Tag: Google

In recent years Google Adwords has emerged as the dominant marketing channel for businesses looking to advertise on the web. Here’s 7 hot tips for making the most of this advertising tool.

Aussie business owners can make their lives much easier if they add an online presence and reap the benefits of making it easier for customers to find them, says MYOB’s Julian Smith.

HP today announced that Google Cloud Print users can print directly to any HP ePrint-enabled printer from any Google Cloud Print supported app on any computer or smartphone. HP’s portfolio of web-connected and cloud-aware printers for home and business are the first to support Google Cloud Print out of the box.

Research jointly conducted by Google, Salmat and the Australian Centre for Retail Studies (ACRS) shows that online retailing will explode with growth this year as consumers demand multichannel sales points. Online and mobile-accessible sales channels will be the growth areas for businesses.

Google and MYOB’s joint project ‘Getting Aussie Businesses Online’ has seen more than 4,000 businesses take up the offer of a free website, an average of eight Australian business owners per hour since its launch on March 2, 2011.

A quick poll by Dynamicbusiness.com.au found many SMEs are already embracing Google Apps including email, calendar, office applications, instant messaging, collaboration and video conferencing. A new offering from Optus and Google may help more SMEs take advantage of the benefits.

Haven’t got a website made yet? You’re not alone. Between 50 and 60 percent of Australian businesses do not yet have an online presence, but no more excuses: from today, the first 50,000 businesses to sign up get a free website from MYOB and Google. No strings attached.

Google lost messages and contacts for hundreds of thousands of people at the weekend as a result of a gmail glitch. To help prevent a tragic data loss, here’s how you can back up your business and personal gmail accounts.

The clash between Google and Microsoft intensifies with the launch of Google Cloud Connect, a simple add-on you can download free. It makes working in the Cloud cheaper and easier, and will change the way businesses collaborate.

Easy to use and inexpensive to get started, the popularity of Facebook as a marketing channel for small businesses overseas continues to rise.