As a business owner or marketer, you will inevitably work with outside contractors/vendors (web developers, designers, marketing agencies, etc.) or even other employees on your company's digital marketing and/or social media efforts. They will need to set up/use various online services/tools on your behalf as they are doing work for...
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...
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...
When someone asks me how many "hits" their Web site is getting, they really want to know is how many visitors ("visits") came to their site. I think a lot of people use "hits" and "visits" interchangeably. This isn't a problem unless you (or your team) are actually looking at "hits"...
I just helped a friend set up a Wordpress Web site at Network Solutions. I've set up a ton of Wordpress sites with Site5 (the hosting company I use) and GoDaddy but never Network Solutions. I wasn't sure if it would be a smooth installation or if I'd run into...
I just unsubscribed from an email that I magically started receiving from my health care provider. I'm assuming they added me to their list after I signed up for online access. I certainly didn't ask to receive emails about someone winning an iPod Touch...
Several months ago, I subscribed to the New York Times' Circuits email newsletter based on a co-worker's recommendation. It comes once a week and has an article written by David Pogue. He's a well-known technology guy that writes really good articles about different gadgets. I saw him speak at a...
On Tuesday, I just happened to come across Reunion.com on Google and thought I'd sign up just to see if I could cross pathes with an old friend or schoolmate. It was an extremely easy process and took me only a couple of minutes. One thing that I didn't know...