THE FUEL PUMP

Join Fueled, exhibitor and sponsors of the Business Start Up Expo, hosted by the Moreton Bay Regional Council.

While this expo has been geared toward 'start up' businesses there will be plenty of free and useful info for all small businesses.

Pass this information along to anyone who you believe may benefit.

Ready, set, start your business

When: Monday, 6 September 2010, 4.00pm - 8.00pm

Where: North Leagues Club, Kallangur (Google map )

Do you aspire to operate your own business? Want to know how to make your ambitions a reality? Do you know what it takes to run your own business? Do you know you need lots of information?

Find out about the feasibility of your plans, find the right kind of financing and how to register your business.

The Starters Expo consists of -

• Starters market - get free information and ideas at the Starters Market from business service providers
• Free information sessions
• Free appointments with professionals in legal issues, accounting, financing or other areas

There will also be freebies, giveaways and prizes.

• MORE INFO: http://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/starters-expo
• DOWNLOAD - Start Up Expo flyer 
• RIGISTER your attendance, book for free workshops and appointments >>

Exhibitors

• Small Business Solutions: one-stop shop for small business - Government
• Quest Regional Newspaper - Advertising
• Westpac - Business Banking
• Lanier - Printers & Office Equipment
• Acclaim - Apprenticeships
• ANZ - Business Banking
• Ashley Printers - Advertising & printing
• AusIndustry Government - Innovation, Industry, Research, Science
• Australian Business Register (ABR): Register your business - Government
• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC): Information and education about fair trading - Government
• Australian Taxation Office (ATO) - Government
• Bartercard - Trade your services
• Biz Results - Accountants
• Cats / Ascenta - Accountants
• CPA Australia - National Industry Organisation
• Commonwealth Bank Australia (CBA) - Business Banking
• Computer Troubleshooters - IT support and maintenance
• Corporate Business Solutions Government - education and workplace training
• Corporate Solutions - Strategic Planning
• Department of Education and Training (DETA) - Government
• Department of Employment, Economic Development & Innovation - New business
• Franchise Council Australia - National Industry organisation
• Fueled - Marketing, Design & Web
• Garnish Marketing - Marketing, Design, Web
• IP Australia: Protect Intellectual Property - Government
• Lember and Williams Law - Legal Professionals
• Manufacturing Skills Australia - National Industry Skills Council
• Moreton Bay Regional Council: Office of Economic Development - Government (Local Council)
• Office of State Revenue (OSR): Payroll tax & transfer duties - Government
• Queensland Business Technology - IT solutions
• Queensland Chamber of Commerce - State Industry Organisation
• Queensland Tourism Industry Council (QTIC) - State Industry Organisation
• Ray White Commercial - Commercial real estate
• Shoreline Business Group - Business planning and analysis
• St George - Business Banking
• Torque Toyota - Fleet Services
• United Retail Federation - National Industry organisation
• Village Motors - Fleet Services
• Vividus - Marketing Strategies
• Yellow Pages / Sensis - Advertising

Workshops

• Small Business Solutions
• Australian Taxation Office
• Office of State Revenue
• IP Australia
• Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation
• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Change!

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English Naturalist

Introducing Fueled!

As of July 2010 Cetera Media P/L and Grifynn Creative P/L formally joined forces to form Fueled Media.

Previously, the two independent agencies specialised in their own particular disciplines. Cetera had focused predominantly on corporate branding, graphic and print design, where Grifynn’s expertise related to all things web.

Over a period of just six months, a very natural synergy developed while working closely together on a number of projects. This relationship has resulted in the amalgamation of Cetera and Grifynn to form Fueled Media.

Whilst we still offer all the same services we respectively always have, it now happens on a much more collaborative basis.

Much more than just Design!

Out of this strategic partnership there has been a realisation that Fueled is much more than just a design agency. Fueled is very much geared toward providing a very holistic ‘brand support’ style of service.

On a very broad basis our services incorporate the following:

• Corporate Branding
• Web and Online Business Technologies
• Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, etc)
• Strategic Marketing
• Print and Graphic Design
• Copywriting

Introducing Strategic Marketing and Julianne Janbroers

As our business continues to evolve we have noticed an increased need for specialist expertise in strategic marketing. The need for someone who could identify, interpret and communicate specific target markets, and their needs, was imperative.  We also released that this person also needed to be able to take the technical components of design, print, and online business technologies, and apply those components in a way that would most effectively engage our client’s target markets.

As of July 2010 we welcomed on board our new and very talented Marketing Manager, Julianne Janbroers. Julianne joins Fueled with degrees in Business and Marketing, as well as an impressive track record in her own businesses. Julianne has wasted no time in commencing the development of powerful and effective strategies for both Fueled and our clients.

Our newest feature - InContext Editing - is now available in the Administration area and ready for use.

It's a next generation tool that gives business owners greater control over their websites. You can now make changes more easily without compromising the overall design of your website. Some of the main benefits include:
  

• The ability to set editable regions within any web page to limit scope of change and preserve design quality
• Content editing is more intuitive - you edit "InContext" on the page rather than having an editor pop-up as was the case with Sitewalk
• The new InContext content editor is much more robust compared with the Sitewalk text editor

Please note that InContext Editing will be in Beta for the next 12 weeks during which Sitewalk will continue to remain available. When the Beta period ends, Sitewalk will reach end-of-life and will be removed from the Administration area.

During the Beta period for InContext Editing we will continue to make small improvements.

Contact us to learn more about this exciting feature.

As part of our enhancement to Web Apps back in Apr 2009, our Store Locator functionality now has full support for addresses in Brazil, New Zealand, Japan, France and Spain to the system.

Click here to learn more about this functionality.

As part of the improvements we are making to our blogs functionality we've added the ability to categorize your blogs posts. Categorizing blog posts is simliar to tagging however it is more structured. To learn more and to categorize and/or tag your blog posts go to Website->Blogs. You can create and manage your list of categories via Admin->Manage Categories.

Once you've categorized your blog posts simply drop {tag_blogcategorylist} on your blog layout. You can customize your blog via Admin->More Customization Options->Blog Layouts.

We have a number of other exciting blog improvements in the pipeline which we will be rolling out in the coming weeks.

Our Online Business Platform now supports 3 new integrated payment gateways. In Netherlands we've added Mollie. In India we've added EBS and in Puerto Rico we've added Banco Popular. Customers in these regions can simply enter in your account information for one of these gateways in eCommerce->Payment Gateways and start collecting payments instantly!

If you are using the new customer service ticketing feature in the system you may have noticed a new option in the ribbon in the Admin (top-right near your name). This new option appears if you are a user who handles customer inquiries through our new ticketing feature. It allows you to easily put yourself in Available or Unavailable modes which dictates whether you receive customer inquiries or whether they are routed to other members within your organization.

We're pleased to announce that our European data center ( for clients using our Online Business Platform) is now live and ready to host new Online Businesses. This means we now have data centers in North America, the Asia Pacific and Europe, delivering a faster and more responsive service to our valued clients. This falls inline with our objective to provide comprehensive online business development services to small businesses around the globe.

All of our data centers are located in Tier 4 facilities, meaning they have:

• Multiple cooling and power distribution paths for stable systems
• Multiple active power distribution paths to prevent down time from blackouts
• Redundant components for fault tolerance
• 99.995% Uptime for connectivity and power into our machines

This is a really exciting enhancement to our Web Apps framework. Now you can create Store Locator functionality with just a few clicks of the mouse.

For any web app you can enable the "Address Input/Search" option which enables you to add or import an address for an item. You can then
utilize the Web Apps Search Form to allow anyone to search for items within a certain vicinity of that address. Additionally we've developed
2 new modules that allow you to plot web app items on a Google map!

Click here to learn more about this exciting new feature. Once you are ready simply use the Module Manager to add the relevant module to a web page in order to display a list of web app items on a Google map. Alternatively you can use the appropriate module to display web app items on a Google map when using the search feature.