When to Upgrade to a VPS Hosting Plan?
Is it time you upgraded to a VPS hosting plan? Your website is finally gaining traction, your visitors have spiked, but your website seems unable to keep up. Can it be that your current hosting plan doesn’t have the resources it needs to run your growing website? Shared hosting is a fantastic starting point for most small businesses and websites. But, as your website grows and requires more resources, it can disrupt the other accounts’ services and you might lack some much-needed resources. Has the time to upgrade to a VPS hosting...
HostingAdvice Interview With HostPapa Founder and CEO
HostingAdvice is one of the leaders in reliable web hosting reviews and has over 50 years of hosting experience. On their website you can find guides, advice, and reviews on web hosts all around the world. Recently, HostingAdvice sat down with the HostPapa founder and CEO, Jamie Opalchuk, to discuss HostPapa’s business model and success in the ever expanding web hosting world. You can check out the full interview on the HostingAdvice website. In the article Mr. Opalchuk talks to HostingAdvice about how HostPapa began as a web hosting solution for small...
5 Ways to Use Twitter for Business
Twitter started as one of the most intriguing of ideas for a social media platform. Users have 140 characters to share their message, in the form of a Tweet. Since the first ever Tweet, Twitter has become a social media giant with over 500 million Tweets being sent daily. Naturally, with such a wide audience, businesses of all sizes can use Twitter to help market their company. The social media platform offers many ways to engage with potential consumers, like Hashtags, Mentions, Trending Topics, Search, Moments and more. If you want...
7 Must Have Tech Tools for Running a Successful Business
It’s always a good time to investigate the must-have tech tools for running a successful business, whether you’re running a 20-year-old organization or just launching a startup. It would take a book to cover all of the tech options out there, but we managed to narrow it down to seven tools that will help you optimize, organize, communicate and generate revenue. We even included some finance and website building tools in there. 7 Must Have Tech Tools for Running a Successful Business 1. Google Analytics A website is no good if you’re...
How Inbound Marketing Can Help Your Small Business
Since 2006, inbound marketing has been the most effective marketing method for doing business online. Instead of the old outbound marketing methods of buying ads, buying email lists, and praying for leads, inbound marketing focuses on creating quality content that pulls people toward your company and product, where they naturally want to be. By aligning the content you publish with your customer’s interests, you naturally attract inbound traffic that you can then convert, close, and delight over time. The folks over at The Whole Brian Group, a Michigan-based digital marketing firm,...
7 Free Ways To Increase Your Website’s Security
Malware can infect your website in a multitude of different ways including the installation of malicious software or free software packets or even through out-of-date third party applications such as Joomla! Or WordPress. According to the Symantec Corporation, there were vulnerabilities found in nearly three quarters of websites in 2015 and over one million web attacks each and every day during the year! There are many services out there that people can purchase to protect their websites. A good place to start is with an antivirus software for your computer....