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Social Media For Good (Infographic)
According to a recent survey, 83 percent of Americans want brands to support causes. In the same survey, it was found that 41 percent of people bought a product from a company because they knew the company was associated with a cause. As more companies and nonprofits are evolving into social enterprises (a hybrid of…
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Your Content Marketing Checklist
Content marketing is the word on every digital marketing professional’s lips, but like many new buzzwords, the meaning often gets lost in the excitement. Content marketing is simply using content, whether text, video, or other mediums, to communicate your value to online users. This can be done in a number of ways from starting a…
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Website Maintenance Guide: Quick Tips to Speed Up Your Website.
As a long-time member of the Bluehost team, I like to monitor the pulse of our business via social media. Quite often, while perusing hosting customer tweets and Facebook posts, I see users saying things like: “My website seemed fast before but now it feels slow,” and “Is my server having issues?” In almost every…
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How to Add an Email Opt-In Form to Your Website
If you have valuable information to share with your customers on a regular basis, then it might be time to start an email list. Start by putting an opt-in form on your website – you know, those “Sign up for our newsletter,” boxes you see on other websites. Doing so will allow you to expand…
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Data Center Update
Last night we experienced some issues in our data center that affected a portion of our clients. We wanted to take a moment to let you know what happened.At approximately 6:22 PM MST our primary Data Center experienced an electrical transient. An Automatic Transfer Switch on one of our legs of power failed, causing some…
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Great WordPress Plugins: Fonts
Fonts are one of the most fundamental elements of design and using fonts effectively is one of the key secrets to creating a great website. After all, your font choices say a lot of about you and the message you are communicating. Just like pictures and video, fonts themselves send a visual message and they…
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WordPress Update 3.4
WordPress has just been upgraded to a new version—3.4. Every major update from WordPress has brought welcomed changes, but version 3.4 is definitely one worth noting. WordPress started off as just a simple tool to create blogs and has grown into a full flagship content management system for complete websites (and blogs).
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What is Verification at Bluehost?
If you’re like me, odds are you’ve been contacted at some point by someone you don’t know asking for help to get out of a jam. Hopefully you recognized this email as spam and didn’t fall for the trap! Unfortunately scams like these are being run by the forces of evil every day. They often…
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Working at Bluehost
We received a lot of positive responses to our recent video about Bluehost, so we decided to make a few more! Bluehost is a special place to work. If you’ve ever called in seeking technical support, you know our team is amazingly good at actually helping solve technical issues. There are lots of reasons our people rock,…