News about WordPress, websites, mobile technology, social media,
digital marketing and more!
We stay informated about a lot of subjects and love to make sure our clients and website visitors can also stay informed.
Time To Check If You Own Your Digital Real Estate
Do You Own Your Digital Business Real Estate Your business probably has a domain, email addresses, SSLs and ton of other places you live your digital life. But do YOU have control of them, or does another company or employee own it? There are several things you should...
Elegant Theme’s DIVI WordPress Theme – with Keegan Lanier
Why is the Divi WordPress Theme so good? There are thousands and thousands of WordPress themes available to you as a company or developer. But Elegant Themes has done a great job developing a very versatile theme called Divi which allows dynamic content creation and...
Squirrly – SEO WordPress Plugin
Squirrly Uses Intelligence To Assist Your Content Creation Anyone who creates content for websites knows writing for the computer and for your visitors can be a tough challenge. The information must be easily indexed by Google, and easy to consume by readers, and...
Comments or No Comments on WordPress?
ShouId I allow comments on my WordPress website? It's an ageless question. Leave comments turned on in every page of my website, only leave them on the blog posts, or turn them off everywhere? There are pluses and minuses to all varieties of answers, but on today's...
Additional Uses for Forms On Your Website
Forms are great for gathering dataWe pretty much all have forms on our websites. They are wonderful for having a formatted method of sending emails to us without allowing too much customization, loss of data, or emissions by customers.But did you know you could also...
Basic Technology Troubleshooting Steps
Troubleshooting Technology Is Easier Than You Think Ever sit down at your desk ready to get the day started and push the power button on your computer, only to have NOTHING happen? I mean nothing. No lights, no fan sounds. nothing... You're not alone. But before you...
Using Two Factor Authentication (2FA) For Better Security
What Is 2FA (two factor authentication) In the most basic form, two factor authentication (2FA) is : Something you KNOW - password, a PIN, answer to a security question Something you HAVE - driver's license, phone, last four of credit card Something you ARE - face...
Best WordPress SEO Plugins
If you have a WordPress website and are not using SEO, or search engine optimization, you are missing out on valuable traffic. Whether your visitors are looking for a place to eat, a place to shop, or someone to perform a valuable service, just about all of them...
Using UTM Tracking in Your Digital Strategy
UTM Codes are a great way to know where your traffic is coming from, regulate costs, and provide information to your and your marketing team. But they can be intimidating if you're not fluent in some web jargon or internet marketing terms. Today's podcast and blog...
Increase Site Speed By Decreasing Image File Size
Nothing Will Speed Up Your Site Faster Than Optimizing ImagesUsing a tool like GTMetrix.com will point out some obvious issues with your website. More often than not image size, compression and resolutions will be at the top of the list to fix. On our first...
Should You Be Your Own Social Media Manager?
Are you the right person to be running your company's social media? Most of us in business for ourselves think we know our business best, so therefore we should be doing our own web content and social media management. But, many don't really know what the "job"...
How To Choose and Use WordPress Plugins
WordPress Plugins One of the biggest benefits of using WordPress to build and manage your website is plugins. These small pieces of code can greatly increase the functions and benefits of your WordPress site, but it's not without some risk. John Overall of WP Plugins...
Why I Left Dropbox for Sync
What are Dropbox and Sync? Both are cloud storage systems They ideally take files you create, edit and save to your local computer, tablet or smartphone and push them to a central storage on the "cloud" where they can be saved and edited on other devices or even by...
Why & How To Stop Using Internet Explorer
Back about a month ago it was announced that Internet Explorer security flaw allows hackers to steal files.Security researcher John Page has revealed an unpatched exploit in the web browser’s handling of MHT files (IE’s web archive format) that hackers can use to both...
Is It Time For A New Business Phone System? Try Jive!
Still using your old regular phone system or mobile phone for you business?Traditional phone systems... well... suck. They are running on technology that really hasn't changed much in 20 years, have a definite limit on sound quality and reliability, are expensive, and...
Using Hold Music To Influence Customer Behavior
Ever been on hold? Like... FOREVER on hold? At the time I started writing this article, my time on hold with my bank is 38 minutes, 13 seconds. It's been a roller coaster of emotions based both on the situation and maybe the music. How Much Thought Goes Into Hold...
Run All Your Business Processes From One Tool – Accelo
Using Accelo To Manage Your BusinessOn this episode of the BeBizzy Break Podcast I interview Geoff McQueen, CEO and Founder of Accelo, on what prompted this wonderful invoicing, time management, ticketing and lead management system to be created and how you can use it...
Optimizing Social Media Posts with RiteKit
How RiteKit's Tools Can Help You With Your Social MediaMost of us in business post to social media accounts, whether it's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and many others. But many of us post on each site individually, and if you do use a management tool like...
