Mailchimp vs Office AutoPilot – Why we switched

Why We Switched

The debate between Mailchimp vs Office AutoPilot. For a number of years, we used Mailchimp as our email service provider. Mailchimp is great for sending out emails to your email list either as one-off email or as part of an auto-responder sequence. Mailchimp has great reporting providing you … [Read more...]

Users are Facebook Advertising by Proxy

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What happened? A complaint was lodged regarding the posts by users which 'contained sexism, racism and other forms of discrimination' as well as depictions of irresponsible and excessive drinking on the official Facebook pages of VB and Smirnoff that could be consider Facebook … [Read more...]

Why Get Your Own URL Shortener When bit.ly Is Available

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We just got our own url shortener "dburl.co", but you ask why would we get your own shortener when there are so many free versions like bit.ly available. There are a couple of reasons: Sites like bit.ly have public access to your links so that others can see traffic sources etc. If a public … [Read more...]

Office AutoPilot & Xero – Business Automation in the Cloud

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The use of Office Autopilot and Xero enables small businesses to have the level of business automation available to only the largest companies, freeing business owners to do more productive activities or just some free time. We are currently examining the automatic integration of through … [Read more...]

OfficeAutoPilot Review

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I have just moved email service providers from Mailchimp to OfficeAutoPilot and I am really impressed. We used Mailchimp for a number of years and it provided great reports on email delivery open and click through rates but as our email list became bigger and more complex, it became more … [Read more...]

No Excuse For Traditional Retailers Not Going Online

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A new report from the Commonwealth Bank has found that online retail sales knocked 1.3% growth off traditional bricks and mortar retail businesses in 2011. Other studies have shown expected growth of 12% in online retail. The real issue for retailers is not what they can do to stop the growth of … [Read more...]

WordPress Site Layout Explained

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Wordpress is the most popular website platform with over 71 million websites using Wordpress from simple personal blogs to large corporate sites. The Content Management System (CMS) of Wordpress is very easy to use and there are thousands of videos and articles on how to use and shape Wordpress … [Read more...]