Digital signage is a great tool that allows for your business to display images and sound for an interactive experience.  Oftentimes, these dynamic images and content are displayed on flat screen monitors and high-powered projector systems.

But how can digital signage work for your place of business?

Make clients feel welcome. If your business is expecting potential or current clients for an on-site visit, it is important to make them feel welcome every second they are in your office. The same “make them feel at home” atmosphere should also be applied to the hospitality industry and hotel guests. How? A simple upload of a welcome message, along with their logo and names (if applicable), is a great starting point.

Promotes events. Instead of printing out countless fliers to promote an upcoming company event, you can put it on your flat screen monitor. This way, employees will always see it. If you are in the restaurant business, you could have your menu on a monitor for patrons to look at either in the waiting area or bar before being seated.

Accessible, easy to view schedules. Through digital signage, you can also make employees aware of different schedules. For example, you could place a monitor outside of your meeting or conference room to display the schedule for the day. By doing so, employees are aware of when the rooms are available should they need to use it.

Is your business ready to go the next level with digital signage? Contact Escapewire Solutions today!

Developing websites. A businesses website is often a first impression for a client. It is important to make sure this impression is a good one and that your website appears clean and pleasing to the eyes. This is where we come in: we offer many different design and development solutions and possess tons of experience in the field.

Email marketing. Email marketing is quickly taking the marketing world by storm. Through email marketing, you can send personalized emails to your prospective customers, and track its, including if the email was opened and whether links have been clicked with it.

Website hosting. Once you have a great looking website, you need somewhere to host it. EscapeWire Solutions offers many different hosting packages that work for businesses small or large.

Is your company considering any new web applications? You’ve come to the right place—contact EscapeWire Solutions today!

Quick decision making. Since small businesses are not part of a larger bureaucracy, they are able to make decisions faster, since they do not have to go through the chain of command for permission. This allows them to adapt faster to conditions. Employees also have more interaction with key decision makers, instead of having to communicate through middle management that can also bog down the decision making process.

Involvement. Small businesses are not part of a corporation, so they typically do not have a corporate structure. Small business owners have the freedom to decide what kind of culture they want their business to have and can set the rules as they see fit, an attractive aspect to owning a company.

Cost-effective. It may not be as expensive as you think to start a small business. Small businesses typically have access to grants and loans to help with the costs of starting up. Large businesses are not eligible for these same advantages. In addition, since a small business has only one location and a small number of employees, costs are kept to a manageable minimum.

If your small business is ready to implement state-of-the-art IT solutions, you have come to the right place. Contact EscapeWire Solutions today to find out more, and stay regularly updated with our blog!

A simple solution to expanding your IT department with your business? Managed IT services. A unique aspect of Escapewire Solutions is that we view technology as a benefit, not as a cost. Technology should exist to conduct business and make it easy, not to give you a headache. We are the cure to your IT headaches.

What exactly are managed IT services? Our MSP packages focus on preventative maintenance and proactive monitoring, so if there is an issue, we can catch it before it happens. Our packages allow us to keep all of our clients online with an uptime of 99.9 percent. Furthermore, if you are experiencing a problem, we guarantee a one hour response time.

Desktop support and security management are two additional features a managed service provider offers. Desktop support helps with patching and updating software, while security management maintains a proactive approach to firewall, spam and virus management.

Is your business rapidly growing? Contact Escapewire Solutions today for a consultation on how we can help!

Monitor from anywhere.  Do you remember the original surveillance system setup?  Your locked security system would alert officials and break-in or emergency footage would be collected on the hardware it was recorded to for future reference. Unlike the old analog systems, IP surveillance streams a live video feed through digital waves into your local area network (LAN) and online—so you can monitor your business from your home laptop, tablet or smartphone at any time.

The backup plan.  All streaming audio and video from the IP surveillance is stored onto an off-site server for that “just in case” moment.  And because all technology needs to be updated with the most recent versions of their software, Escapewire Solutions will remind your business of the changes and inform you of any changes in the operations of your IP system.

Have the best with your original system.  Waiting to invest in new equipment for later, but want the best security system for your business right now?  No problem—we’ll update your older system with IP surveillance software so you can still access your live stream.

For a consultation or to talk to a representative to discuss your security surveillance needs, contact Escapewire Solutions today!

• Make accessibility a top priority. Every service provider worries about delivering secure services to their clients. The truth is that nothing’s more important to clients than having access to the services offered. As such, availability should be a data center’s number one concern. In addition, security policies and controls should be geared toward preventing attacks that threaten a data center’s ability to deliver uninterrupted services to its customers.
• Don’t forget to protect your infrastructure. A data center’s physical security is also a very important aspect to consider in protecting customers’ information. A data center’s security controls should restrict access to secured areas, provide video cameras and motion detectors, establish physical barriers to protect from forced entry and have round the clock monitoring. These are just a handful of items to have on your checklist.
• Eye the trends. It’s mandatory that small businesses stay alert in order to prevent threats that can affect your data center’s day-to-day functionality. By consistently monitoring emerging risks and trends, the potential for jeopardizing provided services decreases. Think of it this way: should a new threat occur, the security policies in place will more than adequately fend off an attack.

At Escapewire, we want you to get into the regular routine of making your data accessible, protecting your core infrastructure and monitoring trends. Our managed services can serve as a helping hand in getting your business on the right track. Contact Escapewire to learn more!

With the many apps and games that smartphones and tablet PCs come with these days, it’s easy to think these technological devices were specially created for children and teenagers. But think again – kids aren’t fully prepared to deal with mobile devices all by themselves, even if they can be more tech savvy than us!

Do you remember our lives before the smartphone/tablet revolution? People interacted with another beyond the four walls of their space rather than neglect each other for answering text messages. And personal information (intended to be confidential) such as photos and other information, remained private instead of being published on social media sites.

What do we do if we want our children to have access to mobile devices, but don’t want them to make poor decisions that can end up affecting them in the future or hurting someone else? The solution is simple: parental control for wireless technology!

Similar to what you can do to restrict your kid’s Internet access or adult TV channels through your cable services provider, some phone carriers now allow you to limit smartphones and tablets usage. Only these restrictions go beyond adult content access! You can set a limit for text messages, app purchases, data usage and time of the day in which you want the mobile device to turn off.

Don’t keep your children from having access to smartphones or tablets. Instead, come up with parental control policies that can help protect them, giving you peace of mind. Don’t know where to start? Get in touch with us – we can help!

Have you thought of these two scenarios? As you know, after your data is gone there’s little you can do to recover it! To protect your company’s valuable information and avoid jeopardizing your organization’s survival, you should design a data backup and disaster recovery plan. Doing this will help you get prepared for the worst possible situations.

Step one of developing your data backup strategy would be assigning a team of experts to identify your organization’s critical data. Then, choose a reliable method to back up your data off-site in a secure way. You may want to outsource this to a trusted IT consulting vendor who can deliver a comprehensive data backup system.

When developing your disaster recovery strategy, verify that you have identified the most important processes and department of your company. The next step would be documenting your disaster recovery plan, focusing on the preventative, detective and corrective measures you would have to put in place in order to guarantee your company’s survival in the event of a disaster.

And last but not least, test your plan – you want to make sure it’ll be effective! Don’t forget to document every step of your data backup and disaster recovery plan and to include any important contacts you may need in the event of a casualty.

Stay tuned to our blog to learn more helpful tips to protect your small or medium size business.

How can you do this? Most airlines and hotels have already figured this out – by creating branded mobile apps. Airline or hotel apps are the best way to engage this increasing amount of “digital travelers,” while augmenting the business’s brand value.

Let’s apply this to a hotel. Creating a mobile app definitely offers advantages to both the hotel and its guests. In the case of the guests, think of making service requests and placing orders directly from the app – the miscommunication problems and wait time could be drastically reduced. And for the hotel, being able to interactively showcase all of their information can help their marketing and advertising efforts and, therefore, boost impulse-buying and cross-selling.

Of course, venturing into the app world can be quite costly. There are certain elements that need to be taken into considerations such as involvement, developing and the upgrading costs. For this reason, it’s recommendable for hotels, airlines, travel sites and other similar businesses to find software companies specializing in hospitality apps. Using their services will significantly reduce the overall costs of app development, giving your bottom line a breather.

Have a question regarding technology for the hospitality industry? Contact Escapewire! We offer a broad range of solutions for the hospitality industry, including: iPad application development, IT services, web design/SEO management, digital signage solutions, high-speed Internet access, HDTV solutions, managed services plans and many others!