Useful Resources for Your Online Success

• Hosting Services
• Email Marketing
• Online Marketing
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Web Design Tips
• WordPress
• Scams, spam, viruses, phishing and more

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Recommended Hosting Services

• Hostgator.com
  
  
  Host Gator provides award-winning web hosting. Accounts include free software for blogs (including WordPress), photo galleries and much more. Their Baby hosting plan allows you to host more than one website in one account.
  
  
• WebValence.com
  
  Web Valence offers professional and friendly hosting services plus customized extras for your business needs like newsletter broadcasting and online teleclass registration systems. A favorite hosting company of writers, personal coaches, and other professionals.

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Email Marketing

• The CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business
  Guidance so your marketing emails won't be tagged as spam.
• Constant Contact
  
  
  Trusted Email Marketing
  and Online Surveys
  
  Free 60-Day Trial. In addition to providing Email Marketing and Online Surveys, their learning center offers tutorials and a wealth of marketing advice.
• MailChimp
  
  
  Email Marketing and Email List Manager. If your mailing list is small or you send out newsletters infrequently, their Forever Free Plan lets you send up to 12,000 emails per month for free!
  

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Online Marketing

• Web Marketing Today — One of the best resources for online marketing and ecommerce information.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

• HighRankings.com — Tips for optimizing your site for better search engine rankings from Jill Whalen, one of the top SEO consultants in the country.
• Search Engine Watch - Everything you could ever want to know about search engines and search engine marketing.

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WordPress

• WordPress 101
  
  
  The WP101 video tutorial series is a great way to learn the basics for using WordPress!

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Scams, spam, viruses, phishing and more

• Snopes - Urban legends reference pages that will tell you whether that helpful email chain letter you just received warning you of some imminent disaster is real or not.
• Internet ScamBusters - Tips and resources about spam, viruses, scams and more.

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If you have any favorite resources you would like to suggest for this page, please feel free to let me know.