4 Ways to Protect Your Company From a Cyber Attack
There is an old saying that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. That is definitely the way it works for cyber security. Unfortunately, many employees in some companies have proven themselves to be the weak link in their network security chain. Staying one...
Hackers Can Easily Steal Your Biometrics to Gain Access to Your Bank Accounts
For years, television and movies have suggested that the future of computer security lies in biometrics. How many films have you seen where someone has used their fingerprints or a retinal scan to open up a bank vault? Of course, for every time you saw this in a...
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Covers the Cyber Threats Facing Hospitals
You would think that the last place to learn about the latest cyber threats facing the healthcare industry would be the television show "Grey’s Anatomy." But a recent episode of the hit show focused on a topic that has become a legitimate issue at hospitals...
Is Your Printer Spying On You? Yes, It Might Be
Ask any IT specialist what the most aggravating part of their job is and it probably won’t be foreign hackers or incompetent users who think they know more than they really do. No, chances are that their biggest nightmare is a little device that most of us take for...
Equifax Has More Than One Bad Day
One of the biggest problems with all of the media attention given to corporate hacking is that after a while it almost becomes blasé. We become so used to hearing about yet another online invasion that has left customer data in jeopardy that we almost start to think...
6 Marketing Challenges that Can Make or Break Your Business
Generating profit with your business largely depends on your marketing strategy. An effective marketing strategy will go beyond making sure the orders are fulfilled and your bills are paid so that you can live comfortably. Whether you are handling the marketing on...
Why Digital Marketing is Important
The online marketplace is extremely lucrative, with 96 percent of Americans making purchases on the internet. The majority of those shoppers prefer the internet for shopping over having to deal with crowds, lines, and product availability in brick-and-mortar stores....
5 Digital Marketing Trends to Watch Out for in 2018
Being able to adapt to industry trends is the hallmark of a successful business owner. There are more platforms that ever before that owners and advertisers can utilize to drive traffic to their website, get people in the door of their brick-and-mortar shop, and...
Phones Vulnerable To Ransomware? Yes, They Are.
In 2014, Hollywood was turned upside down when personal photos of several high-profile actresses were hacked and released on the Internet. Apple quickly scrambled to fix the problem, citing that it was an issue with their “Find My Phone” app and the iCloud service. ...
Top Concerns for IT Directors in 2018
When you look back at 2017 and see all the Internet nightmares that occurred, it’s easy to see why IT directors have had their blood pressure steadily rise. Last year saw the rise of ransomware, including the WannaCry hack that impacted everything from businesses to...
How to Improve Your Business with Email Marketing
Business is booming. Or at least we hope it is. And you’re looking for new ways to improve your bottom line, drive sales, engage your audience and grow the company. But marketing is expensive. And these days every dollar spent needs to count. Spending hard-earned...
2017 Saw More Cyber Attacks Than Ever Before
The year 2017 seems to have broken all kinds of records, from movie ticket sales to digital downloads. But one concerning trend was that 2017 saw more cyber attacks than any other year before it. This yearly increase is a trend that has been ongoing for about the last...
Tips on How to Protect Your Identity after the Equifax Hack
All the high-profile hacks in 2017 made it difficult to keep track of how severe and widespread many of the hacks actually were. Certainly one of the most troubling was the Equifax hack – it was one of the largest to date and involved a credit agency that people...
Are All Hackers Monsters? The Answer Will Surprise You
Ask the average person to describe a hacker or “cybercriminal,” and chances are you would probably get a stereotype straight out of Hollywood: a guy with a vaguely Eastern European accent sitting in a cramped, dark room, dressed like the Unabomber or an extra from Mr....
How Will Net Neutrality Affect Me?
As the New Year begins, one of the biggest topics in the tech field is net neutrality. After the FCC voted to end net neutrality in December, the Internet erupted with a variety of theories as to what would happen to Internet access in the coming year. As with most...
3 Easy Steps to Avoid Being Victim of Email Phishing Scams
Fraudulent emails are a reality for each of us. These fake emails are attempts by hackers to gain access to your email and personal information. Stories of stolen identity as well as attempts (sometimes successful) to hack business networks and servers have been...
What are the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, and how will they affect you?
You may have already heard about a serious flaw in computer chips that is affecting both Windows and Apple equipment. In the past few weeks, the main story in the technology and computer field has been about two potentially serious vulnerabilities that have been...
Dashboards: Critical, Yet Often Missing Components of Success
In today’s competitive landscape, being able to make intelligent, data driven decisions across all departments of your organization is critical to operating at peak levels of performance. Yet for many departmental heads, this data simply isn’t accessible, or readable...
The Importance of Keeping Web and Mobile Sites Optimized
1. Better Search Engine Ranking and Visibility In April of 2015, Google decided to finally put their foot down regarding websites that ignored the needs of mobile users. Websites that met their mobile-friendly design guidelines would get a ranking boost for all mobile...
Startup Tips for Small Business Professionals
Make a business plan Having an idea is one thing, but having a legitimate business plan is another story. A proper business plan gives you a significant advantage. So how do you make a business plan? In simple terms, a business plan is the written description of your...
Uncanny Targeted Advertising: Are You Being Stalked By Advertisers?
In his landmark novel 1984, George Orwell famously declared, “Big Brother is watching you.” These days, it’s easy to become a little paranoid with all of the talk of hacking and spying in the news. For years, we’ve accepted the fact that if we browse on Amazon for a...
Small Town Marketing vs Big City Promotions
Marketing in a small town is much different than doing so in a large city. Most marketing advice you’ll find online comes from those living or targeting markets in big cities. As such, their advice doesn’t always translate well for those looking to promote in smaller...
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Having Generic Keywords On The First Page Doesn’t Guarantee Sales/Clicks To Your Website
People seem to think just because they have a keyword or key phrase on the first page of Google that it automatically means people will buy their product/service. That isn't the case. Generic keywords, also called short keywords, are words or phrases with a relatively...
Why You Should Outsource Your Marketing
It is already common practice to outsource development, accounting, customer service, and other areas of your business because it’s been found to save money/time on overhead, commitment, recruiting time, training time, and expenses that come with a full-time staff....
Google Promoting Mobile-Friendly Websites
Starting on November 18, 2014 Google started to add a “mobile-friendly” label to mobile search results which they expect to roll out globally over the next few weeks. What makes a site ‘mobile friendly’? According to Google, a page can qualify for the...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving is a time for feasting, football, and family, and sometimes frustration. After shopping in long lines, missed flight connections, lost luggage, recipes that flopped, and relatives who can get under your skin, who couldn't use a few laughs on Turkey Day?...
Google Likes Long Form Content
The mantra ‘Content is King’ has not changed but the desired length of the content may have. Google understands how easy it is for webmasters to slap together a 400-word blog post and then optimize it for a keyword or two. Google is looking for and rewarding sites...
Twitter’s New “Buy” Button
After months of reports and rumors, Twitter unveiled their first commercial product – their “Buy Now” button. Twitter is testing through a small sampling of merchandiser partners how well the “Buy Now” button will work. This is the firststep Twitter is taking toward...
Five Best Halloween Apps
Looking for the best Halloween apps? We pulled together a group of what we think are the best Halloween apps of 2014. 1. First Words Halloween by Learning Touch LLC Price: $1.99 Download from iTunes Download from Google Play This app comes with rave reviews. It was...
Why Being Easy To Find Online Is So Important For Service/Repair Companies
If you try out for a part in a movie and stay in the bathroom during the auditions, you’re not going to get the part. The same holds true for Service and Repair companies on the Internet. If you can’t be found, you won’t get the call. When a water pipe breaks in your...
Why Proofing Your Online Content Is So Important
Nothing screams “shoddy work!” more than typos, grammar errors and sloppy formatting, especially online where the content is so visual. Strangely enough, proofing is often the most overlooked step in the writing process. Today, 90% of B2C marketers use content...
Does Website Chat Work?
You’ve all seen them and most of you have probably used them under certain circumstances and conditions. We’re talking about popup web chats, also called live chats. Consider this. What makes you want to begin the chat on some websites and you can’t close the window...
Google Sends Out Warnings For Mobile-Unfriendly Websites
Google now has a new warning message they are displaying on websites that are not optimized for mobile use. How is your site? Have you received a warning like the one below? Hey, it’s not pretty! But we can help. Right now, these messages are really just a warning...
How To Build An Email List
Great, you’ve completed reading our Email 101 blog post and now you want to build an email list. That’s good news because building an email list is one of the cheapest, most cost-effective ways to start communicating with potential customers. If you’ve been doing...
Why Negative Keywords Are So Important For Your Campaign
Even if you’ve never developed an Adwords campaign, chances are you have a pretty good idea how Adword works. If not, here’s AdWords 101 in two sentences: AdWords works like an auction, and the way you get your ad in front of interested audiences is by bidding on...
Email Marketing 101
Besides picking up the phone and cold calling, an email provides you the most direct line of communication for conversion to sales. In fact, according to the Direct Marketing Association when you want to move from conversation to commerce, the art of drafting a good...
How Small Businesses Can Build their Brand
Things are changing in the SEO and SEM world in 2015. The days of small, no-name companies ranking on top through the use of keyword optimization, link building and page optimization is no longer achievable. Today, small businesses need to spend more time building...
Adwords vs. Bingads; Which to Choose?
When most businesses think of starting a PPC campaign the first thing that comes to mind is Google AdWords. That’s because with owning 67% of the market share for PPC campaigns, Google Adwords is the leading choice for most businesses. It also boasts significantly...
How to Determine Your PPC Budget
For many companies, they ignore the important step of establishing a budget for their PPC strategy. Some companies think that as long as they're making money, all is good, so we’ll just spend, spend, spend. But budgeting is the real key to a successful PPC campaign....
Get More Engagement From Your Social Media Photo Shares Using Canva
By and large, image posts perform best on nearly every social media network. The need to be able to quickly design an image to help reach your audience is more necessary than ever. If you don’t have a team handling your social media marketing, you can make more than...
Finding content for your social media pages a struggle? This week’s tool can help.
After a while of keeping your audience engaged, perhaps having a couple of successful posts, you start to realize that finding good content to share on social media is a constant up-hill battle. It’s not easy to get or keep your business relevant on social media....
Find Out What Works On Top Performing Facebook Pages With SumoRank
It’s high time we introduce a tool that will help you make sense of Facebook metrics, to improve overall Facebook marketing efforts. We all need to know what days are best for posting, what times are best for posting, what type of content is best received by our...
Tools Tuesday: Cut Social Media Management Time by 90 Percent
If you’re not already using DrumUp to save time on social media management, we highly recommend it. Login with any of your social media accounts, and choose keywords relevant to golf/golf courses. At this point, it gets nuts. DrumUp comes back with articles, videos,...
7 Successful Facebook Ads
Facebook is still the first name in social media. Although there may be newer trends in social media marketing, Facebook is still the tried and true gold standard for most people. However, there are a variety of ads that work best if you’re trying to market your...