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Voyage Technology has been serving the Beaver Dam area since 1999, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support, and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

How to Stop Manual Data Entry from Killing Your Productivity

How to Stop Manual Data Entry from Killing Your Productivity

We’re sure that even your most talented employees have tasks on their plate that make them feel like expensive data-entry clerks. This is known as the “tedium tax,” and it can have a very real impact on small businesses (especially when employees wear multiple hats). When you have multiple tools that don’t speak well with each other, and you’re forced to resort to manual data entry, your team starts to act like a “human bridge,” connecting these isolated apps themselves—and wasting a lot of time in the process.

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4 Ways to Change the Way You Think About IT (For the Better)

4 Ways to Change the Way You Think About IT (For the Better)

IT is more than a necessary expense; it’s a tool to get your business into a more advantageous position, one where you can make more money and help more people. The only way you can get to this point, however, is if your IT is yielding a return on your investment; otherwise, it will always feel like a money pit.

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Don't Sacrifice Your Holiday Productivity to a Slow Network!

Don't Sacrifice Your Holiday Productivity to a Slow Network!

It’s not exactly a secret that the holiday season is—speaking generally—a pretty busy time for businesses. This makes any slowness in your network particularly frustrating to deal with, and potentially alienating to your audience. So what can be done?

For starters, the following five fixes:

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How to Stop Time Theft and See Everything

How to Stop Time Theft and See Everything

For all its benefits, remote work has certainly created some challenges. One major issue is the lack of visibility you have over your employees and the ramifications that could result.

While it is critical to cultivate trust in and with your employees, you also need tools to monitor progress and hold your team members accountable. Let’s talk about some of the issues you may discover once we give you the visibility you need.

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How Manufacturing IT Prevents Pricey Maintenance and Repair

How Manufacturing IT Prevents Pricey Maintenance and Repair

Manufacturing equipment costs a pretty penny, so you naturally expect it to drive profits and yield a return on investment. Yet, how often do these machines break down and cost you more than they should? By the time the red light turns on that tells you something’s wrong, you’ve already wasted precious time that you could have been saving with proactive, preventative maintenance.

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How to Keep Your IT From Holding You Back

How to Keep Your IT From Holding You Back

Many businesses think of IT as nothing but an expense, often represented by losses on your budgeting reports. You might dump countless dollars into your IT only for it to eat it all up without providing any discernible return on investment. Here’s the truth about IT: when it’s managed properly, it can represent opportunity and investment rather than expense.

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Tip of the Week: 4 Frameworks for Better Time and Task Management

Tip of the Week: 4 Frameworks for Better Time and Task Management

We all want to be more productive, but actually being more productive is harder than it sounds. Thankfully, you can make being productive easier than ever by implementing proven frameworks to drive success. Today, we’ll highlight three different frameworks: the Eisenhower Matrix, Eat the Frog, and the Two-Minute Rule.

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Stop Asking "What Happened?" and Start Asking AI "What's Next?"

Stop Asking "What Happened?" and Start Asking AI "What's Next?"

When the time comes that you have to make a big decision—one that could have some significant impact on your business, for instance—what does your thought process look like? Do you rely on data, or do you rely on what your gut tells you?

If it’s the latter, you’re literally relying on your least accurate information and hoping that you get the most beneficial outcome. Instead, why not rely on the other, quantitative and confirmed data your business has collected over the years and pair it with the analytical prowess of AI tools?

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A Great IT Project Manager is Worth It

A Great IT Project Manager is Worth It

Your IT project manager is the centerpiece at the proverbial table of project implementation. Without one, your project will be much more likely to fail, or at least more likely to get done incorrectly or inefficiently. Today, we want to break down some of the qualities that make for a great project manager and how you can find the right one for your business.

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3 Ways an Intranet Can Revolutionize Your Operations

3 Ways an Intranet Can Revolutionize Your Operations

There are countless moving parts for any business, and if you don’t keep your operations organized, you could quickly find yourself losing grasp of your business in the worst ways. SMBs might use instant messaging, shared drives, and endless email chains to communicate internally, but there’s a better, less clunky solution. We’re looking into the intranet, a digital hub for your business that offers several benefits.

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3 Ways You Can Use Excel Effectively

3 Ways You Can Use Excel Effectively

Some of the most versatile and useful technology out there might already be installed on your infrastructure. One such tool is Microsoft Excel, Microsoft 365’s spreadsheet building platform. You might be surprised to find out that Excel can be used in some interesting ways—including these three uses.

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Unlocking the Power of Standing Desks

Unlocking the Power of Standing Desks

Are you tired of that afternoon slump, the achy back, or just feeling generally sluggish after hours of sitting? Well, what if I told you there's a simple change you can make that could improve your workday and boost your well-being? We're talking about the mighty standing desk.

We're all looking for ways to feel better and be more productive, and standing desks are quickly becoming a must-have for good reason. Let's walk around some of the awesome benefits they bring to the table.

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How Strategic Technology Investments Boost Productivity

How Strategic Technology Investments Boost Productivity

While many people have heard the saying work smarter, not harder, this approach only works if employees are engaged with the tools you’ve chosen to outfit your business with. Even though new gadgets and software are exciting for most workers, the true benefits come when these investments directly boost productivity, helping businesses succeed.

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If You Don’t Optimize for Uptime, You’re Gonna Have a Bad Time

If You Don’t Optimize for Uptime, You’re Gonna Have a Bad Time

When it comes to your business’ IT, there’s a nasty word called “downtime” that’s always referred to in a negative way, and for good reason. Downtime can be a business killer if it’s not monitored for and avoided. To help you understand just how dire downtime can be, we want to compare it to its natural enemy: uptime.

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5 Tech Hacks to Reclaim an Hour of Your Day

5 Tech Hacks to Reclaim an Hour of Your Day

We can probably all agree that there’s a big difference between “staying busy” and “looking busy,” and that the first option is generally the better one in the workplace. The big difference is how productive you actually are.

Let’s go over some simple-to-implement ways you can help your team boost their productivity without even thinking about it.

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Is AI Boosting Business or Causing Headaches?

Is AI Boosting Business or Causing Headaches?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere these days. It has become a standard feature in many business tools and devices. This means a lot of people are using it day-in and day-out. The question becomes: Is it truly beneficial, or does it create more headaches than it solves? Let's explore how AI can actually help your business.

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Technology Can Help You Break Free from the Workday Grind

Technology Can Help You Break Free from the Workday Grind

The daily grind. We all know it. That relentless cycle of repetitive tasks and the constant feeling of being busy but not necessarily productive. It’s an all-too-familiar feeling. What if technology could transform that frustration into a feeling of steadfast accomplishment?

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Tip of the Week: How to Use Email Templates to Save Time and Energy

Tip of the Week: How to Use Email Templates to Save Time and Energy

You probably have to rewrite the same messages day in and day out for internal reporting and client interactions, and it probably takes up a ton of time that would be better spent elsewhere. Furthermore, you’re probably copying and pasting, which can lead to errors and oversights that you could live without. If you’re doing this for email, then you should be leveraging templates to keep your messages consistently top-quality. Let’s go over how to set them up.

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The Productivity You Seek is Indeed Within Reach, with the Right Habits

The Productivity You Seek is Indeed Within Reach, with the Right Habits

Productivity is an essential metric in modern life, and while it can often feel impossible to achieve, there are ways to overcome the anti-productivity malaise. Here are three habits that are likely to help you in your search for both organizational and personal productivity.

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The Medical Industry Relies on a Lot of IT

The Medical Industry Relies on a Lot of IT

Step into any modern medical facility, and you'll witness a complex interplay of human expertise and sophisticated technology. From the front desk to the operating room, information technology is not just a convenience; it's vital for nearly every aspect of patient care and operations. 

Consider the intricate systems within a hospital or clinic. When these systems function the way they are designed to, information flows efficiently, decisions are well-informed, and patient outcomes benefit. If this system falters, however, the impact can be immediate and significant.

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