SixFive

Hi, I am Duncan, and I am a web developer, web entrepreneur, and ski nut. Getting a small business started online should be simple, after all terms like SEO, social media, blogs and ecommerce are now common vernacular. Everyday new services start, millions in VC funding is awarded, but what can actually make a difference to your business, and how much work is it?

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Create a content snippet for the visual page builder library How to create a section of content for use within the Visual Builder by WPBakery editor. Really useful if you need to re-use a bit of content on lots of pages.

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Gmail forwarding emails by rules and filters

Gmail forwarding emails by rules and filters

How to forward emails selectively in Gmail using filters

1) Set up a forwarding email address See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zGSG…

NOTE: In the Settings screen select Disable Forwarding to stop ALL emails be forwarded. You will use filters set up in this video to forward only certain emails on.

2) Find an email that you want…

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Create a Google Analytics account

Create a Google Analytics account

How to create a Google Analytics account, and once you have it what to do with the information it provides!

Sign up here analytics.google.com/analytics/web/

1) Hit Admin – drop down New Account 2) Enter account name (Usually your Company Name) 3) Website Name (Usually your website name) 4) Enter the URL – select https if you serve…

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Create Google Tag Manager Account and Install Analytics

Create Google Tag Manager Account and Install Analytics

Installing your first Tag into Google Tag Manager and starting to harness the power of this platform for analytics and much more.

For this video you will also need a Google Analytics account. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNumM…

Go to http://tagmanager.google.com and sign up for an account. Copy the Tag Manager ID for the Google…

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Gmail: How to forward email automatically

Gmail: How to forward email automatically

This video shows you how to set up a forwarding address in Gmail, so that your account automatically sends any email it receives on to another account it could be a non-Gmail account.

Note: You will need to have access to the receiving account so authorise the forwarding.

Steps: 1. Login to the Gmail account you are forwarding email

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ACMA Radcomms Conference App

ACMA Radcomms Conference App

  [box style=”approved”]Private iPhone, Android & HTML5 mobile application for the industry communications conference.[/box]

Introduction:

Every year Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) run a conference called RadCommsfor communication industry leaders to come together and look at the future of communications technology. The mobile application was brought in to play to help…

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Adding Administrators to Google+

Adding Administrators to Google+

You may not want to / cannot administer your google+ or business listing on your own, so you need some help.

Here is how to add another user to your business listing in Google.

Steps:

Login to http://business.google.com

Hit Manage Location of Manage Page

Top left menu – Managers

Enter the email address of the managers you want.

Thos…

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Using Video Annotations To Drive Traffic

Using Video Annotations To Drive Traffic

YouTube sucks a lot of time from people, so you have to catch your viewers before they move on to the next video.

If you produce useful content and its about your business, then you should be also working to have viewers become your clients. Here are two ways to put real links on you videos that people can:

a) Subscribe to your videos b) Visit your website after viewing

[youtube=http://www.youtub…

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Creating And Verifying A Google Business Page

Creating And Verifying A Google Business Page

Your business needs to be on the map if you have a physical location (or locations). This has numerous benefits around Google search, Google maps and now tools like Google now where a user will ask their smartphone to find a nearby place.

Adding your place to Google Business provides the route to being found virtually and physically. Here is how to create that listing, and get it verified by a…

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Cant Do Something In Google Docs? Use The Help Menu

Cant Do Something In Google Docs? Use The Help Menu

Help areas a boring right? Not the Google Docs help menu. Just type in what you need, click the option and it actually does it! No more reading of help docs just to find how to do it. Time saver!

Steps:

To do this simply start editing the document you want to add something too.

Click Help in the menu, and type your request

Find the…

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Get Alerts On Suspicious Activity

Get Alerts On Suspicious Activity

Security is a big deal, and your users are not the best at following secure best practices.

Google for Work now gives you the option to alert certain people when a suspicious login event occurs. We recommend you turn this on and look at the other alerts you can get.

Steps:

Login to admin.google.com

Go to Reports

In the left menu –…

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Routing Email for Deleted Users To Another Account

Routing Email for Deleted Users To Another Account

When you run a company there are people that come and go. In some cases you might want to catch any mail for that deleted user and send it to another person or mailbox.

Steps:

From the apps dashboard https://admin.google.com

Click Apps – Gmail – Advanced Settings

Add a new Receiving Route

Name the rule

Select Messages to affect:…

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Microsoft stops supporting old Internet Explorer Versions

Microsoft stops supporting old Internet Explorer Versions

On January 16th 2016 Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer (IE) versions 8,9, and 10, leaving only version 11 standing.

As has been well documented in the press over the last few days Microsoft discontinued support for Internet Explorer 8,9 and 10 on January 16th 2016. This was decided and announced back in August of 2014. Anyone not prepared for this, hasn’t been paying attention.

This…

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Telesurf

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Telesurf is a new generation of ISP in Australia, and brings more than 30 years experience in the Fibre Optic space to the consumer & business market place.

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Introduction:

In collaboration with Telesurf’s focus on customer service, SixFive provides development services to allow customers an easy purchase process, integrating with the ERP & CRM…

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3 tips for Securing your Google Account

3 tips for Securing your Google Account

You can make your Google account much more secure by adding a second device to your login process. This means even if someone finds out your password they still need access to your smartphone in order to be able to access your account.

[blockquote quote=”Two-factor authentication (also known as 2FA) is a technology that provides identification of users by means of the combination of two different…

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Securing your email with 2 Factor Authentication

Securing your email with 2 Factor Authentication

Your email is the gateway to your business life, and you certainly cannot afford to have email not arrive, nor can you afford to have someone else hack into your account maliciously.

Today we will show you how to enable 2 factor authentication on your Google for Work account, and then how to set it up on your account, and how your users will do it.

What is 2 factor authentication?

Two–factor…

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Renaming a User in Google for Work Admin In this video you will be learning how to rename a user in Google for Work Admin.