The long-awaited photo shoot of the celebrities and starlets of Suncoast Internet finally arrived this week when Sunshine Coast professional photographer, Guy Halliday, worked up a real sweat to get a few hundred snaps of the well-dressed staff for our new corporate brochure.

Despite the fact that this impending session was delayed for a month or two while waiting for our new uniforms, we were still not completely organised on the day with client meetings going on in separate rooms while Guy busily set up his equipment in the matchbox space he was allotted.

Nonetheless, the girls and boys looked fabulous in their new uniforms and along with recent haircuts and restyling; they all looked a pretty picture. Of course the proof will be in the finished product and Guy will really earn his fee with all the airbrushing needed to eliminate the shadows, red eyes and rabbit ear victory signs.

And not forgetting Google the Starstruck Poodle who relished the opportunity to be photographed in his best suit, duly cut, brushed and styled.

Watch this space for a photo preview.

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I attended the community forum last night and was suitably impressed by the can-do positive attitude of Paul Pisasale. If Big Bob can engender the same positive outlook towards our future and convince the State and Federal Government of the need to support the Council’s plans, then I’m sure we can emulate the achievements of Mr Pisasale and the Ipswich City Council.

 - Optimistic Andrew

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In Suncoast Internet’s case it takes 3: One to go out and buy the drill, one to hold the other end of the board and one to shout, "Up a bit, down a bit!" Only trouble is, our web developer in charge of horizontal hold may need his eyes checking as the end result is distinctly odd.

Never mind, here at Suncoast Internet we’re flexible and dynamic enough to adapt to any tough situation, not the least of which is writing on a slope.

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Google the poodle here again.

What ON EARTH is going on round this office? Everybody knows that I’M the chief meeter and greeter in the office but lately a lot of doors seem to have been shut in my face and I have been prevented from carrying out my duties, as outlined in my job description.

I can’t understand it. Clients love my tap dancing welcome routine on the laminate floor boards as they come through the door; they adore it when I jump up and down a lot to say hello; and they love it when I bring them little cuddly bear gifts – even when I don’t let them keep it. So what’s the big idea? (more…)

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Question: If you had turned down millions of dollars for the purchase of your company by another firm which, 18 months later, was able to strike a deal anyway with your company to use your services at no extra cost, would you feel silly?

Well this might be how Yahoo’s co-founder Jerry Yang is feeling about this week’s main technology news. The techno savvy among you will already have heard of the deal that Microsoft and Yahoo have struck with each other. At the beginning of 2008, Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo for US$47.5 billion but abandoned the move when Yahoo wanted more money. Now that Jerry Yang has left the building as company CEO, Yahoo has done the unthinkable and agreed to share services with Microsoft’s Bing search engine in a reciprocal arrangement. (more…)

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I’ve written about BNI, I’ve read about BNI but, until this morning, I had never experienced the phenomenon that is a BNI meeting.

Along with the rest of the Suncoast Internet team, I had been invited to the BNI Team Winning Edge (Kawana Chapter) Big Breakfast meeting at the Maroochy Surf Club. The aim of this one off event was to sign up more members to Team Winning Edge and make it the biggest BNI group in the world. On the day there was an impressive turnout of more than 130 local business leaders.
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Celebrating their new name and new found independence, Battery Wise have consolidated their rebrand with a brand spanking new website.

At Suncoast Internet we are thrilled to have been able to be a part of Battery Wise’s relaunch by designing, developing and optimising their new website. Packed with images, information and helpful tips and articles, we think this website has everything a customer needs to be able to find out how to meet their battery needs.

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Picture yourself in Western Australia’s remote Kimberleys in a small boat, wrestling crocs and sharks, and catching big mudcrabs with your bare hands. What? You can’t picture it? No worries – help is at hand. The boys from Kimberley Fishing Adventures can show you what it’s like with their fishing DVDs and YouTube videos. What’s more, you can experience the thrill of extreme adventure yourself with a personalised fishing adventure with Jase and Rodo.

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Mmm… well, the results are slightly inconclusive but here goes.

The Google Trends blog post got 55 hits on the day it was published but it did not feature highly in Google results for either of the Hot Trends keywords (‘Mark Webber’ and ‘Michael Jackson’s autopsy picture’) we were trying to take advantage of. On the other hand, the good news is that, at the time of publishing, we’re on the second page of Google AU for ‘Google Trends’ and in pole position for ‘Google Trends SEO’. Woo hoo!

Why?

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Question: What have Australian F1 driver Mark Webber and Michael Jackson’s autopsy picture (yuk!) got in common?

 Answer: They are both current top search queries on Google.

How did we know? Simple, we used a couple of Google tools: Google Trends and Google Insights for Search. They are free, simple to use SEO tools on the internet to help you research the popularity of particular keywords on Google.

Google Trends measures how many searches have been done for specified search terms in relation to the total number of Google searches done over time. The results are then presented as a graph. The Hot Trends tool shows which search terms and keyword phrases are popular right now and is updated hourly. ‘Michael Jackson autopsy picture’ was the 4th most popular search term at the time of writing – a rather gruesome insight into what intrigues the US internet audience.

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