Author Archives: Rick Smith

About Rick Smith

Rick Smith has been in small business owner for the past thirty years. He knows how easy it is in the Internet age to make sizable gains in your business, even if you've never so much as published a blog post before. Rick knows exactly what kind of challenges small businesses face. As an experienced Internet marketer, he knows exactly how those challenges can be addressed with a simple – but powerful – web presence.

Finding the Best Platform for Starting Your Own Blog

“The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it and what it can do if successful” – Ron Dawson Get, Set, Blog! Do you have something you want to share with the world? At present, the best channel to carry this task out is […]

The Most Popular Content Management System (CMS) – Build Your Website Easily

“The possibilities of designing a site with WordPress are immense indeed” – Unknown Are you looking to build your own website? If you have no prior experience of web design, you need all the tools and assistance you can get. In this regard, you won’t find a platform as effective as WordPress. Already considered to […]

Sound Like an Expert Blogger – Use a Blog Audio Player

Maintaining a blog as not as easy as it used to be. The competition has increased and readers want value. If they give you their time, they expect to get something in return. However, just posting pictures and videos doesn’t cut it for readers anymore. As a blogger, you might feel that you are already […]

Choosing Domain Names – A How to Guide

“Domains have and will continue to go up in value faster than any other commodity ever known to man” — Bill Gates Microsoft’s founder was spot-on when he made this statement regarding domain names. At present, domain names are being registered at a rate of three per minute. Therefore, whether you like it or not, choosing […]

VideoHive.net – Royalty Free Stock Video for Maximum Impact

Reviewing the Stock Video Available for Your Site’s Visual Content If you want to have a direct, visual impact on the people who visit your websites, there’s no quicker way to do it than through video. The problem? Video can be expensive. If you want to film yourself talking directly to your audience, you’ll likely […]

A WordPress Theme for Contractors – No Matter What Your Industry

Reviewing the Local Business WordPress Theme For Contractors If you’re a contractor, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard some variation of the following phrase before: “Do you have a website?” You didn’t. But you didn’t want to say that – instead, you wanted to cringe and hide in the corner as you explained how […]

WordPress Theme For Coaches – A Professional Showcase for All Your Services

A Review (and Recommendation) of Perhaps the Best Professional Coaching Theme Out There As a professional development coach, you’re used to knowing what to do. In fact, you couldn’t offer your clients the kind of value you do unless you had some pretty meaningful things to say. And yet when it comes to the web, […]

WordPress to DropBox – Preventing Total Disaster One Click at a Time

A Review of a Free Plugin for Keeping Your Website Safe You’ve finally done it. You’ve built a beautiful website using WordPress as a platform. The site is easy to navigate, attractive, and it draws enough people in that it’s actually increasing the amount of business you’re able to draw from the web. Everything’s going […]

Easily Solve Your Malware Problems – Best Malware Removal

Malware Problems Got You Down? No matter how many precautions you take, it happens. Your site gets hacked. It can be one of the most stressful situations you’ll ever encounter while working online. If you’re new to WordPress and site publishing in general, you don’t know what to do. You feel strongly violated, knowing that […]

How to Solve Any WordPress Problem Without Hiring an “IT Guy”

A Review of WPFixIt.com’s Unique Selling Point You have not made a mistake by utilizing WordPress to publish your web site online. In fact, some estimates suggest that as many as 15-16% of all websites on the Internet utilize WordPress in some way – a number that can only be described as “crazy high.” But […]