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Email Marketing – Protecting Client Emails
If you send email campaigns to your clients, I hope these are clients who previously opted in to your services or products. It is unethical to solicit, harvest emails for your own benefit and gain. If you frequently use email marketing as your main source for communicating to your client base, it is very important [...]
Full StoryFacebook Charging Fees?
What if Facebook were to turn off or abbreviate certain features of its popular social network, would you be willing to pay for full access? Let’s say that 10% of the 700 million users were willing to pay a reoccurring monthly fee of $2.99 to enable all features in full. This would equate to almost [...]
Full StorySocial Networking Dangers – Do You Know Your Friends Well?
Internet Security will always be a concern, and as more and more social networks emerge, identity theft is becoming more easier than ever. “Tweeting Thieves” may become the next generation’s new label for “hacker” – and the catch is you don’t need the expertise to recover data from hard drives in order to do it! [...]
Full StoryWill Google+ Strike Out?
First it was Google Buzz, and last August it was Google Wave and now Google+ (Plus). Google the leader in search holds two-thirds of the U.S. market in search and now it is trying once again to compete with the largest social network – Facebook. Will Google strikeout or is three the charm? What makes [...]
Full StoryFacebook Lottery Scam
There’s an email purporting to be from Facebook, claiming that the recipient has won a cash prize of $900,000.00 USD. The email is a phishing scam where the sender is looking to obtain personal information to be used for other illegal activities. This is one of the worst scams I have seen in quite some [...]
Full StoryWordPress 3.1.3 Adds Improved Security
WordPress just released their latest open source version 3.1.3 yesterday, and this new update has several added security improvements. If you haven’t upgraded, please do so, but backup your WordPress before upgrading to any newer versions. WordPress Added Security Prevent sniffing out user names of non-authors by using canonical redirects. Improves file upload security on [...]
Full StoryFacebook Safer with Web of Trust
Facebook and WOT (Web of Trust) go together like peanut butter and jelly. The WOT Firefox and Internet Explorer add-on can help you stay safer from the dangers on Facebook. We all love to share links on Facebook with our friends and family, but sometimes we don’t know the dangers of what we are sharing [...]
Full StoryFacebook The Cyber Criminals Network
The social network giant continues to be targeted by cyber criminals and there’s no evidence on how Facebook will defend against such attacks. One of my biggest concerns is the amount of scams that are displayed via ads on Facebook. When will Facebook start moderating who advertises on their network? Facebook needs to protect its [...]
Full StoryBest SEO WordPress Plug-in
I have used the All in One SEO plug-in for WordPress for a long time, but I found that SEO Ultimate has a greater feature set and it eliminates duplicate content by implementing canonical URLs. What is a Canonical URL? The Canonical URL tag attribute is like a 301 redirect without redirecting visitors to a [...]
Full StoryBest Email Marketing Software
Email marketing is cheap, effective and can be easily tracked. It’s important to always follow Can-Spam law so that your business and or website doesn’t become blacklisted or added to any of the Spam indexes. If you are selling products, services, or sending out a monthly newsletter, email marketing is the vehicle to get your [...]
Full StoryBeware of Facebook Credits Scam
There’s a chat message going around about getting 500 Facebook credits free. If you receive such a message like the image below, don’t click on the link. The message is not being sent from your friend, it’s from a program that has permission to send messages from your friends account. This scam can easily fool [...]
Full StoryCeglia Versus Zuckerberg for Stake in Facebook
It has been said and dragged through the mud that Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea of Facebook from his college buddies; even the movie “The Social Network” depicted such. Many think it’s true that he should split the value among those who created Facebook, but Mark has denied and dismissed these claims. On Monday, Mark [...]
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