I recently spent an exhilarating 10 minutes in the passenger seat of a new 997 Porsche Carrera S - WOW! The owner, a successful businessman, had a very interesting concept for a web idea.

The concept surrounds a website visitor's (customers) ability to personalise an item before purchase. This sent me scurrying to research what is hap...

This lucky employee come blog writer has just returned from 3 months leave; destination Europe.

Via thorough research of visitor profiling and usability scenarios, certain businesses in the travel and accommodation industry have cornered their markets and are laughing all the way to the bank - helping travellers like me spend...

Continuing partly from my previous post, this discussion carries on the importance for businesses to always further best practice, and continually work on increasing service levels.

We have discussed the importance of 'Selling the Experience', however with this comes the realisation that in a declining economy, all businesses have to ...

I'll start off by saying I was privileged enough to visit the 2009 Victorian Tourism Conference last Wednesday and Thursday.

Hearing Jeff Kennett speak was one highlight, and by that I mean the way in which one person (in a way) contradicted 2 days of the conferences thought patterns, by shedding some obvious light on three fundamenta...

I am currently speaking with a coffee company in Melbourne about their Online Strategy which aims to:
1. Develop an eCommerce solution which will provide a Return on Investment and allow future growth
2. Handover Control and Ownership to the business - Easily change and update content and products, increase knowledge b...

This month YouTube joined a host of major web sites when it announced plans to withdraw support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.

The news has received a mixed response. While web designers and developers the world over rejoiced, Microsoft responded with concerns over the businesses that still use the browser.

The logic beh...

Coles has joined many organizations in developing a fully functioning iPhone application for their business. This is an interesting step forward for an industry that has been experiencing rapid growth, showing they are proactively thinking about next steps for gaining brand loyalty and making shopping decisions easier for their consumers. I b...

As the iPhone has now been in the marketplace for a while, I thought it may be time to look at some of the interesting sales related advancements it has made to the mobile phone scene lately.

U.S Pizza Hut Franchise

In a move sure to thrill its laziest customers, Pizza Hut has unveiled its new iPhone applicati...

Smartphone sales in the U.S. up 68 percent in 2008.

Great Opportunities for SMEs

At bwired, we regularly receive contact requests off our web site. I followed up on one of these and the owner and his son visited our offices a few weeks back.

By way of background, the father runs a small business with a few employees in and around the furniture space. Without detailing, it's one...

Welcome back to my blog. Whilst I have tried to put a 'smile' on my previous posts, it's time to get a bit more serious with 2010 knocking at the door.

Now, I don't have my own personal website, so my question above is directed at you!

5 months in at bwired and I have been to enough meetings to get a ...

I am now getting close to my first full year with year with bwired.

My views on website development are constantly evolving and my approach to prospective customers is far removed from my early days.

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