Dec 042012
 
Surviving Disasters With Smartphone Apps

Guest Post – Jay Acker from Safety Services Co Preparing for storm, tornado, bushfire, flood, or other unexpected disaster has long meant monitoring the news and weather, stockpiling canned foods, hoarding fresh batteries for an emergency radio, stocking an emergency preparedness kit for whatever may arise, and maybe even evacuating. With the proliferation of now-ubiquitous smartphones, apps have become the must-have for preparing, surviving, and recovering from any crisis. And this isn’t just about using [...]

Aug 302012
 

Guest Post by William Eve If you’re one of those people who strive to do the right thing in protecting your online interests you will no doubt have created different passwords for all your various online accounts. These passwords would be as effective as you can make them so that any hacker trying to enter your particular programs would find it too difficult to proceed and move on somewhere else for easier pickings. You would [...]

Jun 082012
 
Amazing Local Entrepreneurs Who Inspire Me

There are loads of big brand entrepreneurs who inspire me like Richard Branson, but today I would like to honour some of the local Australian entrepreneurs who inspire me in other ways, people who live their passions in smaller ways, yet add so much to enrich the lives of those around them.   This post is dedicated to you! In no particular order: Heather Boon Heather is the owner of Maximum Results and the creator [...]

Apr 282012
 
Welcome to the Google Drive Cloud

I am so excited I just got my invite to the new Google Drive, the new cloud service from Google which has just been released. Yes I do have Dropbox, in fact I have had it for years, however there are just a few extra perks for me using Google Drive I already use Google Docs and Gmail and I can easily transfer files to and from my new G Drive (ooh that does sound sexy [...]

Mar 312012
 
Have You Forgotten About Google Webmasters Tools?

  Once upon a time in the land of internet marketing all the marketers knew that if you had a site one of the first things you did was to add it to your Google webmasters account! As time passed this once high priority task began to fall by the wayside until only those site owners who remembered the old rules also remember how many tools the freely given toolbox of goodies from Google could [...]

Mar 232012
 
New Shopping Cart Platform Ecwid Review

  The new Ecwid Shopping Cart There are loads of eCommerce platforms, shopping carts and plugins that word well, however I have just found a new one called Ecwid and after a month of playing with it on my own and clients sites I can officially say – I love it! Ecwid is a free AJAX based platform that easily integrates with your site and you can even use it on your Facebook page using by [...]

Feb 212012
 

I am loving Pinterest – pin your interest! it’s my latest obsession for marketing and just delighting my heart, and I have boards set up for all sorts of reasons as you will see in this video, shoes, cakes, AND marketing. I have also found a way to use it to share things with my daughters one who lives in Perth and the other in the US and this helps bridge the gap of distance as [...]

Dec 302011
 
Pinterest - Your Addictive Virtual Pinboard

Pinterest is described on its website as a “virtual pinboard” – a site for you to ‘Pinboard’ your interests, and other cool stuff you find online, and at it’s heart a  space where you can collect and store all those wonderful things that inspire, intrigue and give you joy and fun. It is more of a visual space where images and videos are cataloged in your own categories and I am already addicted to it …AND it can [...]