Google tools for smart searching. Google’s created a host of tools to help users find just what they need online. Take a look at these easy tools to narrow down your search results and speed up your search time.
Not sure what words to enter? A synonym search is one great way to find a variety of listings for things under similar terms. Use Google’s tilde (~) operator to search for pages that are synonyms or similar to the term you enter. For example, if you enter “~cheap office furniture” your results may yield “affordable office furniture”, “home office furniture”, “discount office furniture”, and more. If you find a website that is useful, you can also enter “related:” along with the website name to find similar content on other domains.
Quickly eliminate results that aren’t useful. The negative (-) operator gives you the power to eliminate specific matches from your results. For example, if you don’t want to see a listing for “home office furniture” you could type “~cheap office furniture, -home” to eliminate any results with the word “home” in them. Refine your results as much or as little as you would like to find just want you need online.
Other useful tools. Don’t forget, Google offers many built-in tools too. Tracking for packages sent via UPS, FedEx or USPS allows you to quickly find any shipment online by entering your tracking number into Google. The location trick is great too! Say you want Chinese food near your hotel, simply enter “Chinese” and the zip code for a full listing.
Our newest addition is happy to help! ITS is growing at a fantastic rate. In the past few years, we have expanded every division of our humble company to better serve you. Today,
we are proud to introduce Brian Arredondo as a new technology sales agent here at ITS.
Brian works with prospects and new clients to budget IT expenses offering our all-inclusive, flat-rate IT services, and predictable support. He is committed to ensuring your systems are stable and reliable so you can focus on growing your business.
Brian joined the sales team in April. You can’t miss his bold character and cheerful attitude. Brian is passionate about technology and focuses wholeheartedly on the most effective solution to for all our prospects and customers. If ever you have a question about a new project or service, give Brian a call.

As a special tribute to our ITS family, we present the ITS Tech Scoop snip-it to share a little more about our wonderful team. Ryan Deneau, Project Manager/Virtual Virtuoso is our Tech of the Month for May. Ryan is an essential part of the ITS team. You’ve probably worked with him on new projects or even upgrades. We often find him buried in his computer diligently working to improve our services, researching new technology, and always 100% focused on our clients. Ryan is our most established technician with a full collection of industry certifications and extensive training in everything from network and project management to computer information systems and VoIP services. Ryan humbly attributes the turning point in his career with his decision to join the ITS family. He says,
Everyone wants to save some money, don’t you? Take peek at these three money saving tips for any office. They seem like no brainers, but these simple changes can reduce costs.
Remember the good old days when you could hop on your bicycle and feel free racing down the street? Revive your cycling days with National Bike Month.
The term, “in the cloud” doesn’t just mean operations are completed on an unseen server in a faraway place. Cloud computing provides additional space, security and enterprise functionality for small and medium sized businesses to gain traction in their vertical.
1. What are your goals? Clearly defining what you want to accomplish with your technology will help you determine the best solutions to support your efforts. Don’t pay for added offerings you will never use. Look for utilities that have a measurable benefit that will improve your business.
An affordable convertible to show off at the office.
In present times, businesses are required to do something new and special in order to thrive in the midst of severe competition, both locally and globally. Check out these great tips to outsource tasks for yourself and your company.
Sometimes data isn’t pretty. Does your customer management system dump all of your information out in an undesirable format? Half of mail merging is the data you use. Clean it up in Excel to find and correct discrepancies before you merge.

