productivity is one of the primary goals of any business, with countless examinations into the concept of productivity, theories on how to maximize it, and methods to promote it in the workplace. Listed below is a take on one of these theories and further discussion on it so that you can perhaps capitalize on it yourself.

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The =DATEDIF Function Calculates Time for Your Business

The =DATEDIF Function Calculates Time for Your Business

Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets both provide a variety of features to those who know how to use them, many of them with really niche applications to businesses. For example, there is one function that allows you to easily calculate the time between the current date and a specified day that, if applied properly, could easily provide businesses with some serious utility.

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Disney Created a New Re-Aging Technology

Disney Created a New Re-Aging Technology

Ever heard of the Uncanny Valley? It’s the theory that explains why the human race tends to prefer humanoid robots, but only up to a point, after which we find them unsettling. It’s one reason why so many people found the 2019 film Cats difficult to watch. The Uncanny Valley has also been present in film in recent years, especially when actors who have passed are recreated digitally to make an appearance, or when talent needs to look older or younger than they are.

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The Concept of a Four-Day Workweek

The Concept of a Four-Day Workweek

The idea of a four-day workweek has been popular for a while now, to the point where it is actively being tested in practical settings. Below is a discussion on how successful this approach has been (spoiler alert: it’s been quite successful indeed).

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