by Jan | Nov 11, 2021 | Digital Marketing
This is part 3 of our ‘Safety First’ articles and it’s about spam/phishing emails, and other nasty things in your inbox. You get lots of spam into your inbox everyday, we all do – it’s difficult for the spam filtering programs to keep up with the spammers so some spam...
by Jan | Sep 15, 2021 | Digital Marketing
Here is part 2 of our series about security on the internet. This time we will be discussing passwords including choosing a password and saving passwords. Everywhere we go on the web these days we seem to need a password to ‘login’. Ideally you should have a brand...
by Jan | Aug 26, 2021 | Digital Marketing
With all the hacks, phishing and scam emails doing the rounds still, we thought we’d bring you a short piece on how you can stay safe online. Across 4 blog posts we will cover the need for Anti Virus and Malware software, choosing a password and spotting a spoof. So...
by Jan | Jul 5, 2021 | Digital Marketing, Social Media
Have you ever listened to two geeks chatting and been totally bemused? My hubby and I have worked in the IT industry for over 30 years and sadly the jargon and buzz words are still common in conversation. One of things I do when teaching is make sure I explain the... by Jan | Jun 9, 2021 | Digital Marketing, Selected
Email marketing is far from dead but you need to do it right! Even after the changes in the Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) existing customers are still your most valuable asset. It is much easier to make a sale to somebody who has bought from you before! After...
by Jan | May 7, 2021 | Digital Marketing
Why you need to actively market your website It’s an online world, especially so during and after the pandemic. More business owners where pushed into taking their business online and creating a website from which to sell their goods and services. The website...
by Jan | Feb 15, 2021 | Small Business Advice
This guide has been put together by Rachael from Independent Bookkeeping Ltd to help with regards to starting your own bookkeeping for your business, assuming that you are keeping your own records initially or plan to do so for the future also. From how to register as...
by Jan | Jan 21, 2021 | Small Business Advice
This article first appreared in Mamalife Magazine when I was still Social Media Contributor. There are thousands of Apps available from both the Google Play and Apple stores. It’s hard to know which ones will be useful, which will be fun and which will be a total...
by Jan | Jul 20, 2020 | Selected, Small Business Advice
There is a lot of pressure on a business to invest in a Mobile App in the current climate. A lot of that pressure comes from companies who actually build Apps. Seems a little biased to me. So, as a small business, is it really worth investing in a Mobile App?...
by Jan | Jan 29, 2020 | Everything, Social Media
This article originally appeared in MamaLife Parenting Magazine. I wrote it as a parent rather than as a Geek. Many parents are concerned that their kids are growing up lacking the right social skills to carry them forward in society. Understandable, since many kids...
by Jan | Nov 6, 2019 | Everything, Small Business Advice
I have seen so many posts lately about business overwhelm. Believe me, after almost 17 years working for myself I have been there many times. I thought it might be useful to share with you how I use technology to help me manage it. You must know the feeling, where...
by Jan | Aug 1, 2019 | Small Business Advice
What is it and how can you protect yourself? You may not even have heard of SIM Swap fraud. I hadn’t realised how close to home this had got until I got a message from a very lovely friend. She had been a victim of Identity theft and that included having her...