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5 Free Software Trials that Will Save You Time and Make You Money

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

Free. The most powerful word in marketing. Everyone loves getting something for free. I’d like to share with you five business software downloads and services that will save you time and even make you money.

Some of them you can get what you need before the trial is up, but I’m guessing most of them you’ll want to invest in when you see how they make your life easier and empower you to make money.

3 Ways to Instantly Double Your Learning Speed

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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Sometimes it feels like there’s so much information to go through as you learn how to start and grow your internet business. Even if you practice “just-in-time” learning, as we always teach, it can still feel overwhelming at times.

What if you could literally learn twice as fast?

Good news. You can! And here’s how.

2 Backup Tools Every Internet Marketer Needs

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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It’s something you never think will happen to you. But then one day tragedy strikes. You type in your web address and…

…NOTHING! And your heart sinks to the pit of your stomach.

Maybe you’ve been hacked. Maybe the server had a meltdown. Maybe a team member made one horrible mistake.

Such occurrences may happen rarely, but it only takes once to wreak havok on your entire business.

By the time you get things back to normal (that is if you can get things back to how they were), you’ve lost hours of valuable time, paid hundreds to a freelancer to fix the damage and rained a gallon of sweat from the stress. And most people usually can’t get all their files back. They loose what amounts to hours of work creating content and endless audience comments overnight!

And that’s not to mention the potential of a personal computer meltdown.

But these kinds of things don’t need to ruin our day. With a little preparation, you can bounce back from the loss of data in a matter of minutes without even batting an eyelash. All you need are these two simple tools.

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Top 5 Internet Marketing Podcasts to Listen to Now

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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So, you’ve listened to every episode of Internet Business Mastery — three times! Now what? We know how it is. Your hunger for proven tips, new ideas and valuable inspiration is insatiable — just like ours.

Where else can you turn to fuel your drive for success?

Below are the top 5 internet marketing podcasts I’m listening to right now (and that I suggest you give a try as well), including a couple that you won’t see on any other list like this.

NOTE: If you’re new to this site or haven’t done so already, we recommend going to iTunes now to subscribe to the Internet Business Mastery podcast in order to get new episodes automatically delivered to you. It’s been the #1 internet marketing podcast since 2005.

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14 Steps to Installing a WordPress Site with Hacker Protection, Part 2

by Amy Jo Yates -GUEST-

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Now we are going to continue on to the final steps on installing a wordpress site with hacker protection. If you would like to see part 1 of this article, please click here.

Step 6: Change your Admin User

“Admin” is the default user that is assigned when installing WordPress. To change it you must use phpMyAdmin and then update your config.php file.
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14 Steps to Installing a WordPress Site with Hacker Protection, Part 1

by Amy Jo Yates -GUEST-

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WordPress is a fantastic platform to use for any kind of website. Newbies can get started quickly and inexpensively. Sophisticated web developers can do a lot with it as well. Its flexibility and easy user interface is why we recommend it to most of our clients. Not only is it a great tool, the WordPress team are cracker jack at keeping on top of security concerns that arise.

That being said, malicious hackers still break through and infect sites mostly because some simple security measures are not followed.

In order to protect our sites and the sites of our clients, we developed this 14 Step checklist to creating a hacker resistant WordPress site.
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