by William Miller | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce has released guidelines (based on the national guidelines) for how to “Return to Work Safely.” Not all of our clients are based in MN, but these guidelines will be helpful no matter which state or country your reside. The...
by William Miller | May 1, 2020 | FM News
This year, due to the Covid-19 outbreak, some changes are happening at the conference formerly known as “DevCon for FileMaker”. The annual conference for developers of FileMaker Pro and Claris Connect, is going to be virtual this year. The conference is...
by William | Apr 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Trusted Advisor by David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, and Robert M. Galford is a classic volume, useful to anyone who wants to earn and keep the trust of their customers or clients. The book was written in the year 2000 and has gained prominence as an excellent,...
by William Miller | Apr 2, 2020 | HighPower Data News
Ben Jones is a great software engineer. He is a graduate of University of Northwestern, St. Paul with a computer science degree. Ben has been working for HighPower for a couple of years now. He started off with very little knowledge of FileMaker, but very quickly...
by William Miller | Mar 28, 2020 | Power Biz CRM
How to write clear and confidence building proposals Potential clients want to know what they are getting into when they contact your company about software development. They have concerns about the process, the timeline, and the budget. If you can present them with a...
by William | Mar 21, 2020 | Power Biz CRM
How to segment your clients using HighPower Biz CRM Software I consider my clients my friends. Yes, it is a friendship based on a business relationship, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy each other and have a good time working together. Part of having a...
by William | Mar 7, 2020 | Power Biz CRM
The greatest tool in the whole world for tracking projects & tasks! Yes, there’s nothing like a little hyperbole to emphasize a point. But the truth is, that we have been developing our own project and task tracker for our CRM software, and we are quite...
by William | Mar 3, 2020 | FM News
One of the top players in the No-Code Software category is FileMaker by Claris. What is No Code software? Also sometimes called ‘low code’ software it is a special category of software which is easier to pick up and start using by the average person. In many...
by William | Mar 3, 2020 | HighPower Data News
Joseph Munson, Senior Web Engineer, has been on the HighPower Data Solutions team for two years now. He is a man of multiple talents. Joseph initially attended Bethel University, majoring in music, one of his loves. After completing that degree and serving as a...
by William | Feb 29, 2020 | Power Biz CRM
I developed the HighPower Biz CRM app to save me time. My Story:Like any small business owner, I spend a lot of time on the paperwork at the end of the week. It was taking me a lot of time to track all the hours my developers were working, then to confirm those times,...
by William | Feb 15, 2020 | Power Biz CRM
If you are like me, you have tried many types of project management software for your company, and have not found anything that fits exactly to your needs. Since we are a software company and develop custom business automation software, I decided that we should just...
by William | Jan 28, 2020 | Business Growth
I recently attended a seminar about applying the Lean process to your business. If you have not heard of Lean, it is a topic worth studying, as it can result in saving your company many, many hours of otherwise wasted production time. They identified eight types of...
by William | Jan 28, 2020 | FM News
FileMaker (Claris), Inc. has released a new product called FileMaker Cloud. This is a completely web-based version of FileMaker. No installation necessary; just log onto your own private website to access all your company data. FileMaker Cloud is a completely...
by William | Jan 28, 2020 | HighPower Data News
This is from the A2 hosting newsletter. If you have a website, you will want to see this: What Is Mixed Content? Mixed content is when a web browser loads both HTTP and HTTPs (SSL-secured) content. In other words, mixed content occurs when HTML is loaded through...
by William | Dec 23, 2019 | Business Growth
I attended a seminar recently about business transitions. The presenter was Michelle Bonahoom of VisionOne. She said that there are some important factors to consider before selling your business. If you are in a position where you may consider selling soon, here are...
by William | Dec 23, 2019 | FM News
G2 Crowd just released its Fall 2019 Workplace Innovation Platforms Report, naming the FileMaker Platform the category leader against competitors like Airtable and the Salesforce Lightning platform. You can see the chart, get the report, and learn all about it here:...
by William | Dec 23, 2019 | HighPower Data News
This past month, one of our clients named Milton Lewin, of The Allocator Network, was featured in the AlphaWeek blog. This is a financially focused blog for hedge fund allocators. Milton hired us this past year to create a website to FileMaker integration for him....
by William | Oct 28, 2019 | Business Growth
In his entertaining book, “Profit First”, author Mike Michalowicz shares a new approach to business accounting which will help business owners to maximize their profits. Mike is the author of “The Pumpkin Plan”, a book which we recommended in one of our blog...
by William | Oct 28, 2019 | FM Tips
FileMaker 18 released a new function called While. Anybody who has done any programming in the past will be familiar with the concept of this function. In fact, the While function goes all the way back to BASIC, if you are old enough to remember that. The While...
by William | Oct 28, 2019 | HighPower Data News
HighPower Data Solutions will be offering a FileMaker Pro Training class on Wed, Jan. 8th 2020 at our offices in Champlin, MN. Wed, 9am – 3pm, with a 45-min break for lunch on your own What you will learn in the FileMaker Pro training class: Understanding of the...
