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- Content Marketing
WordPress: WLWManifest Is A Legacy Feature With Security Implications. Here’s How To Disable It
In the evolving landscape of content management systems, certain features persist long after their original purpose has faded into obscurity. The Windows Live Writer Manifest (WLWManifest) in WordPress is one such artifact, representing a bygone era of desktop blogging tools while potentially introducing unnecessary security risks to modern WordPress installations. WLWManifest Origins and Purpose The WLWManifest feature was introduced to…
- Sales and Marketing Training
Please Test Your Lead Generation Forms
Years ago, we worked with a client who invested a significant budget with a branding agency to build a beautiful new web presence. The client came to us because they weren’t seeing any leads coming through the site and asked us to help them out. We did the first thing we usually do: submit a request through their contact page…
- Marketing Tools
Why Should Your Company Pay for Managed DNS?
While you manage the registration of a domain at a domain registrar, it’s not always a great idea to manage where and how your domain resolves all of its other DNS entries to resolve your email, subdomains, host, etc. Your domain registrars’ primary business is selling domains, not ensuring that your domain can resolve quickly, managed easily, and has redundancy…
- E-commerce and Retail
Go-To Strategies & Challenges To Holiday Marketing in Post-Covid Era
The special time of the year is right around the corner, the time we all look forward to unwinding with our loved ones and most importantly indulge in heaps of holiday shopping. Although unlike the usual holidays, this year stands apart due to the widespread disruption by COVID-19. While the world is still struggling to deal with this uncertainty and…
- Marketing Tools
KosmoTime: Create Tasks That Reserve Time On Your Calendar
As a partner in an agency working with enterprise companies, my days are a blur, and my calendar is a mess – bouncing from sales to strategy to stand-ups to partner meetings non-stop. Between all those calls, I need to get the work done that I’ve committed to with clients, too! One thing I’ve done in the past is block…
- Content Marketing
Global Ecommerce: Automatic vs Machine vs People Translation for Localisation
Cross border e-commerce is booming. Even just 4 years ago, a Nielsen report suggested that 57% of shoppers had purchased from an overseas retailer in the previous 6 months. In recent months the global COVID-19 has had a huge impact on retail across the globe. Brick and mortar shopping has dropped significantly in the US and UK, with the decline…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Google’s Antitrust Suit is a Harbinger of Rough Waters for Apple’s IDFA Changes
While a long time coming, DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Google has arrived at an important time for the ad tech industry, as marketers are bracing for Apple’s crippling Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) changes. And with Apple also being accused in the recent 449-page report from the US House of Representatives of abusing its respective monopoly power, Tim Cook must be…