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At Hub and Spoke Marketing, we pride ourselves in being much more than just a web development company. The principle of a hub and spoke model is multiple points of support to drive traffic to your business. Like a diversified stock portfolio, you need redundant systems to pick up the slack when others fall short.

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Error 553 when using Outlook and ATT DSL

Posted on July 7, 2011 by in Tech Support

Sending email in Outlook using a non ATT email address over an ATT DSL connection I just killed a good part of my day trying to figure out how to get Outlook (2007) to send mail with AT&T DSL’s SMTP settings. Now, I have configured Outlook several times in the past with various ISPs and [...]

Logmein Remote Access

Posted on July 7, 2011 by in Remote Access

Logmein Remote Access allows you to access and control computers remotely. It works on both PC and Mac and is an effective, secure way to access your computers when not at home or the office. The best part is that it does not require and special configuration of your router or internet connection. You can [...]

Concurrent RDP on Windows 7

Posted on July 7, 2011 by in Remote Access

A handy feature of the Windows Operating System is the Remote Desktop feature. This is built into all versions of Windows, but not all versions allow remote access into your PC. Microsoft purposely disabled remote access along with other networking features in certain versions of their operating systems. This was done as an effort to [...]

Tampa Bay POS

Posted on July 7, 2011 by in Point of sale

Being new to the area, I like to network with other local businesses to see how we may benefit one another. Recently I had the pleasure of speaking to Andy at Tampa Bat POS (Point of sale) to learn about what they do. I was very impressed with the quick reply to my questions and [...]