This morning, I was at the office of one of my customers, and I saw her writing down the password to her bank account on a sheet of paper located under her keyboard. Now, I really hate to call a customer out on this one (especially when I know she will be reading this), but I hope this blog post can help out my dealers to store their passwords in a safer place. 

As we all know we should have hard-to-guess passwords for all of our online accounts, everything from our Facebook login, to our Bank of America accounts.  The problem is keeping track of these passwords can be a real pain in the butt.  

So what do we all do?  Well, we either choose the name of our dogs, kids, girlfriends, etc. as our passwords —or— we write them on notes next to our computer.  Either option is bad.

So what *should* you do?   Well you need to have have passwords like BL*n(y6ss8D$7tRQvMpeFhhEzW)nt[FhcCq>id=TF6E/6w+T}q — no that wasn’t the computer puking on itself that is an actual password (or at least it could be).   I am sure you are wondering “how in the heck am I suppose to remember that?”.  Well there are a number of options and solutions.  Personally, for me, I use 1Password to keep track of my passwords. This is an inexpensive application that runs on your computer (Mac & Windows), your iPhone, or your Android and keeps track of all your passwords safely and securely.  

Now, I am a Mac user (and you should be too), so I have been using the Mac version of 1Password for years.  Thankfully, for you Windows users out there, the guys at Agile Web Solutions are developing a Windows version of 1Password, and it is in beta.  I highly recommend you give it a shot, you will not be sorry.



There are even some advanced (don’t worry they are VERY simple) things you can do using 1Password’s integration with Dropbox to keep your passwords securely synced across multiple computers and even your your iPhone.

You can find more information about 1Password at Agile’s Website http://agile.ws/onepassword/overview — just choose Windows (or Mac, iPhone, etc.) for all the details.