<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">NOTE:<div class="">We unfortunately have a mis-print on this month’s issue of The Hub. The article from Dave Ockwell-Jenner should be titled ‘The Internet Of… Disaster?’</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is correctly reflected when you ‘Read More’, and in the version listed under ‘Past Issues of The Hub' but is misprinted below.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 1, 2016, at 08:38, The Hub - the SBCN Newsletter <<a href="mailto:thehub@sbcncanada.org" class="">thehub@sbcncanada.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="body" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(42, 110, 188); height: 2458.53125px; 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font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: right; font-size: 22px;" class="">Keeping you in touch with small business</h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="expander" style="padding-left: 10px; width: 0.000001pt;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="row row-3" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width: 776px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="center" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><center style="width: 776px;" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="container container-fluid" style="max-width: 600px; width: 600px; table-layout: fixed; margin: 0px auto; text-align: inherit; display: table;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="min-width: 600px;" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="columns twelve" align="left" style="margin: 0px auto; 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position: relative;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="center" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><center style="width: 776px;" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="container container-fluid" style="max-width: 600px; width: 600px; table-layout: fixed; margin: 0px auto; text-align: inherit; display: table;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="min-width: 600px;" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="columns twelve" align="left" style="margin: 0px auto; text-align: left; table-layout: fixed; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="expander" style="padding-left: 10px; width: 0.000001pt;"></td><td class="element_connector" style="width: calc(100%) !important; padding: 0px; height: 35px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="heading6 volume-issue" style="width: 580px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: right;"><h6 style="font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; word-break: normal; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(90, 100, 105); text-align: right; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;" class=""><span class="heading-text-4" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Volume 5 - Issue 10</span></h6></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="expander" style="padding-left: 10px; width: 0.000001pt;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></center></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" class="container container-fluid" style="max-width: 600px; width: 600px; table-layout: fixed; margin: 0px auto; text-align: inherit; display: table;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="row row-2" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width: 600px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="width: 600px;" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="columns four small-480-twelve" align="left" style="margin: 0px auto; text-align: left; table-layout: fixed; max-width: 200px; width: 200px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="expander" style="padding-left: 10px; width: 0.000001pt;"></td><td class="element_connector" style="width: calc(100%) !important; padding: 0px; height: 35px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="content-heading heading1" style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><h1 style="padding: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5; word-break: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-weight: 700; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 20px;" class="">UPCOMING EVENTS</h1></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="image-1 image-table" align="center" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left; height: auto; overflow: hidden;"><img alt="Karen Egoff" src="http://media.sbcncanada.org/email/thehub/karen-egoff.jpg" align="center" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: block; clear: none; float: none; width: 180px; height: auto; max-width: 180px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="event-date text" style="text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 1.5; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-weight: 700; font-size: 16px;" class="">November 16th, 7pm-9pm<br class=""></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="event-name text" style="text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 1.5; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class="">Monthly Networking<br class=""></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="event-description paragraph" id="paragraph-1" style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; line-height: 1.7; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" class="">Karen Egoff, My Soul Balance is our guest speaker for November's SBCN monthly networking event. I am sure we will all walk away from that event feeling refreshed and more in control of our lives.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="button button-1" style="width: auto; border-collapse: separate; line-height: 1.5; border-top-left-radius: 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" bgcolor="#0080cd" style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(0, 128, 205); border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(29, 112, 133) rgb(29, 112, 133) rgb(19, 79, 94); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 8px 10px; border-collapse: separate; border-top-left-radius: 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px; border-width: 0px;"><a href="http://sbcn.info/q73sw" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: block; height: 21px; text-align: center; width: auto; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 14px;" class="">REGISTER →</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="unorder-list" style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="expander" style="padding-left: 10px; width: 0.000001pt;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="columns eight small-480-twelve" align="left" style="margin: 0px auto; text-align: left; table-layout: fixed; max-width: 400px; width: 400px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="expander" style="padding-left: 10px; width: 0.000001pt;"></td><td class="element_connector" style="width: calc(100%) !important; padding: 0px; height: 35px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="content-heading heading1" style="width: 380px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><h1 style="padding: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5; word-break: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-weight: 700; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 20px;" class="">FOUNDERS MESSAGE</h1></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="paragraph" style="width: 380px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-align: left; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; line-height: 1.7; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;" class="">October was Small Business Month and as a result, there were plenty of events to attend. But what happens after the event?<br class=""></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="paragraph" style="width: 380px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-align: left; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; line-height: 1.7; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;" class="">Follow-up is an important task after attending events and meeting other business owners. If you don’t follow-up, you’ve wasted your time connecting with people who may have been your future clients or referrers.<br class=""></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="paragraph" style="width: 380px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-align: left; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; line-height: 1.7; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;" class="">As always the SBCN likes to keep up with new trends, ideas and industry news and we like to offer the SBCN Podcast to inform and educate listeners about various topics that are current at the time. Last week Chris Davis, Polarverse IT Services and myself (Linda Ockwell-Jenner) discussed a very important topic for all businesses: downtime costs and continuity. Polarverse has an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="" href="http://sbcn.info/bk0ap" class="paragraph-text-12" style="color: rgb(43, 166, 203); text-decoration: none;">online downtime calculator</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that can help your business make an informed decision. The costs to protect your business data might be much less that you’d think, for peace of mind.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="image-table" align="center" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left; height: auto; overflow: hidden;"><img alt="Record Reader Awards" src="http://media.sbcncanada.org/email/thehub/myitguy-custom-edm_1.png" align="center" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: block; clear: none; float: none; width: 380px; height: auto; max-width: 380px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="paragraph" style="width: 380px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-align: left; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; line-height: 1.7; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;" class="">We’re delighted to congratulate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="" href="http://sbcn.info/xjorl" class="paragraph-text-1" style="color: rgb(43, 166, 203); text-decoration: none;">Adam Smith</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of My IT Guy, Diamond Winner in the IT Support category in this year’s Waterloo Region Record Readers Choice Awards!</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="container-red" style="margin-top: 0px; min-width: 10px; width: 380px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element container-connector" style="text-align: left; height: 35px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="expander" style="padding-left: 10px; width: 0.000001pt;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" class="container container-fluid" style="max-width: 600px; 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text-align: left; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(42, 110, 188); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;" class="">Event Calendar<br class=""></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="expander" style="padding-left: 10px; width: 0.000001pt;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="columns eight small-480-twelve" align="left" style="margin: 0px auto; text-align: left; table-layout: fixed; max-width: 400px; width: 400px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="expander" style="padding-left: 10px; width: 0.000001pt;"></td><td class="element_connector" style="width: calc(100%) !important; padding: 0px; height: 35px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="content-heading heading1" style="width: 380px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><h1 style="padding: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5; word-break: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-weight: 700; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 20px;" class="">SMALL BUSINESS STORYTELLING</h1></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="image-text-left" style="width: 380px; clear: both; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="left" class="image-component" style="width: 190px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left; padding-right: 15px; overflow: hidden;"><img alt="Steve Bentley" src="http://media.sbcncanada.org/email/thehub/steve-bentley-2.jpg" align="center" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: block; clear: none; float: none; width: 175px; height: auto; max-width: 175px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="paragraph-component article" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;">In my profession, there are two very effective sales techniques: personal experiences and the art of storytelling. These tactics have been established through many years of serving clients and living their life situations with them. We’ve seen the benefits that proper financial life planning has served in times of good and bad. These experiences have led to genuine stories that have become powerful conduits in sharing the benefits of planning with new clients and prospects.<br class=""><br class="">Storytelling is more that just a tactic. It is something that every small business can use in their own marketing and branding. It drives customer engagement and loyalty. Humans have been telling stories for thousands of years. It’s the original way to transfer information.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="container-3 container-red" align="right" style="margin-top: 0px; min-width: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; float: right; width: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element container-connector" style="text-align: left; height: 35px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="button" style="width: auto; border-collapse: separate; line-height: 1.5; border-top-left-radius: 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" bgcolor="#0080cd" style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(0, 128, 205); border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(29, 112, 133) rgb(29, 112, 133) rgb(19, 79, 94); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 8px 10px; border-collapse: separate; border-top-left-radius: 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px; border-width: 0px;"><a href="http://sbcn.info/8sw4k" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: block; height: 21px; text-align: center; width: auto; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 14px;" class="">READ MORE →</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="expander" style="padding-left: 10px; width: 0.000001pt;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="container container-fluid" style="max-width: 600px; width: 600px; table-layout: fixed; margin: 0px auto; text-align: inherit; display: table;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="row row-5" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width: 600px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="width: 600px;" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="columns twelve" align="left" style="margin: 0px auto; text-align: left; table-layout: fixed; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="expander" style="padding-left: 10px; width: 0.000001pt;"></td><td class="element_connector" style="width: calc(100%) !important; padding: 0px; height: 35px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="container-red" style="margin-top: 0px; min-width: 10px; width: 580px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element container-connector" style="text-align: left; height: 35px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="content-heading heading1" style="width: 580px; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><h1 style="padding: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5; word-break: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-weight: 700; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 20px;" class="">BUSINESS NETWORKING, QUANTITY OR QUALITY?<br class=""></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="image-text-left" style="width: 580px; clear: both; text-align: left;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="left" class="image-component" style="width: 290px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="element" style="text-align: left; padding-right: 15px; overflow: hidden;"><img alt="Dave Ockwell-Jenner" src="http://media.sbcncanada.org/email/thehub/daveoj-2016-2.jpg" align="center" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: block; clear: none; float: none; width: 275px; height: auto; max-width: 275px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="paragraph-component special-feature" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;">September and October 2016 have been interesting months for many in the cyber security world. The Internet, and more specifically users of it, have long had to deal with a type of threat called a Denial of Service, or DoS. Over the years this has taken several nuanced forms, but has remained a concern, especially for businesses that depend on being online.<br class=""><br class="">One form of DoS is the Distributed Denial of Service—or DDoS for short. DDoS attacks consist of multiple computers performing a synchronized attack against a target or group of targets. Most usually, this comes from so-called Botnets (short for ‘robot networks’)… armies of computers that hackers have taken over, usually without the computer owners knowledge. These Botnets can be commanded en-masse to send traffic across the Internet to their target. This can overwhelm the Internet connections that the target relies upon and causes the target service to be unable to answer legitimate requests. In effect, the service goes offline. If you’re a business where much of your revenue comes from Internet services, this is a major worry.<br class=""><br class="">As if things weren’t bad enough, now comes a new worry. Botnets exist not only of PCs and servers, but of ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) devices: Smart TVs, Light Bulbs, Home Security systems and a wide spectrum of other gadgets. 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