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Working Remote Done Right…

Working Remote Done Right…

Let’s face it, the world changed. Since Covid ended, we’re all working differently. Work from Home doesn’t mean you necessarily have to work from home. The truth is you can work from anywhere. Last week, I worked from my Mom’s place in Lititz, PA, and I’ve worked a few times at Wine & Whiskey’s guest house (you do read their blog, don’t you?), even at White Horse Beach in those cute Calico Seahorse Cabins. The thing is, working remote, at…

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Unboxing the New WP Gutenberg Editor

Unboxing the New WP Gutenberg Editor

Wow, just when I’d thought the way forward in online web publishing was to get rid of “blocks” WordPress brings them back. Not utterly thrilled with that, on first glance, but hey, at least we now we’ve got a better representation of what the content will truly look like when published, before we hit the publish button. (BTW, there’s a good bit from WP on what’s in the Gutenberg Editor here…) When you first use the Gutenberg Editor, you will…

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Maintenance Plan for Small Business Websites

Maintenance Plan for Small Business Websites

I just added a post about maintenance plans for small business websites on my business site, CahillDigital.com. If you own a site, you definitely need to read this one. Let me say this clearly: your website is often the first place customers go before they call you.  What do you think they do when they see a broken website? They go elsewhere. You invest in your website and you invest in your brand.  That means you need to ensure they’re…

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The Forgotten Phone Book

The Forgotten Phone Book

How do your customers find you? One of the things I love about my job is getting to know small business owners and finding out how their businesses work.  It never ceases to amaze me the interesting niches so many of you have found and the interesting clienteles you serve. When I started in business there were tons of businesses named “AAA Construction”, or “AAAA Window Treatment”.  Business owners did this because they wanted to be sure they came up…

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New Site: VirtualAdClub.com

New Site: VirtualAdClub.com

Together with Steve Salloway of Davis Advertising, I launched Virtual Ad Club today.  The site is an online community for advertising professionals, inspired by the old meatspace group, the Worcester Advertising Club. The site will cover general advertising, account services, martech and media ends of the business, as well anything else that generally fits under the general category of advertising. The site is a WordPress backend, with BBPress forums attached.  This is the first time in a while I’ve worked…

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Google Will Mark Non-HTTPS Websites as Insecure

Google Will Mark Non-HTTPS Websites as Insecure

Google, the gift that keeps on giving. Like that kid that reminds the teacher she didn’t assign any homework before the long weekend, Google again costs website owners money and wastes their time. So now site owners like me need to migrate a WordPress site from http to https.  What are we to do? Google announced some time ago that their Chrome browser would start marking all sites that do not use the https protocol. as insecure this July. Further,…

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New Site: CarnivalGlass.com

New Site: CarnivalGlass.com

I haven’t been doing a lot of freelance over the past couple years, but I have just finished a great site called CarnivalGlass.com – a WordPress site with Woocommerce Paypal Adaptive integration. First off, I should explain that Carnival glass is moulded or pressed glass, always with a pattern and always with a shiny, metallic, ‘iridescent’ surface shimmer. It is highly collectible, and is generally broken down into “antique” from around 1900 to the 1950’s and “contemporary” which is anything…

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Communications Nightmare

Communications Nightmare

I noticed the other day that rather than becoming easier, corporate communications have become significantly harder. The dream has always been one universal way to contact people and share information that allows everyone who needs it to get it, while maintaining corporate security.  Instead of creating this, we’ve ended up with a Tower of Babel in which we are forced to seek out and actively watch numerous applications. For example, on any given day these sites/apps/programs for Corporate Communications The…

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Thoughts on Self-Publishing

Thoughts on Self-Publishing

Self-Publishing Advice from the experience of my first book I had the wonderful opportunity to guest lecture at Emerson College this week on the subject of “Self-publishing”.  It caused a bit of retrospection, it being a full year now since I published Blue Ice. My most important self-publishing advice,  the elephant in the room, as voiced by one of the students:  “If you had it to do again, would you self-publish, or go with a traditional publisher?” That really gets…

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A Surprisingly Good Year

A Surprisingly Good Year

Looking back at 2013 for me personally, I’m amazed at the improvements in my life, and I’d like to both acknowledge and give thanks.  Let’s take a look at the picture of where I was just a scant year ago: Living with my mother after separating from my wife. Didn’t have a steady job. Saw my kids on weekends, if that. Was barred from buying health insurance by the State of Massachusetts (a joy many in the US will come…

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