by Lauren Groff | Mar 22, 2019 | Articles, Business Leadership
We’ve seen it all in IT, including small businesses that have lost business because their IT wasn’t up to standards. Not because their business required IT compliance, but because a key customer required compliance. We call this “compliance-adjacent” and it has...
by Jared Sarlo | Jan 18, 2019 | Articles, Business Leadership
Why Interning is the Best Thing You Can Do Just the other day, the office staff joked about how we were having a sort of “internship reunion” since all the employees in the room were at one point or another interns for Groff NetWorks. That got me thinking…internships...
by Lauren Groff | Nov 23, 2018 | Articles, Business Leadership
Why Would My Business Still Use a Server? Even small office servers cost a pretty penny– $4,000 to $5,000 for a typical box and licensing needs for a small office. Everyone is talking about “’moving to the cloud”, and we’re seeing traction in the small business...
by Lauren Groff | Oct 20, 2018 | Articles, Business Leadership
Thank You, Clients This is a thank you note to our clients. When we look at our clients we don’t see just a client. We see Melissa, and Raj, and Shannon, and Noah, and Virginia, and Matt and hundreds of other users, friends, and partners that we want to see...
by Lauren Groff | Jul 26, 2018 | Articles, Business Leadership
Now that we’ve created a teenager of a business… A little over 13 years ago….Groff NetWorks was born. Now it’s a teenager. So reflecting on the age of the company, I ask myself: Have we attained operation maturity? Or did we just begin maturing? Related, my wife and I...
by Lauren Groff | Nov 30, 2017 | Articles, Business Leadership
Confessions of a ‘Job Creator’ Am I ALL-IN, or did I create a JOB for myself? You see, I had a bit of a fairly unique business owners’ problem. I was never all-in. A consultant who helped us out of a pickle about 3 years ago helped me clarify why I was in business. I...