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Why Is My Google Drive Full?

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Have you ever wondered

What is taking up so much space in your Google Drive™?

If you could only list the files stored in a Google Drive account and sorts them by size…  This would help you identify unwanted large files taking up space on your Google Drive.  You could then decide if they are needed or not, delete files you don’t want and reclaim crucial storage space.

I’m going to show you how to do just that.

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Let’s Encrypt Issues 1 Billion FREE SSL Certificates!

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Want to make your website rank higher on Google for FREE?

Google ranks sites with SSL certificates higher than sites without them.  Also, if you go to a website without one you’ll likely see a warning appear on your browser, this can be confusing and often scares people away from your website – even more reason to get one installed!

An SSL certificate encrypts the transmission of data from your website to the web browser that your viewer is using.  It proves that no one has intercepted the content and messed with it.  You don’t have to be an e-commerce website for this to be important.  Trust is everything on the web.

Get Your FREE SSL Certificate From Let’s Encrypt…

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Improving Your Website’s ROI

You need to routinely evaluate how your website is performing. Don’t just throw money or hours of labor at the Internet and hope for the best.

How do people find you and how can you grow efficiently without wasting time or money?

To get your best return on investment (ROI) of time and/or money, just being found isn’t enough. You’ve got to be useful to your target audience.

If your target audience finds you useful they will happily promote you to other similar people. Just like a snowball rolling down hill. This is the most effective way to grow your business or organization today.

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Walton Construction and Renovation

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Nick Walton’s construction company with its main office in Lisbon, Iowa is growing and he wanted to upgrade his website to reflect that growth and attract more commercial and higher end residential work for his firm.

We sat down and hammered out that we wanted to focus on showing that Walton Construction is a thriving and experienced construction company, that it has several employees and is capable of doing high-end work for commerical or residential clients.  The fit and finish of the website had to let the viewer instantly know that they were dealing with professionals.

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Global Social Media Trends

Captain Obvious will happily declare that Facebook is still the reigning champion of social media worldwide with a commanding lead of 2167 million users.

Yet, what I find very interesting is that YouTube, with 1500 million users, is almost twice as popular as Instagram with 800 million users. Yet, YouTube is often misunderstood and ignored by many marketers and organizations who could otherwise leverage YouTube to improve their reach and engagement.

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Tech Tuesday: Online Security

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Given the number of high profile data hacks that we hear about almost every day, using two factor authentication (2FA) is no longer just an “option”.  Its a requirement if you are serious about your security online.

2FA is a way of adding additional security on your online account. The first “factor” is your usual “password”.  The second factor in this scenario is an ever-changing random code that is retrieved from an external device.  The most common devices today for generating these codes are smartphones…

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