The importance of WordPress Updates

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I can not stress enough how important it is to keep your website updated. That means updating WordPress, plugins that you use and any themes installed, active and inactive, on your website on a consistent basis. I know wordpress updates can be annoying and they seem never-ending, but they fix bugs, improve performance, and add […]

Rock Your About Page

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It’s hard. Very hard. I’ve asked you to write an About page and you have no idea where to begin. Take a deep breath and let’s get this done. Follow these tips and get an About page draft written. You can always go back and tweak it to your liking. Follow these tips, get the […]

Build a Better Portfolio

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If you are an artist, of any type, looking to get hired, you must have a portfolio available to display the best of your previous work. Not just a thrown together group of images, you need a great, functional, easy to use portfolio of images. I work with many photographers so portfolios are something I […]

Kids + Facebook = MinorMonitor

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I originally wrote this for my parenting blog, but I feel that this article also fits in here. It’s techy, techy is what I do. “Chronically Late”, that’s the new title I’m giving myself 😉 I’m always behind on posting, I never get to park days on time, it’s amazing that I get to soccer […]

Hootsuite Rocks at Managing Social Networks!

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I manage a few Twitter accounts and it gets annoying trying to remember the various usernames/passwords. Not to mention the time it takes to log in to each account individually. Enter Hootsuite. Hootsuite allows you to manage your social networks with one simple log in. Not only that, you can send one tweet out via […]

One Gmail Account, Many Addresses

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This may be old news to some, but it was new news to me. I had a customer service person tell me that someone had an email address very similar to mine, only theirs was all caps and that I should take my complaint to Gmail and ask them why they allow this. (Someone was […]

Gmail + Multiple Addresses Per Contact + Groups

One feature that Gmail is lacking is the ability to send an email to multiple addresses for a single contact when using groups. Say you have a soccer team, each child has two parents with seperate email addresses. You put the child’s name in your contact list, add each parent’s email address, then create a […]

Your First 3 Emails, Already Mapped Out.

The Welcome Sequence Starter Kit is a plug-and-play framework with prompts, subject lines, and send timing for the 3 emails every new subscriber should get. Just fill in the blanks and hit send.

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