There’s been a lot of talk recently of a global recession, lack of money and the potential jobs being lost by many. All because of the financial meltdown in the US.
Pretty grim sounding sort of stuff.
Although, lack of money and employment will spark in a few people the drive to get back on top somehow.
My [...]
Youtube recently added a function to their site on which you can add textual annotations and links to a video. By adding these things it makes a simple flash video into an interactive media experience (or a video with annoying boxes with text in it, depending which way you look at it). See the video [...]
It doesn’t suit all businesses to have a website.
If you’re a business with a lot of products to sell, then yes it would be an advantage to put up a website to help you sell your goods. Especially if they are shippable.
But if business is slow and you think a website is the answer to [...]
Do you sell advertising on your website?
If you haven’t already, maybe you should compile a Media Kit.
A media kit is basically a document that displays information about your company and often general details on any new products or innovations that your company has created. All this info is displayed in a well designed, aesthetically pleasing [...]
The Large Hadron Collider got switched on yesterday for a bit of a test drive. The news world has been going nuts on this story, already declaring and accusing this machine of this and that.
A popular consensus amongst these news reports is that is going to cause our demise as a human race. And I [...]
Seth Godin has published a great short article about Time as an often overlooked marketing boon.
Read it at http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/09/time.html
Tardiness is rife in a lot of businesses - appointments are set and missed, orders shipped late, schedules blown out for weeks etc - yet it seems a simple exercise to stop this in most cases, but [...]
No, you shouldn’t.
Why? In my personal experience I’ve found out that emails sent to address from a bought mailing list is regarded by the majority of people who receive it as spam. They don’t know who you are, they don’t know how you got their email address and after those two factors, they don’t care [...]
We get alot of different types of email attachments from clients.
To save money, we resolved to use free alternatives to popular business software (i.e. Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat etc).
Recently we received a file with a .docx extension, which we couldn’t open with our Open Office suite, so we had to find a way to convert [...]
“[information from] The internet is like listening to a drunk guy at a pub” - Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
I’m not a Guru of anything. I am writing this blog to document the growth of our small business as we try to make it a medium business and eventually a big business. Hopefully this information, particularly the [...]
