We don’t want to be tracked, but sometimes we need it.
If you are having difficulty loading your site or working in the admin, there may be a few reasons. If you are having difficulty loading other sites, or logging in to your accounts, you may have locked it down a bit too much for functionality. This is a problem as we are beginning to have a strong desire to stop giving away our data, our activity, and our [...]
Send your English teacher a thank you note
If you’re lucky enough, you have at least one teacher in your life who makes an everlasting impact. Me, I can think of more than half a dozen teachers whose wisdom, tough love, and determination made me who I am today. But as I spend every day doing a job I love where I get to write all day, I think back to the teacher who taught me [...]
Reformed GoDaddy Reseller Has New Hosting Hero in Rocket.net
Written by Savannah Finch (Susan's daughter) From an early age, I formed an opinion on GoDaddy. And it wasn’t a favorable opinion for a 10-year-old to have of a hosting company. I knew GoDaddy as “the reason my mom can’t listen to the story of my bus ride home.” Weekly, at least, I’d walk through the front door after a long day of fourth grade and hear the [...]
You Don’t Have to Bake Cupcakes If You Don’t Want To
In my senior year of high school, we all were asked to take aptitude tests, to show us what kind of career would be a good fit for our strengths and weaknesses. Of course, the teacher started off the assignment by saying "this is just an online test, it doesn't mean you can or can't have your dream job." A sweet sentiment, but we all knew we'd take [...]
The Double Comma Club Top Episodes Since August 2019
We are celebrating two years of the Double Comma Club, with over 100 episodes. Thank you to Nicole's listeners. Here are the top 10 episodes. You may find some of these helpful, especially if you missed them when they were published originally. 10. What Consumers Need to Know About Appraisals Nicole's guest, Joey Pizzi of JP Appraisal Services wants consumers to know a few things about the appraisal [...]
Take Time to Research the Context
Let's start with a bit of humor taken from my role as Jester at my weekly Toastmasters meeting. A joke to give you a visual of context. In a hurry to get to a special dinner party, the guest speaker arrives and sat down, only to realize he'd forgotten his false teeth. He explained his dilemma to the man sitting next to him. The man said, "No problem," [...]
Keep Your Unlisted YouTube Videos from Breaking Your Website
Let's keep things from breaking! AS of JULY 23, 2021 - YouTube is making changes to the way they handle UNLISTED videos. We've all used unlisted videos when we want people we choose to see the video, but not have it widely found through YouTube. This is common for training videos, testimonials, intro videos to landing pages. You have a decision to make for each of your unlisted [...]
How to help tech support help you quicker.
For those of you who have to regularly or even periodically contact tech or IT support via email, there are some ways you can help them solve your issues quickly and with fewer back and forth emails. It’s similar to walking into a restaurant hungry. Ordering: “I’d like lunch today.” When actually you were interested in the daily vegan specials that were gluten free due to your intolerance, [...]
You can share it, but can they read it?
Sharing helpful articles we find allows us to be a valued resource. It invites engagement on social media, builds community, takes a pulse, except when we can't read the link that our connection's post is attempting to open. "Subscription required to view this article." We don't realize how many sites we have memberships to, pubs we subscribe to. We read a lot and then want to share. Make [...]
It’s your domain, but do you control all the parts?
This past week I've been helping a client with whom I haven't worked for several years. We were doing some clean-up of the functions on their site and there were issues with their web forms being marked as spam, not being delivered, and more communication stoppers. What I found out is that their domain had changed owners, the record had been modified to not include ANY MX (mail) [...]
How Fear Can Affect Your Team’s Success
We all want to perform well in front of those who matter to us, including our sales managers, team leaders, the president of the company, our clients, our family. But, when those who are in a position to lead or coach us slip to an evaluation mode, the effects can be detrimental to the outcome. Recently, I interviewed ConnectAndSell CEO, Chris Beall and host of Market Dominance Guys [...]
Tips for Looking More Competent in Online Meetings
Recently I was invited to be a guest on Asher Sales Sense from ASHER STRATEGIES. This interview was hosted by Kyla O'Connell. I'm not sure who had more fun, Kyla, or me. What kind of background is best for your online meeting? Is a selfie cool for your headshot? How should you applaud a good point made? How many things should you be doing during the meeting? What’s [...]