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How To Customize Options in WordPress

Customize Options in WordPress

customize options in wordpressFor Web Wednesdays, we have been showing you how to take a website from simply an idea to a fully functional website. After installing WordPress & setting your theme. It is time to begin looking at the customize options in WordPress. You can do this by hovering over “Appearance” in the WordPress Dashboard on the left side of the screen. From here, you can click on Customize and you will be sent to the Customization menu for your theme. All themes have different options, but on the WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme, there are only a few customization settings.

The things we will look at in our Customize Options in WordPress video are Site Information, Colors, Header Media, & Homepage Settings. The other items on the Customize menu can be (and will be) tweaked directly through the dashboard.

Site Information will be where you set the SEO name of your website along with the tagline. You also have the option to decline displaying your site information here. You may be wondering why someone would want to do that. The reason is very simple. If you have a custom header with a logo and a tagline already in the image, then you may decline using this option. However, I do not suggest that approach.

You can certainly put your logo in an image, but then you would still want the Site Information displayed in the corner. If your business/site name is only in the graphic image and not overlain as text within the Site Information setting, then Google will not be able to pick up the name of your website and your tagline. Taglines are also good for SEO purposes. When it comes to getting picked up by Google, you need all the free help you can get.

Making Images for Your Site

If you haven’t done so already, I heavily suggest getting Adobe Creative Cloud so you can use Photoshop for making your images. Under Site Information, you are going to have the option to set a Site Image. This image will serve two functions: it will be the icon displayed on a browser tab & it will also be the icon if someone were to save your website to their homepage on the phone. The size of this image is 512 pixels by 512 pixels. It’s very easy to create a simple text favicon in Photoshop by making one letter in a cool font matching your color scheme.

You will also have to create a header media image for your site. This will be the image that people will think of when they remember your website. This means you need for this image (and any text on it) to really pop & stand out. Many people have a very difficult time trying to make text blend in well with a header image. Header images are rarely solid colors because that is boring. People will either use a stock photo or an abstract background with different colors. To create a header image that solves this problem, check out our Customize Options in WordPress tutorial video.

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Thanks for reading!

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Crypto Thursdays

How to Buy Ripple – CryptoCurrency Guide

How to Buy Ripple

how to buy rippleFor our CryptoCurrency Thursday videos, we like to show you ways to buy different types of cryptocurrencies. Today, we are going to be showing you how to buy Ripple. The symbol for Ripple is XRP. So why would someone want to learn how to buy Ripple? Well, the answer to that question is the same reason why anyone would want to buy any crypto: to make money and get a good return on investment. With all of the talk of the moon and Lambos for all investors, it is super important to know what you are buying so you do not fall into delusions of grandeur.

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Social Media Tips

How to Build Reddit Karma Quickly

How to Build Reddit Karma Quickly

how to build reddit karma quicklyIf you are over 30, there is a chance you don’t even know what Reddit is. If you are under 30, then there is a good chance you have used it extensively. Either way, it is a great idea to get to know it better and learn how to build Reddit Karma quickly. Reddit is an awesome platform to be able to get the word out about your business, product, service, channel, or any other cause you would like to advertise. Reddit is build in such a way that it protects its users from spam. If you are looking to spam your way to the top, then Reddit is not the place for you. If you are looking to promote your business with quality content, then Reddit is one of the best places to do so.

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Crypto Thursdays Extra Crypto Fridays

MyEtherWallet Tutorial

MyEtherWallet Tutorial

myetherwallet tutorialWe have had such a great response to our Crypto Thursday videos, that we have decided to post more cryptocurrency videos & tutorials. While Thursdays will still consist of videos showing you how to buy specific coins (and additional info about each coin), on Fridays we will be reaching out to other areas of cryptocurrency such as wallets, chart reading info, and more. We are very excited about this and hope that you will be as well.

For today’s video & blog, we are taking a look at a MyEtherWallet tutorial. MyEtherWallet is an online wallet where you can hold any token on the ERC-20 network. The ERC-20 network is better known as the Ethereum Network. While Ethereum is the base for the network, there are several other tokens that are also on the network. Some of these include, EOS, Quantum, Tron, & Internet Node Token. The fact that you can own all of these tokens and keep them on the same wallet is a huge plus to creating a wallet here.

The wallet is pretty straight forward and offers many standard features of a wallet. It offers support for a hardware wallet such as Trezor or Ledger. MyEtherWallet provides you with multiple ways to unlock your wallet after you create it. The two easiest ways are with either the Keystore File the site provides you with or the Private Key the site provides you with. MyEtherWallet suggests using some other methods, but those are the two easiest ways (and most likely what normal investors are using). You are given both of these tools in the sign-up process.

MyEtherWallet Problems

Personally, I love MyEtherWallet. It’s a great wallet, but there are two common problems people run into with this wallet. First, because of the nature of the online storage of this wallet, if you lose your Private Key or Keystore File and are unable to get into your account, then you will indefinitely lose whatever tokens are in your wallet. MyEtherWallet cannot help you to restore them. For this reason, there are warnings MyEtherWallet gives you as you sign up detailing how to protect your account. Phishing is extremely common for this wallet. Just use common sense and you should be fine. The best way to avoid phishing is to only go directly to the site by typing the URL in the address bar instead of ever clicking a link to go to it.

The second problem people have is they have a hard time figuring out how to send tokens away from MyEtherWallet. If you look up on the top right of the wallet, you will see this information:

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If you are unfamiliar with the Ethereum Network, you may think this is the stock price for gasoline. However, Gwei (or Giga wei), is the fuel that runs the network. In order to send tokens back to an exchange from MyEtherWallet you must have Ethereum also stored on your wallet. It doesn’t have to be much, but you need some to cover the transfer fees for your other tokens. I suggest adding about $10 worth of Ethereum to your account before you ever add tokens. This way you will have your transaction fees covered for a while.

To find out more about this wallet, please watch our “MyEtherWallet Tutorial”. Thanks for reading!

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Social Media Tips

How to Set Up Facebook Page Cover Photo

How to Set Up Facebook Page Cover Photo

how to set facebook page cover photoIf you have been looking for a how to set up Facebook page cover photo tutorial, then you have come to the right place. Feel free to watch our video, but also let’s look at why it is important to set up your page correctly. Facebook, as a corporation, feels like it is time to once again change their working algorithm for businesses. Seemingly just like every other business in the world, Facebook wants to appeal to their users and make it more difficult for businesses to advertise to those users. This is good for users but bad for businesses.

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Crypto Thursdays

How to Buy FunFair Coin on Binance

How to Buy FunFair Coin on Binance

how to buy funfair coin on binanceOver the last few weeks, the cryptocurrency market has really struggled to find its footing. Bitcoin has dropped substantially recently and is having a hard time recovering. Still, multiple times it has gone down around $10k and refuses to go much lower. For those of us who believe in cryptocurrency and Bitcoin, this is a dream time to make investments. The price of the coins are dropping because of the destabilization of Bitcoin; not because of their own merits. One of the coins that smart investors are looking at is FunFair (FUN). In today’s tutorial video, we show you how to buy FunFair coin on Binance.

Buying FunFair is actually pretty simple if you already have a Coinbase account and an account on Binance. If you don’t head on over to both of those sites and create an account on both. Once you have logged into your Binance account, scroll up to Funds>Balances at the top of the screen. Once you are here, click Deposit next to Bitcoin on the listing. Copy the Bitcoin address and head back on over to your Coinbase account. If you don’t have any funds, make sure to make a deposit. Once you have Bitcoin in your Coinbase account, click the Accounts tab. From there, all you have to do is click send and then paste your Binance BTC address. Confirm the address is correct and send the Bitcoin over. Sometimes it takes a few hours, but most of the time your BTC will hit your Binance account within 30 minutes to an hour.

But Why Buy FunFair (FUN)

If I purchased any coin that I ever heard someone say they liked, I would have one of everything (except BitConnect of course!). You can always find someone on Twitter or a subreddit that absolutely love virtually any coin out there. Because of that, you must be careful taking advice from people. They most likely have ulterior motives and are holding bags of whatever they are trying to pump to you (pump is a word that means someone is trying to hype a coin just so the price goes up). You HAVE to do your own research. Please, don’t take my advice. Don’t take a YouTubers advice. Don’t take the random cat lady on Twitter’s advice when it comes to crypto… even if she has a cryptokitty. You must investigate each coin to find out what kind of technology it has behind it. The technology is what will give many of these coins staying power.

how to buy funfair coin on binance

FunFair is a coin I like a lot because the technology behind it seeks to solve the problems of the online gambling community. This is a huge market marred by scandals and untrustworthy individuals running online casinos. FunFair is seeking to make all gambling transactions & bets run through the blockchain. This completely guards against cheating. One other incredible feature of this new system of gambling is that players can pull out their coins in real time instead of having to wait weeks or sometimes months for an online casino to pay up. This coin has a lot of potential and is one to watch!

Thanks for reading & don’t forget to watch our tutorial video, “How to Buy FunFair Coin on Binance.”

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Freedom Fridays

How To Outsource Work With Upwork – Free Up Your Time

Why Outsource with Upwork

outsource with upworkThere is an unseen world when it comes to any digital service. This includes SEO, graphic design, logo design, web design, web development, & much more. Almost every web company on the internet outsources at least some of their work. It’s a problem that comes with being small enough to not turn down any business opportunities and not profitable enough yet to hire additional staff members. Outsourcing can be looked at as the “dirty little secret” of digital services. You would be surprised at just how many of the digital services you have paid for involved situations where companies outsource with Upwork.

Upwork is a large freelancer site. Users can have two different types of accounts there: Freelancer or Client. I will give you my opinion on actually freelancing for Upwork, as I have done it. I don’t suggest it at all. The same reason why we will use it on the client side is the same reason why being a freelancer is not a good deal on Upwork. All of the clients want the most work done for least amount. As a reputable web or graphic designer, that makes for very difficult working conditions. As a freelancer, I found that the expectations of the clients were quite unreasonable. I was basically getting a full-time workload for what would amount to a minimum wage payment (or less). Just a warning: be careful as a freelancer on Upwork.

Outsourcing with Upwork as a Client

The client relationship with Upwork is much easier. If you read the above complaints about being a freelancer on Upwork, then please take that in consideration when you hire people. You are going to be hiring good workers who are diligent. However, it will be hard for them to ever get inside your head to understand what you actually want. Be lenient & communicate well with your freelancers and you will find many of them will go out of their way to try to please you.

As a Client, you can post jobs pretty easily. To see how to post a job, please watch our tutorial video above “Outsource with Upwork”. Once you do this, the key is to find the right candidates for your job. I will reiterate, the most important skill a freelancer will have is communication. Most of them will be able to technically perform what you need… if they understand it. Be very thorough in your vetting process to make sure that the freelancer you hire does, in fact, understand you and communicates well.

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Be leery of candidates who “over-communicate.” I know that may sound a little opposite of my earlier statement, but communicating well and over-communicating are not the same thing. You want to be able to give your freelancer a job with details included and trust them to complete the job. Of course, some clarification will most likely be necessary. However, if your freelancer is going to call, text, or Skype you 20 times about every task then you might want to consider doing the task yourself. The whole point of outsourcing is to pass the job along to someone else.

We hope this has been helpful for you. Thanks for reading!

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Social Media Tips

How to Search Someone’s Facebook Timeline

How to Search Someone’s Facebook Timeline

how to search someone's facebook timeline If you have a Facebook account, you you have probably wondered how to search someone’s Facebook timeline at least once. If you don’t have a Facebook account, then chances are you are under 25 or over 80. Since February of 2004, Facebook has risen to become one of the top 3 visited websites in the entire world. For the majority of the last several years, Facebook was number 2. However, it recently took a tumble all the way down to number 3 compliments of YouTube. Ironically, many of YouTube’s views originate from Facebook. In any case, I’m sure Facebook isn’t complaining.

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Freedom Fridays

How To Make Money Buying Domain Names

Why Make Money Buying Domains

For this week’s Freedom Friday video, we look at how to make money buying domains. Before you head on over to GoDaddy to make a domain purchase, you may be wondering why this is a great way to make money. The answer is quite simple really. You can make an absolute killing reselling domains on the GoDaddy Premium Domain platform. We will show you exactly how to list your domain on the platform next week, but this week we really want to focus on just how much money is out there in this niche.

how to make money buying domains

Usually, here at the Online Business Realm, we try to temper expectations for our audience. We aren’t about teaching you how to become rich over night or how to create a fly-by-night scheme. However, when it comes to buying & selling domains, there is a LOT of potential income. Most premium domains resell for at least 1000% mark-up on them. I have seen some go for as much as $15,000 which would be a 10,000% mark-up. So you are probably wondering, “what’s the catch”?

Making Money Buying Domains Takes Patience

buy domains to make moneyThe catch to making money buying domains is that it requires much more patience than other methods. If you find a great domain you want to purchase then buy it before someone else jumps on it. There may be someone looking at the domain at the same time you are… but most likely that is not the case. What is much more likely is that you may hold on to some of the premium domains for years. Are you prepared to wait that long? Many people are not. That is exactly why this is such a great business to get into. Many people refuse to work within this niche because they simply lack the patience.

There is a method by which you can attempt to speed up the process. Once you find a premium domain and list it, you can try finding businesses that would be interested in the domain. After you find likely interested businesses, call them and try to speak to the person in charge of their advertising. Explain to them that you have a domain they may be interested in. What you may find is that most businesses with a name that closely matches the domain are not the most internet savvy people. This also leads you into an opportunity to not only influence them to buy the domain, but you may even be able to talk them into allowing you to build their website & do their SEO.

How to Find Good Domain Names

The secret to this method is to find actual domain names that people will want to purchase down the road. There are a few great ways to do this, but the most popular one is to search businesses within a city on Google. Scroll through all of the businesses listed on the Google Places portion of the search results. Look for businesses that have contact info, but lack a website. You would be surprised at just how many businesses in 2018 still do not have websites! When you find a business without a website, see if you can find a domain name that closely matches that business and buy it.

make money buying domains

Another method to try is to think about technology trends. For instance, if Apple is releasing a new version of the iPhone, look for domain names that would match it. Apple is a very popular brand and many people rush to get domains as soon as a new announcement is made. Think about how lucrative a domain such as iPhoneXStore.com would be right now? You could easily sell this domain on the GoDaddy Premium Domain platform (this was just an example as that domain is already taken).

Don’t forget to watch our video this week and tutorial next week! Thanks for watching!

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Crypto Thursdays

How to Buy RaiBlocks (XRB) with KuCoin

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