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Every website requires security against online threats and attacks. And Sitelock Website Security is a perfect cloud-based security solution for small and medium businesses that require cybersecurity but cannot afford to pay for it. It performs malware scanning, detects viruses, and fixes the problem and reports the issue to the website owner. In today's podcast episode of Host Yo' Self!, we discuss SiteLock Security and how it works for your website's protection. You can also read this blog to learn more about SiteLock Website Security: https://blog.resellerclub.com/what-is-sitelock-website-security/ Check out ResellerClub's comprehensive website scanning and malware removal SiteLock Website Security solution at an affordable price: https://india.resellerclub.com/sitelock

Today's podcast is the second part of the two-part series on security. In the first part, we talked about Cloud Hosting security and introduced SiteLock as a cloud-based security tool. Sitelock is designed for small and mid-sized businesses to provide malware and virus protection to the websites at reasonable rates. In this episode, we discuss all things about SiteLock and how it protects your website from online threats. Check out Sitelock Website Security from ResellerClub at https://www.resellerclub.com/sitelock-website-security

Website security is the crucial factor for a website, and in this era of increasing cyber threats, you need to ensure optimum website safety. For securing the website, along with an SSL certificate, you need to get a malware scanning tool like SiteLock. With SiteLock, you get a malware removal tool, and you have enterprise-level antivirus, blacklisting, IP address monitoring, DDoS protection, and more. You can check out this article to understand how to secure your website with SiteLock security: https://blog.resellerclub.com/what-is-sitelock-website-security/ In this episode, we've come up with the ways on how to make your website secure. Check out Sitelock Website Security from ResellerClub at https://www.resellerclub.com/sitelock-website-security

The entire resources of the Dedicated Server are exclusively dedicated to a single website. Hence, websites powered by dedicated hosting can handle very high traffic with ease. Although it's a robust hosting solution, the chances of security risks can't be neglected, as nothing comes 100% secure. To avoid such dedicated server security risks, one needs to password-protect their server access, employ a website security tool like SiteLock, etc. This episode clearly explains the Dedicated Server security risks and the ways to overcome each. Also, to ensure optimum security for your Dedicated Server, check out this blog: https://blog.resellerclub.com/dedicated-server-security/ Check out robust Dedicated Servers from ResellerClub: https://india.resellerclub.com/dedicated-server-hosting/

Website security is the crucial factor for a website, and in this era of increasing cyber threats, you need to ensure optimum website safety. For securing the website, along with an SSL certificate, you need to get a malware scanning tool like SiteLock. With SiteLock, you get a malware removal tool, and you have enterprise-level antivirus, blacklisting, IP address monitoring, DDoS protection, and more. You can check out this article to understand how to secure your website with SiteLock security: https://blog.resellerclub.com/what-is-sitelock-website-security/ In this episode, we've come up with the ways on how to make your website secure. Check out Sitelock Website Security from ResellerClub at https://www.resellerclub.com/sitelock-website-security

Today's podcast is the second part of the two-part series on security. In the first part, we talked about Cloud Hosting security and introduced SiteLock as a cloud-based security tool. Sitelock is designed for small and mid-sized businesses to provide malware and virus protection to the websites at reasonable rates. In this episode, we discuss all things about SiteLock and how it protects your website from online threats. Check out Sitelock Website Security from ResellerClub at https://www.resellerclub.com/sitelock-website-security

Tonya Hall talks to Neill Feather, chief innovation officer at Sitelock, about Sitelock's 2020 Annual Security Review that shows the most prevalent website threats right now. FOLLOW US  - Subscribe to ZDNet on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2HzQmyf - Watch more ZDNet videos: http://zd.net/2Hzw9Zy - Follow ZDNet on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZDNet - Follow ZDNet on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZDNet - Follow ZDNet on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ZDNet_CBSi - Follow ZDNet on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zdnet-com/ - Follow ZDNet on Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/zdnet_cbsi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maryland native Evan Thomas heard the calls of the West Coast and he gladly answered. Evan picked up his things, moved across the country in 2015 and hasn't looked back. Today, he resides in San Diego, California, and is an Inside Channel Sales Advisor at SiteLock. Evan studied English at Georgetown University prior to working at memoryBlue. He was quickly hired out by his client, Group Logic, after booking multiple high-quality leads. In fact, memoryBlue left such an impression on Evan that he went on to refer in his older brother, Ian Thomas, as well.In this episode, you'll hear Evan's philosophy on how sales is one great way to help people, how he managed to book a meeting with a C-level executive at Coca-Cola while working at memoryBlue, and the strategy he used to convince his manager to let him move across country.

Welcome!   Since lockdown, we have been relegated to primarily shopping online.  That has given the cybercriminals a new large attack surface from which to prey.  Listen in and we find out what you can do to be safe online. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: Hello, everybody. Craig Peterson here on WGAN and of course online@craigpeterson.com. A few of you guys probably got some emails from me this week. I'm trying to clean up my email list. I have thousands of people on them that we send email to every week and trying to keep costs under control if you know what I mean. [00:00:26] So, you know, we've been kind of sending things out to people to remind them to, you know, if, if you're not clicking on the emails, if you're not downloading the graphics that come on some of those emails, I just plain won't know that you're there and that you're reading them. Because that's how I do it. [00:00:45] Right? And I'm always telling you, you know, being careful with downloading the graphics while, in my case at least once a month to make sure you download the graphics. So I know you're there. I don't mind paying to send you the emails if you're reading them. That's absolutely for sure. Hey, if you are using a website, I've got a warning for you and a particular warning for people who are in a business setting up websites. [00:01:08] Maybe you've never really had one before. Frankly, all businesses coming up, right? You know right about now that we're brick and mortar with a small website presence. Everything's changing now. You're going to be primarily an online store, maybe with a brick and mortar presence. And I hate to say that because so many of us have worked so hard over the years, and if you're online shopping, I think you've got an even bigger problem. [00:01:38] Because what we've found right now is that there are massive numbers of attacks going on against websites. This is a study that was put out by SiteLock, and they're saying that the typical websites are experiencing about one attack every 15 minutes or almost a hundred tax per day on average. Now, why have seen with some of our customers a hundred attacks in the course of a minute? [00:02:07] We are getting scanned like crazy. The bad guys may not have Coronavirus, but they certainly do have attack methodologies that they can use against us and they are, they're using them full time. So we've got to talk about what does that means to you. And what can you do? What should you do? What shouldn't you do when you are online? [00:02:28] Because we're talking about over 2,600 automated bots per week. Are visiting each website. That is a huge, huge number. And we're talking about attacks on websites jumping 52% over the previous year. So what are they doing? Well, they are doing a few things. One is they are trying to get into the. Credit card processing code that might be on your website. [00:03:00] Now you might say, well, you know, I don't do it myself. I use Stripe or PayPal or square or something else on my website and so I don't have it. I'm not doing it. But no, that, that's not what these bad guys are doing cause they realize you don't process a credit card yourself online. I had a call this week, in fact, from some restaurants that are having a problem because they are trying to reopen, they are opening up outdoors and they're trying to get the point of sale systems to work outside sell there. [00:03:28] They're not working. And that's where my recommendations of a good match network come in and we've been installing a lot of those lately. We've, we have this  $2,000 package that includes the consulting, all of the help, all the equipment that you need in order to extend out into the parking lot. And then after that, continued to have good service in the business. [00:03:52] This is business-grade stuff, right? This is all stuff that is kept up to date by the minute, which I think is ultimately really important as well. But you, we're talking about POS here, right? Where people are trying to use point of sale equipment. Well, I'm gonna get right down to it. [00:04:12] So on the website, you go to a shopping cart, for instance, maybe you're using like woo commerce, for instance, which is a real top-notch eCommerce site, a plugin for WordPress. But to say you're using the word a woo woo commerce on WordPress, what that means now is that you can upload your inventory.  [00:04:34] You can place everything in there. You can tie it into some backend credit card processors, all well and good, right? But to see if these bad guys that are attacking us thousands of times a week, each website, if the bad guys can find that you haven't done enough. Date, or maybe there's a zero-day flaw with your website. [00:04:54] What they're doing is putting in a credit card skimmer, so think of ATM. You've heard about this before, the automated teller machines, and how bad guys put this little device right there on the slot that you slide your credit card into. That means while your card is getting pulled into the ATM, it is being read by the credit card skimmer. [00:05:16] Now. in an ATM, they also will frequently put a little pin pad reader too, so they can see what numbers you're typing. And oftentimes there's a little camera that's pointing up at the pin pad so that they have that. Well, you're not entering a pin when you're shopping, are you when you're online. So. They can now have this little skimmer in there and maybe it's your business, it's your website, and that skimmers collecting credit card data, you are now liable under the payment card industry, the PCI standards, those agreements that you entered into. [00:05:51] Hey. Hey, does that sound like fun? No, it is not because we're talking over a hundred dollars per credit card that you have processed over the last year. It's just plain crazy how large the fines for these breaches get to be. So businesses are trying to be careful. Consumers obviously are trying to be careful, and I think I've got a little, Piece of advice that's going to help you out. We have, for instance, a credit card number, right? And they'll often ask you for that little code on the back of that credit card number, right? Well, there are what are called one-time use cards out there, and I'm looking right now at visa and these one time use credit cards. [00:06:38] Or a, basically a disposable. Credit card number that's tied into your main credit card, so you can have various alias credit card numbers for the same account. That means that each merchant age website that you go to online and you give the credit card number two is assigned a different account number. [00:07:01] So your real credit card number is never revealed. It's generating a fake one. Well, it's not fake every time. It is a different credit card number. So you need to talk to your bank or you can see it on many websites. I noticed it on my credit card processors website the other day. And they had a, just a sign up right there. [00:07:25] You can just click on it and it was a visa card and it will immediately just set you up for the service. It makes it very simple. You're linking this preexisting credit card. You can even do it in many cases from a different bank to an online service. So that's my first piece of advice for people who are looking to use credit cards online, usually is virtual or single-use credit cards. [00:07:50] Very, very important. Now another thing that you can do now. If you have an iPhone, there's something called Apple pay, and more and more websites are taking them, particularly if it's like an Apple site. For instance, I was over it at Mac sales the other day, buying some more memory for the computer, and guess what they had right there. [00:08:12] ApplePay, and that's available on the website and it functions in a very similar way. You have a credit card associated with your Apple pay account. And when you go to the website and you click on use Apple, pay the website, now we'll go to your phone and your phone will pop up with Apple pay and you have to authorize it with your pin or with your fingerprint reader and you tell her which credit card you want to use. [00:08:39] And then Apple only gives the website a one time use. A card. Basically. In reality, what it is is it's a transaction ID that they can use to claim the money, but it's the same basic concept. Samsung has something similar, it's called Samsung pay, and if you have a Samsung, you can use it. SamsungPay, I'm just typing in, and right now is we're talking about, in order to make payments. [00:09:09] And again, it can be used. Well, you're right there as a near field communications. You know, where you, you put your phone up right up to the credit card reader and then you authorize it with your pin or your face ID or your fingerprint reader. Just like with ApplePay, there's also AndroidPay and SamsungPay which are known as digital wallet platforms. [00:09:43] And there are others that are out there as well. My kids tend to use pretty frequently, a couple of these, and I've used them as well, but I have never seen them on websites, so they'll, they're probably coming in the future. So instead of going to an unknown website, or even a known website, like you're shopping at Target or Walmart or Amazon online, it's a known site and you trust them right. [00:10:08] Even in those cases, using an onetime credit card or one of these digital wallet platforms could save you a ton of grief. Now, I know that with Apple pay, there is no monthly charge for that. I'm not sure about Android pay. Android pay is not. That widely accepted. Frankly, from the banking side, many vendors will accept it, but it's designed so that it just won't be hacked. [00:10:41]but you know, if there is a security issue with Apple or Google or whomever if they have a security issue with their main websites that actually have the credit card numbers, cause you remember you have to have a credit card number at some point. Right. So if that vendor is hacked, that credit card number could be stolen. [00:11:05] Your personal information could be stolen. Kind of like the Equifax breach. Hey, did you read this week? Speaking of Equifax, you know, almost every American had their information stolen. Equifax apparently hasn't paid a single American a dime yet, and now they're fighting with the banks about how much money the banks want from Equifax because of all the credit cards they had to reissue. [00:11:29] Isn't that something so that you're either, there you go. A couple of tips here on shopping from home or during the covert 19 and far beyond, so stick around when we get back. We're going to talk about identity theft, but we're talking about business identity theft. You're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN, so stick around. [00:11:50] We'll be right back. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Good morning everybody! I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about the security and what we are now seeing in website attacks, and Companies identity-related attacks and How to block bad ads. Let's get into my conversation with Matt on WGAN. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: We're seeing Matt as many as 100 attacks per minute on some of these websites, but on average, we're talking about one attack every 15 minutes or about a hundred attacks a day on average. Good morning everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Matt. We talked about what's going on with our Chrome browsers. [00:00:24] Why are they slowing down? Of course, I give you a couple of things you can do in order to help improve that identity theft now on companies. What's this survey all about? We get into some detail and our websites are being attacked and it's quieter and more persistent than ever. So here we go with Matt. [00:00:47] Matt Gagnon: 7:36 on the WGAN morning news. It is Wednesday morning and it's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us now. Craig, how are you this morning? [00:00:58] Craig Peterson: Hey, good morning. I'm doing well. Looking forward to getting out on the motorcycle, but not quite sure where I'm going to go. It's just like go for coffee or whatever, but a different world. [00:01:08] Matt Gagnon: It is a different world out there and good luck to you on the motorcycle. I had one many moons ago and I had to sell it and I never bought a new one. And I'm very sad about that. So thank you for reminding me that I, I appreciate it quite a bit. You'll be out on Memorial day trying to, you know, enjoy the freedom of that motorcycle and I will not, so congratulations. [00:01:27] So that, of course, is a technological device. And we are here to talk about the world of technology. And one of the things that always comes up in the world of technology is, you know, in terms of computers and whatnot, hacking attacks on websites, that kind of stuff. And what's interesting is that recently it seems like they're becoming a little bit more persistent and maybe even a little bit harder to detect, a little quieter. [00:01:50] What's a, what's new in website attacks. [00:01:53] Craig Peterson: Well, we know now that the bad guys, I've been very busy during this quarter of Iris time, we've been much more susceptible because we're not in the office. We're not getting the prompts and the training from our IT people. And in this case, what's happening is businesses, many who had never been online before, have them launching all kinds of websites. [00:02:17] So the bad guys have been kind of focusing in on our business website. They've been putting nasty wear on them, on the checkout pages to scrape our credit card information, just like you might see on one of those ATM skimmer devices skimming on there, and they have gotten. T darn good at it. There's one of the security vendors out there called SiteLock, who's analyzed some 7 million websites worldwide and found that they really have ramped up attacks on websites. [00:02:51] Our own clients that we monitor, their websites have seen it. Tick, and we're seeing Matt as many as 100 attacks per minute on some of these websites, but on average, we're talking about one attack every 15 minutes or about a hundred attacks a day on average. So we've gotta be very careful for many of our businesses, websites are new. [00:03:16] We're running things like wake up WordPress, for instance, the number one platform out there for websites. It's a great platform. But as usual, we're not patching them. We don't really understand what we're doing, and many people have not been hiring experts to do it. So there's a whole lot of peril with so many of these brand new sites out there. [00:03:39] Matt Gagnon: We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us at this time to talk about technology topics. All the time. And speaking of, you know, breaches and nefarious characters doing bad things. One of the other things you hear a lot about is identity theft. And there's a lot of companies right now that are identifying identity theft and, and reporting it. [00:04:00]and in the last couple of years, that's, it's been a really big spike of that. [00:04:04]Craig Peterson: Yeah. We're seeing right now about 94% of businesses there that, again, this is a survey that's been out there, how big experience and identity-related security breach that is. A lot of businesses and what we're talking about are typically things like phishing emails and we've got, again, the bad guys kind of almost getting together. [00:04:26] There are bad guys out there that for as little as $10 we'll sell it. Other bad guys templates of websites, and we're talking about government websites like the IRS, the world health organization, et cetera. So they now have the ability to very, very quickly ramp up and start. Pretending they are. These, you know, again, who these government agencies, places where we're hoping to get some money. [00:04:55] Well, they're also going and stealing credentials from some of our businesses that are out there. Takes you 6% in fact, of the respondents said that they had been nailed by one of these phishing attacks. We have one client that we picked up, unfortunately. Right? It's always after. Are they, the horses get out of the barn, but we picked up that had $80,000 their entire operating account stolen. [00:05:24] And that again was due to one of these identity theft things going on. Not where they're stealing your social security number, but where they're stealing the identity of your business or another business. So we've got to keep up on that one as well. The bad guys are really taking advantage of us. Not being the type of attention we used to pay. [00:05:46] Matt Gagnon: Indeed, and we were talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, I use Chrome. I still do. And one of the things that I have noticed is that what was once a sort of a. Resource light quick browser has gotten bogged out over the years and it really, a lot of resources get sucked down. [00:06:08]because of ads and a lot of other things. they are apparently taking some steps here now to block some of these resource-draining ads out there. How do you take advantage of that now? Because I want it. [00:06:20] Craig Peterson: Exactly. Well, there's a couple of blockers that you can use. Chrome has been kind of going back and forth on this. [00:06:28] They have said, okay, well we're going to allow ad blockers, and then they said, well, we're not going to allow ad blockers because that's how Google makes their money is we'll see ads. And so there's a real problem out there with Bitcoin mining where you go to a. A website and an ad pops-up and it starts using your computer to mine Bitcoins for the bad guys, this can be a real problem because we're talking about chewing up your memory and your CPU on your computer, unbeknownst to you. [00:07:05] So what they've done now is Google has said, okay, well if there is an. Add, quote-unquote, which might be malware that is using a lot of your CPU. We're going to block it just right there out of the box, no questions about it. Now, there is a couple of things that you can do right now that I would suggest. [00:07:26] One of them is a blocker that is being published called cheaper's. I'm trying to remember. I don't remember. Oh yeah. Ublock origin is one of them that you can install. Google Chrome has some early on stuff right now, but if you check your settings, it's called, it's a setting called enable heavy. [00:07:48] Add intervention, but they're going to turn that on by default. So really this is the first time Google with Chrome is going to be blocking any ads and privacy badger, as well as Ublock origin, will help to get rid of these heavy ads that are slowing down your browsers. [00:08:06]Matt Gagnon: Greg Peters on tech guru joins us now as he always does to go over the world of technology. [00:08:12] It is a fascinating world and he brings us into it. Craig, as always. Thanks a lot. For joining us and giving us this, this quick preview of what's going on in the world of technology. And you'll go more in-depth to these topics and so much more when I believe it's Saturday [00:08:26] Craig Peterson: and like Saturday at 1:00 PM Saturday from one til three. [00:08:30] And yeah, we'll definitely go into more detail. I'll give you links to those actual blockers here. They're going to speed things up and we'll talk more about some of the stuff that's going around this week besides. [00:08:42] Matt Gagnon: I was going to say coronavirus would be the big thing going around this week. Alright, Craig. [00:08:46] Well thanks. I appreciate it and good luck on Saturday. We'll talk again soon. [00:08:50] Craig Peterson: Bye. Bye. Alright, great folks, I hope you join us this Saturday. I'm going to be talking a lot more about these topics as well as a number of others that of course we just can't get to and we can't do in-depth. I'm going to be talking about the coming disruption. [00:09:04] To college, what's going to happen here in the future? Some existing VPNs and the challenges you're probably having with them. It's time to relaunch a remote team. I'll talk about some of the things you should be looking at. Also, we'll talk more about these COVID-19 themed phishing templates and Britain's hard lesson about there blind trust in quote science unquote. So all of that will be released. Usually, we get it out on Saturday, sometimes it's actually released Friday night and it airs on multiple radio stations throughout the weekend over on iHeart, as well as on their app and everywhere. So if you are not subscribed, please do take a minute and subscribe to your favorite podcast app. Everybody have a great day and a Great rest of the week. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and we'll be joining you again on Saturday. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Dave has a story on a possible Disney-styled phishing email, Joe has the skinny on a circular pyramid scheme, some listener follow-up, The Catch of the Day is a YouTube verification badge for you, and later in the show our interview with Neill Feather from SiteLock. He joins us to explain how scammers fill the gap when popular retail items are sold out. Link to story: New phishing/scam email attempt Thanks to our sponsor, KnowBe4. Have a Catch of the Day you'd like to share? Email it to us or hit us up on Twitter.

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Here are the show notes and time codes for Episode 17 about my experience in switching from the http to the https secure domain for my website. This is another step in preparing the business for voice search. .......................  :00 Introduction of Episode 17 of Agile Digital Business which covers status of audiobook recording, to changing your web domain from http to https, to an example of how podcasts and other uses of voice serve as evergreen content in brand building. You'll also hear news in voice. :44 Music introduction :58 How narrating of my second audiobook has led to my study of and enthusiasm about the voice platform. 1:23 Welcome in to Episode 17. 1:33 Update on narration of audiobook, Changing Life After a Life-changing Event: 30 Journal Prompts and Stories to Help After a Loss. 1:45 Taking steps to get website updated and set up to better accommodate responses to customers using voice search. 2:13 Time in the studio narrating the audiobook version of, "Changing Life After a Life Changing Event: 30 Journal Prompts and Stories to Help After a Loss." 2:45 Fun interlude in the show when a woodpecker started pecking on the side of the farmhouse. 3:13 Sequence chosen for producing the three formats of the new book, audiobook, digital and paperback or print. 4:28 News: Project Voice Conference is coming in January 2020 in Chattenooga, Tennessee. 4:59 Visit the voicebot.ai website or search on the hashtag, #projectvoice. 5:18 Chat about downloading of the new iOS version and a change to the Apple Podcasts app. 6:06 How I'm finding other podcasts on the subject of voice, voice first and voice search marketing. 6:31 Recommendation of the podcast, Today in iOS, by Rob Walch. 6:51 Mention of hearing  6:57 Rob and Elside Escobar are co-hosts of The Feed, which is the podcast by Libsyn. 7:08 Libsyn is the service I use for hosting both of my podcasts. 7:15 Thoughts about how our recorded voice can serve as evergreen content for our brand. 7:35 Example provided of the continued downloads by second podcast is getting even without having been updated in over two years. 8:03 Considering changing the focus of Heartsong Fit over to life on our llama ranch and the training of my Connemara pony. When I first started it, the show was about conversation for the stresssed and stretched-too-thin listener. It aligned with my journey to reduce stress, eat healthier and to get fit.  8:45 Statistics about the older podcast, Heartsong Fit, that is currently not being promoted or updated. 9:40 My experience in switching my web domain from the http to the https secure domain. 10:11 A mention of the previous episode in which I talked about making sure your website is on the https domain in Episode 11, Four Website Tips to Get Ready for Voice Search. 10:48 Marketer Neil Patel has mentioned that the https domain seems to be looked upon favorably by the search engines, and can also give your customers confidence about transacting on your site. You can learn more from Neil Patel and Eric Siu in their podcast, Marketing School, https://marketingschool.io/. 11:21 Quote shared from a Google blog about the default settings for a blog to be unmarked is when it's a secure blog (https). If a blog is not secure, it will show a red marking and language that alerts the user of the status of not being secure. 12:08 How to change from http to the https domain. 12:50 Pointing of my additional domain for the podcast, agiledigitalbusiness.com over to https://vickiemaris.com. 13:27 How you can share your question or comment about these topics by leaving a voicemail for me using the SpeakPipe widget on the Contact form on my website. https://vickiemaris.com/contact 14:21 Bluehost is the hosting service used for https://vickiemaris.com. I give a shoutout of thanks to Rey in Tech Support at Bluehost for helping me make the changes to my site. I'm affiliate for Bluehost. If you're interested in using the service for your site, I would be grateful if you follow this link to visit their site:  https://www.bluehost.com/track/vickiemaris   14:40 Show notes with the time codes go live here in my Libsyn blog as soon as I publish an episode in Libsyn. https://vickiemaris2.libsyn.com 15:16 Information on how to join my community of listeners in Patreon when you support the show. Listeners who support the show at the monthly level of $10 and up will get access to my exclusive Q and A audio, https://patreon.com/vickiemaris 16:34 Another shoutout to Rey in Tech Support at Bluehost and to Greg at SiteLock for the information about service levels. 17:20 Summary of switching from http to https for my website. As we prepare our businesses for our customers' uses of voice and their search for products and services, how are you coming along in getting your website ready?  You can leave me a voicemail at https://vickiemaris.com/contact or send me an email at agiledigitalbusiness dot com. Let's go out and teach! Inspire! And, connect!   #agiledigitalbiz #teachinspireconnect

In this episode of finding Your Frequency we are NOT put to sleep by technical architect and articulate smart-guy Logan Kipp who at Phoenix, AZ based SiteLock offer simple powerful website security. At least Logan makes it seem simple. Join us as we talk website security from the guys who make website security you're going to love. This episode is for all levels of understanding and comprehension of website security, the treats, and how to support personal, SMB, and enterprise initiatives. We expect Logan to be a thought leader in website security, on loan from SiteLock

After talking with Adam Warner a few months back I’ve had a number of people reach out to say that they enjoyed the interview and Adam’s perspective on moving from Foo Plugins to Sitelock. Today we’re continuing in the same vein as I talk to Matt Medeiros. Matt is a founder of Slocum Studios along […]

Your WordPress site is getting a ton of engagement from people all over the world... or is it? While WordPress sites are seeing a decline in engagement while the conversations moved to social media, what's left may be engagement that actually does harm to your site. Commonly referred to as comment spam and trackback spam, the overall strategy is SEO Spam. In this MarTech Interview, we speak to Jessica Ortega, a Web Security Research Analyst with Sitelock. We discuss SEO Spam - what it is, how can you identify it, and how can you stop it? We also share about Sitelock's affordable tools to help WordPress owners with their sites. Special Guest: Jessica Ortega.

Best Practice for Website Security Joining me today is Neill Feather. Neill is the president of SiteLock, the leading provider of website security solutions for business. Neill leads SiteLock's approach to 360-degree domain security, providing industry analysis and utilizing rapidly evolving data sets related to security and hacking trends. Neill has over 20 years of [...] The post [Ep#238] Best Practice for Website Security appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Best Practice for Website Security Joining me today is Neill Feather. Neill is the president of SiteLock, the leading provider of website security solutions for business. Neill leads SiteLock’s approach to 360-degree domain security, providing industry analysis and utilizing rapidly evolving data sets related to security and hacking trends. Neill has over 20 years of [...] The post [Ep#238] Best Practice for Website Security appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

Jamie Schmid Jamie Schmid is a content enthusiast. She has been building websites since the late 1990s. Over that time, she has honed processes that result in websites that give both internal and external users rich, intuitive content experiences. Jamie and I talked about: her evolution from illustrator to website developer how Karen McGrane inspired her at DrupalCon 2013 her subsequent growth as a digital strategist, with a keen eye on content the importance of being proactive about addressing content concerns in the website-development process how good communication with all project stakeholders helps clarify content intent how starting the content phase of a project earlier results in better content structure the importance of assessing as early as possible your content "why" the difference between what clients think they need and the actual solution that's going to fix their problem how constantly asking "why?" can shorten up the development process how, when you design a website, you're really building two sites, the end-user site and an equally, if not more, important administrative interface how working with internal site users early in the process improves the final product how the discovery that large projects are more prone to chaos inspired her to study information architecture the information architecture of the WordPress CMS how an intuitive, well-designed administrative UX can reduce training needs what she has learned in her new role as a content creator her insight that content strategy is best when it's approached as an agile process her upcoming talk at WPCampus Jamie's Bio Jamie Schmid has a particular passion for creating excellent content experiences. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, she has been working as a WordPress freelancer and consultant since 2012, regularly taking sites from conception through a well-managed build process that encourages communication, planning, and smart use of content. She has a background in Information Architecture and Content Strategy and a big ol' enthusiasm for all things WordPress. Now living in Portland, OR, Jamie is a Community Evangelist for SiteLock, traveling the country and helping build awareness of website security best practices and solutions. Video Here's the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/tjgJ8vuH3qI Transcript Larry: Hi, everyone. Welcome to Episode Number 28 of the Content Strategy Interviews podcast. Larry: I'm really happy today to have with us Jamie Schmid. Jamie is a Portland based web developer and designer. She's active in the WordPress world. She works for SiteLock, the security, website security company, as an outreach evangelist. And I'll let Jamie tell you a little bit more about her background and what she's up to. Jamie: Thank you Larry. Thank you for having me. So, I describe myself as a content enthusiast, and that came about in a meandering sort of way, which I think is actually a great way for it to come about. But I started my career as an illustrator in the mid-, late-ish 2000s. And I thought that my whole life was just going to be illustration, and I was working at a toy company, when the role of website manager was added to my workload, and it was my first time using a CMS. Jamie: It was TYPO3 and X-Cart, and I had no idea at that point you could do such a thing with websites. My experience with Web development was building some HTML, handmade HTML websites in the late '90s, where I was literally calculating pixels, so that I could make, with streaming navigation, with image maps. So I had a much different idea of how websites worked, and then, 10 years later, it turns out, it was completely different. Jamie: But, in that world, I was often frustrated with the things that I was not able to do. There was a lot of going back and forth between the agency, and asking them to make some content edits,

Jamie Schmid Jamie Schmid is a content enthusiast. She has been building websites since the late 1990s. Over that time, she has honed processes that result in websites that give both internal and external users rich, intuitive content experiences. Jamie and I talked about: her evolution from illustrator to website developer how Karen McGrane inspired her at DrupalCon 2013 her subsequent growth as a digital strategist, with a keen eye on content the importance of being proactive about addressing content concerns in the website-development process how good communication with all project stakeholders helps clarify content intent how starting the content phase of a project earlier results in better content structure the importance of assessing as early as possible your content "why" the difference between what clients think they need and the actual solution that's going to fix their problem how constantly asking "why?" can shorten up the development process how, when you design a website, you're really building two sites, the end-user site and an equally, if not more, important administrative interface how working with internal site users early in the process improves the final product how the discovery that large projects are more prone to chaos inspired her to study information architecture the information architecture of the WordPress CMS how an intuitive, well-designed administrative UX can reduce training needs what she has learned in her new role as a content creator her insight that content strategy is best when it's approached as an agile process her upcoming talk at WPCampus Jamie's Bio Jamie Schmid has a particular passion for creating excellent content experiences. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, she has been working as a WordPress freelancer and consultant since 2012, regularly taking sites from conception through a well-managed build process that encourages communication, planning, and smart use of content. She has a background in Information Architecture and Content Strategy and a big ol' enthusiasm for all things WordPress. Now living in Portland, OR, Jamie is a Community Evangelist for SiteLock, traveling the country and helping build awareness of website security best practices and solutions. Video Here's the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/tjgJ8vuH3qI Transcript Larry: Hi, everyone. Welcome to Episode Number 28 of the Content Strategy Interviews podcast. Larry: I'm really happy today to have with us Jamie Schmid. Jamie is a Portland based web developer and designer. She's active in the WordPress world. She works for SiteLock, the security, website security company, as an outreach evangelist. And I'll let Jamie tell you a little bit more about her background and what she's up to. Jamie: Thank you Larry. Thank you for having me. So, I describe myself as a content enthusiast, and that came about in a meandering sort of way, which I think is actually a great way for it to come about. But I started my career as an illustrator in the mid-, late-ish 2000s. And I thought that my whole life was just going to be illustration, and I was working at a toy company, when the role of website manager was added to my workload, and it was my first time using a CMS. Jamie: It was TYPO3 and X-Cart, and I had no idea at that point you could do such a thing with websites. My experience with Web development was building some HTML, handmade HTML websites in the late '90s, where I was literally calculating pixels, so that I could make, with streaming navigation, with image maps. So I had a much different idea of how websites worked, and then, 10 years later, it turns out, it was completely different. Jamie: But, in that world, I was often frustrated with the things that I was not able to do. There was a lot of going back and forth between the agency, and asking them to make some content edits,

Life Updates Kyle: Gave a speech at Toastmasters on Wednesday Adam: short week.. But productive.  Travel – to WC Dayton Dustin: WordCamp Dayton — ALL THE THINGS WordPress News Awesome Motive acquires Google Analytics Dashboard plugin Changes Jessica Frick — going to Liquid Web Jamie Schmidt joined SiteLock in January Wearing/Drinking Adam: WooCommerce Shipit /…

When reading the preservation letter in which President Trump’s lawyer addressed the publication of Fire and Fury, Craig Ball noticed that the writing was very familiar. In fact, the last six pages of the letter were taken straight from Craig’s article “The Sincerest Form of Flattery,” grammar quirks and all. In this episode of Digital Detectives, hosts Sharon Nelson and John Simek talk to Craig Ball about what it’s like to have the lawyers of the President of the U.S. use your words in one of his preservation letters and why this was perhaps the wrong move for President Trump’s lawyers. They also discuss what preservation letters accomplish, how to draft a solid letter, and how to respond when you’re on the receiving end of a preservation letter. Craig Ball is a longtime adjunct professor teaching digital evidence at the University of Texas School of Law and he writes and speaks around the world on e-discovery and computer forensics. Special thanks to our sponsors, PInow and SiteLock.

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab is considered a leader in the cybersecurity field, but recently they experienced some controversy when they were accused of working with Russian military and intelligence. In this episode of Digital Detectives, hosts Sharon Nelson and John Simek talk to David Ries about whether Kaspersky Lab is safe for lawyers to use, diving into where the controversy started and what the results have been so far. David also provides suggestions for lawyers who are interested in changing from one security software to another, whether they mistrust Kaspersky Lab or are simply unhappy with their current software. David Ries is of counsel in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, office of Clark Hill PLC, where his practice includes environmental, technology, and data protection law and litigation. Special thanks to our sponsors, PInow and SiteLock.

Neill is the President of SiteLock, and has spent a lot of time building a successful company. They are not only good at what they do, but deeply dedicated to the community. In this episode, we talk all about security for your website, who’s most at risk, and what can happen if you ignore simple […] The post Episode 60: Neill Feather & SiteLock appeared first on How I Built It.

GiveWP is a plugin that helps you accept donations on your WordPress site. I got to talk to Matt and Devin about all sorts of other stuff though, like collaboration on a large team and the importance of great support.  Show Notes GiveWP  GiveWP on Twitter  Scaling your WordPress Support for Growth  Sponsored by: SIteLock […] The post Episode 54: The GiveWP Team appeared first on How I Built It.

Microsoft Word and Outlook can be combined to create an email merge, but there's not a lot of functionality. A plug-in from Russia helps greatly. One of the largest backup providers for home users and small businesses is dropping its home product, so prices will be going up. Why that's not all bad. In Short Circuits: This week I discovered what is apparently a common Windows problem that I'd never encountered before. The explanation includes information you can use when it happens to you. Researchers at New York University have come up with a clever way to foil shoulder surfers who try to see your password or PIN. In Spare Parts (only on the website): How about a little flight information with your weather forecast? The Weather Company will provide that. Website protection company SiteLock has acquired a Dutch firm that automatically applies patches to common content management systems. GoDaddy has added a new level of security to websites it hosts. Supermicro Computer is about to release gigantic storage devices in tiny packages.

In today's podcast we hear about how StoneDrill maybe succeeding Shamoon—it's more evasive and at least as destructive. Malwarebytes advises sticking to Google Play to avoid a new Trojan. Russian hackers—apparently mobsters who've copped some of Cozy Bear's MO—are blackmailing US progressive political groups. The University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security's Ben Yelin explains Amazon Alexa's role in a murder case. Neill Feather from SiteLock describes a Wordpress vulnerability.  Congress considers a bill to allow companies to hack back. WikiLeaks' Vault Seven seems mostly unsurprising. Washington wiretapping allegations prompt recriminations.

In this episode we talk to Neill Feather, President at SiteLock.

Gorny, an immigrant from Poland, shared with me a bit of his incredible rags to riches… back to rags, and finally bigger riches story, in a sit-down interview during the event. He discussed how the Movie Wall Street made hime want to come to the United States (and live in Beverly Hills 90210), how he got started in business, and lessons learned from losing his first fortune - which helped him find even greater success in cofounding companies like SiteLock and Nextiva. Gorny also discusses Nextiva’s new customer engagement platform NextOS, and why, based on his previous business experiences, he feels the company can compete with the likes of Salesforce.com and Microsoft in the very competitive CRM market.

This episode is brought to you from Sitelock. When I was coming up with this post title and I decided to go with 'Google Money' I had sort of a scary thought. That 'Google Money' probably isn't as far fetched as that sounds, right? I mean... we have bitcoin (although I can't say that I totally understand bitcoin). Then of course if you're a fan of Mr. Robot there's e-coin (I think that's what they call it). But since we don't live in the fictional world of Mr. Robot nor is Google creating its own currency... let's get back on topic. If you've been listening to this show (and hopefully Freedom Papers), you know that one of the things I've been talking about a lot lately is the 'Acres of Diamonds' idea. Meaning, what do you already have that could bringing you income but you're sitting on it or not even aware that it's there? I think as business owners we're so close to our own stuff that we forget to take a step back and look at what we've created or accomplished from a different perspective. I know I did that... and still do at times. But not as often as I used to. So what is Google Money? In this case, it's Adsense revenue. I finally took a harder look at my YouTube channel and have begun doing some tutorial videos again (I got away from them over the last year and a half because I didn't like Camtasia for the Mac and couldn't really get into Screenflow, until the recent update. Which I love). I had always put my videos up on YouTube but never dove into what I need to do to ensure they were optimized and working for me. The videos were working for me in terms of building an audience and people connecting with me but there was so much more I could do. Which is when I reached out to my friend Steve. Who I knew had a much better grasp on YouTube and what I should be doing. I knew I wasn't interested in becoming a 'YouTuber', nor did I want to go buy some huge YouTube course. I simply wanted to do a better job with what I had already uploaded and would be uploading. Remember, I'm not trying to create more work in my life... no more hustle for this chick. So after having Steve take a look at my channel and what I was doing wrong (which was really more about what I wasn't doing) I followed a few simple suggestions of his and went about my happy way. Then got a #notifcationofpayment from Google. I had just received a $120 payment from Adsense for the month (i.e., Google Money). Thank you more please! I have a decent amount of subscribers and views. Of course now I have to go back and tweak all my previous videos, but that's O.K., that's the kind of thing I can do at night when I'm watching TV (I've gotten pretty good at knowing which tasks I can do when). This is a perfect example of 'Acres of Diamonds' in action. My Favorite New Tools You guys know by now that I'm a complete geek about finding tools and plugins to use. As I write this I'm wondering if this is something I should bring up with my therapist?... kidding of course. There are a couple new tools and plugins I've been using a LOT lately and decided it was high time I share them with you. You'll be hearing more about each of these in individual posts or follow up podcasts (I have a couple interviews done with a couple founders), but I didn't want you to have to wait until those posts went live. The first tool I'm having a ton of fun with is actually a WordPress plugin, by one of my favorite companies, Thrive Themes. Thrive Headline Optimizer This isn't a new plugin by any means (although it was released this year, so it's kind of 'newish'), but I've finally started using it more. It's about as easy as it gets too. You enter your headline, then you can enter additional headlines (you can split test two or as many as you'd like). Thrive Headline Optimizer will then alternate showing the headlines to different visitors. You get to decide how long you want to run the test for,

This episode is brought to you by my sponsor, Sitelock. Plugin development goes much deeper than the technical side of development. My guest, Gordan Orlic of WebFactoryLtd. went deep with me in this episode. Gordan and I connected through something so simple... and yet not many people do it. Email outreach. Gordan and his team at WebFactoryltd. have been selling their plugins through the Envato Marketplace for a while now and they've made a decision to start transitioning out of that marketplace. When he emailed me to see if I was interested in talking with him of course I said yes... I'm fascinated with the premium WordPress marketplace (plugins, themes and tutorials...it doesn't matter. And it's exciting to see it growing). Gordan and his team have a bunch of plugins over at Envato (CodeCanyon... to be specific) and definitely have their work cut out for them (but it will be well worth it). Questions I asked Gordan Before we dive into WebFactoryLtd., can you share what you were doing before you launched WebFactory? When did you decide to launch WebFactory? What would you recommend to someone who wants to get into premium plugin development? Why are you and your team moving away from Code Canyon? How big is your team? How do you market your plugins? Tell us about the white label plugin side of your business? What You're Going to Learn How the pricing models are shifting in the WordPress premium marketplace Why Gordan & his team are leaving Envato Why paying for support is necessary Who should actually be using Code Canyon The real cost in keeping your plugins up to date and compatible What the process is for moving off of Code Canyon What Gordan really thinks about Code Canyon's support The new WordPress news site Gordan & his team has launched Some of WebFactoryLtd.'s plugins: Google Maps Widget Optin Ninja Security Ninja Super Agency 5 Sec PayPal buttons Core Scanner .... and more! The first plugin that Gordan and his team have moved from Code Canyon is the Google Maps Widget... which makes it super easy (literally... you won't be banging your head against the wall trying to figure this out), to add a Google Map to your website.   Where to Connect with Gordan Website | Twitter | Facebook

This episode is sponsored by Sitelock. Dallas and I connected about a year and a half ago through the same mastermind. I knew right away that Dallas was 'my kind of people'.... his energy is great, he's super positive and probably one of the most giving people I've met in a while. His story is a bit of a 'tears to triumph' story in that like many of us, Dallas hit rock bottom before getting clear on what he really wanted to do with his business. I hadn't heard Dallas' entire story before this interview. I was honored that he shared it with me (us) and think you're going to be inspired as well as interested in being an "Unlimiter" in your own life. In the beginning of the interview Dallas & I talked about things we both learned through the mastermind together, the value we got and how we think things are shifting in that space. Questions I Asked Dallas What were you doing before your current business? Can you share with the listeners what it is you do today? I know you had some personal struggles & challenges... can you share what that was and what has shifted for you? We all know mindset is important. What made you decide to focus on this? What are some of the challenges your clients face? What does it mean to be an 'Unlimiter'? [Tweet "I lost complete and total control of my brain. @DallasHardcastle"] Through his journey Dallas has created some rituals & daily routines. He has 8 things that he does everyday and he shared those with me during our time together. Resist the interruption of your left brain ( don't let the analytical part of your brain analyze how you're going to do what you're going to do). Think more.. "what can I do" Block out the distractions (more overwhelmed) -quiet your mind. Focus on ONE thing Take & diversify different types of information (mentally rehearsing the days events) Make time to exercise (physical exercise) Exercise your imagination (take time out to do this) Remain as relaxed as possible Practice visualization Become very detail oriented Find out more about working with Dallas and becoming an Unlimiter  

This episode is brought to you by my sponsor, Sitelock. E-Commerce is one of those things that I've thought about jumping into on and off since I started my business (in 2008), but never pulled the trigger. I started looking into more seriously this past year when I realized I needed to shift the way I was doing business. My overall arching 'theme' has been to stop trading time for money. I've already created some recurring revenue streams but they were more of an after thought than a well planned strategy. Then I hit a wall. I knew it was time to pull the plug on the amount of services I offered and provided (I still do them, but it's more about who I want to work with and whether or not I feel I'm the best person to provide the value someone needs). And then of course there's my motto...."If it's not fun, I'm not doing it." I found Chloe Thomas after getting her recent book, Customer Manipulation (which we talk about in the show). Of course I purchased her other books after getting this one. I'd love to tell you that I've started my new e-commerce site and store, but that's not happening yet. At this point in my life I've finally gotten smart about not taking too much on at once. What I can tell you is when I do launch my e-commerce store I'll be following Chloe's steps! Chloe went deep with me in terms of the brand [Tweet "I'm a big fan of keeping your e-commerce store simple @"] Questions I Asked Chloe There are SO many places I wanted to start with for this interview... but I think it makes sense to start with your background because you have an extensive background in eCommerce. Can you share your background with the listeners? You've worked with people from solo entrepreneurs to big companies. This is a two-part question.... can you give examples of each and share a little bit of their journey/success? Shopify vs. Woocommerce or another self-hosted commerce solutions. Where do you begin? Who should do what? Dropshipping? FBA? Teespring? T-shirts? Gearbubble? Determining profitability of a niche? Is there such a thing as a crowded market? Subscription model? Customer Manipulation: Latest book, what it's about, etc. Best place to connect with you? What You're Going to Learn Where you should start if you want to launch an e-commerce store How the owner of an electronic cigarette e-commerce store has achieved massive success Why you need to have some level of passion for what you're selling (or you may struggle) Which platforms you can use for creating your e-commerce store Why you don't need to have an individual personality behind your store How you can bring in a personality to your store (be humans behind it) without having to be a personal brand   Where to Connect with Chloe Website | Podcast | Twitter | Facebook Links from this episode Chloe's Books: Customer Manipulation eCommerce Master Plan eCommerce Marketing Get the first chapter of Customer Manipulation FREE here! CrateJoy The Automatic Customer (book) GearBubble TeeSpring

This episode is sponsored by Sitelock. I've been thinking about doing an in-depth post on WordPress Visual Editors (besides Thrive Content Builder & Beaver Builder, which of course are still my favorites!) for a while now. I'm still planning on it, but thought I would do a podcast episode first to gauge the interest as it's probably going to be a pretty time-intensive piece of content (which is O.K. too, but nothing like getting a little validation first). There are a LOT of WordPress Visual editors on the market now and I expect we're going to see more. I'm going to skip any of the visual builders that have shown up in JV Zoo during the past year because I have no idea if they're going to be around or supported (not that I can guarantee this with the rest of these plugins, but more they'll more than likely be here longer than the JVZoo products). What's interesting is that I've had this conversation a few times now (I think I've talked about this on the podcast before), but with the amount of new tools and options that are starting to show up I thought it was time to revisit this. We'll start by addressing the elephant in the room. Which is whether or not you should use page builders. Obviously you know my answer, but before you write them off, let's talk about when and why you would want to use a page builder. If you look at why the team at Beaver Builder created their awesome plugin it was simple. They wanted to find a way to be more efficient with their client work. They were repeating tasks/work on their client projects and wanted to deploy the sites quicker. So they built the solution they needed. Less time on a project does NOT mean it has less value. You're still providing the client with what they want and you're doing it quicker. I know there are arguments out there about it not being as clean (referring to code here) or as light on the site... but I think we should look at this from the bigger picture. First, most of these tools are getting better and better. Some use the WordPress customizer (for some reason this still isn't my favorite option... I don't know why. I probably need to spend some more time using it, which I will be with one of the latest tools, Elementor). Whether you're building sites for clients or for yourself, here are a few things to consider when deciding if you want to use a page builder: That being said, here are the page builders I'm going to talk about today. Keep in mind this isn't a full list... it's simply the ones I've looked at, used or currently use. If you guys want me to do a full post / video review of these tools let me know. It will take a decent amount of time to complete it, but I'll make it as complete as possible. Thrive Content Builder: O.K., I won't go into details here on this because I've written about Thrive a handful of times and am about to publish a new post with 4 videos on Thrive for you (which I'll link to as soon as it's published, but in the meantime you can checkout a recent post I did where I explained why I use Thrive & Beaver Builder). I primarily use Thrive for landing pages (sales pages, squeeze pages, webinar pages, etc.). But in the post I'm about to publish I used the Thrive Content Builder for the first time in a standard post. Pretty awesome! Beaver Builder: See above. :-) I'll do an updated post on Beaver Builder in the coming months, but in the meantime you can checkout the recent post & video I did on why I use Thrive and Beaver Builder. I use Beaver Builder for creating site pages. One of the most amazing things with Beaver Builder is the community support. There are a lot of 3rd party developers creating add-ons (keeping the core plugin lighter and more streamlined). What I love about this is that the Beaver Builder team is completely supportive and is active within the Beaver Builder Facebook group. Elementor: This is the newest page builder to hit the web and I have to say, I'm LOVING it. Oh...

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This episode is brought to you by my sponsor, Sitelock. I had the great pleasure of being on Chuck's podcast after we had connected via social media (twitter I think). Talk about a ton of fun (it was also mu first blab). I enjoyed it so much and appreciated how Chuck Wang shows up that I asked him right away to be on my show. Chuck's story is one that I think many people can relate to. He started out on his entrepreneurial journey with a drive for the 'almighty dollar' (his words, not mine) and how he ended up losing it all and turned it around through serving others. Chuck shared a real-life story of one of his companies (who creates podcasting software) and how he helped them streamline their process (most valuable process). I absolutely love the insights and step-by-step instructions Chuck shared with me. Questions I Asked Chuck Before we get into MVP.Consulting, can you fill us in on what you were doing before your launched your current business and podcast? You share some really personal challenges on your About page... what made you decide to share at that level? What gave you the idea to start MVP.Consulting? What's your business model? Why did you decide to launch your podcast? How has the podcast shifted your business? What's on the horizon for you for the rest of 2016? [Tweet "I would rather go small and live a big life than "go big" and live a small life" @TheChuckWang"] What You're Going to Learn How Chuck figured out what he really wanted to do (we talked about passion and finding that) Why he decided to create a human experiment to change the trajectory of his life What it meant to Chuck to be 'soul poor' What his rock bottom was.... after he was chasing the almighty dollar When he had to file bankruptcy and how his life turned around after that Why he needed to hit the 'reset' button on his life How to create your most valuable process Where to Connect with Chuck Podcast | Twitter | Linkedin | Facebook [Tweet "Inspired Works was my gateway drug to get out of that - @TheChuckWang"]

Thanks to my podcast sponsor, Sitelock for sponsoring this episode! If you've ever wanted to hang with the guys from Beaver Builder, you're going to love this episode! I'm having a ton of fun doing these follow up interviews with previous guests and I feel like the team at Beaver Builder are old friends... (they're simply awesome people...  in addition to their tool being an amazing page builder). We started the interview off by catching up a bit with what has happened sine our last interview (which was March 6, 2015... btw, I recorded this interview with the guys a couple months before we published). The cool thing about the timing of this interview is that it's right in line with some of the things I've discussed on my last two solo shows (where I discussed getting out of client services). If you haven't listened to the first interview, you're going to want to listen to that which will bring you up to speed on where things are today. We caught up with some of the personal things happening with the guys... Billy and Justin have both moved into new houses a couple hours away from Robby, who is still in the South Bay. A few months prior to this interview the guys made a decision to completely phase out of client services and focus solely on Beaver Builder. We talked about the transition, how they've supported their long-term clients during the transition and how long everything has taken. In April of 2016 Beaver Builder celebrated their two-year anniversary (and this is when they started completely transitioning out of client work... so for those of you who have a product or want to develop a product and get away from services, know that it's going to be a process. It might not take you two years, but it will probably take longer than you think). [Tweet ""It's hard to focus on two separate things at one time... client services or your product" @beaverbuilder"] What You're Going to Learn How the company has grown over the last two years What goes into reaching a million dollars in sales When they stopped client work How the community has rallied around and supported Beaver Builder How they decide which features to add and when What the learning curve has been for them with marketing Questions I asked When did you transition out of client services? What would you recommend to someone who wants to get into the product side of things (themes or plugins)? Having a background in development & design, what was it like to start having to market yourselves? Can you share a tangible marketing experience that worked and one that didn't? How much time to you guys spend doing the different tasks/elements of the business? [Tweet "One of our goals was simple but powerful" @beaverbuilder] This is truly a behind the scenes look at what it's like to build a software company from idea, to minimum viable product to going full time with your product. They've added two full-time support people, 3 contract developers and a designer to the Beaver Builder family. I could not be happier for Justin, Billy & Robby with their well deserved success and growth of this amazing product! If you haven't checked out Beaver Builder, you're going to want to. It's an amazing tool created by even more awesome people. Where to Connect with Beaver Builder Website | Facebook | Twitter Links from this episode Beaver Builder Plugin Beaver Builder Podcast Episode 53 Why We Ditched Our Silicon Valley Offices to Work From Home - Robby McCullough

If you're looking for an application that edits photographs, creates logos, designs websites, and publishes documents, you should take a look at Xara Designer Pro. Is TechByter Worldwide a safe website? SiteLock helps me to ensure that it is. In Short Circuits: How many federal agencies are keeping track of information about you? Comodo and Acronis have combined to offer some useful capabilities. And GoDaddy says that it wants to level the playing field for women. In Spare Parts (only on the website): If you're a fan of FileMaker Pro, you can buy the latest version and get an extra copy for free and we'll take a look a computer you can throw out the window (but I recommend that you don't.)