Category Archive: Business

At what stage of your business do you start employing staff?

Here’s a common question every business owner asks: at what stage of your business do you start employing staff? Many businesses are initially self employed and the owner will be able to manage the day to day operations of their business but they will eventually encounter what I call the work overload syndrome. That’s the […]

June 2, 2011 / by Marco / click, culprits, docs, evidence, factor authentication, Gmail, gmail account, google, Grant, grant access, hand, journalist, login, mail settings, password, phrases, screenshot, tab, username

How to check if your Gmail account has been hacked

Firstly, my Gmail account hasn’t been hacked yet, but I came across a journalist that did. You’ve probably heard in the media that several Gmail accounts have been hacked. In this post I just wanted to share with you how you can confirm whether you’ve been hacked and what you can do about it. To […]

Website is down

Our main busineslegions.com website is down at the moment as we’re in the process of revamping this website. We will definately have a better website for you all in the next few months so watch this space. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ?Join our subscription list and receive our content right in your mailbox. If […]

Resume – The improvement process

So I was on the train this week and the guy in front of me had his laptop out. I obviously had the urge just to take a quick peek to see what he was working on and I was surprised to see what he was doing. He was working on his resume which is […]

May 17, 2011 / by Marco / email, Gmail, google, google gmail, issue, link, Problems, yesterday

Google Gmail Problems

Today, I experienced a few issues with google gmail. The first issue was quite strange, when I looked at an email with an attachment it would normally have a link to download or view the attachment. In my case, I had two links saying view. As you can see from the image, the email conversation […]

Cockroaches are damn annoying

I just saw a cockroach crawling in my office and I asked myself whether the room was filthy or if I need to call the pest control guy. I think everyone finds these creatures annoying. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ?Join our subscription list and receive our content right in your mailbox. If you like […]

I love technology

I love technology and the fact that technology helps us achieve so many things. If you look around you, technology is everywhere. You’re using the Internet and Computer right this instant… can you imagine living without this. What about your mobile phone? When I was back in high school mobile phones didn’t exist but look […]

Friendship

This week I had to prepare a discussion for a kids workshop on the topic of friendship. From the research I conducted I realised how important it is to have good friends around you and I eventually got emotional after thinking about my own life. There was an interesting quote relating to friendship which is […]

How do you convert leads to sales?

Over the past several years, my company received quite a number of leads from large reputable businesses and just reviewing this today I asked myself, “How do you convert leads to sales?”. I mean, there must be a technique or a well thought out process that successful businesses must be using. What is it? Obviously, […]

Firefox 4 – likes and dislikes

I’m sure we all heard and tried the latest Firefox 4. Everyone has been commenting about the new features and what they like about the latest version. I thought I’d just give my feedback and review: Likes It does seem much faster compared to the old one. The top menu is customisable Tabs look much […]

Leasing office space

Like any typical start up company our business was located and started from home. Meetings and working on projects were conducted from the spare room. When I first started the business with my friend and brothers we did not jump into hiring an office space straight away. We waited until we knew it was the […]

Advertising on a website

This week I noticed something quite interesting. When I went to look at some of the photos of the New Zealand earthquake on the Sydney Morning Herald website, the Advertisements reloaded every time a new photo was refreshed. The actual page wasn’t refreshing, it was just the photo and the image. So how are the […]