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3 Reasons Why I Avoid Free WordPress Themes

3 Reasons Why I Avoid Free WordPress Themes

Earlier today I wrote a new entry into the Super Simple Marketing newsletter about why I use Premium WordPress Themes instead of the gazillion free ones that are available out there in the blogosphere. Thought I’d share 3 reasons why I avoid using free wordpress themes: Free themes may well have malicious code in the [...]

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Backup Your Gmail, Facebook & More

Backup Your Gmail, Facebook & More

I don’t know about you, but I use Gmail, Google Docs, Facebook, Flickr and a host of other social media platforms and “cloud based services” (like Google Docs). I have hundreds of pages of documents and images located in the cloud and use these services constantly for both my business and for personal stuff (like [...]

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15 WordPress Plugins Removed From Directory

15 WordPress Plugins Removed From Directory

If you have a WordPress blog, you may want to double check your plugins. I’m a niche blogger, so I have gobs of WordPress installs… and one of the things I try to keep an eye on are security vulnerabilities in plugins and themes so my sites don’t get hacked. There are 15 plugins that [...]

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Get Your Own URL Link Shortener

Get Your Own URL Link Shortener

Have you ever heard of bit.ly or tinyurl.com? Those are link shortening services often used in conjunction with Twitter (and Facebook). Not to mention the fact that internet marketers often use them to cloak and track their affiliate links. I use link shorteners for both tracking and cloaking reasons… Last week I came across this [...]

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ZMOT – Zero Moment Of Truth by Google

ZMOT – Zero Moment Of Truth by Google

Google just released a brand new ‘eBook’ (yes, you read that right) called “ZMOT – Winning the Zero Moment of Truth”. The book is written by Jim Lecinski,  the “Managing Director of US Sales & Service” for Google. ZMOT refers to the “online decision making moment” by the consumer. The critical moment when it turns [...]

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