Dr Saxe

Down Under in Australia

Googling gives us all tremendous power to obtain so much information on the Internet in today’s high tech world. I have a cousin who moved to Australia, back in the 90’s. I have always been fascinated with and wanted to go to “The Land Down Under” I thought that having a relative living there would have given me a good excuse to go there, but it hasn’t happened as of yet. I do however, from time to time, go online and visit some of the websites of places and businesses in Australia and have learned a good amount from my time spent googling different things there.

The other day I googled “caravan accessories perth” and “caravan accessories melbourne“  to see what type of products are available over there for recreational vehicles and the like. My cousin owns and is into RVs, he does a lot of traveling, camping and hiking, which I’d like to join him in one of these days. It would be a blast to travel around the country side of Australia, it’s a big place with a lot to offer people. When I googled caravan accessories melbourne and caravan accessories perth they both lead me to the web site for Mycaravanparts.com.au, which seems to have a good amount of caravan accessories, so in my last email to him I sent him the link. Who knows he may see something there of interest and that he might find useful.

Digital Marketing

An interesting quote to live by these days: If you don’t show up in a Google search for your name or product, you do not exist. By William Arruda – Branding Expert. I found this quote on the site of Halpernprm.com, while looking to see what Halpern Personal Reputation Management had to offer for managing online reputations for individuals and businesses alike. One can build a good reputation by being on the first page of a Google search results when someone searches for their name. This can help tremendously if you are looking for new employment or want to be well known online. Halpern Cowan is an independent digital marketing agency that specifically focuses on online marketing and brand management, with a top notch website and staff that have over ten years of experience in the digital media industry. They are proud to be independently owned and have their own unique method of helping people to manage their online reputation. They work closely with their clients to develop strategies and solutions to help them enhance and manage their brands and reputations and they also enable the client to push out any negative press about them off the first page on Google. I can imagine that there is a great need for this type of service, as most people and businesses are now reliant on digital communications. This is the first that I have heard of such services being offered to the general public, but it makes sense to have it available in today’s high tech world. With 86% of all jobs and businesses being initially researched through search engines, we could all benefit from gaining competitive advantage through this service.

The Song Cristofori’s Dream

For some reason I heard a little tune by a piano player and composer named David Lanzand I liked it so much I did a search on Google about it. The song is titled Cristofori’s Dream.According to a short article on David Lanz that I read, Cristofori was the Italian inventor of the piano. Before the piano the instrument was a harpsichord, which had a different sound and many limitations to the range of notes and sounds it could produce. Cristofori made and repaired harpsichords and dreamed of a more sophisticated and elegant instrument, so he invented the piano in his repair shop. Lanz wrote this song to honor Cristofori and I think it is a great story and a wonderful, beautiful song.

Australian Broadband

Our friends down under in Australia also have the option, much as we do here in the United States, to receive broadband satellite service for a reasonable cost. At Harboursat.com.au they have all the information needed to learn about their broadband satellite company, which I found very interesting and educational. They have a great website that offers a great insight to what they have to offer our friends down under, with price guides, and a 7 days a week help desk available to their customers. And don’t require any contracts, with the capability to apply right online, with just two easy steps. And are 100% Australian owned for all their fellow countrymen and women alike, even out in the wide country area that Australia is known for.

I love how the Internet brings the entire world and all things that are available and out there for other countries. The easiest sites to browse through and read are from the U.K. and Australia, due to the languages that we share that is so very similar. Even though there are a few variables in their languages, I can pretty much muddle through them without a struggle. With countries that speak a totally different dialect, the Google translator certainly comes in handy, but can be time consuming and not 100% accurate unfortunately.

Cell phone providers, what is out there these days?

My contract with my current cell phone provider, which happens to be Verizon, will be up come February and I’m anxious to start looking around to see if I could get a better package and a better deal with any other providers that are out there for use. I don’t really have any complaints with Verizon, I just want to see if a change would be a good idea or not and having the Internet will make it less of a challenge to deal with, I’m sure that there are plenty of web-sites out there that will come in handy for my comparison usage.