There are two main components to setting up every website. The first part of is registering your website or blog's domain name (ex. acmecompany.com). Some of the most popular domain registrars are GoDaddy or Network Solutions. After you've registered the domain name, you'll have to set up website hosting. That's the...
At some point, you may want to forward your Gmail emails (or a copy of them) to another email address. There could be several reasons: You're no longer using that Gmail address You have multiple Gmail addresses and don't want to have to check each account all the time You don't want someone...
I love WordPress. It's true. If you're unfamiliar, WordPress is a powerful and highly popular open-source (free) content management system. WordPress powers 14.7% of the top million websites in the world and 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running WordPress. I use it to power this website...
Recently I unsubscribed from a Groupon daily alerts mailing list (I think my wife subscribed me) and I was taken to an unsubscribe page with this funny video. There isn't any audio but I thought it was one of the most creative pages I've ever seen. Just in case you can't...
When I left full-time employment with New West back in September 2009 to start my own company, I went on a COBRA insurance plan. This allowed me to have full insurance coverage for my family. A couple of months ago, New West hired Ceridian to administer its COBRA insurance program. Once...
I send/receive a ton of emails on a daily basis. I make sure that every email includes my name, company name, contact information and links to all my social networking profiles. These easiest way to do this automatically is to create an email signature. Every time I create I new message...
If you're like me, you participate on a lot of social networking sites. Part of signing up on these sites is picking a username or vanity URL (i.e. Facebook.com/JoeSmith). I try to keep my username consistent across all the sites I spend time on. I do this for three reasons: My personal...
Below is a presentation that I gave last night at Social Media Club of Evansville. Growing Your Business With Social Media - Social Media Club Evansville View more presentations from Jay Lane. If you're viewing this in your RSS reader and are unable to view the embedded presentation above, please go to the...
Lately, I've been getting a lot of SPAM emails with attachments. The "sender" tells me that I need to open the attachment to provide them with information. This might sound obvious but you should never open attachments from people you don't know, especially if it's a weird-looking attachment (i.e. download.exe or...
An inevitable part of hiring someone to build your Web site is that they will need to set up various services or accounts on your behalf. Some examples could include: Registering a domain name (www.yourcompanyname.com) for your Web site through a domain registrar like GoDaddy or Network Solutions Setting up Web site hosting Setting...