As I was thinking about what to write for our story this week, I decided to share our “Welcome Letter” with you. This is the letter that we send to all of our new customers. We talk about the fact that we’re locally owned and managed. In my experience, people prefer to support local businesses […]
We recently worked with Joe Tindall, the founder of Grandmark Signs, to wrap one of our Avid Trucks. If you work downtown or in the crossroads, you might have seen it making the rounds over the past few weeks. The decision to work with Joe was an easy one. Grandmark Signs is one of our […]
We work with Jason Terry of Blue Gurus to support a number of mutual clients, and he called the other day from a client’s site about their Internet bandwidth. We were in the process of upgrading their connection from 20 MB to 50 MB of total Internet bandwidth. A simple speed test can confirm the […]
The Kansas City police department is looking for more people and businesses to participate in their WatchKC program. If you haven’t heard about WatchKC, it’s a program where residences and businesses can register their exterior video cameras to be used to help fight crime. From the WatchKC Website: Video Surveillance is a great crime deterrent […]
Cyber-security is admittedly a complex topic, and most of the information out there is geared for those with some familiarity of the topic, making it jargon heavy and difficult to consume for executives and business owners. Knowing this and the temptation for procrastination, we at Avid have been working for quite some time to simplify […]
Now that you’ve paid several thousand dollars for your ticket, it’s time to be ushered to your seat because the show’s about to begin. No, you’re not in the front row for Hamilton on Broadway. You’re watching a dramatic comedy about your very own business unfold in Security Theatre. Wikipedia defines “Security Theatre” as: the […]
By David Scott, Managing Member at Avid Communications I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the challenge faced by our clients when it comes to cyber security. And reading a lot. And getting lots of headaches. Most of the material is jargon heavy, and reads like, “Sophisticated cyber attack vectors and multi-layer advanced threats, whether […]
By David Scott, Managing Member at Avid Communications Avid Communications has boldly entered the world of digital marketing in recent months. We’ve ads running on Google, LinkedIn and, ugh, Facebook. I’m not a Facebook fan. For those of you who are, I won’t judge you. (But I will market to you!) So writing a check […]
By David Scott, Managing Member at Avid Communications As a business owner, you don’t have to look very hard to find a wealth of resources and statistics warning you about the increasing threat and resulting damage of a Phishing, Botnet or Malware incident at your company. Some statistics state that a single incident can cost […]