Interviews & Features

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What began as a blogging platform nearly 15 years ago is one step closer to taking control of the entire web. WordPress officially powers 30 percent of the Internet according to W3Techs. It is also the fastest growing CMS by far, with Squarespace and Wix barely coming close. These numbers are a huge victory for WordPress …

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1 Mar 2018

Torque Toons: Who Are You Wearing?

Of course everybody is talking about this year’s Plugin Madness competition, which kicks off on Monday March 5th, but the big question is: What WordCamp swag will the nominees be wearing as they walk the red carpet? Doc Pop Doctor Popular is an artist and musician living in San Francisco. As a full disclaimer, …

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26 Feb 2018

Make Your Articles Heard with Amazon Polly: Q & A with AWS

You have a dedicated audience that comes to your site every day to read your content. They take the time to sit down and engage with what you’ve written. Unfortunately, that’s not possible for everyone. People are incredibly busy and aren’t taking the time to sit down and read an article. Users are listening to …

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20 Feb 2018

13 Performance-Boosting Site Speed Tips for WordPress

There’s no doubt about it: Site performance is crucial to the success of your website. Today, over 25 percent of users will leave a page if it takes more than 4 seconds to load. And a delay of just a second can compound with dropped conversion rates, decrease your page views, and increase your bounce …

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16 Feb 2018

WordPress Translation is an Accessibility Issue, Don’t Fall Behind

WordPress is a global platform. With over 29 percent of the Internet, a lot of those users aren’t in English speaking countries. In fact, since 2014, there are more downloads not in English than in English. While WordPress defaults to English, it supports many languages and there are many great ways to translate WordPress post …

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7 Nov 2017

4 tips for a successful online business

It’s pretty often that we receive a call or an email from someone wanting to start a new online business. And what are the first words we usually hear from these entrepreneurs? It starts off like this: I’ve built up all this knowledge over the years now is the time to put it to use and …

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26 Jul 2017

How customers can help you Market your business

You already have the most influential marketing force at hand. No marketing program or campaign, organic or paid, can even come close to this force. What are we talking about here? Your customers of course! It amazes me when I think about it, for decades Amway (and many other multilevel marketing companies) have trained their …

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15 Jun 2017

Why you need a FAQs page

The other day I went shopping for a shower head. I wanted to see if my shower head, a Moen product, was still under warranty. Since the manufacturer mission statement reads: “Buy it for looks buy it for life”, I thought I would search the Moen website first. I learned something to— Why you need a …

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5 Jun 2017

Essential WordPress Plugins for Virtual Assistants

Our team at assisted.by specialise in WordPress development. This means we spend a lot of time with WordPress plugins, when we can’t find what we need we’ll build our own. When setting out to develop your own Virtual Assistant website you want to ensure you are using well coded, efficient, secure and maintained plugins. Over the …

Interviews & FeaturesTools & ResourcesVirtual Assistants

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30 May 2017

Turning Instagram followers into buyers of your product or service

If you’re a user of Instagram then you know it only allows you to link to 1 website or page in your profile’s description (unless you’re paying for ads). This limits your company’s ability to promote a sale, at least by traditional methods. There are those rare cases where some Instagrammers are making some serious …

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26 May 2017

5 Tips for Virtual Assistants and the School Holidays

How do I manage the School holidays and my Virtual Assistant business? So it’s that time of year again here in the UK. The school summer holidays are upon us. For those of us with children and running a business from home this can be a challenging time of year. The balance of home life …

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9 May 2017

Homepage designs that are SEO friendly

Building a website for yourself or having it built for you requires thought and planning. This article covers what you should know to make Homepage designs that are SEO friendly and help convert lookers into potential clients. You’ve probably read these terms before: on-page optimization, keywords and SEO. The basics of SEO is the use of …

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Interviews & Features

WordPress Now Powers 30 Percent Of The Internet

Torque Toons: Who Are You Wearing?

Make Your Articles Heard with Amazon Polly: Q & A with AWS

13 Performance-Boosting Site Speed Tips for WordPress

WordPress Translation is an Accessibility Issue, Don’t Fall Behind

4 tips for a successful online business

How customers can help you Market your business

Why you need a FAQs page

Essential WordPress Plugins for Virtual Assistants

Turning Instagram followers into buyers of your product or service

5 Tips for Virtual Assistants and the School Holidays

Homepage designs that are SEO friendly