WP-Optimize
When you create posts or pages or WordPress, the software automatically saves all the revisions of those pages and posts. As you might imagine, this can take up a great amount of space on your WordPress installation. If you combine that with all of the spam comments you might have on your site, you may have a very sluggish site.
WP-Optimize is a free plug-in available from WordPress that takes care of those issues, and more. It reports which database tables have overhead and wasted spaces as well as allows you to shrink and get rid of those wasted spaces.
Apps, Productivity, Security, and Chocolate :->
I’ve got lots of “finds” for you this week:
1. John Jantsch has collaborated with HubSpot on a new report, 7 Apps That Will Change the Way You Do Business.
You’ll learn how these exciting new apps can help you:
* Brainstorm ideas for fast content creation using Evernote
* Easily share large files across any device using Dropbox
* Generate more traffic to your website using StumbleUpon
* Tell your story and share photos using Instagram and Pintrest
* And more!
Yes, opt-in is required, but I promise you’ll get a lot of marketing value from Hubspot.:)
7 Tips to Increase WordPress Security
It happens to all of us sooner or later — some hacker finds his way into your blog and wreaks havoc there, and you frantically look for solutions on how to increase WordPress security.
Unfortunately, that’s alot like shutting the barn door after the horse has escaped.
Rather than being reactive, be proactive and increase your WordPress security before you need to. If your entire business is online, you need to take steps today to ensure that your site is as well-protected as you can make it.
Pimp Your Gmail
I’m wondering why I didn’t convert all of my email to Gmail a long time ago. I’ve now discovered that I can create multiple signature files as long as you set up Gmail to check multiple email addresses. You can associate a file with each address, as well as set Gmail to respond from that address.
And, I’ve discovered (thanks to Carol McClelland and Tracey Lawton) can you can create email templates with Google Lab’s Canned Responses feature.
Another downside I’ve discovered is that I don’t get emails quite as fast as I did before using Gmail, but I think the accessibility of my email on any computer will outweigh that issue.
Blog Marketing: 4 Best-Kept Secret Strategies to Double Your Blog Subscribers
Despite the popularity of RSS feeds, it seems as though many blog readers still prefer to get blog updates via email. I know that I do, if the 21,000+ unread blog posts in my Bloglines account is any indication. Plus, I have no idea of how many people read my blog through an RSS reader, as there is no way to track that number. Having realized these facts, I began to do some research on how to better harness my blog subscribers and increase my subscriber base.
Cyfe
I’ve been searching for a long time to find an all-in-one business dashboard so that I can see all the metrics of my business in one place instead of having to compile the info from different systems into one spreadsheet. Now I may have just hit the jackpot with an inexpensive online business dashboard that meets almost all of my criteria.
5 Proven Strategies to Keep You From Being Held Hostage by Your Virtual Team
I began working with a new client last week in my Automated Authority Marketing Program, and of course, I needed access to his various online services being managed by his virtual team. It’s been over a week, and I’m still gathering all the info that I need to be able to access his accounts, figure out what’s going on there, and begin to track some metrics. His web designer had been MIA for almost a month, and we were talking about taking legal action to retrieve his info so that he could access his web site. Yikes! Fortunately, it didn’t come to that, as she miraculously surfaced and said that she’d been dealing with personal issues and provided the info that we needed. IMHO, it’s a pretty poor practice to fail to let your clients know what’s going on, regardless of the issue.
MediaFire
Recently I needed a way to get a large file to someone without having to share a folder or send a link in an email. We were working together in a collaborative work space and I just needed to get him the direct link to the file. Then I discovered a really simple and free solution that helped me do exactly that.
Online Reputation Management: How to Protect Your Online Reputation in 7 Easy Steps
Online reputation management is one of the biggest challenges facing businesses today. Have you ever been upset with the way you were treated at a business and immediately vented about it on a social website? Or have you sent an email or posted to a forum about a company regarding your treatment? If so, then you are certainly not alone.
I recently vented about my online backup service on Twitter (didn’t help my situation resolve any more quickly but the issue was eventually dealt with), and I had a bad experience with Taco Bell that resulted in my submitting a complaint on their web site, to which they quickly responded (much to my surprise), and I received coupons for free items.
One True Media
Let’s face it — video creation isn’t always easy. Whether it’s having to learn a screen-sharing program like Camtasia or edit something you’ve created in front of a webcam, mastering the art of video creation takes time. Now there’s a service that makes it very quick to create an online video.
One True Media is an online service that allows you to easily create video and photo montages. Once created, you can then easily post them on your social networking profiles, email them, post them on YouTube, send them to a cell phone, make a public gallery, or burn them to a DVD that you can purchase directly from the site. This is the perfect place if you’re a video novice and need a little hand-holding to create video.
