We all know, almost instinctively, that keeping customers happy is the key to repeat business and to the success of an enterprise. But what can the executive level of an organization do, in a concrete way, to allow the customer-facing members of that organization to make that happen?
Since announcing our intention a few months ago to become carbon neutral within the next few years, we’ve had a couple of people ask us for more information how they can run their own businesses more in tune with the environment. It’s time to share.
Loop Foundry is looking to expand nationally in the coming few months! We’re a big fan of serviced offices, and we’ve put together a custom Google Map listing all of the larger serviced office providers in Australia. We’re sharing it in the hope that it’s useful to others.
Ever feel like you want to get started bringing your business into the 21st century, but aren’t sure how you should go about it? Google are now offering a free course introducing the basics of search engine optimisation, search engine marketing, web analytics, eCommerce, and social media. They want to…
Recently we’ve been involved with transitioning an internal business database from a split Access database (one Access file holding the UI, another Access file holding the data tables) to a Access front-end with an SQL Server back-end. The purpose of this is to eventually migrate away from Access to an…
Photo courtesy of HackNY. 1. Technical Ability First of all, figure out to the best of your ability whether the firm can actually do the work. This is by far the hardest aspect to judge – most software developers don’t even know themselves whether they can do something (or indeed…
A lot of people consider search engine optimisation a black art, something completely unintelligible to us mere mortals. That’s not true. Whilst some of the more advanced techniques really are magic, 90% of SEO boils down into one simple statement: If you make your website better for a human reader,…
While I was setting up our internal JIRA and Confluence instances, I wanted to give them “proper” URLs, such as jira.fooproject.com and confluence.fooproject.com. We use Microsoft’s IIS web server for all of our other websites, so we wanted to use this as a reverse proxy. Atlassian has instructions for doing…
