How to Start a Small Business in 8 Steps: The Essential Guide
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Many people want to learn how to start a (small) business this year. Half-baked business ideas are a dime a dozen, and it’s not unusual for an entrepreneur to have several possible ventures lined up. But what’s critical to finding real success is testing these ideas and refining your business concept before getting in over your head. Here’s a step-by-step walk-through on how to start a (small) business.
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ManageWP.org Closed, Astra News, #WCEU 2020 Online, Unsplash Plugin 🗞️ August 2020 WordPress News w/ CodeinWP
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This is the August 2020 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” Hello WordPress-ers! Welcome back to another roundup of news from our community. Starting with this edition, we’re changing the format of the post a little bit but you’ll still be getting the same amount of information as before.
(read more)30 Best Ecommerce Tools to Get Your Business Off the Ground
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It’s essential to have an arsenal of eCommerce tools to expand your business and invest in its growth. However, deciding on the exact best eCommerce tools depends on the maturity of your business. For our recommendations, we’ll start with tools that assist in launching a store (for beginners) and expand to eCommerce tools for scaling (more advanced).
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My 5 Best cPanel Hosting Providers For 2025 Based on Research and Experience
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There’s a lot that goes into managing your website. You can carry out many of the tasks necessary to keep your installation running smoothly from an admin dashboard, but there are some situations where you’ll need to access your server directly. By choosing cPanel hosting, you get one of the most comprehensive and user-friendly server control panels on the market.
(read more)Best Canadian WordPress Hosting: 6 Top Hosts Compared
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At first glance, location doesn’t seem to matter much when it comes to choosing a web host. Other factors, like cost, seem more important. But will an international company really provide the same quality of service that you can get from the best Canadian web hosting companies?
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Fetch API Tutorial for Beginners: How to Use Fetch API
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If you’re looking for a gentle introduction to using the Fetch API, a modern replacement for XMLHttpRequest-based Ajax-driven pages, this is the place to start!
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6 Best DigitalOcean Alternatives (Cheaper, More Scalable, or Easier to Work With)
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DigitalOcean has transformed the way teams and individual developers host apps and other web dev projects. It’s a unique form of hosting that removes the need to manage your own development infrastructure through powerful and reliable cloud hosting. DigitalOcean has also made this unique form of hosting more affordable. Why would anyone need DigitalOcean alternatives then?
(read more)WP Engine vs WordPress: What’s the Difference?
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In this post we're going to cover the difference between a product (really "hosting company") called WP Engine, and WordPress (an open-source project that can run on many different kinds of WordPress web hosting).
(read more)How to Move a Website to a New Host (Without Downtime or Issues)
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Trying to figure out how to move a website to a new host without breaking anything, causing downtime or any other issues that could hurt your Google rankings? As with any move, moving your site to a new host can feel a little daunting, especially if you haven’t done it before. However, it doesn’t have to be, and with the tutorial that we’ll share in this post, you should be able to move virtually any website to a new host.
(read more)8 Best Free and Open Source CRM Software in 2025
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One of the best ways to improve your business' ROI, retain customers, and improve conversions overall is by using a customer relationship management (CRM) solution. A CRM can handle a number of tasks for you. From communicating with prospective clients, getting them on board, sending proposals, to collecting historical data, and analyzing the client life cycle. This can all help build better relationships with your clients and help your business grow.
(read more)#WCEU Online, GitHub Branch Renaming, Automattic Investment 🗞️ July 2020 WordPress News w/ CodeinWP
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This is the July 2020 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” Hello WordPress aficionados, welcome to this month’s roundup of news about the world’s most popular CMS. I’m writing this post from the base of the mountains, where part of our team is hanging out for a few days to work and spend some time together.
(read more)How to Raise Your Rates, and Not Lose Clients in the Process
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As you gain more work experience, it's only natural you will want to raise your rates. With a regular job, wage increases are usually part and parcel of employment. However, this takes on a different scope if you're a freelancer or self-employed. As such, you'll need to negotiate raises directly with clients, which sometimes might mean losing them.
(read more)Quora Marketing: Beginner’s Guide With the Best Strategies to Get You Started
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“You have to get on Facebook. Don’t forget about Twitter. Now it’s all about Snapchat and Instagram Stories. Try Quora!” It may seem like your small business is constantly behind when it comes to marketing, especially on social media. There’s absolutely no reason to be on all of them, but Quora marketing does provide interesting potential for learning about your industry and gaining website traffic in the process.
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Progressive Web Apps (PWAs): A Beginner’s Guide
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Progressive web development has picked up in recent years after Google's initial proposal back in 2015. Progressive web apps (PWAs) utilize the best of web and mobile technologies to provide great user experience.
(read more)9 Cold Email Templates to Pitch to New Clients More Effectively
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Pitching new clients is one of the most exhausting aspects of life as a freelancer, but it is also one of the most essential. Luckily, you can make pitching easier by using quality cold email templates. In this guide, we will discuss why email templates work and what an email template needs in order to be successful. We will also provide specific email templates for pitching new clients and explain why each template works.
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Plesk vs cPanel: Which Control Panel Is Better for Web Hosting?
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When picking a web host, there are many questions you need to answer. Budgets and server parameters are just the tip of the iceberg. If you want to have full control over your server, the first thing to decide on is whether to go with Plesk vs cPanel.
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