Category: General
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Small Business Kickstart Kit now available on the Kindle
A couple of months back I recommended the Small Business Kickstart Kit by Alyssa of the Small Business Bonfire (join free here). This kit was recently made available on the Kindle so I thought I would just make you all aware if you are interested, it’s a great option to get access to the materials. Here…
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3 ways to keep WordPress secure
I’ve been a bit slow on updating this site. I have lots of ideas but not enough time. What I’ve decided to do is setup a schedule for posting. My goal is to write one original article a week and the second to find one or two good articles that I have read and post…
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Get a sneak preview copy of my upcoming ebook
Over the past few months I have taken some of the best posts form the website and compiled them into a step by step guide. I am excited to announce that this weekend I finished my book titled “How to Create a Business Website”. It is a step by step guide to setting up and…
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Protecting Your WordPress Website
So you’ve taken all this time to setup a website for your business. You’ve added pages of content and your customers are starting to find you. Then, out of the blue, your website gets hacked. Your customers lose faith in your services, and Google blacklists your website which makes it harder for new customers to…
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Backing Up Your Website
Your website is important to you. You’ve put hours of time into getting it setup and getting your content just right. The last thing you want to do is lose it. Don’t worry, you have a few options that can keep your files safe and give you peace of mind. Manual Backups (NOT RECOMMENDED) The…
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Using Newsletters and Email lists for your Business Website
As you know email marketing can be a great tool to keep people engaged with your brand and content. Using an email list to send out both newsletters and update emails is a simple way to market. Here are a few things you can use email newsletters/broadcast email messages for…
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Email Marketing – Content Updates
If your website has a blog or you write “articles”, sending out teasers and content from your articles is a great way to keep people interested in your content and keep them coming back to your website. There are a few different ways that…
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Can email marketing help your business?
There are so many ways that you can market your business these days. Not all are right for every business and in a lot of cases some will be a waste of money (and/or time) for you. You’ve already started with a great, relatively simple and cheap option with building your website, but just having…
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Call for Interviews and Case Studies
I would like to interact a bit more with the community and I have a couple of ideas on how we can all get to know each other a bit better. I am going to throw out two ideas and I”d like to get some feedback on which you guys would like to see. I’ll…
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Genesis WordPress Framework – For Beginners
My favorite theme framework for WordPress is the Genesis theme Framework. A framework is basically functionality that makes it easier to create or modify a theme. To use the Genesis framework you actually install two themes. First you install Genesis, and then you install the “Child” theme that you want to use. The benefit comes…