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The Future is Now: Magazines

Bettina Walter - Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

I've got ambiguous feelings watching these demonstrations:
- I love the Interfaces.
- I've got reservations about glossy magazines 'on steroids'. - simply because I have reservations about glossy magazines. :)

Have a nice day

Bettina

Bring down IE6!

Jackson Beale - Monday, January 25, 2010

PunkLogic will continue to provide support for Internet Explorer 6, however we are strong supporters of the 'Bring Down IE6' campaign: www.bringdownie6.com.

Catering to this obsolete browser takes a massive amount of time and effort and support for it must be charged accordingly.

IE6 is holding up the web. If you would like to read more please follow some of these links:

http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/
http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/5-more-reasons-why-ie6-must-die/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/
http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/5-more-reasons-why-ie6-must-die/

There are plenty more resources available via a few quick google searches.

The Stupid Show reporting from Copenhagen

Bettina Walter - Saturday, December 12, 2009

Proving how little money can go so far! Love it when 'lightweight tv' is used so well. The Stupid Show makes Copenhagen feel close. Absolutely love it.

Find more info here: www.stupidshow.tv

"Digg my Tweet" Where to from here? Social Media to do list

Jackson Beale - Thursday, August 27, 2009

As promised to all the fantastic people who attended "Digg my Tweet" from home and in person. Your homework!

To download your to-do list PDF, please click here. We posted the Powerpoint presentation from the night above to help you recap.

Thanks again. If you have any questions, please refer to our last blog post, "Digg my Tweet" a great success!, for instructions on using twitter to do so.We are happy to answer any questions you may have using the twitter hashtag #diggmytweet. Click here to view the hashtag #diggmytweet.

"Digg my Tweet" a great success!

Jackson Beale - Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Thanks to everyone who attended and contributed to "diggmytweet" - Social media in plain english. The night worked out very well with 40 inquisitive folks piling in to Red on Thomas for drinks, nibbles and a smörgåsbord of useful social media info.

You can get involved in the ongoing conversation and see tweets from the night at
#diggmytweet. Click here to view.

With so much to cover in so little time, we hope to keep the conversation going. Anyone who left with more social media questions, please jump in and continue the discussion on twitter. It will be a fun way to learn what can be accomplished by getting your hands dirty:

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Main Features of Web Hosting & Content Management

  • Use SiteWalk to edit your web pages on the fly
  • Use FTP to manage your website just like you would with any other web hosting
  • Integrated customer database that grows as customers enquire or interact with your website
  • Make any type of content secure

Publish any type of Content

  • Announcements, FAQs, Literature
  • Set Release and Expiry dates on your content
  • Make any type of content secure
  • Share and syndicate any type of content using RSS

Integrated Customer Database

  • Grow your customer databased every time your customers enquire or interact with your website
  • Keep a history of all past customer enquiries
  • Allow customers to view their past enquiries via secure "member only" areas
  • Allow customers to keep their details updated via secure "member only" areas

Manage your Website and Web Pages

  • Use SiteWalk to edit your website on the fly
  • Use a Microsoft Word like WYSIWYG editor to edit web pages
  • Use Module Manager to add business functionality without any programming
  • Make web pages secure

RSS

  • Create an unlimited number of RSS channels
  • Syndicate and share any type of content e.g. blogs, web pages, news and announcements, FAQs etc
  • Set update frequency of your RSS channels
  • Reports on RSS usage and items selected from within a feed

Secure "Member Only" Areas

  • Make any type of content secure (web pages, announcements, Blogs, FAQs, Forums etc)
  • Manage your customers' access to any secure area
  • Set expiry date for customer access to any secure area
  • Easily email login details to every customer in a secure area

Website Reporting

  • Comprehensive reporting without having to add a single line of code to your web pages
  • Geo-location reporting. See a map of the world world.
  • Detailed visitors reporting including new vs returning, location, IP address, Spy Lens and more
  • Detailed reporting on every type of content

Web Form Builder

  • Build customer enquiry web forms without any programming
  • Add any number of custom fields to your web form to suit your business
  • Automatically captures and populates every enquiry in your customer database
  • Use built-in business workflow framework to automate follow-up, set reminders and escalation rules. Choose to be notified via email and/or SMS.

Build Communities with Forums

  • Create any number of forums
  • Set moderation level on new customer posts
  • Customers can subscribe to any thread and be notified when new posts are added
  • Make any forum secure

Amplify your voice with a Blog

  • Full blogging platform
  • Customers can leave comments on any blog post
  • Approve all incoming trackbacks
  • Trackbacks to any other blog

Photo Galleries

  • Create any number of photo galleries
  • Easily add a photo gallery to any web page
  • Add a description to any photo
  • Customize layout and appearance of photo galleries

Ad Rotators

  • Create any number of ad rotators
  • Rotate images, HTML snippets or Flash objects
  • Report on number of impressions, click-thrus for any period

Meta Data

  • Built-in meta data framework
  • Create your own meta data tags and easily add them to any web page

Main Features of eCommerce

  • Sell real products or e-Products
  • Give individualized discounts to any customer for any catalogue
  • Integrated customer database that grows as customers buy or interact with your online shop
  • Inventory Control

Integrated Customer Database

  • Keep a history of all past customer purchases
  • Give loyal customers individualized discounts. You can apply a different discount for every catalogue and every customer
  • Allow customers to view their past orders and even redownload any e-Products previously purchases via secure "member only" areas (All-in-One solution only)
  • Setup reoccurring orders and payments. Automatically emails invoices to customers

Catalogues & Products

  • Setup an unlimited number of Catalogues & Products
  • Set Release and Expiry on any Catalogue or Product
  • Sell e-Products. Limit how many times and where they can be downloaded from
  • Set product weight / volume for any product to control the shipping options that are displayed

Easier management of your Online Shop

  • For faster management use Import feature to manage your entire online shop including products, pricing, catalogues, grouping, inventory control and more from a single Excel file
  • Export your entire product catalogue in one click. Make changes and re-import
  • Or use web-based interface to manage your online shop

eCommerce Reporting

  • Sophisticated e-commerce reporting framework
  • Sophisticated customer reporting framework
  • Track sales and payments
  • Track abandon rates and where customers abandon in online shop

Customize your Online Shop

  • Limitless customizability of the online shop and the checkout process
  • Limitless customizability of invoice / quotes emailed to customers

Inventory Control & Drop Shipping

  • Complete inventory control. Optionally hide products from shop if out of stock
  • Allow any out-of-stock product to be pre-ordered
  • Set re-order threshold and be notified when product stock level falls below a certain quantity
  • Enable drop shipping on any product and automatically notify suppliers to fulfill customer orders

Multi-Currency Support

  • Sell global, act local with multi-currency support
  • Set prices for products in any currency
  • Setup shipping options for various countries
  • Setup tax codes for various countries

Upsell, Cross sell and Product Grouping

  • Group similar products together, e.g. By size or by color, Small Shirt, Medium Shirt, Large Shirt
  • Increase sales using Cross/Upsell by relating products together. E.g. relate cell phone with charger and car kit.
  • Display related products separately or as checkboxes so the customer can add them to cart at the same time as buying the main product

Affiliate Programs

  • Setup any number of Affiliate Programs
  • Report across an Affiliate Program or measure an individual affiliate's performance
  • Reward your affiliates based on the actions the customers they refer make, e.g. purchases made (and amounts), enquiries made etc.
  • Easily email Affiliate Program details to subscribers of an Affiliate Program

Gift Vouchers

  • Create any number of Gift Vouchers with any dollar value
  • Gift Vouchers can be redeemed to buy products in your online shop

Payment Gateways

  • Integrated with popular payment gateways throughout the world
  • Offer COD / Check options at checkout
  • Offer PayPal as a separate payment gateway
  • Integrated with World Pay for a wide range of currency support

Discount Codes

  • Create any number of discount codes
  • Set your own discount rates
  • Set release and expiry of discount codes

Shipping Options

  • Setup any number of shipping options for different countries
  • Set minimum and maximum weight and volume restrictions for any shipping option
  • Apply your tax code/rate to any shipping option
  • Integrated with USPS, FedEx and Australia Post for real-time shipping charge calculation

Tax Codes

  • Create any number of tax codes and rates for any country that you operate
  • If in USA automatically apply relevant state tax rate at checkout to products and shipping charges
  • Apply tax codes easily to products and shipping charges

XML Feeds

  • XML feed of all products to use with 3rd party affiliate network such as ClixGalore

Main Features of Email Marketing

  • Choose over 200+ design templates
  • One-off and loyalty based campaigns
  • For the first time go beyond open rates and bounces reporting and see what actions customer take
  • Integrated customer database that grows as customers subscribe or interact with your website

Email Marketing

  • Send One-Off Emails
  • Setup Birthday Loyalty Campaigns, e.g. setup one campaign to automate saying happy birthday to your customers on their birthday
  • Setup Anniversary based campaigns, e.g. based on previous holiday purchase, automate reminder in 6-months or 12-months

Integrated Customer Database

  • Grow your customer databased every time your customers subscribe or interact with your website
  • Centrally manage your customer's campaign subscriptions
  • A full history of past campaigns sent to each customer including open rates, actions taken and links clicked
  • Increase your sales by utilizing up to 5 anniversary dates for each customer, e.g. date of last holiday booked, date of last car service. Use loyalty campaigns to automate communication around these key events on a one-on-one basis

Lists

  • Create unlimited number of lists for better targeting and results
  • Use customer report generator to dice and slice your customer database
  • Easily add a subscription box to any web page hosted at GB or elsewhere to allow customers to subscribe to your newsletters
  • Customize the landing page customers see after subscribing to your list

Email Marketing Reporting

  • Track Open Rate of HTML emails
  • Track Links clicked and most popular links (available for both HTML and Text formatted emails)
  • For the first time track customer Actions e.g. customer made a purchase, customer made an enquiry and so forth (All-in-One solution only)
  • Track bounce rates

Email Deliverability & Spam Control

  • Double Opt-In mechanism
  • Unsubscribe link on all newsletters
  • From email address verification

Main Features of Lead Management

  • Build any number of customer enquiry web form without any programming
  • Easily add your web forms to a web page hosted at Online Business Console or any other hosting company
  • Use customizable business workflows to setup notifications via email or SMS when customers enquire
  • Use the Customer Report Generator to dice and slice your customer database

Integrated Customer Database

  • Grow your customer databased every time your customers enquire or interact with your website
  • Keep a history of all past customer enquiries
  • Allow customers to view their past enquiries via secure "member only" areas (All-in-One solution only)
  • Allow customers to keep their details updated via secure "member only" areas (All-in-One solution only)

Web Form Builder

  • Build customer enquiry web forms without any programming
  • Add any number of custom fields to your web form to suit your business
  • Automatically captures and populates every enquiry in your customer database
  • Use built-in business workflow framework to automate follow-up, set reminders and escalation rules. Choose to be notified via email and/or SMS.

Lead Management Reporting

  • Sophisticated customer reporting framework.
  • Filter on any system or custom field
  • Save any report and run later
  • Export any report to Microsoft Excel for further analysis

Web Apps

  • A framework to create any type of content, e.g. job listings, real-estate listing, a car catalogue etc using a point-n-click approach
  • Create any number of web apps (web applications)
  • Use various modules to easily publish web apps on your website, e.g. all web apps, latest web apps, random web app, web apps within a classification and so forth
  • Allow customers to search within any web app on your site. The system will generate a search form that matches the schema of your web app.

Bookings

  • Allow customers to book into events
  • Automatically manage capacity
  • Use inbuilt follow-ups framework to remind attendees of upcoming events
  • Collect payments with bookings

POP Email

  • POP3 email. Use with Outlook, Thunderbird or any other popular email program
  • Web mail interface
  • Unlimited Aliases for each mailbox
  • Catch-all address

SEO

  • Integrates with Google/Yahoo/Live sitemap. A daily feed of all content within website is produced for maximum exposure in the search engines
  • Search engine feed also includes every catalogues and products (eCommerce only)
  • Search Engine Friendly URLs. Catalogue and product names used in URLs to maximize search engine friendliness (eCommerce only)

Accessibility

  • Web-based Admin
  • FTP
  • Import / Export options
  • Work directly inside Dreamweaver using our plugin Triangle
  • Extensive Web Services framework

Administrative Tools

  • Easily add and manage Users and Roles
  • Customize granular permission levels for a role
  • Create your corporate taxonomy and assign content to various categories for easier publishing
  • Customize and extend the Customer Database to suit your business (All-in-One solution only)

Business Workflow Engine

  • Create and Build Business Workflows to automate follow-up
  • Create single or multi-step workflows
  • Be notified via Email or SMS
  • Set SLA's (Service Level Agreements)



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