How easy is it to forget to back up important business or personal files, photos and data?
Why not use an online solution with Mozy an automatic backup service storing your important data on enterprise-grade servers where it can be downloaded from anywhere in the world should the original file be lost or damaged?
Giving you complete piece of mind if your computer or server crashes!

About Mozy

Founded in 2005, Mozy is the world’s most trusted online backup service for consumers and businesses with more than 3 million customers and 70,000 business customers backing up 70 petabytes of information to multiple data centers around the globe.
Mozy is also used by Telstra for their client T-Suite cloud services.

Mozy believes:

You shouldn’t have to think about backup, it should be set up once, and then work automatically.

Your backup files should be encrypted and stored in a secure, remote location that’s only accessible to you – from anywhere.

Your backup system should be smart enough to only back up data that’s not already been backed up, only back up parts of a file that have changed, and be able to back up open and locked files.

Buy direct from Mozy and SAVE…
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AMAZON is out to burn Apple with a full colour tablet that’s less than half the price of the iPad.

The online retail giant today unveiled the Kindle Fire, its long-awaited touchscreen computer which experts believe could challenge Apple’s dominance.

The Kindle Fire runs on Google’s Android software and costs only $US199 – the cheapest iPads retail at $US499 – and will let users download books, magazines, newspapers, videos and music.

It will have access to apps through Amazon’s Android store and, unlike the iPad, doesn’t need to be backed up on a PC.
Instead, it backs up its contents wirelessly on Amazon’s servers.

Click here to learn more!

Order yours below NOW only $199!!!

[ Info via news.com.au ]

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These days, creating a Facebook page for your business is no longer a luxury. 

Many small, medium and large businesses are using Facebook as a successful vehicle for promoting their brands and engaging with existing and potential customers  – and when set up and maintained correctly, you can reach far more users than you’ve been getting to previously.

A Facebook Page is free to set up, can be configured in less than five minutes (for a basic page), and doesn’t require any previous web development experience – although adding some of the more advanced interactive features are a little trickier.

Get started …. more info here!

[info and image via Telstra Business Smarter Business Ideas]

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A QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) first designed for the automotive industry. More recently, the system has become popular outside of industry due to its fast readability and comparatively large storage capacity. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be made up of any kind of data (e.g. binary, alphanumeric, or Kanji symbols).

Created by Toyota subsidiary Denso Wave in 1994, the QR code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes. The QR code was designed to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.[2

[Info via Wikipedia]

Scan mine to check the speed out!

More Info here: Portable QR code reader for the iPhone.

Fast and effective with the real-time auto detect mode. 

FEATURES
- Real-time scan mode
- Share using email, facebook or twitter
- Integrated web browser
- Integrated map view
- Create your own QR codes

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Darryl and Heather Hedger are Authorised Edwards Solar Hot Water dealers and have an excellent reputation in offering you immediate hot water solutions, all with environmental benefits that assist in helping out your pocket as well as Mother Nature. 

The Federal Government is keen to address the current global environmental issues and as such have offered incentives to assist you with the purchase of a Solar Hot Water system.
The incentives are currently over $2400.00 but conditions apply.

They believe that by offering these incentives, the impact will be immediate and will assist in the reduction of greenhouse gasses. 

We contacted Jeanette Maynes from Design House in November 2010 to help us construct & set up a web site. Knowing nothing about the process but having been told about Design House by other business people we contacted her & have had our website up & running for quite a while, Jeanette was very helpful & constructive and in no time we could see everything coming together, we could make changes & had a great deal of input on a regular basis until we were all satisfied with the results. We can highly recommend Jeanette Maynes from Design House to get your website up & running in a professional & expert manner.

Heather & Darryl Hedger
Solar Sentral

View artwork here!   View website here!

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While everyone was enjoying the public holiday today, I thought I would take advantage of the day off work, to work on my business with a photo shoot for my latest work marketing campaign!

I decided to use the services of Lisa Klein Professional Makeup Artist as Lisa is a close personal friend of mine. We grew up as neighbours and best friends when we were young and hung out together nearly every day. I used to love to braid Lisa’s waist length red hair and paint her nails when she was a little girl.
Now Lisa has made beauty her passion and creates human masterpieces!
She really does a professional and extraordinary job and has extreme pride in her work with thorough product knowledge!

Give Lisa a call if you want to be noticed as the ‘Princess of the Party’, ‘Bride of the Year’ or ‘Boss of the Business Function!’

Lisa Klein Professional Makeup Artist, click here to see Lisa’s facebook page and amazing make overs | wedding make up!

I also can’t wait to see my photo shoot proofs from Stewart at Stewart Photography!
We certainly  came up with some exciting new concepts today!!!
Show me the ‘Money Shot’ Stewart!

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Building great content and keeping it up to date is the key to SEO, when writing your content use informative, qualitative and creative words that you think your potential clients would google for. Google searches through your site for these words which helps with your Google Rank.

Another way to increase your sites page rank is to submit it to local business directories once completed. This will increase back links which will be good for search engine results.

Add a blog … they are a great way to get traffic to your website. You can add fresh content easily and regularly. Search engines love fresh content! Blogs increase in size overtime and can provide a distinct SEO advantage.

Websites designed by Design House generally come up first listing, first page for their business name and some related google searches but it is not possible to guarantee coming up first for every search. We certainly do everything possible to give your business website the best chance.

There are just far too many bigger (numerous pages), larger businesses / companies and longer established websites which google gives more importance to out there for you to come up first for a search of every single possible key word related to your business. However, we can construct your website to target your businesses most important keywords.

Once your website goes live it takes up to three weeks for google to start indexing … and then you can see how your website starts to rank.

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When I comment on my blog you will notice my face appears to the right. This is a Gravatar.

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?

Click here to get your FREE Gravatar!

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Design House wishes to advise that Ben May is no longer involved with our business.

Applying the principles of Best Practice, we wish to stress that we are doing everything possible to secure your confidential information.
Please note over the next week there may be some unavoidable delays or minor hick-ups while our security systems are modified and upgraded.

Our new IT Designers and Developers will also be making themselves familiar with your accounts and website / email requirements.

 We ask that you please notify Design House immediately if you are contacted by Ben May (attempting to solicit work) as this will be a breach of contract and may result in legal action against Ben. 

Design House is excited about our new direction and will continue to offer our clients the highest professional standard of design and service that you deserve!

Have a Merry Christmas!

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I’ve been discussing this topic with a number of Website Designers and Developers online and it’s interesting to see what other people think, and the discussions that evolve.

When websites first came out, this whole “Search Engine” thing was not to be heard of, really the internet was quite boring, but by the year 2000, people had started to find websites by typing in key words into Search Engines like Google, that would direct them to pages that it could find on the entire internet.

For the last 3 – 5 years, a whole new industry has evolved from the web design sector, and that’s the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) industry. Some companies will pay a fortune for SEO experts to get their website to the top of all the Google searches for the terms they want. Well, that’s great isn’t it? People are now coming to your website after looking for something you must clearly provide. What interested me at the Web Directions South Conference in Sydney a few weeks back, was seminar that got me thinking “are they (people finding your website via Google etc) the right people you want on your website” ?

Sure some of them are going to be hot leads and then customers and that will be great, but there was a large percentage that were only on your site to look for cheap quotes and prices, in other words, time wasters or cold leads. The change in mindset from most businesses has been from “I Need a website” to ” I Need a website and I need it to be at the top of Google!”. While this is still very important to have your website at the top of Google and other search engines, it’s becoming more apparent that your advertising needs to more actively push consumers who are using traditional media, such as radio, paper, magazine and signage to your website and get them there that way.

Simply relying on SEO entirely to find your website is a bad move, you need to actively tell people about your website, and get them there that way as well.

At Design House – all our websites are built with your SEO at mind, we include a very good SEO pack with every website to help get it online quickly and efficiently, creating the desired result for our clients.

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