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Are You Gripped By these 3 Adwords E commerce Mistakes?

To drive quality traffic to your e-commerce website, apart from Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), AdWords is one of the most successful techniques. That said, if scantily handled, it can lead to immense capital wastage. Check out the 7 AdWords mistakes which when corrected can unleash the complete prospective of AdWords and attain the utmost possible ROI.

Continuing to Run Ads of Out-of-Stock Items: An instance of putting your investment to flames with zero return is when you keep running ads of out-of-stock products on your online shopping portal. It is a sure sign that you are facing trouble keeping record of your outsized inventory. Utilize the neat ways available to keep track of all the products as to what is in stock and what has been sold out.

December 22, 2022Business, MarketingBy Slinky Life

7 Advantages Of Pet Enclosures For Pets And Their Owners

If you are a pet owner, we are sure that you do everything you can to make your pet’s life as enjoyable and rewarding as you can, and part of that will be when your pet is outside and getting the essential exercise they need. This can take many forms, but one option that is becoming increasingly popular with pet owners is pet enclosures, which offers pets, and their owner’s, many advantages.

Pet enclosures are suitable for many domestic pets such as cats, dogs, rabbits, and guinea pigs. In fact, any pet which would feel at ease in an outdoor environment that is large enough to allow them to do many of the things that they enjoy, is an ideal candidate for a pet enclosure. So let’s look at some of the advantages of a pet enclosures for pet owners and their pets.

February 10, 2021BusinessBy Slinky Life

Why Do Our Office Drains Stink and How Do We Fix It?

Although smelly drains certainly aren’t the worst office plumbing problems you could experience, they can still be quite a pain. Identifying the cause of nasty drain odours can be difficult, and getting rid of them can be even harder again.

Many business owners will call out a professional plumber, when they can’t figure out why their drains stink – and that’s quite common. However, there are numerous things that you can do on your own to get rid of unpleasant smells, and we’ve outlined a few of them in this article. But first, let’s look at some common sources of bad drain smells.

Why Do Our Office Drains Stink?

There are numerous reasons for office drains to stink. In general, they are just like normal residential drains, but a lack of water flowing down the drain can make smells more of a problem. If the clean water in a drain’s water trap isn’t replenished regularly, nasty smells are more likely to come up.

December 5, 2020BusinessBy Slinky Life

Highly Recommended Responsive Web Design Patterns For Use Today

Firstly, we need to understand what does responsive means and why we need it once we do that than half of our trouble to find out best responsive web design pattern is solved.

Responsive design means your website should be able to get open on all devices irrespective of the size or graphic availability initially. It is an initiative, not the final one, so there are few other steps you need to follow to create an amazing pattern for responsive web design.

Later, we will go to the second step which is as important as the first one. What you need to do is create Meta tags for your website. It is quite important to do as you would like your nearby people to reach you and use your services. For achieving this, you need a Meta tag which will let others search and open your web pages.

November 25, 2020Business, DesignBy Slinky Life

Serious Driving Offences And What They Mean For Your Driving Licence

Although they may not be regarded as crimes in the same league as bank robbery and fraud, driving offences will still result in punishments for those who commit them. Although criminal lawyers may not always be required to represent those who commit minor driving offences, they most certainly should be consulted for the more serious driving offences.

The reason for that is that the punishments that can be applied when someone has been convicted of a serious driving offence can go all the way up the scale to include disqualification from driving, fines, and ultimately, a term of imprisonment.

Serious driving offences will include those that involve driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and there are three main definitions of these, which are:

October 13, 2020Business, Legal AdviceBy Slinky Life

10 Unusual Corporate Event Ideas

We often see business owners scratching their heads as they cannot think of any ideas for corporate events that haven’t been done to death. The reason many of them have, is simply that they work and are successful , however, if you want to organise a corporate event which is somewhat unusual then here is a list of no fewer than 10 you could try.

#1 Themed Gala Dinner

Having a gala dinner that is themed is great way to turn what would otherwise be just another dinner into something special. The theme options are endless, with some to think about, including ’50s Rock & Roll’, ‘Rio Carnival’, ‘1930s Chicago’, and ‘Star Trek’.

January 21, 2020BusinessBy Slinky Life

How Can Unlawful Termination Impact Mental Health?

Different situations at work can have significant impacts on a person’s mental and physical health and wellbeing. Things like unlawful termination have been shown to have close links to poor mental health, especially if you don’t have a strong support network around you.

If you’re working through an unlawful termination case, you need to be aware of the possible mental health effects you may experience. Awareness is the key to dealing with things before they become too serious, especially in the case of mental health.

In light of this, we decided to put together a short guide outlining what unlawful termination is, how it can impact mental health, and the possible combined effects of the two issues.

April 6, 2018Business, Health & FitnessBy Slinky Life

Misleading The Tenants. How Far Is Too Far?

The relationship between landlord and tenant is a melting pot of legal relationships and the possible engagement of experienced commercial lawyers, that runs its colours into business, personal and Government spheres. One particular influence that has been the source of much litigation, legislative review and advocacy is the conduct of landlords when they are negotiating the commencement, renewal or termination of a tenancy.

Aspects of agency, contract, tort and trade practices can all be enlivened at the seemingly simplest statement made by a landlord, or for that matter the landlord’s agent. The law has tried for some time to not impede the ability of parties to negotiate and communicate with each other without fear of reprisal.

Conversely, the law has also drawn some lines where those negotiations and communications have moved past innocence and traversed into areas that give rise to rights and obligations. So how far is too far?

The scale begins with “mere puffery” which means statements that a person makes that might be incorrect and in any event could not be relied upon by anyone as a statement of fact. It then extends on to misrepresentation that might be actionable because it is negligent; and then further to misleading and deceptive conduct. The scale might extend all the way to fraudulent activities, in which case, you should be seeking legal advice, however for the purposes of this article we will focus on the ever subtle distinction between puffery and misleading statements or misrepresentation.

January 22, 2017Business, Legal AdviceBy Slinky Life

What’s Yours Is Mine Too – when executors and administrators help themselves

Litigation involving lawyers and deceased estates has rapidly increased over the last 15 years, to the point where even non-lawyers are aware that the massive depletion in the estate from legal expenses almost renders the fight untenable.

However, reconciling that somewhat philosophical view point with the prospect of a recalcitrant executor or unworthy beneficiary receiving more than they should, often creates an odd type of stand-off between parties.

The issues are always complex and the outcomes often unsatisfactory. That however, is the result of the law awkwardly trying to solve problems that are a mixture of emotion and good sense, with inherently rigid syllogistic decision making.

July 22, 2016Business, Legal AdviceBy Slinky Life

CMS for Small Businesses: How to Choose One?

You may know this, but every business be it small or large cannot survive with a static type of website. If a small business wants to remain competitive then they will have to keep on updating their particular website, blog often along with other marketing techniques. Whether you are doing the job yourself or consulting an experienced digital agency, it is no use wasting your precious time plus money on a useless static type of website.

This is why many small businesses nowadays form websites that has a useful content management system or CMS. Picking out a good CMS platform may actually be rather tough due to the fact that a lot of open source plus commercial options tend to be present nowadays. This articles aims to aid you in knowing how to pick the best one for your particular small business.

April 30, 2016Business, Getting OnlineBy Slinky Life

All Together Now – Mutual Wills

In the current social and legal climate, proving and executing the wills of individuals is extremely complex and the subject of much litigation. That is so, even when all of the terms and wishes of the maker of the will are on the face of the document itself. As far as the law is concerned, mayhem then ensues when there is a promise or other term that is asserted by another party, and that term or promise is not on the document itself. We recommend contacting a wills lawyer when considering making your will or conducting estate planning.

The most obvious example of this is where the wills of two or more people are made in contemplation of each other’s will. Reserved in general for relationships of a domestic nature, this concept has evolved over hundreds of years.

The legal complexity stems from the fact that for a promise to be enforceable, it must meet certain criteria, such as being a valid contract, a promise that has been relied upon to someone’s detriment or a promise enforceable as a result of a statutory provision. So when it comes to a promise between two people about the distribution of their estate, very few of the above conditions can be met.

May 20, 2015Business, Legal AdviceBy Slinky Life

Insecurity – broke is, as broke does

An often misunderstood and occasionally strategically abused right between litigants is the right to receive (or obligation to provide) security for another party’s costs of conducting the litigation.

Although not exclusively, security for costs is often the province of appellate Courts because a possibly impecunious corporate party seeking the indulgence (appellant) is obliged to ensure that the other party is not left in a worse position by undertaking a course that may or may not alter the outcome already obtained.

The circumstances which will allow an application for security for costs and the basis upon which it will be granted are subject to some procedural variation between jurisdictions, however there are some long standing principles of law that remain. In determining the requirement for one party to provide security, the Court must undertake an enquiry as to the financial resources of the party. That is because, security for costs is only designed to protect a successful party from an unsuccessful party’s inability to meet an adverse costs order from its own resources.

November 19, 2014Business, Legal AdviceBy Slinky Life

Unompelling – Inquiries and Examinations of possibly criminal conduct

Australia still maintains a privilege against self-incrimination in criminal matters. Although this privilege can be abrogated in certain circumstances[1], the law holds this privilege as a paramount right of defendants. As professional criminal lawyers will tell you, It specifically includes the right to not make a statement and/or to not give evidence on your own behalf.

That works fine for the defendant who has been arrested and charged on the complaint of someone else, but what about where the defendant has previously been investigated by a professional body or commission of inquiry and was compelled by law to disclose documents, answer questions; and is now arrested and charged for the same conduct that was the subject of the inquiry?

The defendant has effectively lost their right to silence and more particularly was not cautioned about the effective waiver of their rights at the time of the inquiry or investigation.

Where criminal proceedings are pending or threatened and the intended defendant is called to give evidence at an inquiry, the pertinent issue is their ability to be compelled to answer questions about the subject matter of the likely criminal proceedings and thereby telling the incriminate truth about themselves or giving false information, which is a criminal offence in its own right.

The High Court has equivocated over this issue in several cases and they seem to be decided on principles of statutory construction as it pertains to the legislation that gives rise to the commission or inquiry that is being challenged.

August 25, 2014Business, Legal AdviceBy Slinky Life

The Basics Of Using Coffeescript For Writing Javascript

JavaScript is a programming language that enables learners to develop web pages easily and add interactive features. JavaScript’s popularity has increased in recent years with the introduction of advanced internet applications. However, the language has its own peculiarities and often these can crop up from nowhere to trouble you. The latest solution to all these problems is CoffeeScript.

What is a CoffeeScript?

CoffeeScript is a small programming language that gets compiled to JavaScript. It tries to make writing JavaScript code better by providing you with a more reliable and to the point sentence structure as well as avoiding the bad parts and odd nature of the JavaScript language.

CoffeeScript is an effort to bring on the surface the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

CoffeeScript was introduced to the world by developer Jeremy Ashkenas.

March 13, 2014Business, DesignBy Slinky Life

An Honest Days Work – when Mum promises you the farm

To the members of any farming family, the arrangements described here will seem entirely normal and appropriate. They are of course both of those things, however such intentions and understandings are always influenced by time and relationships.

Farming families constantly grapple not only with the business issues of running a successful operation, they also deal with issues such as making the farm an attractive career prospect for future generations, how to equitably deal with the family assets between children that do not desire to or cannot continue the operation in the future.

In most cases, these matters are discussed in kitchens or similar family meetings. More often than not certain promises are made or ‘understandings’ are reached about what will happen to the farm when the current generation are deceased; and more particularly how things will be divided up among children that wish to continue working the farm and those that have already left to pursue other careers.

February 18, 2014Business, Legal AdviceBy Slinky Life

Trust Me – when your will doesn’t mean what you think it means

The incidence of testamentary trusts, previously reserved for the wealthy and the ‘artful dodgers’ is increasingly a part of the estate planning of every-day society. These particular types of trust that only arise upon the happening of the death of the maker of the will, are invaluable in dealing with blended families, assets that would otherwise be subject to substantial tax or duty; and the maintenance of minor or disabled beneficiaries.

The freedom that these vehicles give in the estate planning process come at the expense of control. That might appear counter-intuitive as an argument because the terms of the trust are well established prior to the maker of the will dying. However, the trust has been invited into the mix and bring with it all of the complexities that have plagued the law of trusts for centuries. Not the least of which is the powers of the trustee at general law and the law’s own interpretation of certain terms and phrases in the trust document.

December 16, 2013Business, Legal AdviceBy Slinky Life

How To Create Fun Background With SVG?

SVG is Scalable Vector Graphics; it is the paths, circles or rectangles which are created using XML for designing backgrounds on WebPages. These are responsive images that are better than bitmap images. SVG works with 2-D graphics; there are various codes to displays shapes, curves, and lines, and you can write these codes on your own in XML or can export the pre-existing code.

A number of benefits may be counted when considering SVG; few of them are listed below:

SVG images are small size files as compared to bitmap images.
They are easily scalable and resized without degrading the quality of the image; they are resized in browsers.
You can select and copy the SVG text.
This image code is readable and can be accessed by the search engine and other readers.
SVG can be animated, and the SVG images can be combined with DOM, Javascript, and CSS.
Has good browser support no need of any specific browser.

October 29, 2013Business, DesignBy Slinky Life

Spin Money By Building Data Management Plan The Right Way

Has figuring out the right data management strategy for Big Data been a tough call? Not anymore! This write-up takes a dig at how small and large scale companies can build effective, refined and flawless data management plans.

1. Silos: The Well-Known Issue

Problem: The major intension behind Silos was to assist workers to remain completely focused at their individual responsibilities. Silos didn’t work out as it wasted ample capital by splitting workers and thereby obstructing productivity. Those set of people (Eg: Marketing & sales) who should have been working together where separated which in turn curbed the business advancement.

Solution: Building a joint centre can work out in this matter. Progressive thinking businesses can create a shared centre where each and every group can feed in and take out significant information from the Big data.

April 19, 2013Business, MarketingBy Slinky Life

Top 5 Enhancement Features Of Photoshop CS6

Photoshop CS6 is one of the most popular and preferred image editing software used by professionals. It has tons of features that the previous iterations couldn’t provide which is why the designers simply love working and experimenting with the latest version of the software. The new features and upgraded tools are interactive and quite realistic in effect approach which is what makes Photoshop C6 the best.

There are hundreds of new features as well as improvements in the new Photoshop CS6, which is why designers all over the world simply love it.

The Top Five Features of Photoshop CS6 that Makes it Stand Out

February 17, 2013Business, DesignBy Slinky Life

Image Sliders/Carousels: Yea or Nay?

Given that we have got an image slider on our homepage, you’d think our decision is already made. However, there is more to this debate than meets the eye. There are two points of view when it comes to carousels, and both the yeasayers and naysayers feel very strongly about the subject. We will present both takes on the topic, present our opinion, and leave it up to you to choose your side.

The Naysayers’ Opinion

The human eye reacts to movement. When it comes to carousels, they catch the users’ eye due to the constantly changing slides. The users’ attention is diverted from the other content presented on the site, and that can affect the conversion rate negatively, if the other content includes your selling proposition and call to action.

January 27, 2013Business, DesignBy Slinky Life

A Life Of Privilege – keeping things to yourself

The maintenance of a robust and effective legal system depends, in a large part, on litigants being completely open and forthright with their legal advisors without fear of sensitive information falling into the hands of opponents. This is rationale offered for the existence of what is known as litigation privilege. It maintains that communications passing between a litigant and their lawyers are effectively ‘carved out’ of the overarching obligation to disclose all of the documents in their possession that are relevant to a fact that is in issue in the litigation.

However, the exception does not allow a party to completely conceal documents that are the subject of the privilege. In all jurisdictions, parties are required to identify them by a brief description and date and then openly claim that the document is privileged so that the other party has the opportunity to object and seek the intervention of the Court if it sees fit.

Privilege extends to more than just documents, however in the case of documents it is considered privileged if it was prepared for the dominant purpose of instructing a lawyer to prosecute or defend proceedings and extends to proceedings that are contemplated but not yet in existence.

January 17, 2013Business, Legal AdviceBy Slinky Life