Take a look at the URL of your small business website in your browser. Does it show a little padlock icon (that has more than a passing resemblance to a handbag) next to the URL of the website? That little padlock shows that you have an SSL or Secure Socket Layer...

  Show Notes: For those who prefer to read rather than watch Today we're going to look at one of these essential but mindless jobs that you can do during a pandemic as there's going to be days where your brain just isn't in the game. One of the essential jobs...

You have a shiny, gorgeous website, sparkling away to the universe, and with a juicy contact form temptingly enticing potential clients or customers to get in touch. While having a great contact form does attract some fantastic potential clients, it also acts as a...

I’d like you to think about your house or unit for a moment. Your house or unit has doors on the outside, and each outside door has a lock on it. Having doors with locks and shutting and locking the door when you go out is the bare minimum most people now do for the...

This post first appeared on Flying Solo. Let’s talk about your hair: Those luscious, luxurious locks take a bit to keep looking their best (no matter if you are sporting Lady Godiva length or the rocking the polished billiard ball look). Most people wash their hair a...

We all make mistakes in business. Let me tell you about one of my more spectacular recent ones: A seemingly simple, tiny business decision that had dramatic consequences. When I first started my business over 15 years ago, it looked very different from what it is...

This post first appeared on Flying Solo. “I’m sorry to inform you that your website has been hacked.” These are some of the hardest words that any business owner ever wants to hear (right up there with, “I am not paying your bill.”) Your business website is your pride...

Building and hosting websites is an industry based on trust. You need to trust that the domain name registrar is decent and has fast systems. You have to trust that your web copywriter and web designer know what they are doing. You have to trust that your web host is...

Would you leave your front door key under the mat or the pot plant by the door and expect not to be burgled? Burglars know that many people still make these mistakes, so the first thing they do when checking out a house is to see if they can find the key hidden near the door. Your WordPress website is the same. The most common username set by web designers who should know better is the default “admin.”

A version of this article first appeared at the GoDaddy blog. If you run a small business website, data security is often the last thing you think about. After all, don’t hackers just target the big end of town? Here’s the bad news. Hackers actively target small...

Imagine that you spot someone interesting from across the room at a crowded networking event. With canape in hand, you start to make a beeline across the room to chat to them, only to have your way blocked by a friend who says, “Mate. I wouldn’t go and talk to that person. They can’t be trusted and are likely to rip you off.” Would you continue walking or go and talk to someone else?

When you are in a small business, your to-do list can seem more confronting than trying to climb Mt Everest in stilettos. Here are five fantastic free alert services we use with many of our clients, that will help you monitor and track your online presence. No...

Most start-ups and small businesses choose a WordPress site for their first website. Why? WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world, and is used by 26.4% of all websites. It is also the fastest growing system – every 74 seconds a site within...

You have finally made it! You have bought a property for your business; you have been comfortably trading for a while; you regularly make payments … and then all of a sudden you discover you don’t own your property. That the person who handled the sale registered the property in their name and they have decided to claim it and sell it on to someone else.

Sound far-fetched, or the stuff of those trashy tabloid Current Affairs shows? It happens every day in thousands of businesses around the world – but the only thing is that it happens with virtual real estate and not bricks and mortar. We often see it when our clients come to us to update their web copy or build a new website for them.