Business

What Instagram’s new desktop DMs means for businesses

Andy Smart April 13, 2020 0 Comments
Receiving a healthy influx of direct messages on Instagram is a great indication that your audience is engaged with your brand and the content that you’re posting. But it can also be pretty stressful — especially if you’re managing everything from the Instagram mobile app (it’s just a little limiting to do everything from the app!). As such, the new feature should be *very* useful for...
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How to use Zoom for video conferencing & video meetings

Andy Smart March 21, 2020 0 Comments
Zoom has earned itself a reputation as a reliable, easy-to-use tool that can handle meetings involving up to 100 people. And that's just the free version. If you need to host particularly large online meetings, there are paid-for business packages available that dramatically increases this limit, and also adds new features Add a webcam to your desktop PC, or turn to your webcam-enabled laptop,...
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Did you know you can use a business landline number with WhatsApp?

Andy Smart March 12, 2020 0 Comments
WhatsApp is arguably one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. With a user base of 1.5 billion across the globe, the Facebook-owned social messaging apps are used for everything from connecting with friends and family living oceans apart to sending and receiving money via WhatsApp Payments, which is still in its nascent stages of deployment, and from getting news updates to getting...
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Support remote workers using Microsoft Teams

Andy Smart March 05, 2020 0 Comments
Use the best practices in this article to support your users who work remotely or from home. Technical advice Make sure Teams is turned on for everyone Look at Teams free to make Teams available to everybody in your company. Remote employees rely more heavily on meetings and audio conferencing. If you haven't yet rolled out these workloads, check out Meetings and conferencing in Teams. Tell...
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Better business banking with Tide & O’Brien Media

Chris Grant (he/him) February 18, 2020 0 Comments
We're constantly on the lookout for ways we can help our clients run their businesses more efficiently and, after using Tide for our own banking needs for the past year we've partnered with them to offer their service to our clients complete with one year of transaction charge-free transfers and one-to-one support in getting your new Tide account up and running. Based on our own experience as...
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Looking for a new website? Get an instant estimate today…

Chris Grant (he/him) December 31, 2019 0 Comments
Whether you need a small business website with a few pages and a contact form or something more complicated our instant estimate tool can give you a guide price and we'll follow-up with you to produce a solid plan for your new or redesigned website accommodating your budget and requirements. Create your instant estimate now... It’s very important to us that our clients can compete online with...
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Business Continuity Support for customers affected by adverse weather conditions (14th/15th November 2019)

Chris Grant (he/him) November 14, 2019 0 Comments
Due to Environment Agency public advice and Met Office warnings of disruption due to flooding, snow, and rainfall being in effect for parts of the UK over the next 24 to 48 hours we have activated our Customer Business Continuity Support (CBCS) plan to provide assistance to customers affected by adverse weather conditions over the next 48 hours. For those not aware of this plan, this means that...
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Expert Advice: Automatic email signatures can now sign binding contracts

Bethany Fitzgerald October 26, 2019 0 Comments
This is a guest post, for which we would like to thank Bethany Fitzgerald, a paralegal with the commercial team at Wansbroughs Solicitors. Automatic signatures found at the end of emails, stating name, place of work, job title and contact details, are now being included in what counts as a signature to form a binding contract – according to a ruling from Manchester County Court. In the case, a...
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3 Reasons why no one replies to your messages anymore…

Chris Grant (he/him) October 17, 2019 0 Comments
Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be a marked rise, from even a decade ago, in terms of the regularity and predictability with which all kinds of messages are returned? Because I have. Call me old fashioned (I'm only 35 at the time of writing!), but I always felt that returning messages was important, a sign of reliability, a good thing in business. I always make it a point to return...
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Business Continuity Support for customers affected by adverse weather conditions (06/10/19 to 18/10/19)

Chris Grant (he/him) October 06, 2019 0 Comments
Due to Environment Agency public advice and Met Office warnings being in effect for parts of the UK over the next 24 to 48 hours we have activated our Customer Business Continuity Support (CBCS) plan to provide assistance to customers affected by adverse weather conditions over the next few days. For those not aware of this plan, this means that if you are an O'Brien Media customer for website...
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