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BlueTie Founded in 1999, BlueTie collaborates with you, our client, to deliver comprehensive technology and m

Since 1999, BlueTie has been providing businesses with simple solutions. We revolutionized the Software as a Service (SaaS) sector by introducing a fully-featured suite of email and business applications. We provide email services that scale to your needs - from individuals and small businesses through large firms and Internet Service Providers. Our technology services can help you store, organize and share your important documents, as well archive your communications. We can also help you get up and running with software you know and trust, like Microsoft Outlook and the Microsoft Office suite. We offer an extensive set of reliable, affordable services for your business and for your digital marketing needs. BlueTie helps you attract new customers through website design and Search Engine Optimization (SEO), as well as interact with your existing customers with intelligent Social Media Management. We can put you in touch with people through Email Marketing, and create unique opportunities for your business with the My Special Days application. We can also manage public relations, and preserve your online reputation. As pioneers in the Software as a Service industry, we are one of the only companies to offer both proprietary technology and marketing services to create simple, yet powerful, solutions for your business. BlueTie collaborates with you, our client, to deliver comprehensive technology and marketing strategies supported by our proprietary products and services to help you achieve your goals.

The expensive part of running five vendors is not the five bills.It is that every decision needs five answers.You want t...
10/12/2026

The expensive part of running five vendors is not the five bills.

It is that every decision needs five answers.

You want to add a new hire's mailbox with the right retention settings, file access, and a phone extension.

That is three portals, two support tickets, and a wait.

Now multiply by every hire, every departure, every replacement laptop, every audit request.

The tax is measured in days, not dollars.

One provider means one request and one answer.

Where does your setup lose the most time: onboarding, offboarding, or audits?

The standard play in this industry: price the monthly plan high enough that the annual contract looks like the only rati...
10/09/2026

The standard play in this industry: price the monthly plan high enough that the annual contract looks like the only rational choice.

Then the annual contract auto-renews and you are locked in another twelve months before you notice.

We price monthly terms to compete with what other providers charge annually.

Want the annual commitment? We take ten percent off. It stays your choice.

Staying with a provider should be a decision you make every month, not one you get trapped in.

Book twenty minutes and bring your current invoice. I will tell you plainly whether we can beat it.

10/07/2026

"Is it working for other users?"

Every support script is built around that question.

It sounds like triage. It is a filter.

If the answer is yes, your ticket drops in priority. One broken user is a configuration issue, and configuration issues go to the back of the queue.

For a forty-person firm that is irritating.

For a six-person practice where the one broken user is the person who bills, it is the whole day.

That is the difference between support built for scale and support built for small businesses.

Worst thing a support script has ever said to you? Mine is: we will escalate and someone will reach out.

Every vendor touching protected health information needs a signed business associate agreement on file.Not a promise on ...
10/05/2026

Every vendor touching protected health information needs a signed business associate agreement on file.

Not a promise on a sales call. A document you can produce in an hour.

Here is where practices get caught.

The email provider has one. The backup vendor has one.

The transcription tool the front desk signed up for with a company card does not. Neither does the fax service. Neither does the cloud drive one partner uses for referrals.

Every one of those is your exposure. Not theirs.

Comment BAA for the vendor inventory sheet we use to find them.

10/02/2026

Following up on something I asked back in August.

How many separate tech vendors does your business pay every month?

Count email, backup, phone, security, file storage, and anything with an auto-renew you have forgotten about.

Vote below. I will share the split in the comments and what that number tends to correlate with.

I will share where the answers landed and what that number tends to correlate with.

Growth is a decision, not an outcome.Most providers grow until the owner stops being reachable, then put a portal in fro...
09/30/2026

Growth is a decision, not an outcome.

Most providers grow until the owner stops being reachable, then put a portal in front of the gap and call it self service.

We made the other choice. If taking an account means I can no longer be reached by the customers we already have, we do not take it.

That is a real constraint on revenue and I am fine with it.

Slower growth. Fewer logos. Better Mondays for the people paying us.

Save this for your next sales call. Ask any provider how many customers they added last year. Then ask who was handling the ones they already had.

09/28/2026

"We are too small for anyone to bother with."

Every owner under twenty-five employees has told me some version of this.

It made sense fifteen years ago when attacks were targeted and manual. It does not now.

The scanning is automated. Nobody picked your firm. Your mail server answered a probe the same way a five-thousand-person company's would, and the payload does not know the difference.

What makes you a better target is that you have fewer people watching and a shorter path from one compromised inbox to your bank login.

Small is not protection. It is exposure with fewer witnesses.

Heard a good counterargument? I want it.

It is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so your inbox is about to fill with vendors selling phishing training.Training help...
09/25/2026

It is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so your inbox is about to fill with vendors selling phishing training.

Training helps. It is also the cheapest thing to sell you, which is why everyone sells it.

Training does not survive a bad Monday. Controls do.

Filtering that never lets the message land.

Backups a compromised admin account cannot reach.

Access reviews that run on a schedule instead of when someone remembers.

If your whole security posture this month is a twenty-minute video and a quiz, you have awareness. You do not have protection.

What is the one control you would add first if budget were not the constraint?

09/23/2026

"The SEC charged more than 100 firms and collected over two billion dollars in recordkeeping penalties between the end of 2021 and the start of 2025.

Almost none of it was fraud.

It was business conversations happening on personal text and messaging apps that the firm could not produce when asked.

The headline sweep quieted down. The rules did not change.

FINRA now surfaces the same failures through routine cycle exams instead of press releases.

A written policy saying your advisors do not text clients is not a control. It is a document.

Here is the question worth sitting with. If an examiner asked you today for a year of client communications, what could you hand over, and what would you have to explain?

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Ask your office manager how many tech invoices cross her desk in a month.When I ask, the answer is rarely under four.Dif...
09/21/2026

Ask your office manager how many tech invoices cross her desk in a month.

When I ask, the answer is rarely under four.

Different billing dates. Different renewal terms. Some auto-escalating.

And almost always one line item for a service the firm stopped using and never stopped paying for.

It gets found during budget season, not because anyone flagged it.

That is real money sitting in an account nobody owns.

Book twenty minutes and we will go through your invoices together. If your setup is fine, I will tell you it is fine.

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