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How to Survive the Shift to AI: The Skills Your Team Needs Now (Or Get Left Behind)
Twenty-five minutes to do a three-minute task. That's when it clicked. The gap between digital-native and AI-native is real, it's widenin...
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Forcing Youtube Videos to Conform to 16x9 Ratio on the Wordpress Divi Theme
I just wrapped up a website that is my best design to date. Everything looked fine, we went live. And then all of the Youtube videos brok...
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San Diego G.I. Film Festival Sock Drive for Homeless Vets
Did you know that socks and bottled water are two of the most sought after things by homeless?
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Using SVG Files in Wordpress
One of my clients has told me several times that her logo looks pixelated. I was very frustrated because I didn't know why it was showing...
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Divi + Woocommerce: Displaying Short Descriptions on Product Grid Pages
The majority of what we design these days is using the [Divi Theme](http://www.elegantthemes.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=23149) f...
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Platinum Choice Bancard Payment Gateway Integration with WooCommerce
Last year I worked on an eCommerce project for a client selling a high risk product. I didn't realize at the time that most merchant proc...
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5 Steps to Protect Your Data and Yourself
A password alone is no longer enough. Two-factor authentication, encryption, hosting choices, border crossings, and social-media privacy ...
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Branding Is A Big Deal: 6 Tips For A Consistent Brand Image
Having a cohesive brand image is essential in this day and time. Everyone and their brother has a small business, clothing line or record...
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Which Android Tablet? The Amazon Kindle Fire HD or the Google Nexus 7?
Despite being a marketer, I am actually pretty anti-consumption. However, this Christmas I decided to finally jump on the tablet craze. S...
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The Girl Effect: Empower Girls, Empower The World
Women are half the world’s population, working two-thirds of the world’s working groups, receiving just 10% of the world’s incoming and o...
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Innovative Mobile Phone Companies
As anyone who has lived or traveled abroad knows, mobile phone service in the United States and Canada is very different than it is just ...
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Venti Sized Relationship Marketing
As small business owners we don’t have the multi-billion dollar marketing budget that Starbucks has, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t ...
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Is The Customer Really Always Right?
Conventional knowledge says that the customer is always right. Period. But is the customer really always right?
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Open Source CMS For Business Websites?
Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) has been around for a while, but technology is now at a place where CMSes are becoming commo...
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Reaching Consumers with New Media
Reaching consumers with traditional media vehicles is becoming more difficult with the emergence of new media technology. Whereas consume...
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The Best Way to Hard Code Featured Images Into Static Wordpress Pages
Using the featured images feature of Wordpress, themes can be made much more powerful. Not only do properly configured featured images ma...
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Kaiser Permanente Caregiver Flash Mob: You Gotta Move!
Nurses and caregivers from Kaiser Permananente stage a flash mob in Hollywood to promote healthier lifestyles for Americans.
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eCommerce Risk Mitigation - Protect Your Business When Selling Online
There is a lot of rhetoric about keeping consumers safe online, preventing identity theft, preventing credit card fraud, etc. But what ab...
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Social Media In Business
Social media and web 2.0 technology isn’t just a great way to reach consumers and build relationships, but it directly translates to decr...
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JC Penny's New Pricing Strategy & Ellen DeGeneres
I believe the new pricing strategy, hiring Ron Johnson as CEO and bringing on Ellen DeGeneres as spokeswoman are all very good moves by J...