About Us
At Cape Cod Office Consultants, we provide you with the best possible solutions for your growing business needs. With over 20 years of I.T. and Business Consulting experience, we know what it takes to keep your business running smoothly and handle any issues you may have.
How We Got Started
After working as the IT Manager for 15 years at a multi-million dollar company, which was bought out by the parent company, I decided that I was going to take the skills I learned there and use them to help smaller businesses operate and grow just like a large business does, without the enterprise costs.
Every new client is a new adventure. When either myself, or a member of my team, walk in to a business for the first time we like to learn about what makes YOU tick and how you operate so that we can better serve your individual needs.
We like to be more than just the IT person. We want to be part of the team!
The products and services we offer
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"Rick is a great IT professional and can help with the entire IT life cycle from new equipment and..."
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"Rick is a great IT professional and can help with the entire IT life cycle from new equipment and set up to recycling older equipment"
"Honest hard working people who deliver what they say they will and more.
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"Honest hard working people who deliver what they say they will and more.
A pleasure to do business with."
Products & Services
We offer a wide range of services to small- to medium-sized businesses on and around Cape Cod.
We repair computer systems for businesses and home users. Mac or PC.
Do you have a computer lying around gathering dust? We will take it off your hands.
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Recent Activity
I am always adding new content to my website. I have the main pages that I use for core information, but I utilize my blog a bit more lately to have some fresh info to post on social media and on a regular basis to stay relevant. I have even been approached by a few post writers recently to add...
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I am always adding new content to my website. I have the main pages that I use for core information, but I utilize my blog a bit more lately to have some fresh info to post on social media and on a regular basis to stay relevant. I have even been approached by a few post writers recently to add some guest posts to my site that helps me increase the amount of content I have as well.
Having the blog allows me to respond to current happenings and point those articles to service I offer which are relevant to the topic.
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It doesn’t matter what time of the year it is. You should always be looking to find new business. Q4 is good when companies have to do their spending before the year ends, so they do upgrades and stuff.
I truly love working with businesses of all sizes throughout the entire year. Each day is...
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It doesn’t matter what time of the year it is. You should always be looking to find new business. Q4 is good when companies have to do their spending before the year ends, so they do upgrades and stuff.
I truly love working with businesses of all sizes throughout the entire year. Each day is a new adventure.
A few factors, from what I’ve seen.
Price - They think that cyber security is too expensive.
Knowledge - They are sometimes led to believe that either their computer has adequate protection already on it, that their modem has a firewall built in, etc.
They Don’t Think They Need It - “Who...
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A few factors, from what I’ve seen.
Price - They think that cyber security is too expensive.
Knowledge - They are sometimes led to believe that either their computer has adequate protection already on it, that their modem has a firewall built in, etc.
They Don’t Think They Need It - “Who wants my data?” Is a response I get quite often.
We offer multiple levels of protection from Gateway Security Appliances to Remote Management and Monitoring for our customers. Data loss can be a big problem with small businesses. I have seen companies go out of business from a small data breach. Nevermind a large one.
What platform are you using for your eCommerce? There may already be plugins available to do what you want. If not, a PHP script could be written to do what you are asking for. PM me if you want more details.
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What platform are you using for your eCommerce? There may already be plugins available to do what you want. If not, a PHP script could be written to do what you are asking for. PM me if you want more details.
Here's the problem with experience. If you are just starting out, and a situation arises, you tend to do all of the usual troubleshooting and could be there an hour or two getting things to work right. When you have experience, and the issue is nothing new to you, then you tend to just go for...
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Here's the problem with experience. If you are just starting out, and a situation arises, you tend to do all of the usual troubleshooting and could be there an hour or two getting things to work right. When you have experience, and the issue is nothing new to you, then you tend to just go for the jugular and are there for 20 minutes.
How should you charge in a situation like that? I've been doing IT for quite a while now. There are times when I know the solutions before I arrive based on the customer's vague definition of what is happening. When you arrive and the fix is a simple click here, click there and a reboot, you are literally there 5 minutes and it took longer for you to get to the location.
I guess that is where the "mimumin charge of 1 hour" rule comes in to play?
Message me. I’d love to come by and see if I can be of any assistance. I will be up your way a few days next week.
-Rick
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Message me. I’d love to come by and see if I can be of any assistance. I will be up your way a few days next week.
-Rick
A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. While you can do things to try and prevent Ransomware, it is best to take a proactive approach on how you will recover from a Ransomware attack. Pretend that you are going to be hit with a Ransomware attack tomorrow. What will you do today to...
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A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. While you can do things to try and prevent Ransomware, it is best to take a proactive approach on how you will recover from a Ransomware attack. Pretend that you are going to be hit with a Ransomware attack tomorrow. What will you do today to prepare for the recovery? I find that the best approach to an attack is to have a good off-site backup in place so you can just remove the infected computer and restore your files to the last restore point.
Having multiple full backups and doing incremental backups will help prevent your data from being lost. At most, you will lose 24-hours of work if you do a nightly backup, none if you are doing the backups in the middle of the night and you figure out that you have an issue first thing in the morning. It is a lot less expensive to recreate 24-hours of information than it is to pay the ransom to "maybe" get your files recovered. Remember, these are the same dishonest people who encrypted your files in the first place. They are under no obligation to honor their side of the bargain by giving you the encryption code.
Cybersecurity is the proactive approach to securing your network and data. Too often do I hear people say "my modem from [insert ISP here] already has a firewall built in to it, doesn't it?"
A firewall is only part of the solution. You have other things like Virus Protection, SPAM/Phishing...
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Cybersecurity is the proactive approach to securing your network and data. Too often do I hear people say "my modem from [insert ISP here] already has a firewall built in to it, doesn't it?"
A firewall is only part of the solution. You have other things like Virus Protection, SPAM/Phishing Filters, Application Control, etc. to consider when implementing a cybersecurity plan.
Then you have the human factor to contend with. Especially with BYOD being very popular. I install what I call "Gateway Security Appliances" for my customers. It is much more than a firewall and it inspects every packet moving in and out of their network. Those packets can then be allowed or denied based on specific rules that are sometimes set on a per-company basis.
The more valuable your data is, the more secure you need your network to be.
