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There’s a nasty thing that no one likes to pay, but everyone has to have: insurance. You have to have it for your cars, your house, and your business. Bust what sort of business insurance is important? What should you have and what shouldn’t you have? What is over the top and what is not?
Why Is IT Support Important for Your Business?
No matter how big or small, Aussie businesses need technology to boost productivity and competitiveness. However, technology is one of those things that constantly change. To keep up with those changes, enlist the help of one of the best IT support providers near you. Hiring an IT support team for your business can bring loads of advantages.
Do You Want to Start a Business? If you want to start a business, there are a few keys things that you have to do which apply to all businesses in Australia. You need to get an ABN, register a business name and GST, test your products, find clients, make a business plan, prepare an easy-to-follow structure regarding managing your business and think about further product development.
Are Your Payroll Officers Aware of This Email Scam?The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns business owners and employees about cyber criminals who send out fake emails to request a change in employees’ bank details. Some payroll officers in several business organisations in Australia have received a fake email that appears to have come from employees requesting to change their bank account details.
Does Porn Rot Your Brain?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euBsFGuWrz4
Does porn rot your brain? It’s an interesting question. We have been asked it, so we’re going to answer it. In my opinion, porn does rot your brain to an extent. If you look into anything, and look at anything too much, it’s not good, it’s not healthy and it gives unrealistic expectations.
9 Ways to Improve Your WebsiteWebsites are one of the top ways to showcase your business online. You want to make sure your website is user-friendly, and that it has the information and message you’re looking to relay very clearly. What’s most important is you want to be able to appear in a search. Having the answer for your prospecting customers is fine, but having the answer doesn’t matter if you don’t have a voice. There’s a number of great tools and tricks out there to help optimise your website, and I’m going to go through some of these now to make sure you’re found in Google and your customers are able to see you.
Is Your Organisation Vulnerable to Cyberattacks?Network security should be a priority of business owners, especially with the recent cyberattacks in Australia. Without implementing robust security measures and protocols, organisations could become vulnerable to cyberattacks and lose important data. Avoid this mistake by getting a network security audit! It’s one of the best ways to ensure that your company’s network is in good shape.
What Is the Government’s Plan?With the elections coming up, delivering better cybersecurity responses is a top priority for the Australian government. After the many cyber attacks that have occurred over the past few years, the Australian government is understandably concerned about possible IT security breaches during the May 18 polls.
Everyone has mobiles but there are so many plans out there. There are plans that different carriers in Australia have released that have completely unlimited data, and there are other plans that really severely limit you. There are plans from the more shunky providers that sound great but just don’t get reception, so you end up with a great plan you can’t use.
Outsourcing IT Management: How Do They Stack Up?
In Australia, some business owners or managers outsource when they need assistance executing new projects. Outsourcing IT management and monitoring to a third-party provider allows them to increase their agility and overcome short-term capability deficiencies. If you decide to try IT outsourcing, you can choose between two different approaches: staff augmentation and managed IT solutions.
Your business is either lagging or leading when it comes to technology. You can’t be sitting around in the same gear that you’re on because you will be pushed back into the past. You don’t want that. You can’t be scared of technology. The invention of the wheel, that was technology, the light bulb, that was technology and these are things that we all just take for granted nowadays. But if you don’t stay on top of the technology, other cool things come out and they will take its place. So today we’re going to be talking about why technology matters in business and how you can utilise that to make your business grow.
You have a small business. Do you need a VoIP phone system?
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns that malicious emails claiming to be from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been sent to members of the public in Australia as well as people overseas. These emails state personal details about the recipient, including their address, contact information, and details about their relatives.
Are Your Conversations Always About Business?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpiAoOnsuY
If you are in business, you’ll want to make sure you have some hobbies and interests outside of the business because you will become addicted to the business in such a way that’s so unhealthy, you won’t know what’s coming and going. You’ll want to make sure you’ve got hobbies.
Feeling Sadness Is OkayPreviously, we have blogged about sitting mentally well with yourself in business. You need to make sure that you’re pushing yourself in the right direction and doing what you can for your mind and mental state. So many business owners put themselves down. This happens to everyone in every aspect of life, but business owners are especially susceptible. As a business owner, you are organised. You have a list, and you try and get everything done on the list, and then try and help everyone out. A lot of the time, you try to help everyone, but your list is bigger than Ben-Hur. You’re trying to build Rome in an hour. Rome wasn’t built in an hour. It wasn’t built in a day.
Foolproof your information security system! In Australia, we don’t take cybersecurity as serious as what we need to. Cyber attacks not only result in IT damage. Worse, they put your reputation at risk! We’re not just talking about malware and crimeware lurking in the shadows—waiting for a chance to attack when you least expect it. Cyber threats encompass all possible ways to get into your system, so you need to foolproof your defences by looking at all sides, including an internal IT security plan and an information security audit.
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