Photography is one of the most popular hobby conversions for many people, there has been a growth in photographer in the past two years by 35% and at GTWCMT who own National Photographer and City Photography it is our business to know all about it.

Photographers looking for a photography business in a box will find that they have an exceptional opportunity with what we have to offer. A simple and easy way to start your business could be through city photography, Let me first tell you about city photography before talking about a bespoke photography business in a box.

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Spam emails are not only annoying but costly Spam  involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. E-mail spam has steadily grown since the early 1990′s. Botnets, networks of virus-infected computers, are used to send about 80% of spam. 

Since the cost of the spam is borne mostly by the recipient,  it is effectively postage due advertising and companies make a lot of money sending spam or creating it on forums and places where they can post on-line.
The legal status of spam varies from one jurisdiction to another. In the United States, spam was declared to be legal by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 provided the message adheres to certain specifications. ISPs have attempted to recover the cost of spam through lawsuits against spammers, although they have been mostly unsuccessful in collecting damages despite winning in court.  

Privately owned computer resources without the owner’s permission counts as illegal under computer crime statutes in most nations. Deliberate spreading of computer viruses is also illegal in the United States and elsewhere. Thus, some common behaviour of spammers are criminal regardless of the legality of spamming per se. Even before the advent of laws specifically banning or regulating spamming, spammers were successfully prosecuted under computer fraud and abuse laws for wrongfully using others’ computers. 

The use of botnets can be perceived as theft. The spammer consumes a zombie owner’s bandwidth and resources without any cost. In addition, spam is perceived as theft of services. The receiving SMTP servers consume significant amounts of system resources dealing with this unwanted traffic. As a result, service providers have to spend large amounts of money to make their systems capable of handling these amounts of email. Such costs are inevitably passed on to the service providers’ customers 

Spammers collect e-mail addresses from chat-rooms, websites, customer lists, newsgroups, these types of media should be avoided if possible and you should not make your email address public in such places. Some spammers use special software called email harvesters which scan web pages for email addresses. Common targets for email harvesters are message boards and social networking websites.
Viruses which harvest computer users’ address books, and are sold to other spammers this may also attack Email servers which may be unprotected out of date as we found with a few of our clients. They also use a practise known as “e-mail appending” or “epending” in which they use known information about their target (such as a postal address) to search for the target’s email address. 

 Spam averages 78% of all e-mail sent; A 2004 survey estimated that lost productivity costs Internet users in the United States $21.58 billion annually and the worldwide productivity cost of spam has been estimated to be $50 billion in 2005 since then the cost of spam has grown. 

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At GTWCMT we have been working with business and setting up businesses which we have always termed “streamlining” today we have worked out that the newer term for the new age business market is call ” lean consultancy” I would assume that this would be ” trimming the fat” from business to make them more cost effective and profitable.

We have always called this business streamlining as we find that lean or trimming a business is not the right term that we want to use, to us it insights cutting away, which for many businesses could be a good thing, with streamlining, which we coined in 1999, makes a business more dynamically functional and more modern. By using new ways of business practise your business could turn three ways;

Cut your staff work hours – Reduce the work-flow time for the same productivity.

Boost productivity – a smother work flow makes the business run more efficiently.

Boost Profits – By reducing time and materials that may not be required, by integration you lower your costs and boost your organisations profits.

One of the more common problems that make business slow and inefficient is that they have not changed, there may be a few changes over the past decade or so, but the full potential has not been realised. It is common with long standing businesses where they have upgraded /updated the work practises in a hotch-potch way for many years. This type of environment leads to slow downs and while the routine works, it may need some lean treatment.

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The paperless office is one of the things that stuck my interest in the 1980′s and then I developed the paperless office in 1999. While this may seem a little simple today, back then computers crashed and there were great limitations to what you could and couldn’t do.

Over the past ten years GTWCMT has been on the leading edge and a driver in the development of technology solutions on a global basis, with todays technology advancements there is no longer a need for paper, faxes and filing cabinets in the main stream offices and I would go far to say there is no need for staff in most environment which are office based.

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Websites, website design, website marketing and getting your website on-line are all great things, but where do you start?

GTWCMT is an award winning website designer and while some of you may be thinking, “oh no that doubles the cost!!”  think again as we use the latest solutions that makes making your website more cost effective and for you easy to self maintain.

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