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Resizing Your Images

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Resizing Your Images: If you are updating your website yourself, whether you are using WordPress or another CMS (content management system), then you will need to know how to resize the images you want to have on your website. You can control the image height and width in most CMS systems, however the image on … Read more

How to Generate Traffic Using Free Methods

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How to Generate Traffic Using Free Methods: While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many website owners don’t have the resources to generate more traffic for their websites. If you are eager, and have the drive and perseverance needed to do hard work and research, you can generate traffic for your site. How … Read more

What is Niche Marketing?

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Niche Marketing: The word ‘niche’ is defined as: “A special area of demand for a product or service”. ‘Marketing’ is defined as: “The opportunity to buy or sell”. If you put the two words together, niche marketing means buying or selling a product or service in an area of special demand.  This is a product … Read more

What is Social Networking?

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Social Networking: We have all heard of social networking before, but not everyone knows what it means.  If you were asked to define what social media networking is, would you be able to give an accurate definition? Most people can’t, even though it’s likely that they participate in some form of social networking, especially online. … Read more

Five Tips on Keeping Your Blog Active

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Keeping Your Blog Active: It is important to keep your blog active. Creating engaging, informative blog posts from scratch can be difficult and time-consuming.  Don’t let your blog fail by not updating it often.  Here are four types of posts that are easy to create and will give you good, useful content. Lists:  Visitors like … Read more

Marketing is everything!

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Marketing: SEO (Search Engine Optimization)… online marketing… website promotion.  Marketing your website is SO important.  You can have the best, most amazing website on the Internet, but if no one sees it, it is of no use to you. SEO is not automatic when you purchase a website.  It is a separate service. When it … Read more

Ten Ways to Grow Your Email List

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Grow Your Email List: Here are ten tips that will help you grow your email list: Have an online contest for a free giveaway, and have your visitors sign up for your newsletter in order to enter the contest. Collect email addresses offline and import them into your mailing list.  You can collect these from … Read more

Boost Your Sales Through Social Media

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Boost Sales With Social Media: Your customers are willing to pay more for products or services that are local, and most of these customers will come to you by word of mouth.  On the Internet “word of mouth” means social media.  Boosting your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media campaigns is something you should … Read more

Make Your Blog Work For You

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Is Your Blog Working For You? Having a blog can help set you up as the expert to go to when your clients need information.  Be sure to write posts often so your old and new clients will keep coming back to view your interesting articles.  It can take a long time to write one post, … Read more

Are you keeping WordPress up to date?

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It is Important to Keep WordPress Updated: If you have a blog or if your whole website has been created using WordPress, it is VERY important to keep it updated.  WordPress often releases a newer version, or a plugin may have an update waiting for you. Plugins are bits of software that can be uploaded … Read more