Tech
Feeling the pinch? We’re all looking for ways to trim budgets and our operating expenses. One pain point that consumers, enterprises and small businesses alike share is energy consumption. If you’re an SMB, your IT systems can have a significant impact on your energy consumption. Here’s how to better manage this.
Online editor Lorna Brett spent an hour with some LinkedIn heavyweights in Sydney this week. Here are some of the key lessons for small business she took away from the meeting.
The ‘Will It Blend?’ video series has been named the most successful viral marketing campaign of all time. Here, the founder of Blendtec and star of the video series Tom Dickson talks marketing tricks for the digital age.
What are the processes that small businesses need to adopt to take their websites to the next level? Here are some ideas from a digital expert.
Social media has presented many SMEs with the opportunity to promote their products and services to a larger audience. One growing theme that many SME owners experience is this: How can I keep up with social media when I’m too busy running a business?
In 2010, Facebook passed Google in website traffic. This is an incredible achievement considering Google has had such rapid and fantastic growth in the history of the net. But should you jump into this global phenomenon?
Whether your business is heading into the cloud or it’s becoming more virtual, it’s important to understand what these changes mean for your organisation.
Hosting an upcoming event or a conference? Back in the day, you had to wait until the morning of your conference to meet other attendees. Now, you can make introductions and connect with people right after registration. This way, you’ll have people talking about your event ahead of time.
As social media use , and online usage in general, continues to grow, the privacy debate is becoming more intense. The line between what’s considered personal information in the context of privacy is being blurred, often to the detriment of users.
Cloud computing is no longer a ‘buzz’ term. Small businesses of all kinds are integrating cloud-based tools into their business operations in order to remain competitive and to keep up with the fast-changing business landscape.
Still ‘umming’ and ‘ahhing’ about cloud? Consider this: it delivers the freedom to work anywhere at any time – on the road, in the office or at home – so you can continue to reach customers, partners and suppliers while still enjoying a connection to the office. This freedom is priceless.
After weeks of hype and speculation, Apple unveiled a slimmer, faster and bigger iPhone 5 in San Francisco overnight.
Moving to the cloud is not a question of why, but a question of when. Yes, there are many factors to consider before shifting your entire business to the cloud, but here are a few signs that your business should really start looking skyward.
For many small bricks and mortar retailers, the prospect of adding an online store to the mix is daunting. How will you manage the technology? What about all the extra responsibilities? According to one Canberra boutique owner, the secret is good systems and a willingness to educate yourself.
Every business feels under siege these days, and it’s not just that IT groups tend to have fewer employees and more to get done. Network security assaults are becoming both more frequent and more sophisticated.
LinkedIn has announced that it is rolling out redesigned Company Pages in order to streamline the platform for its members. Company updates will be front and centre, enabling members to quickly share and comment on updates, and a revision to the update stream means that content will also be more personalised.
Thanks to the explosion of texting, instant messaging and social media, the line between communication for business and social purposes is becoming blurred. Here’s how to avoid the embarrassing blunders these communication methods can cause, for the benefit of your professional image.
Have you ever been working on a document for hours only to have it corrupted by the hard drive or server that you were working on? For small business owners safely storing data may not be an initial top priority, but choosing the right storage solution for company data could be a business-saving decision.
National Broadband Network (NBN) has released the first of a series of enhancements to help businesses make the most of high speed internet.
Have you started using social media for your business? How do you keep up with the changes? New research aims to highlight how SMBs are successfully employing social media to market their business.
