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How To Clean Your Options Table For Better WordPress Performance
Did you know that there’s a really good chance that your WordPress database is still cluttered with the ghosts of plugins you no longer use? Here’s how to see if your Options table is bloated… and how to clean it.
xCloud Hosting Review: Good Enough To Switch From Cloudways?
Is xCloud Hosting just another cash grab… or is it the real deal? It has good people behind it, but how does it stack up to Cloudways? Well, I was…
BuddyBoss Hosting: What’s The Hosting For A Buddyboss Membership Site
Buddyboss hosting is a little bit different than a typical blog. Let’ go over various recommendations for hosting your Buddyboss membership site.
Email Deliverability: The Simple Guide To How To Ensure Your Best Deliverability Metrics
How do you make sure the emails you send to your list actually get delivered? How do you get into the inbox? This guide will walk you through what you…
Building Your Platform
Why Wordpress? Why Not Wix, Weebly or Squarespace?
Heard you should be using Wordpress? Here’s why it is better than Wix, Weebly and Squarespace. And how you can make Wordpress just as simple to use.
Rocket.Net Hosting Review: I Switched And Here’s What I Think
I switched from Cloudways to Rocket.net hosting. I’ve now been using Rocket for over a month. What do I think? Here’s my experience with Rocket.Net hosting…
Web Hosting Change: Moving From Cloudways To Rocket And Here’s Why
I’m moving sites from Cloudways to Rocket. In this post, let me spell out the reasons for making this web hosting change.
Video Hosting For Your Membership And Online Courses: How To Securely Embed Videos And Ensure Protected Access
How can you securely embed videos on your membership site in a way which they cannot be stolen? How do you protect your videos?
Membership Sites
Should You Offer A Lifetime Membership To Your Membership Site? Don’t Make These Mistakes…
Offering a lifetime subscription to a membership is seen as a way to increase sales, but is it a good idea? When can you use a lifetime membership, and when it is a REALLY bad idea?
Membership Site Community: Should You Have One? Best Platform?
When it comes to membership site community, I have made the rounds. I went from a Facebook group, to a forum, to BuddyBoss, and then back to nothing. Should YOU…
Membership Site Domain: New Domain, Sub-Domain Or Same Site? How To Avoid My Mistakes.
Should your membership site domain be the same as your blog? Should you use a sub-folder, sub-domain or an entirely new domain? Here’s what I learned
How I Built A Service Credit System For My Membership Site
This tutorial will show you how I built a service credit system into my membership site, allowing members to purchase credits and then redeem those credits for additional services like…
Email Marketing Automation
FluentBooking Review: Why This Scheduling Plugin Stands Out Above The Competition
FluentBooking certainly isn’t the first scheduling plugin for WordPress. So, why do I think THIS one matters?
How To Increase Your Email Open Rates And Get Your Emails Delivered
It is one thing to build your email list. It is quite another to ensure the emails you send actually arrive and get opened. This guide provides multiple tactics to…
Lead Magnets With BeeHiiv: How To Deliver Them And Set Up Your Automations
How’s how to set up multiple lead magnets with BeeHiiv and use automations to deliver them.
BeeHiiv Integrations: How To Connect Your Own Forms To BeeHiiv (Using The API)
In this post, I will show you how to integrate any forms on your site with BeeHiiv. Including the PHP code needed to use the BeeHiiv API to subscribe leads…
Getting Started
How To Choose Your WordPress Theme: The Smart Way (Without Being Dependent On Developers)
Choosing a WordPress theme that’s right for you can feel overwhelming. This guide tries to make it simpler – and point you in a direction that will not box you in or have you reliant on developers.
Online Business Startup Costs: How Much Should You Expect To Spend To Start A Money-Making Blog?
How much does it cost to start up a new online business? What should you expect to pay? Here are my recommendations and what you can expect.
Finding Your Blog Niche: How Exactly Do You Narrow Down Your Niche?
Is your blogging niche too broad? And if you think you need to narrow it down, how exactly do you DO that? In this video, we discuss how to go…
How To Set Up Domain-Based Email For Your Business (And Why I Quit Gmail)
Here is how you can set up domain-based email for your blog or business… and why you might want to consider NOT using Google for it.
Traffic & Conversion
Growing Your Blog In 30 Minutes: 10 High Impact Tasks You Can Do To Impact Your Blog In Only 30 Minutes Per Day
If you only had 30 minutes per day to spend on your blog and online business, what things can you spend your time on which would actually move the needle?
SEO Optimization: The Ultimate Guide To Search Engine Optimization For Bloggers
An ultimate SEO guide for bloggers and content creators. How relevant is keyword research? What are the factors Google looks at? How exactly do we go about attracting organic traffic…
Blog Post Frequency: How Often Should You Post To Your Blog For SEO?
How often should you publish a new blog post? What is the best blog post frequency for SEO? The answer might not be what you expect…
Instant Authority: 5 Simple Strategies To Becoming A Leader In Your Niche (Without Depending On Others)
How do you become an authority in your niche? How can you do it without having to wait on others to recognize you? Here are 5 strategies to engineer instant…
Business & Entrepreneurship
Branding And Product Names: Changes In My Business And Why
Choosing brand names and product names for your business… and how I am re-working my own business (and why).
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.
84 Lessons From 20 Years As An Online Entrepreneur (Updated)
A summary of 84 lessons that I have learned over the course of 20 years as an online entrepreneur, through highs and lows, and different businesses.
The Blogger Code Of Monetization
A short code of conduct for monetizing a blog and making money while respecting your reader at the same time. This is a voluntary code, of course, but helps keep…