Michael G. Stults

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Hosting Your WordPress Website With Confidence

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You'll find several articles written about “How to choose the best WordPress hosting” or “Best hosting for WordPress website” and come to the conclusion that they are all over the place! The opinions vary! What matters most in my opinion is hosting your WordPress website with confidence so you can focus on your business at hand. Having that piece of mind to know that if you need help… you have a strong customer service team available to help you through any related issues to hosting.

When looking for the best WordPress hosting, recommendations you may come across are based upon whom is going to pay the writer/site owner the most affiliate commissions if you choose to click their link and sign up for services recommended. Let's be truthful here… that is most of the posts on the interwebz these days.

Not So Good Customer Service Situation

About 4 years ago I experienced a situation where my hosting provider made a big change on their servers that severally disabled a few of my sites. [Read more…]

Tips for Local Marketing And Small Business Owners

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Small business owners need to understand how Google+ Local can help gain exposure for your business.  Many businesses fail to realize that the internet is a powerful source of information. Albeit we don’t like it at times and even intimidating to newer users, it is something that most recognize that is important. However, you have to be found in order to drive traffic to your business.  Let us start out by discussing local marketing.

Local marketing is specific. Your first step should be to go to the Google search engine (www.google.com) and type in the keyword, “Google business solutions.”  The #1 search will take you to the page that deals with setting up a map for your business along with a pleather of resources.  First critical detail is a map that is a free service by the search engine giant in order to help customers find you.  Essentially this is like placing a listing in the yellow pages but it is online.

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SigBuzz Is The Ultimate Email Signature Tool

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Have you spent countless times looking for a way to create an email signature for your small business, hobby, or non profit? SigBuzz is innovation at it's finest!

Branding is an important topic to consider. All to often we spend time on the outwardly things like website, letter heads, business cards, and advertisement but sometimes we forget that our email signature sees a lot of daily action. Let's say you're a small business owner and each of your employees have different email signatures. No big deal right? Probably not except sometimes that is the first impression you have with a new client or vendor. It's your basic calling card so you have to use it as the tool it provides for branding. [Read more…]