Five new financial year’s resolutions for your business

Happy new financial year

Whether you believe in resolutions or not, making a list of action items can help you achieve your goals. Now is the ideal time to reflect on how you and your business performed last financial year and consider how you can make this financial year more prosperous and exciting. Here’s some tips to get you […]

Ask CyberGuru – What happens if I forget to renew my domain name registration?

Ask CyberGuru

In this month’s instalment of Ask CyberGuru, we answer the question, “What happens if I forget to renew my domain name registration?”. When you buy an Australian domain name (such as .com.au, .org.au, and net.au) you own the use of that domain for the term of the registration (usually two years). If you forget to renew your domain […]

CyberGuru leading the way on Cyber Security

Seniors Safety Forum

Last Friday CyberGuru’s Proprietor/Chief Guru, Chris Jeffery had the honour of speaking at the Seniors Safety Forum on cyber security. Speaking alongside the Queensland Ambulance Service and Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, Chris informed the local seniors in the community how to protect themselves against phone and internet scammers. Chris spoke about phone and internet […]

Special End of Financial Year offer

Federal government tax break

We are excited to share with you a new offer valid until June 30, 2016. We had such an interest from clients and prospective clients wanting to minimise their tax this year that we have decided to make a special offer to help with this. For a limited time only, a pre-pay for five hours […]

Digital Brisbane Speed Networking Event 2016

Digital Brisbane Speed Networking Event 2016

On the evening of Wednesday 8 June 2016, I attended the Digital Brisbane Speed Networking Event, held at The Loft, located in West End, Brisbane. This is the fourth Digital Brisbane Speed Networking event I have attended since their introduction in 2013. It was an opportunity for both collaboration and networking between around 100 guests […]

Time to minimise your tax for this financial year?

Federal government tax break

With only four weeks remaining of the current financial year, we look at ways you can minimise your tax this financial year. The Australian Government’s tax break announced last year allowing small businesses to make an immediate deduction on items up to $20,000 can still be claimed. This makes it an ideal time to upgrade […]

Ask CyberGuru: How can I prevent being upgraded to Windows 10?

Ask CyberGuru

“Help! I’ve been accidently upgraded to Windows 10!” is the cry I have been hearing from a number of unsuspecting users running Home Premium or Professional versions of Windows on their computers. Whilst in some cases the user may have accidentally clicked to accept the upgrade (which can be done in a number of ways, […]

How to take control of your email – part 3

Taking control of your email

In the final instalment of this series we discuss strategies for dealing with the sheer volume of emails in our inboxes. This week we examine the Junk folder. We’ve all done it. We’ve finally gotten sick of whichever particular organisation has been spamming our inbox and we mark it as “Junk”. This is an effective […]