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  • Sailing Into The Wind: How To Make An Impossible Idea Work

    You have an idea. It seems crazy — heck, it is crazy. But the craziest ideas are the ones that tend to not just work but have a huge impact and really bring home the bacon. So you’re told to throw caution to the wind, live on the edge, take the plunge, and all of that.

    But how practical are these age-old adages really? Is it all just rhetoric spouted by prosperous Greek philosophers and the lucky few Silicon Valley CEOs who actually made it, or is there truth hidden within them?

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    Joseph Pennington January 8, 2019 • Perspectives
  • 3 Secrets of A Speedy WordPress Website

    How do you give your WordPress website a competitive edge in speed without resorting to counterintuitively filling your website with more and more optimisation plugins or digesting the same old generic advice everyone and their dog is using?

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    Joseph Pennington December 5, 2018 • WordPress Plugins
  • Testing your WordPress website performance with GTmetrix

    Previously in this series, we’ve reviewed the Google PageSpeed Insights and Pingdom Website Speed Test services, and we’ve shared with you a few tips to keep in mind before starting to optimize your website speed. Today, we’ll take a look at GTmetrix performance analysis tool, which is another excellent service for analyzing your website performance.

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    Dave Lavoie November 30, 2018 • WordPress Tips & Tricks
  • How to disable RSS feeds completely in WordPress?

    You want to disable RSS feeds completely in WordPress, but you don’t know how? Here are 3 ways to do it.

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    Dave Lavoie November 22, 2018 • WordPress Tips & Tricks
  • How A Small Local Business Can Create A Big Global Presence

    In 2018, traditional barriers that once prevented small local business from going global are all but gone.

    You can sell direct to customers all over the world with just a website, fund your projects without loans or grants thanks to crowdfunding, and access the same power that international giants have using SaaS and cloud computing.

    BusinessMarketingSocial Media

    Joseph Pennington November 16, 2018 • Perspectives
  • Analyzing your WordPress site with Pingdom Website Speed Test tools

    In the previous posts of this series, we’ve shared with you some tips you should keep in mind before starting to test your website speed with various tools, and we’ve reviewed the Google PageSpeed Insights service. Today, we’ll focus on the Website Speed Test tools powered by Pingdom.

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    Dave Lavoie November 2, 2018 • WordPress Tips & Tricks
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