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3 “Pretty Close to FREE” Tools for Your Business …

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In our efforts to be efficient and effective as small business owners, we are always on the lookout for different tools and apps that will save us time and money. We are constantly scouring the Internet for free or “cheap” tools and programs. However, while it’s always great to find tools that are free; most of us understand that sometimes you have to spend a little to make a little. You need to look at the tools and programs you need to run your business as an investment rather than an expense. Here are three little “investments” priced to fit any budget.

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Is your opt-in lost in the shuffle?

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List-building is something that is always top-of-mind for us as small business owners. A good list can be the life-blood of speakers and coaches. We try our best to entice people to give up that coveted email address by offering a free taste or free something or other that will provide value and benefit to our target market, through sign-up and opt-in boxes, landing pages, and pop-ups.

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Increase Your Website’s Security with a Simple To-Do

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Not too long ago, the Internet was buzzing with new reports of hacking attempts thanks to weak spots or loopholes in certain WordPress plugins. Among the affected were popular plugins like SEO by Yoast, Jetpack, WordPress SEO, Google Analytics by Yoast, All In one SEO and Gravity Forms.

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WordPress + WishList Member = fun, fun, fun!

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WishList Member

We Love, love, love building and maintaining membership sites. And our platform of choice is Wishlist Member. If you like using WordPress, then you’ll love WishList Member too!

http://go.wishlistproducts.com/?p=WLP951103&w=wlm

Many people have tried to turn WordPress into a membership site but in the past it’s been quite tricky. There are some fabulous plugins out there but you had to “tweak this” and “tweak that.” And, if you aren’t technical, it typically becomes very frustrating. That’s why we love WishList Member so much. It’s a membership solution that was
specifically built for WordPress.

http://go.wishlistproducts.com/?p=WLP951103&w=wlm

The best part is, it has all the features you would want in a membership solution AND it is compatible with all of your other favorite plugins! So you get the best of both worlds 🙂 Plus, they continue to add very cool features with each update to make running and managing a membership site a whole lot easier.

Like I said, if you like using WordPress, then you’ll love WishList Member. If you want to know more about the plugin, just let us know. If you already have a WishList Member site and are tired of trying to maintain it yourself, we can help there too … just schedule a complimentary 20 minute call to discuss the details.

And yes, we are an affiliate for WishList member … because we love the product so much 🙂

Enjoy!

Three easy tools to speed up slow websites

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Excessive Speeding Careless Driving ConceptIn this go-go-hurry-hurry world, visitors to our websites want quick load times and easy access to the information. But oftentimes, our websites become less than cooperative and begin to falter and bog down. Some fixes are easy, some a little harder. Fortunately, however, there are a handful of tools that can speed up your site with minimal investment of time or money. [Read more…]

Blogging Tools that Encourage Comments

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Anyone who has a blog knows comments are like gold. Comments from readers help to further your efforts of supplying the reader with the information they want and need. But those comments can also be hard to come by. The Internet is filled with endless sources of ideas, information and inspirations; and many readers, due to the sheer lack of time, are not taking the time to comment on blog posts like they used to. Here are some handy blogging tools designed to encourage comments and feedback from your valued readers and site visitors.

Blogging Tools that Encourage Comments

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Picked By the Pros: 5 WordPress Plugins Recommended by Those in the Know

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wordpressRecently I was reading a very good article that had some of the online world’s heavy hitters weighing in on what WordPress Plugins they “couldn’t live without.” The list was impressive and ranged from the critical (backup and security) to the quirky, but there were few that stood out to me: [Read more…]

Chart your course for 2014

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chartLooking for some effective new tools to streamline your business for the New Year? I’ve been doing some poking around on the Internet, and here are a few that have caught my eye.

SumAll: We live in an analytics driven world, yes? Love ‘em or hate ‘em, analytics give business owners and marketers the data they need to improve their social media engagement, define marketing decisions and tie ROI to their bottom line. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a one-stop-shop that connects all our social media activity and offers an “at-a-glance” daily snapshot? SumAll  is a pretty handy tool for numbers and charts across the platforms. [Read more…]

A Flare for Sharing …

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wordpressMore engagement please! We are all no strangers to this request and desire when it comes to our social media efforts. But though this repeated lament can get irritating, the fact of the matter is that businesses do need followers, likers and connections to engage with us in order for our social media efforts to be effective, and sharing is a big part of that. Here is a great WordPress plugin to help your biz have a flare for sharing:

Flare is a social sharing WordPress plugin that displays a vertical sharing bar alongside your blog post. As your reader scrolls down your article or blog post, the sharing bar moves with them. Another frustration for business owners in the past has been the lack of sharing options on mobile devices. On a mobile device, the Flare sharing bar appears across the top of the posts, allowing users to easily share your social media efforts.

Other useful options Flare offers is the ability to pick and choose which types of blog posts you want Flare to appear on, which social media icons you want to offer, and the order in which you want them to be displayed.

Flare is a free plugin that is not actively supported by the author, but is monitored for serious bugs that may need correcting.

Pinpointing the culprit on a slow WordPress site

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Feeling like your site is unusually slow. Like it’s bbbooggggiinnngg down?

A major cause of slow loading or that “boggy feeling” on WordPress sites is often caused by having too many plugins or by having poorly coded plugins. That being said; how do you figure out which plugins are causing your site to load and operate slower than it should?
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