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It’s our way of saying thanks for trusting us with your WordPress Sites!  Starting today all of our Managed WordPress Hosting Plans include a new .com domain name.

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Are You Still Waiting for Mobile?

Many independent professionals and small business owners have adopted a “wait and see” policy out of ignorance and/or fear when it comes to mobile.

You can’t afford to wait any longer! The latest research by Pew indicates that 56% of Americans now own a smartphone, and that percentage is lower than most other industrial countries.

Let that sink in for a moment. More than half of Americans have an iPhone, Android or Windows Phone jam packed with a big screen and all sorts of advanced features. Worldwide, it’s estimated that at this moment, there are 6.8 billion mobile subscribers.

Should You Use Word of Mobile Marketing?

What does this all mean? Well it should be crystal clear now that there has already been a paradigm shift in the way we, as marketers, HAVE TO communicate and interact with consumers!

Fancy smartphones are exploring mobile purchases, watching videos, and are glued to social networking and web services. According to Ericsson AB of Sweden, annual smartphone traffic will reach 10 billion gigabytes by 2019, 50% of that being video streaming and social networking.

So how well are you positioned to take advantage of this shift that has already happened? The groundwork you lay now will determine your success in the coming years. This isn’t a flash in the pan that’s going to go away, step forward today and reap the rewards tomorrow.

Should You Use Word of Mobile Marketing?

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Ok, I’ve got a WordPress Blog…

How do I start earning money with it?  Its a simple question that I’d like to answer for you.

The reason I started doing these online video tutorials almost 15 years ago was pretty simple, I wanted to make it easy to learn for myself.  I need to see, hear and then do what was required with a Step-by-Step process.

Once I had a bunch of videos in a series it turned out that I had a bunch or sequence of processes so I made a mind map to collect all my thoughts into a single sheet, one I could reference at a glance.   This became my “WordPress Marketing Map” and I’d like you to have a copy to follow too.

The best part is that the map reflects the videos in a sequence in the site that make it easy to follow along on the site as well as on the Marketing Map.

Here are a couple of versions available for immediate download.

WordPress Blogging For Profit Marketing Map Image – A large image you can view on 1 page.

Interactive WordPress Marketing Map – You can open and close sections of the map with the Adobe PDF

WordPress Blogging For Profit Marketing Process – A sequence of tasks you can apply to generate real recurring revenues with your WordPress Powered Blog

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This last week saw lots of news in the Managed WordPress Hosting space.  One of the services FullContact Site owners enjoy is peace of mind knowing that their sites are always up to date.

Why is this important?

Just think about what happens when you site isn’t secure, if it did get exploited what would that cost you in time, money and reputation?  Because wordpress is so popular means that anyone running a WordPress powered site IS a target.   With the latest stats I saw pointing to almost 1 in 5 web sites being powered by WordPress these days, if you are managing your WordPress site correctly its just a matter of when, not if it will be attacked by hackers.

Just to give you an example here’s last weeks update from WordFence, one of the builtin WordPress plugins included with your FullContact Managed WordPress service.

We are seeing exploits in the wild appear within the last week for the following WordPress themes and plugins . If you are running any of these themes or plugins, check if there is a recent security update and install the update, or remove the item from your system if there is no security update. If you’re unsure, contact the theme/plugin developer or vendor.

• Cubed Themes version 1.0 to 1.2. Remote file upload vulnerability. Distributed by themeprofessor.com. Exploit released on 9 November 2013.

• Army Knife Theme, unspecified version. CSRF File Upload vulnerability. Theme is distributed by freelancewp.com. Exploit released 9 November 2013.

• Charcoal Theme. CSRF File upload vulnerability. Distributed by the official WordPress repository. The theme hasn’t been updated for several years, so we recommend deleting all files from your system.

• WP Realty Plugin may contain an email sender vulnerability. Please contact vendor for clarification. We’re seeing exploits that claim to exploit this hole. Plugin is distributed by wprealty.org.

• The following themes distributed by orange-themes.com appear to contain a remote file upload vulnerability and we’re seeing exploits appear in the wild, all published around November 12, 2013: Rockstar Theme, Reganto Theme, Ray of Light Theme, Radial Theme, Oxygen Theme, Bulteno Theme, Bordeaux Theme. Please contact the vendor to find out of your theme is applicable and what action to take.

• Amplus Theme version 3.x.x contains a CSRF file upload vulnerability. We’re unclear who the vendor is, but it appears to be Themeforest.

• Make a Statement Theme version 1.x.x (also known as MaS ) contains a CSRF file upload vulnerability. Exploit distributed November 17, 2013. Vendor is themes.mas.gambit.ph.

• Dimension Theme, unspecified version, contains a CSRF file upload vulnerability. Theme is distributed by ThemeForest. Exploit appeared November 17th, 2013.

• Euclid Version 1 Theme contains a CSRF File Upload Vulnerability. Exploit appeared today. Theme is distributed by FreelanceWP.com.

• Project 10 Theme, Version 1.0. Remote file upload vulnerability. Distributed by ThemeForest. Exploit appeared today.

Are you running any of these WordPress Themes? Do you have any of these WordPress Themes installed?

If you take a look at this theme list that it’s not just 3rd party distributed themes only that can be affected.  More than one of theme is a theme available in the WordPress Repository!

Be careful, let FullContact Managed WordPress Hosting and Support make sure that your themes are always up to date!

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WordPress Can Be Easy

… and it can be frustrating!

After 10 years what started out as a simple script for Web Logging, WordPress has become a full fledged Content Management System that runs nearly 1 out of every 5 web sites online!  As you can imagine with all that growth and demands for more features and more functions it’s easy to see why today even experienced online users can still get a bit lost.

Or worse yet forget where/how to do something with their WordPress Site.

That’s exactly why its a great idea to have our step-by-step checklist.  It’s a free PDF that you can print out and follow along.  Think of it as a big graphic “to-do” list.

It’s part of the Blogging Secrets Course. Download the PDF today and you’ll have the checklist plus 150 pages of great WordPress tips, tricks and strategies to start Blogging For Profit.

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