Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick video for you.
This time with the COVID-19 going on and everyone's panicking. Businesses are
getting shut down, and some people are being forced to get laid off or if you
can work from home then you can actually keep your businesses going. So I'm going
to be talking about that in this video a little bit. So in case even your boss
doesn't even realize, and they're thinking that they're gonna lay you off;
you could probably sell them on the idea of how you could still keep providing
value to their business and keeping the business alive while they can work from home.
So I'm going to be covering the basics in this video and a few other
things you might not have even considered so stick around
So the first thing is email. So a lot of people they're using their computer.
You have an email program of some sort. Maybe you're using webmail already and in that
case you already know that you have webmail, but some people don't even
realize that it's web-based and that you can access that from anywhere in the
world on any computer. Even having it on your phone you would think that's a clue
that you could have it with you anywhere. But I've actually got a client that they
still think that opening up a web browser is a program and that's the
program on their computer and it's tied to that computer. They don't realize it's
web based and that you can access it from other computers. So I wondered how many
other people don't know that it's web-based. So even if you're using a
program like Outlook which is very popular for business, you can still
access your emails remotely. Every email address has webmail capability, you just
may not be using it. If you have, like for example, your website like we've got twinbytes.ca
As an example of that one, you would just add possibly to the
beginning of your domain name, which in my case the domain name is twinbytes.ca
It would be mail, dot, and then your domain name. So mail.twinbytes.ca
or mail.google.com It could be webmail, dot, and then whatever it is,
or it could be twinbytes.ca/webmail or twinbytes.ca/mail Whatever your
website address is, and then add a slash to it, and then mail or webmail.
So, you may have to find out from your hosting company what the address is and how to
access that. If you're not sure who your hosting company is, you can go to
https://whois.com/whois Type in your domain name. So again, Google com
but you're not Google so it would be your company name.com
like twinbytes.ca and then it will tell you who is your host. So then you
can actually go to your hosting company and they may have a link straight from there
to access webmail. Then from there, you would go into your webmail
account and you could put in your email address and your password for your email.
You now have access to your emails online. The second thing here is
web-based tools. A lot of the tools you might have would be accounting programs,
contact management, collaboration tools, online meetings, which is already online.
But you would have an in-person meeting that you can now have online. And there's
tons of software out there for different online meetings. Now a lot of the
software's already been developed to be online and web-based for years now,
so it's nothing new. If you're already set up to be in the cloud, then you don't
need to think about remote access to the computer or working at the office.
you could be just signed in through your web browser
all you need is your username and password, and sign into your accounting
online or any of those other tools and have full access exactly the same as you
would have while sitting in the office. Even online meetings are incredible!
I've had so many different business meetings that I would have been going to since
this outbreak happened, with the COVID-19, but they are all online now. Even my
Toastmasters club, which ofcourse we couldn't meet in person, but for the
first time our Club hosted an online Toastmasters meeting.
The third thing is remote access.
So that's what we were leading to here. If you don't have easy
access on the web through these other things that I mentioned already,
you could just simply remote into your computer and have full access to it just
as if you were sitting in front of computer. Then whether the programs and
documents are in the cloud or local on the computer, you would have access to
everything. So there's a few options out there there's actually quite a few, but
some of the more popular ones I'm going to mention here. So we got things like
LogMeIn. They are basically offering at $450 a year
for 2 computers and that works out to about $19 per computer for a month.
Comparing that to $35 a month per computer for GoToMyPC, which seems to be
also owned by the same company. They're two the more inexpensive options.
A third one here is TeamViewer, which for business use is $58
a month and that's for one user, one session ,and it seemed like it was more
initially for tech support, because at those prices it's a basically double
what these other two services are. So because it's more for tech support but
they do offer a free version with TeamViewer and they're the only ones
that offer FREE. The other ones are only paid. But TeamViewer, and I confirmed
with them, that is for personal use only which means Home to Home. So if you're a
home user that wants to help a family member with their computer, you can
connect into their computer remotely and help them out and that's free. But if
it's for business use, they have algorithms in place that will
determine if you're using it for business and then it will shut you down
and kick you out. So if you just needed temporary access to your office remotely.
You can certainly try that. They do offer a free trial as well.
and if it works for you great, but it's probably going to recognize if you're in
there all day, every day, consistently working remotely, using the free version
of TeamViewer. They're probably going to kick you out, and flag
your account. So you would have to purchase the license. But honestly
looking at that, if it's a one-to-one, you'd have to look at how many computers
you have, and if you're doing them as a group between all employees, it may
change who's cheaper in this case
and what's more reliable. While between these they all seem to be the top three tools in my
opinion, that are well-known, reliable, trustworthy, and really it looks like
overall if you have only one computer you want to connect to, GoToMyPC would
be the cheapest. But if you have a minimum of two computers to connect to
remotely then LogMeIn would work out to be cheaper while still having a license
to make sure that you're doing everything legit. Working remotely in
summary here, is really... even without having a global pandemic like what we're
having now with the COVID-19, it helps the environment; because you're cutting
down on traffic, you're cutting down on fuel emissions, in the air you're keeping
your employees happy, and cutting down on costs. There's probably a whole host of
other benefits here that I'm not even thinking of. Also on a slightly related note...
It's always a good idea to practice safe practices anyway, regardless if
there's a human virus outbreak or not. Washing your hands, using hand sanitizer,
and all that stuff. Just so many people that don't even wash their
hands after they leave the washroom, and I can't believe that! But if we were to
practice safe practices on a regular basis when there isn't an outbreak, then
we could have reduced at least if not prevented this massive spread of the
COVID-19 currently, had we been practicing these safe measures to begin with.
why did so many people wait until there's an outbreak, and then they make a mad
rush to the store to clear the shelves. Buying all the hand sanitizer and toilet
paper, and all this stuff and vitamin C even is gone! I went to buy some
because I needed to get some more, and I just wanted to buy one bottle.
Shelves are empty. So why wait until there's an issue and then you want to
start taking preventive measures? It's not really preventive so
much anymore. It's already too late! Stuff is out there! So you got to continue to do this.
So I'm curious if after this whole pandemic is over, and everything
kind of goes back to normal, are people going to revert back to not washing
their hands again after they go to the washroom and things like that? Or are
they gonna continue to practice more safe practices?
If you're still watching this video to the end, thanks so much!
Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and give it a thumbs up if you
found it helpful or entertaining even at that. And I'd be curious to find out what's
the shelves in your local stores look like? Are they empty? Do you still have
vitamin C and hand sanitizer there? The time you're watching this video, maybe
this whole outbreak is over, but I'm curious about the stock levels. How is
this gonna continue? Anyway, I appreciate your comments below and
until next time; stay safe my friends! Bye for now.