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  • Do you need to be a tech expert to run an online business
    Business, Business, blogging & Money, Tech

    Do you need to be a tech expert to run an online business?

    So perhaps you have an amazing idea. Maybe you have a revolutionary product or service that you want to sell, but you aren’t sure on how to do it. You could take general IT courses, you could ask a friend, or you could just wing it and start up your business with no computer knowledge at all. Or perhaps you have a bit of knowledge about using computers, but you’re not sure on what exact skills you need to start up a business.

    Either way, you shouldn’t worry so much.The short answer is that no matter how inexperienced you are, you can run an online business. As long as you know how to browse Facebook and respond to messages, you have sufficient knowledge to run a business. Here’s why. (more…)

  • The best tips for boosting productivity
    Lifestyle, Productivity & Time-Management

    The best tips for boosting productivity

    All business owners should want to boost productivity as much as possible. That is how you raise your profit margins and sell as many products or services as possible. At the end of the day, you got involved in the business world to line your pockets. So, it makes sense to keep your eyes peeled for the best solutions. The tips on this page should help to point you in the right direction. Just remember there are lots of other techniques you could use based on the inner workings of your operation. As you will discover, sometimes the best ways to increase productivity relate to reducing downtime.

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  • The guide to organising an incredible event
    Creating a buzz, Food & Drinks, Lifestyle, Marketing

    The guide to organising an incredible event

    Whether you’re trying to raise money for a charity or organisation, meet with customers and shareholders, or simply put on one heck of a party, there are few better ways to do it that with an absolutely killer event. In the business world, when a lot of people think of an event they think of rooms filled with people in suits being bored out of their minds, pretending to care about powerpoint presentations.

    Now, that’s not to say that an event where information is communicated carefully and intelligently isn’t extremely important, but if you want your event to really engage people, then you need to give it something a little bit more special. Whatever the reason behind it is, your event is an opportunity to excite, delight and keep your organisation in the forefront of people’s minds well after it’s ended. To do that you need to turn it into something remarkable and unique. It needs to be the kind of thing that attendees have never seen before. To help make sure that it really is a showstopper, here is some simple advice to help you put on the best possible event. (more…)

  • Technology that your business needs to survive
    Business, Business, blogging & Money, Tech

    Technology that your business needs to survive

    Sometimes you have to start at the beginning. One of the most important lessons that every business owner goes through is learning about technology. It sounds silly now because technology is a blanket term for almost anything electronic. Computers count as technology, your car count as technology and even the internet could count. As a result, when people mention technology in their blogs and articles, it can be somewhat hard to follow what exactly they mean.

    Even if you’ve read a dozen different articles, there is no doubt that you’ve picked up some useful information among all the useless junk. However, this article will be different. In this post, we’re going to talk about the bare basics of technology that your business needs to survive. (more…)

  • Three major risks of running a business online
    Business, Business, blogging & Money, Internet Freedom

    Three major risks of running a business online

    There’s no denying that the world of modern business has undergone some pretty dramatic shifts over the last decade or so. If you look at the ways in which businesses have changed, there’s one particular thing that you can point to as the driving force behind most of it: the internet. Going online has revolutionized the way that people do business. Not only that but it’s allowed thousands of budding entrepreneurs to create exciting, innovative new businesses that they would never have otherwise been able to. However, that doesn’t mean that an online business doesn’t come with its share of risks. Any new format will have difficulties, issues and risks to overcome and ignoring them is a very easy way to set yourself up for a nasty surprise down the road. To make sure that your business stays as secure as possible, here are some of the biggest risks of running an online business, and how you might be able to avoid them. Three major risks of running a business online: (more…)

  • Learn To Find Yourself On Your Travels
    Lifestyle, Self improvement, Travel, Travel Hacks & Tips

    Learn To Find Yourself On Your Travels

    People travel for a variety of reasons. Some want to escape the mad rush of urban life. Others are tired of feeling trapped in a stuffy office and dead-end job. Many more still, are eager to travel to find themselves. When you explore the world and journey to new places, it is possible that you find a piece of yourself that was always there and you perhaps never even new existed. Of course, to do this, you need to make sure that you are traveling the right way. It’s important that you don’t take the typical route to traveling because that road is too heavily walked. The footprints there are so deep, it’s impossible not to follow them. You need to set your own path.

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  • IT specialists weigh in on how to keep your business systems secure
    Business, Business, blogging & Money, Internet Freedom, Tech

    IT specialists weigh in on how to keep your business systems secure

    Recently, the Wall Street Journal took it upon itself to give its two cents about the problem of business computer hacking. Hacking, the paper said, could reduce businesses to their knees and destroy vital computer systems, essential for keeping operations running smoothly. No system, they said, is fool proof, meaning that malicious cybercriminals are always looking for weak points and vulnerabilities that they can exploit. (more…)

  • Business lessons learned from watching The Office
    Business, Business, blogging & Money, Entertainment, Film & TV

    Business lessons learned from watching The Office

     

    Have you ever watched an episode of The Office. I’m talking about the American version here, not the original British show. It’s about a hapless office manager played wonderfully by Steve Carell who tries to make work fun for his employees while still earning a decent profit. It was a rather brilliant show and one that taught me all kinds of lessons about running a business in the real world. Let’s go through some of the craziest things The Office could have taught you as a business owner.  (more…)

  • How to protect yourself from ransomware
    Best Of, Finance, Internet Freedom

    How to protect yourself from ransomware

    Let’s get personal today – I want to warn you for something that’s been going around the web. I wrote this article a few weeks back, but I guess now is the time to share. I have one (sometimes two) standard days in the week that I backup my whole life. This is probably the #1 most important task I have because without my digital files I would be nowhere.  (more…)

  • Scary travel movies inspired by true events PART III
    Entertainment, Film & TV, Travel, Travel Hacks & Tips

    Scary travel movies inspired by true events PART III

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    When we think about scary travel movies, Eli Roth’s incredibly bloody horror movie Hostel is probably the first thing that pops into your head. But there are many more travel movies that are scarier simply because they are based on real stories. These aren’t the kind of stories about people getting slaughtered, these are the kind of stories that freak you out because you know someone lived it and has survived to tell the story. They’re about people surviving terrible accidents or situations. They’re freaked out by mother nature instead of zombies or murderers. Must watch for travelers, because who knows, you might pick up some survival skills! Somehow, after I watched the Shallows recently, I’m SO into this kind of thrillers, so I decided to collect a few recent ones I saw inspired by true events. And yes, I must admit, they do fuel my wanderlust, often they start in the most beautiful places like Mexico, Hawaii or Australia. Enjoy! 

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  • When it comes to business growth here are just a few things to bear in mind
    Business, Business, blogging & Money, Internet Freedom

    The dangerous cybercrimes of the new business age

    A lot of people out there talk about data security in business. But we often talk about this subject in pretty vague terms. The need for security is often highlighted alongside the emphasis on the importance of data in modern business. But the terms we employ to describe the threats are usually lacking detail. We throw around words like “hackers” and “firewalls”, without talking about threats in specifics.

    Perhaps it’s because we all already think we know what’s out there. But let’s face it: the world of modern business has been changing a lot in the last couple of years. We knew digitization was upon us, but things seemed to have moved a lot faster than we thought they would!

    So let’s take some time to take a closer look at the new cyber crimes that are now developing in response to modern business practices. Going into the new year, you’re going to want to put some focus on tackling these dangerous cyber threats!  (more…)