Last night from 7pm until 7am this morning I joined with other Sydney CEOs to raise money and raise awareness for the plight of the homeless. I slept rough, though not nearly as rough as homeless people do. From 7pm until 11pm I was indoors, had a soup dinner and a cup of tea and heard from people who have been homeless and heard of the good work that St Vinnies does.   more »

Video Q& A from Matt Cutts of Google   more »

I recently gave a talk to the Million Dolar Round Table in Brisbane about being your BEST to thrive in tough times. One of the points of my talk was about the need to have balance in your life. The term "work life balance" is thrown around and something that many of us are trying to strive, but I don't believe that it can really existing.   more »

On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video. Lee Willis from Cumbria, UK asked: Why does Google crawl/index blogs faster than other sites?   more »

So you've got a website, what next. What can you do now to get it working for you and working for your business?   more »

Ebay, the well known online auction and shopping site is often the preferred destination for people looking to buy and sell almost anything. Below are just some tools that might make your life a little easier when using eBay.   more »

A quick and plain English intro the micro-blogging service Twitter, from Youtube   more »

Here are some of the simple things you can do to ensure that your website is optimised to be easily ...   more »

Twitter is becoming a popular online forum for ongoing social and business commentary. It even got a mention on Rove ...   more »

Following on from the last post I got a lot of feedback asking how can we improve conversion rates. Here are ...   more »

Most online businesses have several conversion rates. On most occasions there are several steps from getting a visitor to click ...   more »

For most of 2008, we were so busy at Redback Solutions helping our clients to improve their websites and build ...   more »

BRIAN Haupt admits it’s not his lack of sight that’s got him nervous about climbing Africa’s highest mountain, it’s the flight to get there. “My fear is more of the flight (to Africa) - I don’t like to sit in one spot for too long,” he said.   more »

How do you grow your business? Have you ever looked at business that have grown and wonder how they do it? Chances are they use a combination of these simple common sense ideas.   more »

I came across this article from Knight Kiplinger and thought it was very relevant for the first post of the new year ...   more »

Last week Sticky Tickets was featured on both Life Hacker and Technation Blogs. Have a look at what they said.   more »

OAS Technology Group has today announced it will purchase Newcastle based Redback Solutions. OAS managing director Tony Price said the move into web development and e-marketing is part of the company’s plan to remain a leader in technology integration. In mid 2005, OAS expanded its operations to include a cabling, and communications company to complement its systems integration group.   more »

When a lot of people think about brand, the only thing they think about is their logo. Even if they get past that they often extend this only to corporate colours and other style based items, but your brand is so much more.   more »

I was just thinking about a session I gave on eMarketing last night for people starting businesses. I find that ...   more »

As markets possibly tighten, it a good time to refocus on basics and what contributes to our bottom line. One of the first things we often do is cut costs, but once you weed out unnecessary expenses, there is a limit where you can't cut costs any further without impacting what you offer and what makes your business special. The next thing to look at is sales, and to keep in mind that the end goal is profit determine entirely by number of sales and margin on each sale.   more »