New Year’s Resolutions Every Business Needs to Make In 2022

As the new year rolls around, you’re probably already setting some goals to accomplish in 2022. Like… go to the gym, read more, take the online course you’ve been putting off for months, but it’s also just as important to look after your business’s...

Tips to Make your website look awesome

Like people, websites also need to be dressed for success. Here’s how you can make yours look amazing, Blurry, outdated, or irrelevant pictures tell your site visitors that you don’t care about their browsing experience. Help visitors find what they want with search...

How Technology Can Help your Business flourish

Modern time businesses rely on modern time technology to keep their company up and running. Most of the technology your business uses, needs an internet connection and multiple apps and software to help their staff be productive. The technology in your company all...

Honoring Those Who Served

Veterans Day is a time for us to pay our respects to those who have served. For one day, we stand united in respect for our Veterans. It is a federal holiday in the U.S observed annually on November 11, for honoring military veterans, who have served in the United...

What To Look for In an IT Provider

A new IT provider can give you a fresh perspective and better IT service to meet your business objectives faster. As a business starts to grow, so do their technology needs. Managed services allow you to augment your existing staff and infrastructure by partnering...

Flip your Funnel – Make it A Megaphone

Given the fast-paced changes of the technological landscape, today’s market is rich in client leads. Regardless of industry, every company seeks to align with competent IT professionals in order to remain competitive. The problem is… there is are far too many IT...

Benefits of Structured Cabling

A structured cabling service is a highly specialized infrastructure that enhances the performance of your organization’s cabling system. Structured cabling provides a reliable and versatile solution to all major communication needs. It plays an important role in...

IT Support Services

What are IT support services, and are they worth it? IT services refers to the activities that are performed by an organization to design, build, deliver, operate and control tech services offered to customers. Managing IT services is a necessity for any organization....

Details About the Oct.4 Facebook Outage

In a more detailed post published Tuesday October 5th, Santosh Janardhan, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure, said in a blog post that… Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going dark was “caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own...

Ways a MSP Can Help Your Business Productivity

An MSP is a managed service provider. Here are a few ways an IT MSP can help: MSPs can provide help desk support for your urgent service calls. MSPs are available on weekends during non-working hours. Having your business responsive 24/7 all year is ideal to make sure...

Fine Line Between Leadership and Management

Management and leadership are similar, but they have different purposes and require different skills. Management focuses on recourses such as financial stability and hiring employees. Leadership focuses on strategy and vision, and they work together to motivate the...

Audio and Video System for your Restaurant or Bar

Adding or updating your business’s audio/video systems can increase your traffic and sales. If it has been a while since you last upgraded your audio/video systems, this might be a great time to start thinking about it. Adding entertainment value creates an inviting...

Why You Should Update Your Website Regularly

Regularly updating the content and design of your website can help the overall success of your business.  By maintaining an up-to-date digital presence, it can increase traffic to your company site. Let’s go over the reasons for updating your website. Internet...

Ateki At A Glance

ATEKI is a multi-faceted technology company that specializes in the installation of low voltage wiring systems for commercial buildings. Our highly trained “in-house” wiring experts are poised to help clients increase effectiveness and efficiency. MULTI-FACETED...

Ateki’s Got Your Back

If it looks like a cat got in a fight with your company’s cables you need us. We’ve been answering these type of calls by small business owners all across Chicagoland and Indiana. In the midst of massive mayhem caused by coronavirus, many small offices...

You Don’t Know Know What You Don’t Know

Small Businesses who contract with an IT company are like drivers who work with a pit crew. You can still race without them, however, having the support noticeably improves efficiency. Today, the digital revolution has proven effective in amplifying the presence of...

Technology Health Checks -4- Brick & Mortar Businesses

The rise of the virtual marketplace facilitated relentless e-commerce competition which prompted businesses who have a footprint in the “real-world” to level-up their digital game. In response, brick-n-mortar retailers have been forced to find ways to leverage their...

Predicting The Future Of Wireless Connection

Throughout history unique individuals have emerged whose ideas – when put into action – unleashed kernels of knowledge that held the potential to change the world. Serbian physicist, engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla was just such a unique soul. Thanks...

What To Expect… A Wiring Primer

Our in-house ATEKI Engineer extends a no-cost, comprehensive, face-to-face “Scope Review” to help you better understand industry standards required to network all your company’s wireless devices. The resulting review will assess the infrastructure of your company’s...

What Is Managed IT Services?

Managed IT Services offer many solutions to your business. Some of the solutions we offer are help desk support, project management, server administration, security and patch management, network solutions and many others. Generally, you get 24/7 server monitoring,...

Zoom Videoconferencing: A Boom For Small Businesses

Nothing in the history of the digital landscape has impacted tech communications more than the shift to sheltering-in-place. In concert, the ensuring coronavirus lockdown drove businesses across America to acclimate to the Zoom videoconferencing platform. For small...

The Low-Down On Low Voltage Wiring

The world has changed since the days when businesses primarily relied on telephones fax and teletype capabilities to round out their communications network. The dramatic rise of technology facilitated a re-engineering of all electronic business systems which...

Get The Best Out Of Your Business Software

All businesses rely on software systems to help manage the data and information used to support daily business activities. Whether it is Excel sheets or a robust ERP, the most important thing is that the tools we use allow us to do our jobs and stay productive. If...

Switching Your Structured Cabling

Regardless of what your business does, technology is a basic industry requirement. Just think about it… the backbone of every entrepreneurial enterprise is a reliable, networked infrastructure. This is the area where Ateki excels. We strive to be the best in class,...

Who Are You Going To Call?

Among the many daily decision’s entrepreneurs are tasked with… selecting the “right” type of small business technology tops the list. ATEKI was founded in 2002 to satisfy this need. Experience working with a wide range of small businesses has taught us valuable...

Defining Your Digital Direction

One of the most difficult aspects of running a small business is navigating the risk required to forecast future needs. This is where ATEKI excels. Since 2002, we have helped our clients succeed by anticipating whatever comes next on the tech horizon. The new rule for...

Get More From Your Access Control System

Stay Protected From Identity Theft: The Pandemic crisis has created an opportunity for cybercriminals to increase their attacks. One approach the hacker can take is to compromise a company’s active directory infrastructure. AD (Active Directory) infrastructure...

Having Security Cameras Is an Asset To Your Business

Video surveillance is an essential component to all business’s security systems. Video surveillance works by installing high-quality cameras throughout your business to help you identify possible crimes. Video Surveillance offers a live feed and recording...

Marketing Small Start-Ups

In the beginning, small business owners are tasked with doing whatever is needed to flourish. Those who start smartest prioritize building visibility and authority as well as attracting attention. New business owners unknowingly step into a community of opportunity...

Ateki Donates to VFW Post #5917

Ateki, a Veteran-owned IT company, is proud to support our Service Members once again! Whether it’s assisting with neighborhood Veteran events or donating to the local VFW, we like showing our former soldier’s great support. This year 2021, we have donated hardware as...

Mastering A Multi-Tasking Mentality

Entrepreneurs are infamous for their willingness to multi-task everything from bookkeeping to bill collections to business development. The debate around multitasking is often misleading with the majority concluding that it is a futile pursuit that cannot be mastered....

Help Prospects Envision Your Company’s Value

With so many players in the market today, it is imperative to capture a prospective customer’s attention by using your website landing page as a conversion magnet. An oft-quoted brain activity survey conducted by a Canadian research firm concluded on the heels of...

Four Attributes Shared By Successful Entrepreneurs

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, American entrepreneurs are soldiering through the worst business environment the world has ever seen. By the end of the year, an untold number of small businesses will fold… forced to yield their position on the playing field...

Find Your Niche And Fill It

Finding the niche – you as a business owner – will enjoy working in, where you can flourish is revolves around playing to your strengths. First and foremost, you must choose to focus on something that interests you before developing a suite of products and...

Tried… Tested… Trustworthy Technology

Living in the digital era has conditioned customers to expect a seamless digital interaction that is both accessible and responsive. This fact serves as a perplexing business disincentive for small businesses because technological unresponsiveness is synonymous with...

Adapt, Plan, and Evolve

Due to Covid restrictions, technology continues to evolve rapidly. One of the many things this pandemic taught us is that it is essential that your business has access to the most up-to-date technology. Ateki can help you innovate your business to improve your...

Technology Is A Moving Target

The biggest obstacle in doing business in the 21st Century is lack of connectivity between a company’s physical operation and the technology that powers it. We live in a world, where the best business outcomes belong to companies who have interwoven technology into...

Our accomplishments this week include:

One of our recent projects is Premier Posture Health and Wellness located in Montgomery, IL. With our outstanding and efficient work we are taking over new wiring projects weekly. Contact us now for all your new or existing wiring needs. We will get the job done...