Website development has changed a lot, even in the last 5 years, and there are two major ways you can save money on your website. The first is re-using existing tools to get some great results; the second is keeping your site safe. Let me expand on these in the following article. The first – […]
Why using Gmail or Hotmail email accounts for your business will result in fewer sales
If you are using a Gmail or Hotmail email account as your main business email address, you are more than likely to be losing a lot of potential customers before they even contact you.
How to identify a spam/malicious email
It’s getting really hard to tell these days whether an email you’ve received is a spam email or a legitimate email; that is because spammers have improved their methods of forging the appearance of emails to make them appear as if they’re from legitimate sources. Because of that it’s more important than ever to know […]
Warning: don’t publish your email address!
This is a simple tip that will save you a lot of pain down the track – don’t publish your email address! What do I mean by that? I mean, don’t put your email address in clear text anywhere on the web. Not on your web pages, not on someone else’s and never in any […]
Disk Space Usage – Email Warning
If you receive an email warning you that your hosting account is nearing its disk space limit, you will want to either delete content off of the server to free up some disk space or contact us for upgrade options.
The email will look similar to this […]
TechTalk: Secondary MX servers deemed dangerous!
For the system administrators among you: MX records, as some of you would already know, provide a DNS-based prioritized fallback method for email servers. The idea is that it is possible to supply a list of servers that will accept your email, where the lowest number MX server is tried, then the next, and so […]
Newsletters can do amazing things for your business!
When someone visits your website, you only have a few seconds to turn a person into a customer before they leave your site forever. If you can encourage them to sign up for your newsletter, you can send them valuable information and special offers on an ongoing basis allowing you to forge a relationship with […]
WDGF login access
Have you ever tried to start your car with your house keys? How about using your office key to unlock the front door of Westpac afterhours? You’d never think of it right… or would you? [Don’t answer that!] …
Troubleshooting – “My email doesn’t work”
About 90% of our support calls are related to email. Usually the call starts with “My email doesn’t work”! The following is a fun article which will solve a lot of these issues for you, hopefully saving some time. Before you do anything, perhaps obviously, the very first step to troubleshooting is to ensure that […]
Professional Email Appearance
These days, email has become the way a lot of business is done, yet many small companies are forfeiting the advantage that having their own domain and email address (info@yourbusiness.com rather than yourcompany@bigpond.com or worse, yourcompany@hotmail.com) brings to the table. I always know when I’m dealing with a company with an email address of yourcompany@bigpond.com […]
Are you drowning under SPAM?
Spam is normally caused by Spammers getting hold of your email address and adding it to their lists. They then include you in their regular emails, trying to sell you stuff. There’s not much intelligence there; they add you to the list and keep you there even when you don’t ever read their emails. And […]