Michael G. Stults | Changing The World One Pixel At A Time

FatCow Hosting and Mail Servers for Google Apps

It came to my attention that in the past when setting up Google Apps via Fatcow Hosting, that Google Apps doesn’t give you much help with what MX records you need to use to make it all work. So I had just a couple of minutes and decided to make this quick post to give [...]

8 Simple Steps to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and search ranking can be a beast to tackle. I typically tell clients that there is no magic pill you can take to just mysteriously show up on the first page of Google. I hear stories all the time of the local business owner, who are good at their craft receiving [...]

General Stress By The Numbers

General stress is felt everyday in some shape or form. Most of us wake up in the morning and instantly start thinking about our work place stress because it plays a big part of how we will react to situations. You feel it because if you don’t go to work, you won’t have a place [...]

Affiliate Marketing – 7 Steps for Beginners

Affiliate Marketing is the core of my day-to-day life. I love it when my wife tries to explain to people what I do. I have to come up with brief examples to help her give the 411 so people not familiar with our business can understand. One time about 3 years ago, we had a [...]

Producteev – Your To-Dos Everywhere You Are

Searching for the latest and greatest tool to be productive? Well, good luck with that Charlie Brown. Producteev is a tool that I ran across over the last 30 days that has seemed to fit into the way I interact online. I have tried them all pretty much and thus far I have felt this has [...]

FatCow Hosting and Mail Servers for Google Apps

January 20th, 2012

Michael G. Stults

It came to my attention that in the past when setting up Google Apps via Fatcow Hosting, that Google Apps doesn’t give you much help with what MX records you need to use to make it all work. So I had just a couple of minutes and decided to make this quick post to give you some ideas on how I was able to get it to work for a few of my clients using Fatcow.

Essentially as you may know, that in Google Apps you need to point your MX Records from your hosting company to Google’s. This gets the major part out of the way to get you started on that process. Visit here to learn more about setting up Google Apps.

Follow these steps to access your MX Records to modify: Read more »

8 Simple Steps to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

December 22nd, 2011

Michael G. Stults

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and search ranking can be a beast to tackle. I typically tell clients that there is no magic pill you can take to just mysteriously show up on the first page of Google.

I hear stories all the time of the local business owner, who are good at their craft receiving a call with someone promising the first page of Google in no time. A few weeks later they wasted a few thousand dollars leaving them in a state of frustration! They are better off reading Search Engine Optimization for Dummies using its SEO checklist to make the changes. This is why WordPress is recommended to give the average Joe the chance to do some of the work themselves. Read more »

General Stress By The Numbers

December 18th, 2011

Michael G. Stults

General stress is felt everyday in some shape or form. Most of us wake up in the morning and instantly start thinking about our work place stress because it plays a big part of how we will react to situations. You feel it because if you don’t go to work, you won’t have a place to live. If you don’t feed your body, your health will go down. If you don’t perform at work, you will find yourself fearful of being unemployed. Have you felt stressed over anything lately? Read more »

Affiliate Marketing – 7 Steps for Beginners

December 11th, 2011

Michael G. Stults

Affiliate Marketing is the core of my day-to-day life. I love it when my wife tries to explain to people what I do. I have to come up with brief examples to help her give the 411 so people not familiar with our business can understand. One time about 3 years ago, we had a lady ask my wife if the company I had worked for at that time was “legitimate” because it had a funny sounding name. This is one of the few business sectors you can have a weird sounding name and it be “professionally acceptable”. Read more »

Producteev – Your To-Dos Everywhere You Are

December 9th, 2011

Michael G. Stults

Searching for the latest and greatest tool to be productive? Well, good luck with that Charlie Brown. Producteev is a tool that I ran across over the last 30 days that has seemed to fit into the way I interact online. I have tried them all pretty much and thus far I have felt this has been the easiest to “use”.

I mainly use Chrome as my browser so not only can I easily login from any new tab I open, I can choose to login via Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google Apps. If you’re already logged into Gmail, then it is simple as selecting the icon from your new tab window. I suggest visiting the Chrome Web Store to get the application for Chrome. Read more »

EVERNOTE – Man’s New Best Friend

December 8th, 2011

Michael G. Stults

Evernote – Remember everything. Capture anything. Access anywhere. Find things fast.
Just when you thought that man’s best friend would always be his trusty dog… well welcome the elephant in the room. They are cuddly, big, and if you make them mad they will squash you like an ant. I mean.. I am just saying.

Evernote has been a wonderful tool that I stumbled across last year. It allows me to clip portions of a page, the whole page, and make basic notes. Evernote offers a free account and a paid version for about $45-50 a year which allows for more storage. Honestly… the free account will suit you well in the mean time. Read more »

How To: Basics of Google Apps and Gmail

September 6th, 2011

Michael G. Stults

Google Apps

Google Apps is a suite of applications from Google that pull in core services to help you manage your business. Google Apps such as Email, Google Docs, Google Talk, and Google Calendar can be utilized with a unique domain. Example would be if you own www.widgets4sale.com, you can take that domain and brand it across most of the Google Apps. Essentially you would be logging into www.gmail.com but you are sending and receiving email at me@widgets-4-sale.com.
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