Custom WordPress Websites that Rock!
The big news of the day might be that Apple has launched Apple Pay. That's the ability to pay with just a touch of your phone. Essentially, you connect a bank card or account to your phone, go to a merchant, tap your phone and viola! Payment made! It's called NFC (for Near Field Communication) …
I'm a big fan of the service IFTTT. I've written how you could use it 'personally' before but I just came across (via Square) a list of recipes just for the Small Business! They put together 18 here. Out of the 18, here's a few I really like. Even if these don't exactly work for you they could …
In light of the recent the naked celebrity photos hack, the Facebook Messenger flack, and the FBI's new facial recognition jack... This might be a timely post for you. For the record I am one of those 'not so private' people. Almost all my posts are public. The same with the pictures I …
Rule #1 before updating the WordPress Core, your theme, your plugins or anything else on your site is? Come on, you should know this by now. Need a hint? WordPress even puts it right there to remind you. That's right. Backup Backup Backup! The problem is, you still forget to backup. …
The Cloud changes everything. I work with a lot of different clients. One of the ways we communicate is by sharing information from Google Drive. The problem is that, as time goes by, you forget who you might have given access to. That could become a problem when you gave access to someone who …
My top 3 reasons you should thank RSS for almost everything on the internet. Including 3 bonus very cool things you didn't know RSS could do. So, I came across a post in my Feed.ly about RSS that combined a couple of my favorite things Facebook and Blogging (and as a subset, RSS). Post by …
Last post I described in detail why I have a newsletter. I also mentioned a bit about how it all happens. Did you read that yet? (click here) The one roadblock to all this success is getting people to sign up for it in the first place. Here's what I'm doing right now to build my Newsletter …
Somehow I get thousands of people visiting my site each month. Some of them come from LIKEs and Shares they see in the their Facebook stream. Some of them From Twitter, Linkedin, and even Google Plus (yeah that network). I also have a HUGE amount of visitors from various Google Searches in …
Unfortunately, once you search for something on Craigslist you can't 'save' the search and more importantly you can't 'subscribe' to that search. How would you like to be notified when something first get's posted to Craigslist, automatically? Wouldn't that be cool? I've been asked no fewer than …
When Posterous first came out, I was all a twitter (can I say that?). Here was a blogging platform that was pretty and that I could use either on the website itself or from afar using my ever-so-smartphone. Oh. It was also free. Of course, as we've learned, Posterous is in hospice care and …
Like it or not, Cloud Storage is here and it's going to become a bigger part of what you do. Computer makers are pushing you towards it with faster but smaller hard drives and the new Ultra Books and Chrome Book classifications. Software manufacturers are driving you to the cloud as well by …
From the Google Blog... We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. Users and developers …
