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How To Separate Your Email From Your Web Hosting (For Best Web Hosting)

How To Separate Your Email From Your Web Hosting (For Best Web Hosting)

Many high-performance web hosts (like Cloudways) don’t include email inbox hosting. Here’s how to separate your email from your hosting, so you can get the best hosting for both.

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Awesome Support From ConvertKit. I Want To Acknowledge Them Publicly.

Awesome Support From ConvertKit. I Want To Acknowledge Them Publicly.

I just want to tell you how responsive ConvertKit support is. Thanks, guys.

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How To Create Powerful Order Forms Simply (Without Needing A Shopping Cart)

How To Create Powerful Order Forms Simply (Without Needing A Shopping Cart)

Sometimes a shopping cart is just overkill. Here’s how to simply create powerful order forms for your products, services, or charitable donations.

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Consumer Alert: Tricky and Pushy Marketing In The WordPress Economy

Consumer Alert: Tricky and Pushy Marketing In The WordPress Economy

The marketing tactics being used in the Wordpress economy have evolved… and not all of it is good. Is the space being taken over by greed and too much centralization?

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Premium Wordpress Themes & Plugins For Free: What is a Wordpress GPL Club? Are They Legit?

Premium Wordpress Themes & Plugins For Free: What is a Wordpress GPL Club? Are They Legit?

Getting Wordpress premium plugins and themes for free? Without paying for them? That’s the promise of the so-called “Wordpress GPL Clubs”. The question is…. are they legal? Is it OK to use them? What are the pros and cons? And, just what is the GPL license?

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4 Core Principles For Choosing Software and Plug-ins For Your Site

4 Core Principles For Choosing Software and Plug-ins For Your Site

22 years of experience in using different software and plug-ins for my business resulted in these 4 important lessons. Perhaps they will save you some time.

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Plain English: Cloudways PHP Version Deprecation & EOL. What Do You Do?

Plain English: Cloudways PHP Version Deprecation & EOL. What Do You Do?

Cloudways sent customers a notice about old versions of PHP that they will be no longer supporting. Here’s what to do about it if you got that email…

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Is Your Website Annoying To Your Visitors?

Is Your Website Annoying To Your Visitors?

So many websites in 2022 are highly annoying to visit due to all the popups, cookie notices and more. Is your site one of them?

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Using Simply Schedule Appointments To Build A Powerful Scheduler Right Inside Wordpress (No Third Party Calendars!)

Using Simply Schedule Appointments To Build A Powerful Scheduler Right Inside Wordpress (No Third Party Calendars!)

Here’s how I use Simply Schedule Appointments to build a robust scheduler right on my Wordpress site (and integrate with FluentCRM).

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How To Easily Accept Crypto Payments On Your WooCommerce Site (Coinbase Commerce Versus Crypto.com)

How To Easily Accept Crypto Payments On Your WooCommerce Site (Coinbase Commerce Versus Crypto.com)

I decided to test out two popular options to accept crypto payments on WooCommerce – Coinbase Commerce and Crypto.com Pay. Here’s how it went…

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How To Run Marketing Automations As A Video Is Watched In Wordpress

How To Run Marketing Automations As A Video Is Watched In Wordpress

Here’s how to combine the marketing automation ability of your CRM with users watching videos on your website.

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Thrive Automator Is Out Of Beta. And Here’s Why That Matters…

Thrive Automator Is Out Of Beta. And Here’s Why That Matters…

Thrive Automator is now out of beta. It is completely free. And, the way they’re doing it could be a game changer when it comes to automation within Wordpress.

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Elementor Cloud: Worth A Look? And Why Are They Launching This?

Elementor Cloud: Worth A Look? And Why Are They Launching This?

Elementor Cloud is a new hosting offer from the Elementor folks. Is it worth a look? And… why did they even bother?

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Thrive Apprentice 4 Review: Thrive Suite Just Grew Up

Thrive Apprentice 4 Review: Thrive Suite Just Grew Up

With the launch of Thrive Apprentice 4.0, Thrive Suite just took a leap into greater maturity as a more robust membership site platform. Let’s take a look…

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How To Clean A Bloated WordPress Media Library

How To Clean A Bloated WordPress Media Library

5 rules for how to properly manage your Wordpress Media Library… and some tools I used to shrink a 5GB library by about 45%!

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How My Membership Site Is Built: The Tools & Plugins I Use To Power My Business

How My Membership Site Is Built: The Tools & Plugins I Use To Power My Business

In this video, I’m going to take you behind the scenes and show you the exact tools and plugins that power this website. This is how my membership site is built.

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Fluent Support Review: First Look At An Integrated Customer Helpdesk Solution For Wordpress

Fluent Support Review: First Look At An Integrated Customer Helpdesk Solution For Wordpress

Fluent Support is a brand new Wordpress-based customer support helpdesk. Let’s take a first look at how it works…

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How To Delete Custom Field Data From Wordpress (Without PHPMyAdmin)

How To Delete Custom Field Data From Wordpress (Without PHPMyAdmin)

Here is a quick and easy way to delete custom field data from the Wordpress database left over from old plugins.

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How To Clean Your Email List And Ensure Good Delivery Rates From A New Sender

How To Clean Your Email List And Ensure Good Delivery Rates From A New Sender

Here’s how to clean your email list and begin sending from a new email platform in order to ensure good email deliverability.

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Switching To FluentCRM: Here’s The Process I Used To Switch From Drip

Switching To FluentCRM: Here’s The Process I Used To Switch From Drip

It was something I didn’t look forward to, but I finally got it done. I migrated from Drip to FluentCRM. Here’s how it worked out…

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Branding Guide: The Exact Components Of Branding, Personal Brand, And How To Determine Your’s

Branding Guide: The Exact Components Of Branding, Personal Brand, And How To Determine Your’s

What is a brand, or a personal brand? How exactly do you create one in a purposeful way? This guide to branding will show you the exact components of a brand and give plain-English guidance on creating your own brand.

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WP Social Ninja Pro Review: This Is NOT Just Another Social Media Plugin

WP Social Ninja Pro Review: This Is NOT Just Another Social Media Plugin

WP Social Ninja allows you to set up social chat widgets, social reviews and social media content right on your Wordpress site. Let’s take a hands-on look on this new plugin…

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Blog Categories Done Smartly: How To Define Your Blog Category Structure To Make More Leads And Sales

Blog Categories Done Smartly: How To Define Your Blog Category Structure To Make More Leads And Sales

There’s the usual way to define blog categories… then there’s the SMART way which will help you with your online marketing. A simple change in how you look at your categories can help you earn more opt-ins and make more sales.

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Is Your Online Business Protected Against The Unexpected? 6 Points Of Online Business Self-Reliance And Digital Sovereignty

Is Your Online Business Protected Against The Unexpected? 6 Points Of Online Business Self-Reliance And Digital Sovereignty

Do you own and control the data, hardware and software that your online business relies on? This mini-workshop covers how to maintain digital sovereignty.

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