Thursday, March 26, 2009

And finally:

A red-head, a brunette and a blonde perform a Post Office robbery. They are on the run from the police and they have to ditch their car and go cross country.

They are all getting tired and happen across an old farm with a huge barn. Sneaking inside the barn, they see three old flour sacks. They all hide in separate sacks.

The police enter the barn and upon seeing the sacks, kick the first one containing the redhead. The redhead says "Woof!".

"Nothing in here but a dog sarge" says the constable. "We'd better move on".

They kick the sack containing the brunette. "Miaow!" she says.

"Nothing in here but a cat sarge. Better move on".

They kick the sack containing the blonde and the blonde says "Potatoes!"

This and that: - whats new and interesting.

Neotel has teamed up with MTN and Vodacom to bring cheaper broadband to South Africa. Speaking of http://www.neotel.co.za/neotel/view/neotel/en/page1, check out their fantastic offer on Internet and Telephones.

Want to follow the elections, The Times has set a special site that features all the parties.

Blame The Naked Chef and http://www.nigella.com/, but our food tastes are becoming more sophisticated. Foodista is an online Food and Cooking Encyclopedia any one can edit.

Social Media


Facebook is not the exclusive terrority of teens. It is a very powerful tool that can get your message over to a group of people easily and fast. By now, we all aware that US President Barack Obama used it very successfully to reach the tech savvy younger voter.

But you do not have to be tech savvy to use Facebook, you don't even have to be young. Families stay in touch on Facebook. Children overseas place photo albums on face book and keep parents up to date. Because you can use the Internet, any where any place, you can stay in touch even when overseas.

The social nature of Facebook makes it the ideal tool to reach your audience and interact with them.
Feedback is immediate, which can help you stay ahead of your competion.

Facebook is free to use and can help to reach your existing clients as well as new ones. It is a good tool to have in your marketing tool box.

Free and Open Source Software.

The handiest software on any computer has to be an office suite. It allows you make presentations, write letters and make up spread sheets. If you use Microsoft Windows, you would automatically expect that you have to use Microsoft Office. Wrong, you have a choice.

The standard version of Microsoft Office retails at about R4000.00. Far too expensive for the average user. So, what is the alternative. By far the best is an Open Source Product that is standard on most Linux Distributions today, called Open Office.

The latest version of Open Office can be downloaded free from the Internet or burnt on to a CD at the Freedom Toaster. Open Office is administrated by a community of very enthusiastic people, further more Sun Microsystems is involved.

Open office is easy to use and has the normal windows feel to it. Documents can be saved in several formats including Microsoft Word, Excel or Power Point which means you can exchange documents with anyone using Microsoft Office.

Updates are released regularly and are also free. At price tag of ZERO, why have you not switched?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Newsletter April 2009

It is almost Easter. Time tends to fly out the door as you get older. When we were children, it took forever to go from birthday to birthday. Now, we just blink and we are another year older.

What's happening at Solutions Web.


In order not to get further into debt, I decided not seek a start up loan but rather Bootstrap the business. Whilst this means that we may be moving at a slower pace than we would like to, we carry little or no debt forward.

This does not mean that I am not doing anything at the moment. I still manage to work a twelve hour day, between setting up the accounts and administration and organisng a marketing campaign as well doing a complete revamp of our Web Site, I have my hands full.

Newsflash! Our new postal address — PO Box 1205 Cape Town 8000

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Tme flies!

It is March already and soon it will be easter. My area marketing campaign is keeping me busy. Watch this space, 'cos something big is about to happen!