News and Updates

Gone are the days that Marketing was a one-way conversation. For decades, getting a message out was mostly through channels that didn’t allow for much interaction. Audiences’ interactions with TV ads, print, outdoor billboards, radio and newspapers were practically the same: companies telling them what they had to offer.

Launching a start-up company is like a game of snakes and ladders: sometimes you get the right combination of ingredients like a great team, a kickass idea, and the funds to climb those ladders. Sometimes it seems like the world is pitted against you and the snakes have loaded the dice!

Here are some quick updates on the Export Market Development Grant (EMDG) and results from Austrade's survey to businesses who have applied for the grant scheme in the last grant year. 

The CEO Sleepout has raised money to help thousands of Australians for over a decade, but it's so much more than just one night. They aim to bring an end to poverty, and this year I decided to sleep rough with other leaders in Sydney.

As the end of the 2018 financial year is almost upon us, we have made a detailed list below of measures that can be undertaken prior to the 30th June to minimise this year’s income tax payable and get yourself ready for the end of financial year.!

Walk through any city street late at night you’ll always see people taking refuge in doorways, under bridges, bus stops, train stations, parks and just about anywhere else which offers a dry spot to call a bed for the night. A stray cardboard box from a nearby restaurant offers a mattress to keep your body off the cold concrete which saps the warmth from your bones. Rags, soiled clothes, and matted blankets are scavenged to insulate against biting winds. It’s an indignity, and one which affects the fundamental rights of any human: the right to safe shelter.

As the treasurer Scott Morrison handed down his 3rd budget, there was no surprise that there’d be some changes to the Research and Development Tax Incentive. Mr Morrison has been suggesting there would be a tightening of the rules for weeks now. Yesterday came the news:

We partnered with Agent Q about a year ago and have used the chat bot platform to make some impressive tools on both our own website and for the sites of our clients. But now Agent Q has undergone a rebranding and is now Onward. And it's only gotten better.

Salesforce released their new Spring 2018 update for Classic and Lightning users yesterday, and the tech team here at IGNITE Alliance have been busy checking out all the neat features they've introduced. Here are our favourite five:

Cloud Managed Security Cameras from Cisco Meraki

Cisco Meraki MV combines cutting edge architecture with single-pane-of-glass management to provide a solution that minimizes both infrastructural and operational complexity. This cloud management empowers network and security operators to perform previously complicated tasks in hours and minutes, not days or weeks, reducing the annual video surveillance operating expenses of an enterprise by over 50%.