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 WHAT IS YOUR HIGHEST COMMISSION EARNED

WHAT IS YOUR HIGHEST COMMISSION EARNED?

Just the other day I received an affiliate commission of AU$399.00 This was for a sporting item which has a sale value of $3,999.00 (commission of 10%). So far this has been one of the highest commission I’ve ever earned. My previous highest commission was US$345.00 (but it only had a sale value of $690 […]

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Marco Tran FIXING THE CISCO ANYCONNECT PROFILE

FIXING THE CISCO ANYCONNECT PROFILE

In a previous post “Configuring the Cisco ASA” I described how I configured the Cisco ASA and I mentioned about the Cisco AnyConnect client. The Cisco AnyConnect client has been working well but recently I noticed the profile hostname changed and it was not loading the correct server. It was getting annoying so I wanted […]

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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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Marco Tran CONFIGURING THE CISCO ASA

CONFIGURING THE CISCO ASA

I recently had to set up the Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) 5505 for our office and this brought back fond memories of when I was working for the Australia Broadcasting Corporation migrating vendors using Site to Site VPNs and the whole of the ABC staff from the Cisco VPN Concentrator 3000 to the Cisco […]

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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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HOW TO REPORT A SPELLING MISTAKE TO INSTAGRAM

HOW TO REPORT A SPELLING MISTAKE TO INSTAGRAM – IS IT GOING TO GET FIXED?

I’ve done it. You’ve probably done it. We’ve all done it! I’m talking about making spelling mistakes in an email, websites or any text-based chats.  I recently noticed (on the 26th Feb 2018) a spelling mistake on the web version of the Instagram app (https://instagram.com) and was quite surprised to have discovered this. The word “someone” was incorrectly […]

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UNICORN COMPANIES

UNICORN COMPANIES

For those Entrepreneurs that dream big and want to achieve Unicorn status, here’s some inspiration. The article from Business Insider lists 23 US companies that have been evaluated to be worth $1billion or more. After looking at each of those 23 companies, I came to the following conclusion: You need investors. All of those companies […]

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MY OFFICE DESK

MY OFFICE DESK

Sorry, it’s been a while since I last posted. I’ve been fairly busy with work and haven’t been able to commit with blogging – yes a bit slack but hope to continue blogging in the next few weeks. Anyways, I just wanted to share with you how my office desk looks like. If you think […]

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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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DIGITAL WAYFINDING HAS NOW GONE LIVE

DIGITAL WAYFINDING HAS NOW GONE LIVE

As you can tell I’ve been busy hence the reason why I haven’t been blogging. The main reason is that work has been getting busier which means less time to write these articles. The main reason why work was busy is because we went live with one of our Digital Wayfinding projects. ACTIVITIES Below is […]

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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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