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Warning: WP Slimstat May Put your WordPress Site in Danger

Image source Are you using WP Slimstat to keep track of your website’s analytics? If so, you could be exposing yourself to hackers and other threats. Recently, it was discovered that this plugin has a bug that could put your website in danger. This post will discuss this bug and tell you how to avoid […]

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7 Tips First Time Business Owners Need

Congratulations! You’ve started your own small business for the first time. It’s a brave accomplishment in this lagging economy to try your hand in the marketplace at all. Maybe it’s a sole proprietorship with just you at the helm, or maybe you have an actual store front with a few trusted employees. Either way there […]

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The 6 Best Pieces of Winning Advice for New Small Business Owners

If you’ve just started a new small business or have an amazing product or service and want to start a business, you may be looking for some guidance from the experts. We’ve compiled a list of the best pieces of advice for small business owners who are driven to success, including some from people who […]

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Top 5 Advantages of Pay-Per-Click Advertising

If you’re a small business owner looking for a way to make the most of your marketing budget, then you might want to consider the option of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. In many ways, PPC advertising can help make your business easier to find online while also allowing you to target a very specific web-based audience. […]

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Drive Traffic with Click Through Rates

You have built it. Will they come? Your online presence is established with a hosted website. Now is the time to funnel new leads to your website and convert those leads into purchases or other desired outcomes.  Google Adwords is one platform that will help your company and services be seen. Business owners want a […]

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Optimizing Your Google Adwords Campaign for Success

Image source Google Ad Words is an affordable way to maximize your qualified traffic-from the Google search engine. When advertising with Google Ad Words, you are able to set an advertising budget and only pay for the advertising when your ad is clicked on. The ad will be shown when a keyword is searched for, […]

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3 Ways Start-Ups Will Sell In 2015

Three ways up-and-coming start-ups will sell in 2015. Creating a start-up company may be easy for some, but selling what that company has to offer is a different story. Consumers are seemingly hardwired to avoid cold calls and avoid video spots like the plague, so selling a product can be rather difficult these days. Thankfully, some approaches have been […]

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3Things The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Taught Us About Social Media

Across the world, buckets of ice were being dumped on people’s heads. Our local high-school soccer team participated in this event today after being challenged by the school’s cross-country team. Even the residents at our local assisted living home have heard about this worldwide event to raise money for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), which is […]

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Verifying your brand page on google Plus

Now that Google offers “Brand Pages” for Google+, it’s probably a good idea for you to go gra b your slice of the web.  Admittedly, it took us a while to get on board with Google+.. We still don’t use it like we should, but I can tell you this – in my observation, people […]

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Utilizing Adwords to Target Your Intended Audience

Google Updates Lead More Businesses to Learn About Google AdWords Campaigns With all of the Google updates that have been rolled out to prevent traditional SEO and spam from dominating the search engines, more and more people are turning to AdWords to make the return on investment seen from SEO prior to the updates.The problem […]

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