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How to adapt your business
Like everyone, MBU was affected by the pandemic. To adapt, we came up with the SSS.T strategy: Survive, Stabilize, Strive and Transform. Over the past seven months we have refined and altered the strategy to meet market demands. Could our SSS.T strategy help you? To find out, read all about it.
Laptop as a Service program
Need a new laptop? Julio Aversa explains MBU’s Laptop as a Service program, which provides you a top-of-the-line laptop from Apple, Dell, HP, Microsoft or Lenovo and costs you less than a cup of coffee a day to own. Take advantage of this offer by emailing quotes@mbu.ca, subject line: Laptop as a Service.
spend less time, make more money
Are you spending too much money on labour costs without reaping the rewards?
MBU’s WORKanyPLACE helps companies save time and money and drive growth as a result. CEO Michael Contento shares an example of how it can help, and offers to help advise your top-level executives—at absolutely no cost to you.
IT isn’t a cost to cut. It’s a strategy for success
Senior executives need to reconsider the way they think about IT. IT isn’t a cost centre. In fact, without IT and its support for your company’s strategic vision, it’s unlikely there will ever be significant future growth.
Marc Saltzman’s Tips to Create the Perfect Home Office
MBU just launched ShopMBU, our direct-to-consumer e-commerce portal that provides all our customers with wholesale savings on tech products of all kinds. What goes into the perfect work-from-home environment? We called up our friend, tech expert Marc Saltzman, to get his guidance.
Case Study: How Business Transformation Can Help Your Company
A growing advertising agency was struggling to track their employees’ attendance—from sick days to vacation requests. Watch to learn how MBU helped this company
Get six months of Microsoft 365 Business Basic FREE
Be more productive wherever you are. Sign up before June 30, 2020 to take advantage of this offer. (Regular price:
$6.40 user/month).
Key Ways Hackers Prey on Targets
In the past three years, ransom payouts have from $1 billion to $3.5 billion today—and remote work means that number will increase further.
Is Remote Work Life The New Revolution?
CEO Michael Contento was featured in a recent York Region News article on the future of remote work.
Five Key Ways Hackers Prey On Targets
With My Blue Umbrella CEO Michael Contento
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm EST
How to Optimize Your Work-from-Home Strategies
As the pandemic evolves, it makes sense to transform your environment to maximize your out-of-office efficiency
Coronavirus crisis: CEO Michael Contento’s insights on working from home, as featured in York Region News
#Stayathome: Michael Contento, founder and CEO of My Blue Umbrella, enjoys spending more time with his children
Five tips to lead your staff while working from home
Want to be an effective leader to your team? These five strategies will help you better manage and motivate your employees.
Webinar: How to keep your data safe while working from home
Security is only as good as its weakest link. Learn how your data is accessed and how you can protect it.
COVID-19 The 3 stages to your company's long-term success
As your business navigates unchartered territory, it’s helpful to think about the progression as a series of steps.
By Michael Contento, CEO of My Blue Umbrella
How to protect your company from hackers
Worried about hackers? You should be. Find out how you can protect your data and your company from being hacked.
Finance support for IT investments
Still needing to make the IT investment planned for 2nd quarter 2020? Is COVID-19 causing both mental and financial stress about making that decision? ...
How MBU technicians are preventing the spread of COVID-19
As COVID-19 continues to affect businesses and workplaces, you may be worried about technicians coming into your office or employees' homes. You want ...
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The 3 things you need for successful #remotework
Working from home may be bringing a level of uncertainty to your business. For many staff, isolation from their team and the organization can be unsettling ...
Rent to own equipment option
Are you missing the tools you or your staff need to succeed? Not sure if you need that extra printer or headset long-term but definitely need it now to ...
Canadian Entrepreneur Summit
At the invitation of Echelon Wealth Management and PWC, My Blue Umbrella CEO Michael Contento participated in the Canadian Entrepreneur Summit in March 2020. Here he is on a leadership panel with the CEOs and founders of The Ten Spot and Kids & Company.
MBU interviewed by CBC Radio
As a Managed Service provider, we are the "front-line workers" for our customers ensuring they are able to work remotely and securely if required.
Technoplanet Event
Thanks to Julian Lee @ Technoplanet for hosting our panel on the importance of Vendor Partnerships yesterday at the 2020 Channel Manager Summit. Having a Vendor strategic plan like MBU has with Microsoft & Xerox (and our key distributor, Ingram) drives MBU’s growth YoY consistently
Microsoft Modern Workplace Champion
Our strategy has been such a success that we've inspired other companies with our integration in Modern Workplace that drive the analytics needed in predicting our clients future. More and more businesses are looking at MBU to lead through this transformation era!
A Foak'ers Dinner at The One Eighty
An amazing evening with our customers and vendors sharing the "art of the possible" with IoT
A Vision of the Future
MBU celebrates the announcement of its 3-year road map with vendors and friends.
White Water Rafting on the Ottawa River
From the gleam of fast-moving clear water, the adrenaline rush, rumble and tumble of the rapid action, the MBU team enjoyed the experience of white water rafting in September 2016. What a thrill!
MBU Company-wide event: Beach Volleyball!
To celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday, the team at MBU got together in the sunshine for a day of beach volleyball, barbeques, and treasure hunting.
IoT Event 2017
MBU had a great day learning more about IoT while attending Ingram Micro's IoT Event lat week. Ask us how IoT can help your business.
Mud Hero
My Blue Umbrella staff members Dalbir Gill, Cory Kiehn and Michael Contento participated in the 2016 "Toronto North" Mud Hero event this past August. It was a fun filled, exciting, and muddy morning as they all managed to clock in at just under 1 hour!