Office 365 for Non-Profits, part 2

Hi everyone, your favorite Mavideans are back with a new update to the Office 365 for Non-Profits process and a lower price-point. It figures that right after we made the last update and got 15 customers set up and running and had just ironed out all the kinks in the system, Microsoft changed the process…

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How a Rock Band Showed Me How NOT to be a Leader

How being part of a popular rock band became a life lesson on leadership. Part 1 of a 4-part series on Failing Forward: leadership lessons learned from the rise and fall of my rock band, MAXLIDER. Once upon a time, there was a band named MAXLIDER – a bunch of hard rockers who somehow went…

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Website Content: One Tip to Increase Conversions

Let me tell you a short story about our small technology company and how we grew our number of website leads by adding one simple ingredient to our website. Can you guess what it was? US! That’s right, you read that correctly, we added a lot more information about WHO Mavideans are! Last year, we…

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The Three Signs of a Miserable Job

I recently finished reading Patrick Lencioni’s book, “The Three Signs of a Miserable Job”, and I recommend that everyone read it, and no, it’s not about what you might think.  I am consistently amazed that seemingly simple concepts come across as revolutionary.  I think it’s a good thing because books like this one are encouraging a…

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8 Secrets to Working from Home

Over the last year and a half I have been working primarily from my home. This option is becoming increasingly popular in the business world today. The advancement of technology such as Microsoft Lync, which allows you to hold meetings with video and talk seamlessly with coworkers through a secure instant message system, makes it easy…

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