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Introduction to Domain Names and Web Hosting

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A domain name is a structured, human readable, unique name for a place on the Internet. It is not unlike your postal address. The post office expects your postal address to be structured in a standard way, usually with your name at the top, followed by street and suburb, then finally country and postcode.

Similarly, a domain name has a domain and a top level domain (TLD), and sometimes one or more sub-domains. Continue reading

Productivity Hack #1 – Recording Receipts using a mobile app

As a business operator you need to make sure that you are able to deduct justifiable expenses otherwise you are giving mreceipt-perspective-dropshadowoney away to the tax man. One of the problems I have is ensuring that I capture those expenses in a way that lets me enter the information into my accounting software as well as meeting the ATO requirements for “written evidence”.

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Managing Your Email Personas

Even though you are starting up a business and most likely it’s just you and maybe one or two other people, there is no reason not to put in place the organisational structure that your business will grow into.

One way to do this is to create different email accounts to help you keep organised and to provide a familiar environment for your customers. Each email address represents an aspect of your business. Each email address is one of the hats that you wear each day, one of your many personas.

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