CHEAPEST PARCEL COURIERS Delivery The Simple Entrepreneur

CHEAPEST PARCEL COURIERS

I’ve been using one specific courier Transdirect over the years for transporting hardware goods (Digital Signage Screens and computer parts). They are probably the cheapest courier website in Australia and they provide the best rates across their courier network. They can provide local, interstate and international shipping and I’ve personally used them for our company […]

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DEBUGGING CODE AS A NON CODER The Simple Entrepreneur Marco Tran 1

DEBUGGING CODE AS A NON CODER

I’m not a coder. I have done some coding back in the day when I had a Commodore 128 but all I was doing was typing the code from a book. I have also done some simple coding in high school and in University. It was many years ago and I was using Pascal and […]

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Marco Tran The Simple Entrepreneur WORDPRESS CACHING PLUGINS

WORDPRESS CACHING PLUGINS

As many of you know, I’ve been a WordPress user since the early days. The majority of the websites we manage is using the WordPress CMS. In this article, I will be sharing with you some of the top WordPress caching plugins we are using on our websites. I’ve tested the website performance of our […]

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Marco Tran The Simple Entrepreneur CHEAPEST VIDEO CAPTURE CARD

CHEAPEST VIDEO CAPTURE CARD

This is probably the cheapest and most affordable video capture card I have ever purchased. I have previously used other capture devices but this seems to be the most cost-effective and easy to use. It doesn’t have a brand or model number and it’s labelled as VIDEO CAPTURE (on the instruction manual it has USB […]

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Marco Tran The Simple Entrepreneur TRAINING SESSION FOR ADVERTISE ME CLIENTS featured

TRAINING SESSION FOR ADVERTISE ME CLIENTS

This week I conducted a training session for one of our Advertise Me clients. The training session included demonstrating a new module we created called Staff Rostering for our AdvertiseMe.TV digital signage platform. The training session was originally scheduled for early March 2020 but due to some of the COVID-19 restrictions, we had to delay […]

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Marco Tran The Simple Entrepreneur CUSTOMER SUPPORT TICKET SYSTEM

CUSTOMER SUPPORT TICKET SYSTEM

If you own or run a business and you need to track your customer support tickets then LiveAgent is a tool you should look into. I’ve recently had to set this up for our Advertise Me company. We previously used osTicket (an open source ticketing application) but due to some PHP version comparability issues we […]

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Marco Tran UPDATES TO OUR ADVERTISE ME WEBSITE 1

UPDATES TO OUR ADVERTISE ME WEBSITE

I recently spent a few weeks updating our Advertise Me website. The website needed some tender love and care as it has been neglected over the years. The overall rankings on Google over the years has also dropped so I decided to take the initiative to make some changes with the hope of improving the […]

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LEARNING ABOUT GIT REPOSITORY

LEARNING ABOUT GIT REPOSITORY

Over the past several months, I’ve had to learn a new skill – a technical skill which I had no clue about and it’s related to software development. I decided to write some of the commands and stats I”ve learnt and may potentially forget. So here we go, let me share with you some of […]

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MY HEALTH CHECK APRIL 2017

MY HEALTH CHECK APRIL 2017

A few days ago I used a Health Kiosk at Liverpool Hospital to check my health. It was free and I thought it would be interesting to see how my health was. I’m not sure how accurate it was but I seem to be doing OK with my health. The Kiosk asked for a few […]

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BUSINESS FAVOUR IS IT WORTH IT

BUSINESS FAVOUR – IS IT WORTH IT

This might be the last favour we do. Let me explain. A friend asked us to be the middle man ie reseller for one if their friend’s company since they needed To but several laptops. We agreed (everything was legal) since it was a friend… But since then this small job has turned to be […]

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Digital Wayfinding Solutions Enquiries

DIGITAL WAYFINDING SOLUTIONS ENQUIRIES

Today we received an email for our digital wayfinding solution. We currently only have a handful of clients using our wayfinding software but as we complete one of the projects we have been working one, we intend to start pushing the product to other industries and businesses. It’s currently being used in hospitals and it […]

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the uniform shop

THE UNIFORM SHOP

I went early this morning to my son’s school so I could buy him a new bomber jacket since the old one was passed down to my daughter. When I went to the shop in the morning it was closed and upon inspection of the time when it was open it was actually in the […]

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NEW THEME FOR WEBSITE

NEW THEME FOR WEBSITE

My brother is looking at changing the theme to our Advertise Me website. The last time we did that, (over 4 years ago) we paid the consequences. One thing to remember when changing anything with your website is that you may either increase your SERP (Search Engine Results Page) or bury it. A few months […]

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BUYING A BUSINESS

BUYING A BUSINESS

So my brother is thinking of purchasing a business and here are a few things I’ve learnt: carefully check the business information, in particular, the financials find out why they are selling the business are there any debts on the business is there growth can you market the product ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of […]

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YOUTUBE VIDEO TOO LARGE

YOUTUBE VIDEO TOO LARGE

It took about the whole day to upload the 2GB video to YouTube and at the end of the upload this is the error message I received, “This video has been removed because it is too long”. Sorry about that. Say what? Sorry? I just spent 2GB of my quota to upload this video and […]

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