a Simple Style®

I also specialize in system administration.
Although it is secondary to the purpose of a Simple Style,
it can be a huge factor in your or your company's needs.
If you only require an informational Web site for you or your company,
then you probably do not need any additional systems.

However, if you are looking at starting a small to mid-size company,
you are more thank likely going to need a system such as:

NetSuite is a "software as a service," online application.
It manages everything your small or mid-size business will ever need including:
sales force automation, marketing campaigns, customer support, partner portal, order management, shipping,
purchasing, payroll, inventory, financials, web store, web site, customer portal and vendor portal.

The true beauty about NetSuite is that it eradicates any need for in house servers, asinine software packages that
require constant updating and often a large IT staff. NetSuite handles all updates from their end so you or your
company have no maintenance responsibility. All that is required on your part is the patience to learn the
fullness of the interface. When all is said and done, all you need is the browser of your choice running on the
operating system of your choice.

NetSuite offers price packaging that will support as small as a mom and pop shop to a mid-size business.
NetSuite defines mid-size business as up to 40 million per year.

In addition to managing NetSuite for loralie.com and LoralieDesigns.com, I also manage the following systems:

I can set up or convert your home or small business to Mac.
loralie.com and LoralieDesigns.com are completely Mac based businesses. When I came back to my family business, the entire house was set up on everything from 10 year old beige boxes to Dells. This would have been tolerable except I discovered that those machines had an average of 18 viruses each and they were running 5 different versions of Windows. Furthermore, we were not one, but two, design houses and there wasn't a Windows machine in existence that could support our creative needs. We had an IT guy who didn't believe in anti-virus software and was as anti-Mac as they come. It was the perfect time for a design company to make a clean start so . . .

Now both design companies run on an assortment of Mac minis (perfect for executive, sales, accounting, shipping and warehouse), MacBook Pros, iMacs, Mac Pros (perfect for creative professionals, such as myself), iBooks (perfect for on the road, trade shows, etc.) and lastly, iPhones. The entire package works beautifully together. Furthermore, loralie.com and LoralieDesigns.com use Apple wireless (or wired) technology for further simplicity, integration and syncing.

You will be extremely happy you made the switch.
There is simply no time for Windows issues in a small business world.

Common misconceptions of Mac:

"They're too expensive!"
Do the math over time. This is the last computer you will ever have to buy. It is the most stable and easy to use computer / operating system in existence. It is impossible to beat the overall value of a Mac mini.

"Nothing works on a Mac!"
Look at the model set by loralie.com and LoralieDesigns.com.

Common misconception of wireless technology:

"Wireless is how you get hacked!"
Pretty much everyone has heard of what happened to TJ Maxx and how one of their (WEP) wireless networks was compromised (and what that meant for their customer's data). Simply read the difference between WEP and WPA wireless technology and you will see that wireless is wonderful when it's built correctly.