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GTP would like to remind our customers that we will be closed on Monday September 29th for the Queen's Birthday public holiday. If you need to contact us about a serious issue, please use our after hours contact details.

Recently several of our clients have received emails similar to the one below...

*Subject:* Domain name & Internet keyword Registration
Aug 05, 2008
Domains name

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are Beijing Anwins Network Service Co., Ltd which is the domain name register center in China. We received a formal application from a company who is applying to register “[DOMAIN NAME]” as their domain name and Internet keyword on Aug 04, 2008. Since after our investigation we found that this word has been in use by your company, and this may involve your company name or trade mark, so we inform you in no time. If you consider these domain names and internet keyword are important to you and it is necessary to protect them by registering them first, contact us soon. Thanks for your co-operation and support.

Kind Regards,

Kim Yang
Beijing Anwins Network Service Co.,Ltd
Website: www.anwins.com

This email is a scam!

Basically the Chinese domain name registrar is claiming that someone is trying to register the Chinese version of your domain name (mydomain.com.cn for instance as opposed to mydomain.com.au) in the hopes that you'll be scared into paying their (usually exorbitant) fees to register it first.

This is not anything you need to worry about. The worst case scenario for not paying for the domain name is that someone (more than likely the the domain registrar themselves) will register the domain and set up a holder page on it. This is extremely unlikely to affect your business or search engine rankings at all. Simply ignore the email and delete it.

If you have any further questions regarding this, or any other domain name registration issues, please feel free to contact us.

To Add PayPal as a Payment Option

If your web site uses the latest version of our checkout (most older sites can be easily upgraded), then you can take advantantage of PayPals express checkout system as an alternative payment acceptance method.

I have prepared two tutorials on what you need to to do to
a) Setup a paypal account   and
b) Get the correct codes and place them where they need to be on GTP

Visit this page for more information and links to the tutorials  (Copy and paste the below link or click here)

http://www.gtp-icommerce.com/viewStory/PayPal+Instructions

What SEO Software Should You Buy

If you want to take control of your own search engine optimisation and you are looking for a comprehensive software tool to assist you in the process then we have recomend the Arelis/IBP Internet Business Promoter Software

The software assists in a whole range of SEO tasks such as checking yourpage rankings for  various keywords, helping you build links to your site, analysing your site page by page and telling you lots of great recommendations on how you could improve the pages and lots of other great educational tips.

I'm only mentioning the software in the blog here because I don't want to shout it out to everyone who visits our general site.  It is around $250US and is a good investment provided you spend the time to learn it and use it.  If you don't use it, then don't buy it.

Fortunately the software can be downloaded FREE and used for a period before having to pay for it so you can trial it out.

Dale Carter

Web Site Development

Perth, Western Australia

www.gtp-icommerce.com

 

How to Share Your Outlook Calender Online

Have you ever wondered how you can share your Outlook calendar on the Internet with your personal assistant, secretary, staff, friends or other contacts?. Or are you like me and have one computer at home, and another one at work and have been looking for a solution as to how you can update your calendar while in a different location without having to spend a fortune on hardware and software?

More recently I was asked by a client who runs a small business if I knew of such software to solve this problem. I was aware of Google Calender as I had been working for some time, using Google Docs as a way of sharing some information with myself and other staff members. I had found the Excel spreadsheets and word documents on Google a very efficient way of working collegially and across long-distance.

However, when it came to the calendar, because I used Microsoft Outlook and this synchronises with my mobile phone, it seemed to me a bit of a pain to use the Google calendar as I would need to update both my calenders. Now, with the added pressure of one of my clients needing exactly the same solution that I was yet to investigate fully, I was spurred into action.

My criteria on a solution were pretty simple.

1. It had to be easy to install and set up by someone with moderate computer skills such as myself and

2. It needed to work well, and

3. If at all possible, the software needed to be cheap (a desirable criteria in any software).

Fortunately I came across a couple of solutions that looked good very quickly and downloaded both. The eventual solution that I settled on was http://www.syncmycal.com. This software is specifically set up to synchronise your Outlook Calendar, with Google and can be set out to update every 10 or 15 minutes so that any new appointments put into your Google calendar will appear in your Outlook calendar, as well as any appointments put into your Outlook calendar will appear in your Google calendar.

Because I use my mobile phone as my key diary while out of the office, I will tend to input appointments that I make a while on the road directly into this. When I get back to my home base, I simply cradled my mobile phone and the appointments drop into Outlook, and not long after these appointments synchronise with Google calendar. Likewise, if my personal assistant has booked anything in for me, it appears in my phone by coming back the other way.

The total solution is around $25 US as a one-off payment, which I think is great value. If you are on the road a lot, they have one specifically for mobile devices as well for the same price. The software contains step by step instuctions on how to set it up which I did refer to and found very useful.

Dale Carter

Web Site Development

Perth, Western Australia

www.gtp-icommerce.com