I like to challenge myself each month on weird stuff. This month I've challenged myself to produce a video each day that is short yet informative, educational, and actionable. Here's Day 4 Today was Saturday and I hoped to get a little riding in - either on my Mountain Bike or on one of the …
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28 Days of Video: Day 3 – HTTPS and should you switch?
I like to challenge myself each month on weird stuff. This month I've challenged myself to produce a video each day that is short yet informative, educational, and actionable. Here's Day 3 HTTPS is a Google Ranking Factor! That means better SEO. HTTPS also means a more secure internet …
28 Days of Video: Day 2 – How to know if you are on the front page of Google
I like to challenge myself each month on weird stuff. This month I've challenged myself to produce a video each day that is short yet informative, educational, and actionable. Here's Day 2 On the 1st Page of Google? That's awesome! Are you sure? TL:DR Here's how to really find out where …
28 Days of Video: Day 1 – Updating Your WordPress Website
I like to challenge myself each month on weird stuff. This month I've challenged myself to produce a video each day that is short yet informative, educational, and actionable. Here's Day 1 TL:DR How to back up your content and update your Wordpress Website If you have a WordPress website …
Have you been PWNED?
How to tell if your email address, username or password has been compromised. And then I'm going to show you what to do about it. Wikipedia: The term, "Pwned" implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet-based video game culture to taunt an opponent who has just …
Looking back at 2016
This is recap of my social media world in 2016 and some of the incredible (weird) stats that go along with it. I incorporated a few ideas along the way about why each of these is important and why. With each social network you should have a clear reason of why you are there and what …
You Can’t Be Trusted…
You Can't Be Trusted With Facebook (or Why I Left Facebook) Important Caveat: When I say you, of course I mean “them”. Regular readers of my little blog would never do anything like the things I describe below, right? The other thing that I'll mention here and then again in just …
Website 101
If you know your A Record from a C Name you can probably skip this post. :) In this post I'm going to break down the three things you need to have if you want a website. All three are critical. If one goes down the website goes down. Oh, and I'm going to make the assumption …
Not another rant about a silly laptop
This is not another rant about a silly laptop! (I promise) So... I wrote this post about the newest apple product - the macbookpro (no, they don't deserve the capitalization). Heck, I even created a hashtag in the hopes of rallying the public. As always I tend to think about all things and how …
The end of the MacBook Pro
TL:DR Opinion: Apple just took a wrong turn in their redesign of the workhorse MacBook Pro. They do have a slick looking video for it though... I remember the day perfectly. I was at a video shoot. We were doing an artsy thing with a shallow depth of field. I was shooting on manual with my …
Is your site Mobile Ready?
We had a great show today that was all about getting your website up and running, mobile ready. (you can listen here) We wanted to answer the following questions. What is “Mobile Ready”? What needs to be Mobile Ready? Why should content be Mobile Ready? How do you know if you’re …
Linkedin For the Real Real Estate Agent
The REAL real estate agent is busy with inspections, broker tours, putting out fires, and hopefully signings at the closing table. The REAL real estate agent is busy looking for buyers and sellers by using a number of marketing techniques from direct mail, to Facebook ad campaigns, to door …
Organic SEO, Long Tail Keywords, and How much should you pay for a website?
Organic SEO, Long Tail Keywords and the Cost of a Custom WordPress Website I'm going to explain what is meant by organic SEO, how to get it and I'll even drop a super secret way you can knock it out of the park! How sweet is that? This morning, in my Facebook Stream I came across this …
Mike Mueller: Facebook Business Page Builder
These days, I don't spend too much time inside Facebook. I have a post coming that will explain why. But that doesn't mean I'm not 'listening'. Last night someone asked in a group for help building a Facebook Business Page and some wonderful members of that group stepped up and mentioned my …
Always double check your links
It's always good to have a second set of eyeballs on most anything you do. Recently I created a detailed .pdf on how to use a .pdf as lead capture. And yes, the meta of it all made me giddy! I originally put the .pdf in my regular media folder and was delivering it via the "thank you" …
How to create a good GREAT password
How to create a unique yet memorable password for every site. What was that password again? It's a common problem we all have. For an answer to that we covered it in on of our podcasts a while ago and then just the other day it was brought up again on Facebook. Essentially what we're …
Testing my new CRON…
What the heck is that? Good question. Long story short, I've been having issues with the site since I updated to https. It was like the site would simply run out of energy trying to do something. That might be adding a new post, or updating a page, or even replying to a comment. Don't …
Mobile Responsive just got a little more important
I'm interested. Are you reading this on a mobile device? A smart phone or a tablet? If so, let me know. I know from analytics that a very large percentage of my traffic is on mobile, I'll bet yours is too. Generally speaking when I come to a site that is not mobile responsive, I don't pinch and …
Why I went “Secure”
For the last week in all my free time (ha ha) I've been working on... Migrating the site to a new server. Making it Secure. With a site this large it's been a huge struggle in the migration but everything is functioning properly on the new server - yay! The exciting part is that …
How To Secure WordPress (and recover from a hack)
For the radio show last week I was driving and had to call in. It's poor sound quality for me but good quality stuff. Take a listen... Securing WordPress First of all - let's talk about securing your WordPress site. Backup your entire site on a regular basis. Don’t forget. Also it’s good …