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Avoid These Top Email Marketing Mistakes on WordPress

WordPress has become a highly-successful content management system (CMS) because of its simplicity and vast library of plugins to assist users. Not skilled in Photoshop?…

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All Things WordPress: The Essential WordPress Plugins that You Need to be Using

With nearly 50,000 plugins available at wordpress.org (and thousands of other premium plugins out there), it can be hard to sift through the junk to…

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All Things WordPress: I Don’t Have Time for This Meetup

At previous Meetups, we’ve covered a variety of tools that we use to help us organize our workflow and keep us on track. During this Meetup, we…

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All Things WordPress: Getting the Most Out of Your Email Marketing

Even with the high amount of emails users receive on a daily basis, email marketing has an ROI of 3800%. That means for every $1…

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Hiring a Remote WordPress Developer? Avoid These Mistakes

Thanks to the non-stop growth of technology, it’s not uncommon to hire contractors to work remotely on digital marketing projects. This has especially been true for…

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All Things WordPress: Smart Writing for Business Websites

This Meetup was lead by marketing writer Tom Tortorici, and the topic of the day was website content writing. He discussed why good marketing copy is just as much…

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WordPress 4.6 is Now Available! Check Out What’s New

Today, WordPress 4.6 was released! You can download it here and update your website, but first learn the highlights and new features of 4.6! Shiny…

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6 WordPress Features You Need to Know About

In case you haven’t noticed, we LOVE WordPress. It’s our go-to content management system (CMS) because of its customization capabilities and seamless theme and plugin…

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All Things WordPress: Using Advanced Custom Fields Plugin To Build Custom Page Templates

This Meetup was lead by Issac Scheidt of Ramp Ventures and all about building custom page templates with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). He discussed the basic options the…

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5 Painless Ways to Protect Your WordPress Website

If you’ve decided to run your website through WordPress because it’s a well-known, secure content management system (CMS), keep in mind that it’s prone to…

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Setting up Google’s AMP Project for your website

The Accelerated Mobile Pages (“AMP”) Project, led by Google and hundreds of other publishers, looks to make dramatic changes to how mobile content is delivered…

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All Things WordPress: Backing Up, Updating and Restoring Your WordPress Website

At some point, your website is going to crash; it’s almost impossible to avoid and can certainly be a stressful process to fix. At our…

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All Things WordPress Meetup: Smooth Projects From Start to Finish

We’ve discuss our web design process before (you can see a video of it here), but this week’s All Things WordPress Meetup was a little more thorough….

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All Things WordPress: The Best WordPress Plugins for Everything

At our most recent All Things WordPress Meetup, Mickey Mellen lead a group discussion about the best WordPress plugins to handle every situation. If you didn’t…

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4 Easy Ways to Enhance the Experience on Your WordPress Website

When it comes to building a WordPress website for your business, the user experience must be considered throughout the entire building process. This should go…

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