How to handle technical issues that effect your customers

Customer services

I use this program, Arq by Haystack Software, to automatically backup my hard drive to my Amazon Simple Storage Server (AS3). It works great, I love it and recommend every Mac owner use it! I’ve never had any problems with the application, it always works. However recently I received this email from Haystack; I’ve discovered a [...]

6 Must Have Plugins When Building A WordPress Website

dont do it!

I have found that these 6 plugins are essential every time I begin building a new website. These are the very first plugins I install. Under Construction by Jeremy Massel BackupBuddy by PluginBuddy All in One SEO Pack by Michael Torbert Scribe SEO by Copyblogger Media WP-Optimize by Ruhani Rabin WP-Show-ID by PriMoThemes What follows is [...]

WordPress for Business Bloggers

wordpress for business bloggers

In complete disclosure, I’m writing this article at the request of Packt Publishing, but I’m excited to do it! They contacted me and asked if I would review a new book release, WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers, and write a review. I’m not being paid (they did give me a free copy of the book) for [...]

How to get organized and manage your to do lists

Manage your to do list

I read an article a couple of days ago, The Trouble With To Do Lists by Joshua Zerkel, Custom Living Solutions. I was impressed by the level of expertise Zerkel brings to the readers. I had a few thoughts I wanted to share on the topic, I tried leaving a comment, but it wasn’t approved so I thought I’d [...]

Increase Online Sales: There’s a plugin for that!

Get Premise Landing Page Plugin

When anyone wants to quickly and easily create, test, and optimize landing pages with WordPress, Premise is the way to go. No doubt. Premise 1.0 is awesome (read more about it here Premise Features). It works great and the developers and brains behind the whole system are brilliant. Probably the best in the industry! However, the news I [...]

Biggest Small Business Challenge

lost profits

The Arizona Small Business Association surveyed their 11,000+ members and the number one challenge those small businesses have is “lack of sales and weak demand for their products and services”. I would agree that this is a huge problem and probably one that is more common than expected. At first this issue sounds like two [...]

Higher Credit Score

Higher Credit Score

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Direct Mail Done Right – 3 Simple Things

direct mail marketing

I received this envelope in the mail a couple of weeks ago. I knew it was a direct mail marketing piece, but it was executed very effectively so I wanted to share it with you. The 3 Simple Things The writing looks handwritten. I know that it wasn’t, but at first glance, it looks personal. [...]

Easy List Building with WordPress: There’s a Plugin for that!

email marketing, constant contact

If you’re looking for a way to easily grow your email list, then you’ll want to check out this plugin! WP-Leads Plugin (free) Why I started using it Real simple, I wanted to eliminate the extra steps required to subscribe to my email newsletter. If someone is going to leave a comment and subscribe to my newsletter, [...]

Have Massive Success in the New Economy!

Information marketing

Why does life sucks for so many people? Here’s the deal…People are getting killed in this new economy and have no idea why. FACT: Unemployment is at 8.5%. FACT: There’s been 35 straight months of unemployment above 8%…the highest long-term unemployment on record. FACT: Household income is the same today, as it was in 1996 [...]

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