With all the scare-mongering that is going on in the media at the moment surrounding the downturn, recession, depression or basically badly blown out economy (or at least as they would have you believe), you could be forgiven for pulling down your blinds and hanging up the ‘out of business’ sign in your shop front. That is if you’ve even managed to hang on to your premises for this long or even have a physical store front since the advent of the internet.  Read More »

Today I ceremoniously placed my brand new 2008/09 Local Directory (equivalent local version of The Yellow Pages) into my wheelie bin (trash can/rubbish) much to my father-in-laws horror. Damn it felt good! Read More »

Yvette Adams, Director of The Creative Collective explores RSS feeds on her regular Tuesday afternoon slot on ABC Coast FM. Read More »

So I’m fresh back from my first ever business trip to New York (with a little time for pleasure of course) who I had been reminded on several occasions prior to departure were ‘2-3 years ahead of Australia when it comes to online marketing’. But from my few days experience with the few people I did come into contact with, I was pleasantly surprised and reassured… Read More »

In my continual quest as an internet guinea pig (read about last week’s social experiment with social networking here), this week my social experiment on myself was to see just how powerful placing video online can be for views of the actual footage and thereafter traffic to your website. Read More »

What do you do if you are about to go to a city on the other side of the world for a business event where you know nobody and have never been before? Network online prior to departure of course! Read More »

Your inbox could be compared to a party that gets gate crashed. What with the viagara, sex toys and enlarged penises, not to mention the prospective Nigerian friends, it can all get a bit chaotic in there. Find out some great tips on how you can ‘reclaim your inbox’ from the perils of spam, junk and day to day living.

If you are in business for yourself, or if you want to be, it is quite possible that you want more clients AND that if you service your existing clients better you’ll retain more of them. What a lot of small business owners out there don’t realise, are that there are some fabulous NO COST or LOW COST services out there right now which you can get using which will save you TIME and/or MONEY. Like the sound of that? Good, well then read on… Read More »

I am confounded as to the reason why more Australian businesses aren’t utilising the power of the web. Not only am I struck daily with businesses that do not have up-to-date information on their website, the content is not well written, nor structured and many designs leave a lot to be desired.  Read More »

We think we’re still in shock but on Saturday we won another business award - Queensland Small Business Chamions Specialised Small Business! Read More »