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Choosing an Internet Service Provider, Webhosting Service, and Content Management Systems
by, Jill Swenson
December 19, 2017

Last week I wrote about deciding upon your author name to determine your domain name. Once you have purchased your domain, the next step is stake out your own real estate on the internet. Before you build your author website, you will need to answer three questions.   (1)  Who will provide you with internet service?  Internet service providers (ISPs) are those who bring the… [Read More]

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What’s in a Name?
by, Jill Swenson
December 12, 2017

Are you on the start of your journey to publication? Authors’ names are their brands, and satisfied readers exercise brand loyalty. They shop for titles by author name, and when they come across a real find, they recommend it to friends. Those friends do the same, and the chain continues. But a book is more than a cover or jacket. It is the embodiment of… [Read More]

Filed Under: Audience platform, author name, best practices, domain registration, Webhosting
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When technology fails you…breathe
by, Jill Swenson
August 3, 2013

Yesterday was a rough day for those whose online presence is the lifeblood of their business. Authors, included. Early on Friday, August 2nd, a datacenter in Provo, Utah, experienced an outage. Millions of sites came crashing down. Including this one. Perhaps yours, too. Endurance International Group, the parent company of the largest webhosting firms BlueHost, GatorHost, HostMonsters, JustHost, and 50 others, experienced a cascading crash… [Read More]

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Social Media for Authors: Baby Step 3
by, Jill Swenson
December 10, 2011

Baby Step 3: Build your author online presence by making executive decisions in answer to the following three questions. Who will provide you with internet service? Who will provide webhosting service for your website/blog? What content management system is right for you as an author? Internet service providers are those who bring the internet into your home or office. This may be your phone company,… [Read More]

Filed Under: author platform, BlueHost.com, CMS, cpanel, domain name, email, HTML, Internet Service Provider, online presence, SEO, Webhosting, WordPress.com, WordPress.org
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