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Rolling with the punches! Businesses need to reinvent their products and services.

November 29th, 2020

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel but you have to be flexible and reinvent yourself to change with the times or you will be left behind. Our new normal since the advent of Covid-19 consists of conducting a lot of our transactions online. This means that companies need to adapt so as to meet [...]

Online Presence – How companies make their digital footprint stronger!

August 13th, 2020

The main thrust now more than ever is for for all companies to strengthen their online presence. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, more consumers want to have less interactions face to face. This means that they are more likely to surf the Internet looking for goods or services than visit a physical building. Therefore, it is [...]

How to avoid online job scams!

January 29th, 2020

If you are currently unemployed then you know all about the struggle of finding employment in Jamaica. The level of frustration can grow if you are not seeing the type of job that you want as the bills continue to accumulate. Where do persons normally go when they are trying to find jobs in Jamaica? [...]

Free Flow phone offer scam – Consumers beware!

January 17th, 2020

Do you have an old phone and are yearning to replace it with a newer model? What about a brand new Samsung S10 or an iPhone X? What if you don’t have enough funds? Well if you are worrying about the funds needed to make such an expensive purchase, there is no need as these [...]

Are you safe shopping online? (Part 1)

July 17th, 2017

A number of people are shopping online. Businesses are offering their customers the convenience of doing their shopping online. Shoppers can use apps to purchase almost anything and more people are hopping on the technological train. I am not one of those eager to shop online. I decided to do some research as I wondered [...]

Pay your bills online!

May 31st, 2015

It took me a while to embrace Internet banking. At first I feared that giving information of a sensitive nature on the Internet would be too big a risk to take. I thought of identity theft and scammers who would no doubt be able to use my information to empty my account of all my [...]

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