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Server Performance Improvements for WordPress – Turning off Services
My site is proudly hosted with Inmotion Hosting, I use their VPS3000 plan which means I have almost full control over my server. It’s a virtual server, but I have full root access, and technically I can do anything I want on it. This also means that I could easily break something. As I’ve been…
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5 Tips to Help you Kill Writer’s Block
I’ve been helping people start blogs for years now. Starting a blog is one thing, and it is perhaps the most important thing towards becoming a successful blogger. I mentioned that in the fifth video from the 100-day challenge. But once the blog is started and you have a couple articles posted you will certainly face…
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Are You in Control of Your Time and Productivity?
Gary Vaynerchuck talks a lot about “knowing who you are.” And It’s true, that’s something we should do. “Know Thyself” would say Plato. So… do you know what you’re good at? What about what you’re not so good at? For me, it’s time management and time commitments. I say yes to a lot of projects,…
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How Do I Get Visitors and Traction to my New Forum?
This is a question I get all the time. And the answer is the same most of the time. In fact, you can replace with almost any other web property. The answer is the same for all. You have to provide valuable content for the readers and you have to promote the forum to the…
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How to do Guerilla Marketing by Daymond John
This is a great video teaching you how to do Guerilla Marketing for your business. It’s short and sweet. It has a subtle pitch for shopify, but the content is solid and valuable for today’s entrepreneurs. Especially for startups and companies that are still honing in their strengths and finding the best channels to market…
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Access your files anywhere with Dropbox
Dropbox is your hard drive online. This is the second article in a series of posts to help you get more out of the internet. The previous article was about Evernote. Just like Evernote, Dropbox is easy to use and jam-packed with functionality and utility. Dropbox is an app that stores your files in the…
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Autodrip and Autorespond with Mailchimp’s new Features.
Update (2021-07-19) After numerous negative experiences with Mailchimp, I no longer recommend it. Yes, they’re still one of the leading email marketing service providers, but the headaches and heartaches that come with it just completely removed it from the options I think you should consider. If you want a free solution, Aweber offers a free…
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Two easy ways to check your website’s loading time
If your website is loading slow, you have long or slow loading times. It’s good to check your website for this problem every month at least to make sure your blog doesn’t become sluggish due to a bad plugin, unoptimized image, or some broken tag. If your blog is hosted with the big boys, this…
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Wappalyzer Helps Webmasters Identify Software
A good webmaster in the proper sense of the word, is adept not just with hosting, but with all aspects of hosting a website. It is critical to understand webservers and supporting applications. From Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, to IIS (yuck) and even Tomcat, to PHP, javascript and Linux. The whole webstack, yes, a good systems…
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Screen Capture Elite by Grizzly Ape, addon for Firefox
Found another great screenshot utility to help you with your website screenshots. This one is called Screen Capture Elite and its by Grizzly Ape. You can find the addon at the Firefox collection of addons; installation is straight forward. Similar to the last screenshot utility we talked about, Screengrab, this one displays its activation button…