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2019-05-23 by Brett

Easier website = more success

If you manage your own website or sites for others — you know all too well how many moving parts keep them working and the endless pressure for new content. Automation and toolsets that work in the background are critical to making web site management easier. These allow you to focus on your business, your clients, and meaningful content… these make you while tedium sinks you.

Jetpack for WordPress rolls together impressive templates, form creation and spam reduction, social network syndication, analytics, and more. With free plans for small sites scaling to full-featured plans with unlimited image hosting and video streaming — all these Jetpack tools work simply, reliably, always…

Until the end of May — take an additional 20% off any new Jetpack plan. Use code DISCOUNT20 at check out to save money, time and frustration. Easy!

Here’s the Jetpack link and remember the code above.

Jetpack for WordPress

Filed Under: ecommerce, internet, Technology Tagged With: analytics, jetpack, promotion, tools, website, wordpress

2018-01-22 by Brett

Focus on Content for Your WordPress site

If keeping your WordPress site operating is taking more time than creating compelling content and growing your audience — we have a solution.

JetPack (from the friendly people at WordPress.com) is the Swiss-Army-Knife of website tool kits. It makes your site safer (with auto security scans), writing easier (with creation and proofing tools like blog spam filtering), and generally all-round easier (with countless design & social tools, automatic backups, image and video optimisation, etc).

With a range of packages from FREE services for your personal site and several options for businesses — we’re sure there is a package that will suit YOU! (We use JetPack and find it invaluable to focus on what matters most).

 

JetPack Website Tools

Filed Under: Community, internet, Technology Tagged With: jetpack, tools, utilities, wordpress

2018-01-08 by Brett

New year — new server(ices)

After many years and near faultless services from MOSSO (which was bought by Rackspace and then passed along to LiquidWeb)… we have continuously been supportive. Having helped build their secure services (over a dozen years ago)  — we were charged a premium to use them by the latest owner. As a grand-fathered account, we’ve now been pummelled with outrageous charges for email (which had always been “part of the offering” and provided to our customers free of charge — sadly, no more…).

All said, we’re moving on up… IMAGEOZ has provisioned several new servers in the US, Singapore and here in Australia. These will all offer CPanel for a good user experience and feature-rich capability.  All of these are managed by our new WHMCS hosting management  layer which (we hope) gives all our customers more granular control, management, and the ability to instantly contact us for accounts, support or sales queries.

We’re excited and eager to take our offering to a new level of localised, friendly, yet responsive customer service and support.

You may access our new “front end” at: imageoz.net

As always, we are grateful to our many loyal customers (partners) — you empower and inspire us to do great things!

Filed Under: ecommerce, internet, Marketing, Technology, Uncategorized Tagged With: domain, ecommerce, internet, name, website

2017-11-09 by Brett

Backblaze – affordable, simple and effective automatic backups

While we love Dropbox for its ease of sharing, storing, and having access to files across nearly any device – its more a temporary file system than permanent off-site archive suitable for recovering important files, restoring your computer if it dies or goes missing. For true peace of mind for your precious photos and critical files – you need a backup tool that simply works…

Start protecting all your photos, music, movies and documents today!

We’ve tried a great number of backup solutions over the years and luckily have seldom had to use them for recovery. However, the high on-going cost always made us think twice before renewing. Several would only protect internal hard drives of the subscribed computer and not the external drives attached. Backblaze makes it simple and affordable to protect your whole system – and at only $5/month!

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Filed Under: internet, Productivity, Technology

2017-05-25 by Brett

Learning and using photo apps

With SO many applications and features in photo applications – how does one learn them to maximise their features and benefits? Well, if Adobe is your favoured toolset – there are few resources better than Adobe KnowHow. They offer a range of course about Adobe products (especially Creative Cloud), general design, and many other graphic, artistic, and business tools or disciplines.

We’ve long been a fan of Stack Social / MacAppWare for special offers on products, services and software. For a limited time only, they are offering a huge 86% savings off the primary photo tool learning modules that Adobe KnowHow offers.

Click to learn more: Adobe KnowHow: Learn Photography From The Best’ by Adobe KnowHow via @stacksocial 

Filed Under: Learning, Photography, Scanning, Technology

2016-06-15 by Brett

How safe is wi-fi?

Wi-fi can be a powerful tool and invaluable resource (especially while on the road). While many are familiar with email threats and scams – just how aware of threats and methods to reduce risk while still taking advantage of wireless internet access while roaming are YOU?

Here is a great comprehensive infographic from Secure Data Recovery Services:

How Safe is that Wifi? An infographic by the team at Secure Data Recovery Services

Filed Under: Entrepreneur, internet, Productivity, Technology Tagged With: access, internet, security, technology, wi-fi

2015-08-14 by Brett

Got Dropbox? These hacks make it even more useful and cool!

Dropbox is phenomenal productivity tool allowing simple, reliable and FREE file sync, sharing and access across phones, tablets, desktops of nearly any OS. With the regular addition of extension apps its becoming even more powerful. Tools include: auto photo upload, Carousel photo gallery sharing, their Sparrow email client, website publishing and many other capabilities are on the way. Sign up and use Dropbox for free

 

 

However, a number of seldom used capabilities may make Dropbox even more indispensable for you…

Selective sync

Versioning

Photo back up

Offline access

Print/save PDFs

Archive blog

Backup Instagram

Check out how to implement each of these tools here

 

 

Filed Under: internet, Management, Productivity, Technology Tagged With: device, Dropbox, efficient, file, multi, storage, sync

2015-06-15 by Brett

Do you have good Karma?

Karma is a peer to peer WiFi sharing network growing like… well, like Karma – across major cities in the USA. Why, might you ask, does that matter if I already have mobile data? Good question!


Operating as a peer to peer system across Sprint’s WiMax network, each user (lets call them nodes) is able to piggy back off each other user. This often allows stronger signals, more throughput and a greater reliability than just single radio units. Note: That’s just like the internet is built – reliable, redundant, and multi-path.

The multi-connection mobile wifi base stations can connect to several devices (usually around 5 before any noticeable impact) so you only require a single data connection for all your devices – this can save you piles of $! The base stations are less than $100 to purchase outright and include 100MB data to get started. Additional data may be purchased for $14/GB (and less for larger volumes).

Better yet – your data never expires! There are NO on-going fees or monthly account charges. If you don’t use it – it does not cost a cent. This is a great feature for occasional travellers, those with many devices (especially wifi only) who want an economical way to access the internet when out and about (without having to sit in a cafe or buy a burger!)

When others peer to your Karma network you get an extra 100MB of data (good Karma!) There are no sharing log-ins required, no security issues, and you data is never shared (unless you specially allow it) so it costs you nothing – but gains you more Karma!

Check out Karma today – with your initial purchase of their tiny wifi device (smaller than a hockey puck) you get 100MB of data to try it out. They have a no questions asked, 100% refund policy – so if it does not work to your satisfaction, and basically add to your Karma – send it back… But like me, I think you’ll want to keep it and grow Karma!

Each friend who you refer that signs up gets 500MB of extra data and so do you – that said, please check out Karma using our referral link!  Let us know how you go… Enjoy!

P.S. Wanna save $30 on the device? StackSocial is selling them for only $69 until late 4th of July.  Act quickly!

Filed Under: Success, Technology Tagged With: access, internet, isp, karma, promotion

2014-04-23 by Brett

Join The Conversation about Corporate Venture Capital

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Free to fail: why corporates are learning to love venture capital

By Marco Navone, University of Technology, Sydney

Opening a venture capital branch seems to be the new “thing” in the corporate world. While Telstra Ventures and Westpac are the new big national players, Google is clearly ahead of the curve, with two distinct venture capital firms: the newly launched Google Capital and the five-year-old Google Ventures.

But why are so many companies, across a range of sectors, now running to open their own venture capital funds? And why does a company like Google, which has already delivered tremendous innovations in the past, now need to innovate “on the outside” with not one, but two, venture capital branches?

How it works

Venture capital has evolved as a tool to provide financing to firms in situations of extreme asymmetric information: young companies with no history, no assets and no track record, the proverbial “two kids in a garage”.

In this situation bank debt is not viable because the bank has no way to control how the money is spent and no collateral to fall back on. Direct access to the stock market is also out of the question because investors would not be able to judge quality and risk of the project.

The venture capitalist, on the other side, has industry specific know-how and can structure the financing in a way that allows them some control over the firm: in exchange for a capital injection the venture capitalist receives a portion of the equity and, usually, a seat on the board.

Moreover, as a common practice, the investment is usually staggered into multiple tranches, with subsequent infusions conditional on the achievement of predetermined “milestones”, such as the completion of a prototype.

Incentives for innovators

While venture capital is a powerful tool, there is another way for companies like Google to innovate: internal development. If the “two kids in the garage” were to work as Google employees, the company would be able to allocate capital with the best possible knowledge of the project.

So why use venture capital and not just develop internally? While this question hasn’t yet been directly addressed by academic research, pulling together different strands of literature can provide some useful insight.

A first problem is the incentive structure for the “innovator”. Disruptive innovation is highly reliant on the talent and ideas of a small number of individuals. In a startup, innovators can reap the entire value of their idea when they sell their shares. For instance, the founders of WhatsApp, Brian Acton and Jan Koum, are now worth a combined US$9.8 billion after it was acquired by Facebook.

When the innovation is promoted within a larger company the key actors will, at best, receive stock options with a value based on the performance of the entire company, only marginally reflecting the potential value of the innovation.

Consider Paul Buchheit, the Google employee who developed the first Gmail prototype. While the details of his compensation are unknown, it is unlikely that it contained the full value of the world’s largest email service. Buchheit later left Google to join a startup incubator.

This situation can get even more extreme: the CIA finances the development of strategic technologies via its own venture capital fund – In-Q-Tel. The entrepreneurs the fund financed would know that beyond the government getting the “first bite” of their products, they’d be able to benefit from the commercial applications. This would be impossible for public employees developing the same ideas in a basement at Langley.

Taking a punt

Another important factor: investing in disruptive innovation means accepting a high failure rate. While precise estimates are impossible, high levels of risk for venture capital investments have long been documented. Large public companies may be unwilling to accept this risk, not because of financial constraints, but because of pressure to maintain quarterly profitability.

A recent survey has shown the majority of CFOs are willing to abandon valuable projects in order to meet quarterly profit expectations. Google was forced to close its in-house development playground Google Labs after it was criticised for a lack of focus.

Other research has shown that firms whose financial statements are analysed by a large number of financial analysts tend to produce less innovation: they generate fewer patents and patents with lower impact.

The authors of that study concluded that “analysts exert too much pressure on managers to meet short-term goals, impeding firms’ investment in long-term innovative projects”.

Startups and venture capitalists do not suffer the same pressure: they are intrinsically less transparent and thus “protected” from the scrutiny of financial analysts and activist investors.

They are free to experiment, free to take big risks, free to fail miserably, and eventually free to come up with an idea that will shake the market.

The Conversation

Marco Navone does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.

This article was originally published on The Conversation.
Read the original article.

Filed Under: Industry, Technology Tagged With: capital, corporate, CVC, entrepreneur, Google, investment, Telstra, venture, Westpac

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