On this week’s show with chat with our Mate, Matt Farmer, Retail Sales Director for TP-Link Australia and New Zealand – a leading manufacturer of home networking and smart home products.

We discuss the key ingredients to a good home network, differentiating between your internet connection and your Wi-Fi and what upgrading to a Mesh solution can do for your home internet experience.

We talk about the challenges that COVID-19 brought to the industry and how TP-Link was able to adapt to ensure they had a consistent supply for their retailers.

Finally, we discuss smart home products from light switches to fridges.

You can buy TP-Link products and all major consumer electronics retailers such as JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman, Bing Lee, Bunnings as well as online.

To get more information about the TP-Link mesh network, ‘Deco’ range, you can visit https://www.tp-link.com/au/home-networking/deco/ and to find out more about the advantages of Mesh networks you can visit https://www.tp-link.com/au/mesh-wifi/

You can learn more about Mate internet and mobile plans at www.LetsBeMates.com.au.

In this episode we speak with David McIvor, Founder and CEO of WorkSafety and the Author f the Working from Home Safety Handbook. We chat with David about the changes in the current work environment due to COVID-19, what are the best practices when working from home including how to set up your workspace and how working from home may continue to become the norm in a post-COVID world.

You can find David’s handbook and more information at www.worksafetyathome.com.au

You can learn more about Mate internet and mobile plans at www.LetsBeMates.com.au.

In this episode we chat with our Mate Craig (Brownie) from Malt Shovel Breweries. We discuss how the liquor industry has been affected due to COVID-19, how hospitality business have adapted to the restrictions imposed on them as well as trends that are appearing in the Liquor industry including craft beer and Alcoholic Seltzer.

We chat with Brownie about Malt Shovel’s “Freedom to Fly” philosophy and how this gives them a competitive edge.

You can find out more about Malt Shovel as well as enquire about corporate sales at www.maltshovel.com.au. We recommend the Furphy, James Squire 150 Lashes or White Rabbit Dark Ale.

You can learn more about Mate internet and mobile plans at www.LetsBeMates.com.au

In this week’s episode we discuss how the Mate business started in our Aunties backyard to where it is today. We talk about how we do things differently from our recruitment policies, our customer happiness philosophy of Head, Heart and Hands as well as touching on the challenges the Telco industry has encountered during the social isolation period that COVID-19 has brought about.

You can learn more about Mate internet and mobile plans at www.LetsBeMates.com.au 

Welcome to the Let's Be Mates podcast. 

You will hear from the Mate Team (Faz, Dom and Bosco) each week to hear about a wide range of topics from home networks to working from home to experiences from our mates in business.

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You can learn more about Mate internet and mobile plans at www.LetsBeMates.com.au