Posts by Tim for Blog:
June 29, 2022
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Tim
For over 10 years, Kindleman has charged the same base rate of $150/hr + GST.
However, it has become increasingly difficult to sustain a profitable and thriving business with these rates, which has been compounded by the effects of Covid, higher costs for our specialist developers, and now inflationary pressures...
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May 07, 2020
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Tim
How can I support local business during COVID-19?.
Are you sick of this Covid-19 stuff yet? Yep - us too. Promise I won't harp on.
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I need your help!
I live in Freshwater, NSW (in Australia). It's a great place with a little street of shops and restaurants that give it...
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April 08, 2020
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Tim
We've recently launched an initiative with 7 other small digital-focused agencies called SmallBizHelp.io.
It's the Coronavirus days, and there's a lot of small businesses who are trying to get themselves prepared for quite a few months without 'business as usual'. A lot of that is the ability to get setup online...
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January 15, 2019
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Tim
Kindleman are back in the studio at a sprint for 2019, working on a variety of web builds that we started late last year.
We've started our year with a custom Silverstripe site for Mindfulness Courses around Australia, a Rails pharmaceutical education CMS, and a customer acquisition app for the Aged...
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March 05, 2018
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Tim
For a recent government digital project that Kindleman was proposing, I went back to have a look at the criteria for government digital projects - because I hadn't read through it for a while. I was surprised (read: ecstatic) to see that it had been updated to an entirely readable...
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January 24, 2018
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Tim
In January 2018, the 11 countries comprising the Trans-Pacific Partnership reached a mutually beneficial trade agreement. It is expected the agreement will be signed in March in Chile and will historically open up better trading routes for businesses from all the member nations.
For businesses from these member nations - Australia,...
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September 26, 2017
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Tim
Something we’ve never really delved very deeply into (until recently) is AD SERVING.
Ad Serving is delivering advertising in the form of banners and textual blocks into a website. And it’s the way a very large portion of the internet makes their money - by hosting the advertisements inside their website.
Fairfax...
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August 01, 2017
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Tim
Recently I chatted with a Chiropractic business owner. She'd had her website re-done, and off the back of our conversation she said - 'They just asked me what I wanted, and then put it together.' And while I know this is pretty common when dealing with smaller operators, it got...
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April 19, 2017
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Tim
Does this sound like a sales ploy? Well, it sort-of is, and it sort-of isn't.
We've had a lot of requests to take over websites recently. Particularly small-businesses looking for a white knight to save their broken website from a disappeared developer.
Often it's because they're not happy with the overseas developers,...
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April 04, 2017
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Tim
*We've made an (extremely quick) survey so we know what the Aged Care industry is thinking. Please fill it in if you have a few minutes.[/surveying-interest-in-a-cdc-system/]*
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On 1 July 2015, it became mandatory for all home care packages to be delivered on a consumer directed care[https://agedcare.health.gov.au/programs/home-care/home-care-packages-programme-resources/consumer-directed-care] (CDC) basis. CDC...
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