October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which makes it a good moment to talk about the single most common way small businesses get compromised. It is not sophisticated hacking. It is …
Passkeys: The Beginning of the End for Passwords
For thirty years the advice about passwords has been getting worse: make them longer, make them weirder, change them constantly, never reuse one. The result is that most people now …
Why SEO is Important for Small Business
We think search engine optimization is so important that we are going to give you this blog post’s key takeaway first. Here it is: SEO helps your small business be …
Launch Any Windows App With a Keyboard Shortcut
Keyboard shortcuts are one of the fastest ways to speed up your workday. The more you can do without reaching for the mouse, the quicker everything gets done. Most people …
The SEO Basics Most Small Business Websites Still Get Wrong
Earlier this year we audited every website we manage, top to bottom, for basic search engine health. Not advanced tactics, just the fundamentals that determine whether Google can properly find, …
Is Your Website Slow? The Problem Might Be Under the Hood
When a website is slow, most owners assume they need a more expensive hosting plan, a caching plugin, or a full redesign. Sometimes that is true. But this year we …
Stop Contact Form Spam Without Making Your Customers Solve Puzzles
If you have a contact form on your website, you have probably noticed the junk that comes through it: crypto schemes, fake SEO offers, messages in languages you do not …
Why Your Business Email Keeps Landing in Spam (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC in Plain English)
Have you ever sent an important email to a customer and later found out it went straight to their spam folder? You are not alone. Over the past year we …
Moving Your Email To A New Mailbox
Since Outlook for Android doesn’t offer text formatting for Microsoft mail accounts, what other email apps do? Microsoft’s Outlook app for Android puts its focus more on keeping up with …
5 Advanced Excel Pivot Table Techniques
Keep reading for a walkthrough of how to use each of these five features in the written tutorial below, covering: Slicers, Timelines, Tabular View, Calculated Fields, and Recommended Pivot Tables. …