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My first job was in high school. I did what a lot of guys in my small town did, I went to work at the local grocery store. Make no mistake, it was a customer service job. In fact, my I was called a courtesy clerk. We did almost anything but especially carrying groceries to the car. I learned a lot about the importance of taking care of customers in that job. It was a great training ground for a Continue reading the post...

Why is the hosting so import? The MainWP site is hosted on Cloudways using Vultr for the infrastructure data center server. Without solid hosting, no matter the amount of site optimization is going to improve being hosted on subpar servers. After hosting, where to start? This is what the MainWP site was loading in GTMetrix results before the site was optimized for performance. Here is what the MainWP site is loading in after the site was optimized. You can not improve Continue reading the post...

Over recent years, one of the things I have enjoyed the most is hearing the stories of entrepreneurs. Their stories aren’t much different than you and I. They start a journey, and they find mentors along the way. On their journey, they are called to solve a problem and through the pain of adversity, they are forged in the fire. Finally, after the labor and the journey, they solve that problem and begin helping others solve that problem. These stories Continue reading the post...

The other day, my mom looked for and found a simple recipe for chicken. She had some chicken breasts in the freezer and did not have some of the various ingredients she normally uses. She had to find some inspiration and a different idea. So, she went to the best place she could think of to find something different and easy. Google. That’s right, my mom searched for a new chicken recipe on Google. Now, she has a dozen or Continue reading the post...

For a long time now, I’ve building, managing and launching WordPress websites. A big part of having a website these days is the use of social media. Maybe you have heard of Facebook. Anyway, over the past few years, we have seen the need for open graph tags. These tags help the social media networks, especially Facebook, know what they should display when someone shares your article or web page. The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich Continue reading the post...

Brian Dean did it with Backlinko. Grown and Convert built a content marketing consultancy using this strategy. Even CoSchedule built their business on the use of a long-form content strategy. What do these three companies have in common? They have grown. Exponentially. Dean explains the success of long content in an article on his SEO ranking study, “After removing outliers from our data (pages that contained fewer than 51 words and more than 9999 words), we discovered that pages with Continue reading the post...

Repurposing content saves you time and helps your content promotion strategy. So, what are some ways you can repurpose your content? We addressed a few types of content you can repurpose in our last article. Today, we are going to look at 100+ ways for repurposing content. Ready to dive in? Okay, it is safe to assume that some of these ways will overlap. But that’s okay! You will find dozens and dozens of ideas, some of which you have Continue reading the post...

Content repurposing allows us to take our best, most evergreen content, and reuse it in a different form for a different platform, and often, for a different audience. I live in a small town in Arkansas that has a festival that celebrates ecological conservation each Fall. That happens this week. There are all kinds of exhibits. Last year, I took a selfie with an owl [see pic]. In ten years it has become quite a bit of an event. People from Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce powers over 30% of all online e-commerce stores, but when used on stores, it can cause performance issues if you are not aware of how to improve the load times and optimize the performance. A number of optimization changes to your child sites which are using WooCommerce can easily be made from your MainWP Dashboard site. Cart Fragments If you speed test a site using GTmetrix or WebPageTest, the slowest request you will notice in the store waterfall will Continue reading the post...

In this month’s WordPress roundup features articles from Freemius, Highrise Digital, and ProfitPress. We also take a look at a new aggregation website and a search engine for colors. Ready? Let’s ride. Credit Card Disputes – Freemius A couple of weeks ago I heard a rant on Facebook from a WordPress consultant about Stripe problems. Apparently, this is something that seems to be happening with disputes. Well, Vova Feldman of Freemius wrote a great article about winning credit card disputes Continue reading the post...