iphone, ipad and android apps

joyer staff's top mobile apps
Tuesday 24th January 2012

Do you have an android device, an iPad or iPhone and are overwhelmed by the amount of apps available to you? Fair enough. After all, there are almost 8000 apps in Apple's Business section alone and there is a whopping 22000 under the umbrella of Education!

So you can make the most of your smartphone or tablet, staff members from both our IT and Design teams at Joyer want to share with you their favourite apps.

 

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top 6 business facebook tips
Tuesday 29th November 2011

Facebook is continuing to grow at a fast rate with currently over 800 million active users and the number of businesses creating a presence on Facebook is also growing at a fast rate.

The fact that many people have experience using Facebook and that it is free to create a business account, lead many businesses to create a Facebook business page and start posting content with no strategy or plan.

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top 5 website usability tips
Thursday 3rd November 2011

Website usability is a critical component of any website and can have a significant impact on the success of your solution. A recent report by measuringusability.com highlighted this importance by showing that when users' first website click is down the right path, 87% eventually succeed, but when they click down an incorrect path, only 46% eventually succeed. The fact is, website usability will have a direct impact on your website conversions.

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rank high on google

why pay for SEO services?
Thursday 27th October 2011

We are often asked by our customers why they should pay for Search Engine Marketing (SEO) services when the content management systems (CMS) we deliver with our websites provide the capability for the customer to create and edit page content (including usage of header tags), meta tags and page titles. All of these elements can be used to add keyword phrases to website pages, which effects SEO, and it is a common belief that this is all you need to do to rank well for your keywords in Google.

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Joyer SEO SEM SMO policy

what is SMO?
Friday 6th May 2011

SMO is the talk of the town this month. What is SMO? Yet another technology buzz-word I’m afraid. Social Media Optimisation is the term for hiring a firm to look after your social media accounts and other sites that can expose your profile online. Be they Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, foursquare, Flickr, Google Local, Google Maps, TrueLocal, Yellow Pages online, other Aussie local sites,  Yahoo, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Tumblr, Digg, Reddit, and of course blogging, each requires consideration as to whether your business should be exposed on it.

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Retallacks Sewing Centre

joyer site in review: retallacks
Wednesday 4th May 2011

The Joyer Site in Review series looks back at the large suite of websites we have completed that are live on the web today and have stood the test of time, both technically and in terms of design.

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foursquare small logo social media site 2011

the rise of foursquare (=16???)
Tuesday 19th April 2011

A rising social media site is foursquare, https://foursquare.com, which is city based and works on all possible mobile devices.

foursquare logo social media local mobile site

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joyer wins major account, Starcom MediaVest
Friday 26th November 2010

In great news for our company Joyer announced the win of a huge project to strategically redesign and develop websites for Starcom MediaVest Group across 100 offices in 66 countries and 9 languages. While the size and type of the project is a huge win for Joyer, it also highlights how technology allows regional based businesses to compete, not only on a national but an international scale.

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how often should you update your site?
Monday 23rd August 2010

Unfortunately there is no one answer fits all, or a simple formulae to help calculate the optimum number. Each website is unique and the number and amount of changes you should perform depends on the purpose of your website, your business and your target market.

It is safe to say that all websites need to be kept up to date with fresh and relevant content and that the positive impact of doing this will affect not only site visitors and website outcomes but will also improve your website ranking in search engines.

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focus on technology column - aug
Saturday 7th August 2010

Welcome to Tech Talk, where we take a quick look at the technological picture in Australia, and what it means to business. Our goal is not to add to the hype, but to see through it, and give you an objective view, so that you can make decisions based on information, not sensation!

It has been another interesting month in the mobile phone world. Apple CEO Steve Jobs admitted that his company isn’t perfect in reference to the well publicised iPhone 4 issues, which was news to many Mac devotees. Meanwhile the upcoming Windows 7 Phone was previewed this month amongst speculation that every Microsoft employee would be supplied with one of their own. A few years ago Microsoft reportedly banned their employees from using iPods, I wonder if they will ban iPhones too.

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