Seven Hard Truths Every Entrepreneur Faces and How to Push Through
A practical look at the self-doubt, cash flow pressure, decision fatigue, marketing frustration, and loneliness that entrepreneurs face while building a business.
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n77design
I do web, flyer and graphic design, with an edge, drawing from 20 years of design and marketing industry experience.
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4 Branding Strategies Every New Small Business Owner Needs to Know
Branding strategies may vary, but their purpose remains the same no matter what the business is: to show customers why they should make certain choices. Your audience will be making the decision to purchase from you over
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jQuery Migrate Plugin for WordPress
Soon after the WordPress 5.5 update, can the errors. A conflict here and there and missing functionality on more than one of my client's templates. After some Googling and quick research I found a few discussion referenc
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Visual Composer Not Working, Showing Short Codes & VC PageBuilder
It happens all the time! You find an amazing WordPress template that will be the future of your online business and once it's LIVE and ACTIVATED, you see nothing but short codes and you cannot edit anything like you are
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Bitnami: Start or stop services
Each Bitnami stack includes a control script that lets you easily stop, start and restart services. I had to save this for myself as I use these commands DAILY! Hope this helps others as much as it does me. Obtain the st
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Time to jump into buying a home, yay real estate.
This time has finally arrived where I have decided to start looking into purchasing a home for myself. Quite a few of my close friends have already jumped head first into real estate, and even one of my buddies has a few
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Fun with info graphics
I've been a 100% 'remote worker' for a decade now. With nearly our entire world working from home currently, I wanted to put together my top suggestions for anyone who's never be able to, or enjoy, working from home. #wo
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Learn Flexbox CSS Layout
Flexbox is AMAZING! As you might imagine based on its name, it's very flexible. In a nutshell, flexbox is a css layout framework for displaying and positioning parent elements and their children. Flexbox can be a bit int
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Rotate URLs with PHP Location Header Exit Code at Fifty Percent Random While Preserving URL string
This is a great piece of code to rotate 2 separate landing page urls using PHP location headers and a 50% random string. This code also preserves the URL string so that any url string variables are sent to the rotated li
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Set Up, Configure and Install FTP on AWS EC2 Instance - Bitnami LAMP ubuntu-14-04-lts/ Apache2 - vsftpd
Set up new user to use FTP, use $ sudo passwd only to change the password later if needed, $ sudo adduser will prompt you to create a password then. $ sudo adduser username $ sudo passwd username Use the command below to
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