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Lodge your ATO BAS statements online
Nov 1st
I’m not sure why we didn’t do this years ago but just recently we registered for an AUSkey so we can lodge the ATO BAS statements online. Coming from an IT background this is pretty embarrassing especially when we tell our clients to use technology to save paper and the environment. NOTE: that one of the benefits if you lodge your BAS statements online you also receive a 14 day extension from the due date.
So today we took the plunge and requested for an AUSkey – we requested one before but after reinstalling our main PC, the AUSkey was no longer available. The process of requesting an AUSkey is pretty straight forward, you register online and then you call up the Customer Support centre to verify your details (that’s what happened to us). Once your request is approved you receive an email to download the AUSkey software. For some reason, it says that it doesn’t seem to be compatible with some version of Firefox but using version 3.6.11 worked fine for me.
Once you install the software on the PC and visit the ATO website and click Login under the portal section, click on business portal and select the AUSkey certificate. You need to make sure you have Javascript enabled. You will also need to make sure you download the actual AUSkey – you can request this from your administrator.
After installing the AUSkey you can then attempt to login to the portal and you will see a screen like below. Select your AUSkey and then enter your password. When you login to the ATO site you can lodge your BAS statement.
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Free ways to advertise your iphone app
Oct 11th
If you’re a business and just got someone to develop your iphone application then how do you go about advertising your new app considering there is almost a quarter of a million applications available on itunes?
We’ve done some research and below is a list of ways to advertise your iphone app for free:
- Get your family, friends, colleagues to try out the application. Get feedback from them and get them to recommend the app to their friends
- Announce it to the world through social networking – use facebook or twitter to promote your app, even get your friends to share your link on their status. Create a fan page on facebook and a twitter account.
- Join various forums and announce the availability of your app. The biggest iphone forum is http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/
- Make sure you develop a cut down version of your app and give it out for free. Most iphone users will not buy your app straight away unless they trial it. That way you have a chance to up-sell your app if they like it.
- Update your email and forum signatures with a link to your free app.
- Get companies to review your app, e.g gizmodo, cnet, appdictions, whatsoniphone.com, iphoneapppreviews, etc. If they like it then they will definately review it for free.
- If you have guts then create a forum dedicated for your app so you can get others to provide positive and negative feedback.
- Think of an innovative idea to generate PR with companies e.g free advertising on your application
- Get on the News…
Good luck and if there’s any other ideas on ways to advertise your iphone app for free let us know.
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Apologies Advertise Me Enquiries
Apr 10th
We would like to apologise to all of those who sent us an enquiry and never received a response from us. Yesterday we discovered that our online mailer form (enquiry form) was not working and hasn’t been working since January 2010. It was just by accident that we were talking about how we haven’t received an online enquiry for a while and I decided to test the form to make sure it was working… and it wasn’t (my heart sank) and wondered what happened and how many opportunities and enquiries we missed because of this issue.
Apparently back in January when our hosting domain was migrated across to a new server (see post http://www.advertiseme.com.au/blog/index.php/2010/01/10/downtime-on-our-email-hosting/) some of the settings were not migrated across and this has caused the issue.
Upon fixing this issue we immediately received a backlog of enquiries and let me assure you that we will attend to these immediately. We just hope that it’s not too late to contact these people. What we’ve learnt from this little unfortunate experience is to make sure we test everything and I mean EVERYTHING when websites are migrated across to a new server or platform – this includes the MAILER FORM.
So once again on behalf of advertise me, we would like to apologise to those who have sent us an online enquiry and never responded.
Have you experienced a similar situation? Please share that with us in the comments.
Partnerships
Jan 14th
When starting off with your new venture or business idea make sure you establish strong and worthwhile partnerships with suppliers and service providers as you’ll never know when you need them in the future.
