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Your First Virtual Private Server: What You Need to Know

by Jason Capshaw on December 4, 2010

Congratulations! If you’re reading this article, it likely means you run one or more websites that have outgrown their shared hosting cradle, and you’re looking to find a home for them that will grow with demand. We’re also going to assume that you’ve decided that the best next step for your particular needs is a [...]

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Your Complete Guide To WordPress Security (Part 1 of 2)

by Jason Capshaw on November 24, 2010

Open source software is the greatest invention since slice bread. A group of highly skilled developers work to improve a script and share it universally. This level of collaboration often creates the most advanced scripts. WordPress is no different, and with its plugins, probably the best open source script available. The problem with open source, [...]

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Marketing Monday: Getting Your Emails Delivered On Black Friday (Part Two)

November 15, 2010

(You should read part one first.) Getting your emails delivered on Black Friday and Cyber Monday can make the difference between a good fourth quarter and a booming fourth quarter. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are looking for one key metric this year: engagement. They will make decisions that affect whether your email ends up in [...]

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Marketing Monday: Getting Your Emails Delivered On Black Friday (Part One)

November 1, 2010

Last year, it was reported, that 71% of major online retailers sent out an email on Cyber Monday and 69% on Black Friday. This accounted for poor delivery percentages. Only 76% of emails were delivered for the weekend. A poor start for the weekend.

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11 Chrome Extensions You Shouldn’t Live Without

October 29, 2010

Google Chrome has quickly become my favorite browser. It is faster and more reliable than any other browser I have used including Firefox. Plus, Chrome has an open source version available to developers that allows for plugin development similar to Firefox.

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Marketing Monday: 5 Tips On Finding New Web Design Clients

October 25, 2010

When you decided to be a freelance Web designer, did you imagine that you would have to become a sales person, accountant and customer service rep? In all likelihood you saw yourself spending hours in front of photoshop expressing your artistic creativity and blowing your customer’s minds. Not long after you began, reality sat in [...]

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DB Cache vs WP Super Cache: Surprising Results

October 22, 2010

Bloggers have been obsessed with speed for as long as I can remember. And with good reason, speedy load times keep readers happy and coming back for more. Google recently raised the stakes by including load time into their already complex-ranking algorithms. WP Super Cache has become an extremely popular WordPress plugin and is used on [...]

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Improve WordPress Speed With WP Super Cache

October 21, 2010

WP super cache is a great plugin that speeds up page load time by creating a virtual static page for your website to deliver. This plugin is great in combating the Digg affect. At least when Digg used to send a ton of traffic anyways. Their traffic levels have significantly plunged. But for now, we [...]

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Improve WordPress Speed with DB Cache

October 20, 2010

The WordPress DB Cache plugin creates stored copies of DB queries so the server does not have to perform repeated queries every time there is a request for a page. Most cache plugins cache the actual HTML and stores it on the server. DB Cache does not cache HTML, but instead only stores database queries.

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Marketing Monday: Someone told me a secret about Internet Marketing 11 years ago

October 18, 2010

For those of you who don’t know, we had just started marketing online full-time 1997 and had been struggling to break into that 6 figure a year range for our first few years. Don’t get me wrong we were very happy with the money we were making (being a husband and wife team in our [...]

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