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From Gmail to Outlook: how it works and what to look out for

December 3, 2020Editor BloeiseNo Comments

Many entrepreneurs who started small and see their business grow over time sooner or later run into typical growth problems. Do your accounting manually, for example, or increasingly have to draw up invoices. Setting up your business e-mail is another problem. Gmail and Outlook are the two tools that entrepreneurs are using to tackle that problem. Which one should you choose? What are the pros and cons? And how easily can you switch from one to the other?

What does an app developer actually do?

November 12, 2020Editor BloeiseNo Comments

If there is one industry where vacancies have been continuously added in recent years, even decades, it is the IT industry. For many years, many employers have been competing for IT graduates to work for them as software or app developers. So there is a glaring shortage of application developers, and that is still carefully formulated. But what does an application developer actually do?

A quarter of the Dutch are victims of fraud

October 20, 2020Editor BloeiseNo Comments

More than a quarter of the Dutch (26 percent) has become a victim of fraud in the past three years. This is the result of a survey that the Fraud Help Desk conducted among 1,111 respondents. Two years ago the percentage was still 24 percent.

Saving time by being smart with e-mail: this is how you do it

September 18, 2020Editor Bloeise1

If you are just starting out in business, you are happy with every email that comes in. Hurray, a potential customer, or perhaps a new business relationship! But the busier you become and the better your business starts to run, the more time it usually takes to process email. Of course it is nice to receive a nice e-mail from an important business relation, for example, but the majority of your e-mails will eventually consist of 'musts'. Mails that simply need to be handled. It takes time. And that's a shame.

ISO 27002 is under revision

August 6, 2020Editor BloeiseNo Comments

NEN-EN-ISO / IEC 27002 is an information security standard that provides suggestions and best practices for security controls for the implementation and maintenance of information security management systems (ISMS). The standard is a deepening of ISO 27001, a standard that specifies what an ISMS should look like. They are periodically revised to keep standards relevant and up to date.

Apple or Android: what is the best thing to take as an entrepreneur?

July 31, 2020Editor BloeiseNo Comments

It is the eternal discussion at birthdays and parties in the 21st century: are you team Android or are you team Apple? Apple iOS users are soon referred to as fanboys or fanatics, while Google Android users are dismissed as people who want to sit in the front row for a dime. However, a lot of prejudices about both operating systems have become obsolete over the years or simply simply not true. This does not make it easier for (starting) entrepreneurs to make an informed choice when business mobile telephony must be arranged. Switch from iOS to… at a later stage