When it comes to making sales, few things are more powerful than a customer referral. They’re simple, effective, and absolutely free! We love when referrals come our way. Yet many entrepreneurs are reluctant to actively pursue them. If you’re like that, than consider this. Every business relationship can lead to additional business relationships. When customers…
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Why you should upgrade your website’s PHP version today!
PHP is now on version 7.3 with 7.4 coming around the corner in November of 2019. 7.0 has been the shining light that kept PHP alive. Several alternatives threatened to make PHP 5.6 obsolete and with version 6 being skipped these alternatives almost did. But PHP came back strong with version 7. Improving virtually every…
How to manage hot linking on your website
Hotlinking can be a big issue if you have high-definition images or videos. Without Hot Link protection, the content can be shown on other websites burning through your bandwidth and hiding where it is from so you don’t even get credit for it. This also can be an issue with your content being used at…
Phone camera or stand alone?
Even though having a good camera on your phone is very convenient, upgrading to a nice stand alone might be worth it. There is many stand alone camera options like the infamous DSLR with that beautiful background blur and the simple point and shoot models that do everything on it’s own. With so many other…
WordPress finally bumps up security in version 5.2
WordPress is a great way to build a website. So great about a third of the Internet uses it now! Unfortunately though it is also not the most secure way, actually not by far. In the latest version 5.2 WordPress finally starts to address much needed security issues. We just hope this is the first…
MySQL 5.5 is officially dying this week
cPanel announced yesterday that it will block all updates to the server if it still uses MySQL 5.5. This means if you have been putting off upgrading your MySQL server wide, now is the time to do it. Not getting updates mean security and performance issues will soon follow. If you have a password warning…
3 passive income ecommerce business models for 2019
There are several types of passive income ecommerce business models that can get up and running pretty good quickly. The top three most common are probably: drop-shipping, wholesaling and warehousing, and white labeling and manufacturing. We also listed them in order of complexity, so keep that in mind. If you are getting started in ecommerce…
Good online user experience wanted
Having a website is a great thing, it’s really a must-have nowadays for most businesses as well. But just having a website is rarely good enough to tap into its full potential. You also need to provide a good user experience. It’s becoming more and more common that your website is your business’s first impression…