16 Reasons to Move Your Business From Free Gmail to Business Gmail (Google Workspace)
If you have been using free Gmail for your business communications, here are the reasons to consider Google Workspace (formerly G Suite).
Steve Chipman
6 Technology Cost Savings Ideas For Business
With almost everything going up in cost, it’s more important than ever for businesses to find ways to reduce spending. Many organizations spend too much money on business technology. This over-expenditure can be in the … Read more →
Google Workspace Enterprise Adoption: Steady Progress
Google has made significant inroads into the small business market with Google Workspace. For business owners and employees who have been using consumer Gmail, moving to Google Workspace is an easy transition. However, Google has … Read more →
How Does Google Docs Work?
Learn about how Google Docs works for both consumer Gmail users and for business Google Workspace users.
Google Drive Visitor Sharing: Share Securely Outside Your Organization
One of the key advantages that Google Docs has over the competition is that users can share a document, spreadsheet, presentation, and other file types with any Google Workspace or consumer Gmail user outside of … Read more →
6 Audio Options for Google Meet
Some of the options for making a Google Meet online meeting a great audio experience for all participants.
Google Meet Hardware Options
Aside from a laptop computer, desktop computer, or smartphone, Google Meet has several hardware options. These options allow Google Meet hosts and attendees to walk into a meeting space and quickly ‘tap and join’ a … Read more →
Embed a Dynamic Google Sheets Pricing Table in a Proposal Document
Salespeople who regularly send out long-form proposals that contain pricing tables find that Google Docs tables are cumbersome to manage. A pricing table within a document, including recalculating totals, can’t be dynamically updated as easily … Read more →
How To Add a GIF to Google Slides
Adding a GIF file to one or more slides can spruce up your Google Slides presentation. There are three ways to add a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) file to Google Slides. Add a GIF on … Read more →
How To Record a Voiceover on Google Slides
Update: In November 2023, Google announced a native video slide narration capability. The process below can still be used if you need video editing capabilities. There are times you may want to record a voiceover … Read more →
Should You Consider Chromebook For Business Use?
A Chromebook is a laptop computer that runs Google’s lightweight operating system, Chrome OS. Chrome is based on open-source Linux. Chrome OS is so lightweight that it doesn’t support running traditional locally installed business applications. … Read more →
How to Add Audio to Google Slides: A Step-by-Step Guide
Google Slides is presentation software that’s part of Google Workspace and consumer Gmail. Any presentation can be enhanced by adding audio. In this post, we’ll explain how to insert audio files, including background music clips, … Read more →
How to Make Google Slides Vertical
There are several reasons you may want to change your Google Slides from the default horizontal 16:9 aspect ratio into a vertical format. You want to use Google Slides to design a PDF brochure You’d … Read more →
How to Add Video to Google Slides
There are two types of videos that can be embedded in Google Slides and then played back within a slide in Slideshow mode. The first type is a YouTube video. The second is a video … Read more →
Using Google Translate in Google Sheets
If you want to translate the complete contents of a webpage or a blog post — such as from English to Spanish — the Google Sheets GOOGLETRANSLATE function is a great way to create a … Read more →
How to Make a Line Graph From an External Data Source in Google Sheets
To give you a concrete example of how to make a line graph in Google Sheets, we are first going to show you how to extract some real-world data from The State of California Department … Read more →
How to Merge Cells in Google Sheets
There are a number of reasons you would want to merge cells in Google Sheets. One reason is that you need to add headings and an image to an instructional sheet such as on this … Read more →
What is Google Workspace Individual?
Google Workspace Individual is different from Google Workspace [for teams]. ‘Individual’ is designed for use by any of the more than 1.8 billion Gmail users who want to add business functionality to their Gmail accounts. … Read more →
Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel: Converting From One to the Other
Whether and when to use Excel or Google Sheets depends on a number of factors. Here’s how to move spreadsheet information back and forth between the two environments.
Making the Move to Google Workspace
Author’s Note: We first published this post over a decade ago after we adopted the then “Google Apps for Work.” The product, since rebranded Google Workspace, has served us well for all these years. In fact, … Read more →
Pageless Google Docs: Streamlining Your Work
In February 2022, as promised at I/O 2021, Google added the option to remove pagination from Google Docs on a per-document basis. “Pageless” can be set as the default format for any new documents that … Read more →
Publishing Pivot Table Charts to Your Website With Google Sheets
How to visually display your Google Sheets data on your website or blog using embedded Pivot Table charts.
How Does Google Sheets Work?
Google Sheets is a productivity application that comes with free consumer Gmail and Google Workspace [for business]. Sheets is a cloud-based spreadsheet application. No desktop software is needed to create and edit spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are … Read more →
How Google Workspace Gives Each User Unlimited Email Addresses
A Google Workspace user can have multiple email aliases. In combination with Gmail plus addressing, this means unlimited email addresses.
Google Business Profile Best Practices to Attract More Customers
Whether your company is a small local B2C business or a large B2C company, it’s worth paying attention to your Google Business Profile (GBP) listing. According to Google, you can have a business profile if … Read more →