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Create an Opt-In Banner the Easy Way with a Mailerlite Form
I’ve found that many people are using Mailchimp because you can use it for free up to 2000 subscribers. Yet, Mailchimp offers very few formatting options for free. My favorite email marketing tool is Mailerlite. You can use it for free for up to 1000 subscribers and...
read moreHow to Create an Opt-In Banner with a Mailchimp Form in Weebly, Wix or WordPress
Styling a mailchimp embedded form seems pretty limited, unless you take the plunge and format it yourself! I’m always trying to find cost effective ways for small business owners to get what they need without ending up paying for more tools or more subscriptions. My...
read moreWhat You Should Know when Selecting an Online Scheduling Tool
There are quite a few online scheduling tools available today. Many of them have similar features, while others are lacking key features. I love researching tools and figuring out which tool has the best features. Requirements for Online Scheduling Tool Selection Here...
read moreHow I Used Cloudflare With a Site Under Attack
Recently I started receiving Sucuri notices on one of my WordPress sites, sheilafranzen.com, that it was being attacked. The notices indicated that there were attempted logins under the name of admin and the user name that I use 100’s of times from IP addresses...
read moreSave Time & Clear Inbox Clutter with Unroll.Me
This is definitely my new favorite tool! I remember looking at it several months ago and it just didn’t make sense to me. Someone else recently recommended it again, so I thought I should dig in and find out what it was and how it worked. Unroll.Me is saving me time...
read moreThe 2nd Most Important Thing to do in WordPress… Secure Your Site!
I experienced a brute force attack against my site that forced my hosting company to shut down my site and I had Wordfence installed! I spent 2 days learning that without real time protection on your site, it doesn’t matter what security plugins you have. When there...
read moreBook Review: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
I read this book back in 2010 and I still think about it on a regular basis when it comes to simplying complex tasks or making something in my written communication clear. I have always been one to love checklists! Then again, I AM a project manger! Talk about a...
read moreHow to use Asana Project Boards to Plan Yearly Goals
Asana has a feature called Asana Project Boards. They have evolved from the concept around the Agile software world where sticky notes are used to plan the work that needs to be done. I love using this feature of Asana to plan yearly goals. First, Why goals? Well,...
read morePredict Your Annual Income with a Spreadsheet!
Did you know that you could predict your annual income with a spreadsheet? Spreadsheets are awesome! I remember a long time ago when I discovered the power of spreadsheets and realized what they could do. Entrepreneurs often have unpredictable income, which could...
read moreThe Most Important Thing to Do in WordPress: Backup Your Site!
The most important thing you need to do if you have a Wordpress site is back it up! While most hosting providers are backing up their servers, they aren’t necessarily creating backups that make it easy for you to restore a backup. Strange things happen in technology...
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