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When “WTF?” is exactly the response you want.
On Saturday, my husband and I drove to a city about an hour north of us. It was a lovely day and we enjoyed getting out for a bit. Then I noticed the billboard. Oh, billboards are everywhere, and I’m … Continue reading
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3 Quick Fixes to Increase Your Site’s Visibility
You’re familiar with the usual search engine optimization advice: put keywords in your site and page titles and meta tags; make sure your page copy contains the words you want people to find in search. Those are good places to … Continue reading
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Frugal Spending is In. What now?
Everybody loves to save money, especially when times are lean, and many people choose to put off buying nonessential items or shop strictly on price. But you don’t have to be “the low-price leader” to benefit from frugal shoppers. A … Continue reading
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US Postal Rate increase – is your shopping cart ready?
On January 22, 2012, US Postal Service will raise rates on First Class and most package service classes. First-class mail rates are rising from 44 cents to 45 cents, so this might be a good time to stock up on … Continue reading
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Help for the Holidays (especially for introverts)
Uh oh… the holidays. That joyous time of year when we go to Grandma and Grampa’s house to “celebrate” with all those relatives we haven’t seen since last year. Uncle George, who tells the same elk-hunting-in-the-mountains story every single year, … Continue reading
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Free for a tweet? Ummmmm….
I’ve noticed a new marketing trend lately. We’re all accustomed to marketers offering something free — an ebook, a white paper, a useful template or sales tool — in exchange for your email address on their mailing list. That technique … Continue reading
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A Basic Guide to Cloud Services
Question from a client this morning: What do you know about these cloud services — where you can put your files on the cloud so you can access from anywhere — and it is also a way to back up … Continue reading
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If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog or website, please read this
Note: If you are one of my clients, you can ignore this warning. I’ve already checked your site and updated it where necessary. Rest easy! Yesterday there was a password breach on WordPress.org that allowed malware to be added to … Continue reading
4GoodThings: June 18, 2011
Quick links to interesting articles I’ve found this week Ten Myths About Introverts Introverts are often considered shy or socially inept people who don’t like other people, but this is not true. Introverts, who make up about 25-30% of the … Continue reading
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Quick WordPress security tip
On Monday, I told you how to change your blog’s main username from “admin” to something else, to make it more difficult for a hacker to guess your username and password. (If he knows the username, half his work is … Continue reading
