5 Canadian organizations challenging gender inequity
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Webnames.ca Staff
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames profiles 5 Canadian organizations working towards gender equality for International Women’s Day 2021
A Small Business Guide to Lead Generation
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Josh Brown
Josh BrownSmall business success often hinges on the ability to continuously generate leads. (More specifically, the ability to generate large quantities of high-quality leads.) It’s no surprise, then, that 53% of marketers spend over half their entire budget on their lead generation efforts. Still, more than 60% of marketers admit that generating high-value leads is their…
The Fundamentals of Domain Investing
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Josh Sekhon
Josh SekhonAbout two months into 2021, to say that investing has become something of a hot topic might be a bit of an understatement. Of course, I’m referring to the rise (and fall) of Gamestop ($GME) during the last week of January 2021. Despite an unprecedented number of people getting aboard the Gamestop hype-train, and my fear of missing out–my fear of losing money prevented me from hopping aboard. Naturally, I watched the whole thing play out from the…
5 Ways to Improve Domain Security for Small Businesses
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Josh SekhonAt a global average cost of $4 million per breach, it can be easy to view cybersecurity as a concern mostly meant for large corporations. Unfortunately, cybersecurity is often overlooked by many small businesses. Cybercriminals aren’t very picky when choosing between small businesses and corporations. According to Verizon, throughout 2020, 43% of security breach victims were small businesses. Additionally, 43% of all breaches involved compromised domain security, twice…
5 Steps to Use Influencer Marketing to Grow Your Business
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A. Shibli
A. ShibliInfluencer marketing has been in the spotlight ever since social media and content marketing replaced traditional advertising. According to this State of Influencer Marketing 2020 report, this industry was all set to grow up to a whopping $9.7 billion in that year. This guide will help you decide if influencer marketing is meant for your…
5 ways to carry your holiday momentum into 2021
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Josh SekhonFor most businesses, the holiday season is routinely the busiest time of year. Due to COVID-19, the sales environment has experienced some dramatic changes. These changes have been looming on the horizon for quite some time, but the pandemic has catalyzed a shift towards an omni-channel approach for a variety of businesses. According to Price…
How To Increase Organic Traffic To A Small Business Website
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Christian Carere
Christian CarereEvery website should have SEO baked into its overall marketing strategy to promote growth. It’s a necessary evil when it comes to generating new clients from search engines. Here are a few SEO tips to increase organic traffic to your small business website. Establish a topical keyword strategy Approach your keyword strategy from a topical…
7 easy ways to optimise web hosting resources and website speed
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Karthik Balachander
Karthik BalachanderA website’s performance and page load speed depends on choices made in choosing a programming language, database, content management system (CMS), web hosting provider and plan as well as ongoing optimization. When your website attracts more traffic, it consumes more hosting resources and if your server is unable to manage the load, that could slow…
AdultBlock Brand Protection: Sunrise B blocks on .XXX domains expire in 2021, switch now
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Karthik BalachanderTen years is a long time, but we’re closing in on that mark since .XXX domains launched. For brand protection professionals, that means that Sunrise B protections on .XXX expire 10 years from Dec. 2011, which puts us at Dec. 2021 and you will need to transition to AdultBlock or AdultBlock+ to protect your brand…
6 Ways to Convert Blog Traffic into Customers
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A. ShibliBlogging has emerged as one of the most effective forms of content marketing, the third-most-popular after video and ebook, according to this 2020 report. It is an easy and inexpensive tool for providing comprehensive information to your audience, boosting your market reputation, and, above all, gaining more revenue-generating customers. While high-quality, SEO-friendly content could take care of the first two goals,…
7 Reasons Why Marketing Plans Fail
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Josh SekhonPicture this—the year is 2005. It’s summer, I’m 9 years old, and I really want to make some money to buy myself a new Xbox. I’ve attempted to strike a deal with my parents, offering to do more chores around the house—and failed spectacularly. I tried to get a job, but shockingly fast-food restaurants don’t trust…
Five Canadian websites that show that launching a site doesn’t have to be complicated
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Erin Hutchinson
Erin HutchinsonLaunching a website can certainly seem complicated, but it doesn’t have to be. If features like blog post recommendation algorithms and menu navigation all seem like too much to learn about, let alone incorporate into your website, LiteSite is a great option. Sometimes, all it takes is a simple one-page website to share your big…
Black Friday Sale 2020: Discounts on Domains, Hosting, Email, and SSL Certificates
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Josh SekhonIt’s shopping season, and Webnames’ Black Friday sale will be live from November 24 to December 1. From domain extensions and web hosting, to SSL certificates and Business Email, we’ve got everything you need to establish your online presence, as we look ahead to a new year. .CA & .COM for just $8.99 This Black…
What is domain brokering and how does it work?
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Josh SekhonDomain Brokering is a service that helps you acquire a domain name currently owned by a third party, where the domain broker acts as your representative in a research, negotiation and domain acquisition capacity, for a fee and/or commission. For anyone doing business today, a website is far more than just a checkbox – it’s…
Your Best Influencers are your Customers
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Josh SekhonWho is an influencer? Well according to the Oxford Languages English Dictionary, as it relates to marketing, an influencer is “a person with the ability to influence potential buyers of a product or service by promoting or recommending the items on social media”. Whether you’re looking to find a reliable webhost, or find the right…