According to news articles I’ve seen cropping up this week, it looks like EFTPOS has implemented a new fee schedule. According to their press releases, these were actually first mentioned back in March and clarified in early September, so I’m not sure why there wasn’t more mention of it back then. Maybe I just didn’t [...]

Overview WordPress.com is a hosted blogging platform based on the open source WordPress platform. It is designed to allow users to sign up and create their own blog. Users can choose from free or paid versions, with added functionality available on the paid platform, including the ability to use custom designs and to register and [...]

Overview Shoeboxed is a service and application that leverages the long tail to target a niche section of a broad market. Shoeboxed targets personal and business customers that are looking for a tool to simplify their expense data entry without the need for a dedicated data entry person and at a cheaper cost than paying [...]

Overview Saasu is an Australian online accounting software company who’s name stands for “Software as a Service Utility”. Saasu is also the name of their online accounting software for managing business finances. Saasu is capable of handling sales, payroll, purchasing, e-commerce, inventory, point of sale, document and workflow management that can be and is extended [...]

The Skate-Parts.Com Home Page As some of you may know, back in January/February last year, I began working towards starting up a new business. It took a lot longer than I had been hoping to get suppliers on board, but in February this year, the website has finally gone live! You can now buy skateboards [...]

I haven’t come across these guys before, but was recently approached by them to write a short article about them. I figured why not? They provide an interesting service related to one of my fields of interest after all. After having a bit of a look through their website, it’s pretty obvious that they provide [...]

It’s great to see a boss pointing these things out to the employees. Sure, a cash handout is great, but ongoing work is much better. Have a read of the letter that this employer sent to his employees here. As a small business owner, I agree with this email entirely, even though I only employ [...]

The web design company that we use at the store is at it again. This time though, instead of just providing us with a poor service, they are in fact blaming us for their problems. Now, some of the things they were saying and suggesting are fair enough, yes we can control the addition of [...]

Maybe it’s just me, but when you are paying hundreds to thousands a year on a website, you expect it to work, and to get a response about problems quickly. I have come across a few web companies that only work like this if it is the easiest thing for them to do. Most recently, [...]

From – Skype When I saw the new Skype mobile phone, I thought, wow, this is great! It’s due to be in Australia soon, 3‘s mobile plans are generally pretty reasonable and I use Skype quite regularly on my computer so this would be absolutely perfect! Beside’s all that, I’ve been looking at getting a [...]