What the heck is inbound marketing?

Inbound Marketing is defined as the process of bringing attention to yourself and your business through content creation. It is one of the most effective and cheapest approaches to converting new viewers into new customers.  What it is, and why it’s so incredibly important is our topic for today.

You may have heard of it revered by others under several other names such as “content marketing”. Some more vague titles such as “lead generation” leave a lot of people shrugging and scratching their heads but essentially, they are all talking about the very same thing. By creating appealing content designed for your customers, inbound marketing brings prospective customers back to your business again and again.

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WordPress Security – A Continuous Fight

WordPress remains one of the most popular (arguably the most popular) website content management system on the Internet today. With that fame and usage comes the bad as well, security issues, exploits, security holes, poor written code and more. This attracts malicious attacks, hackers, and other foul intentions to your site looking to gain their 2 minutes of fame, spread attacks, use your site to launch attacks towards other sites and more.

Over this past weekend, we completed a report that found the total number of WordPress installations on our servers and their respective versions. We found that 68% of installations are running a version lower than the current release, which at the time of writing is 4.7.3 and that 41% are running versions lower than v4. The oldest version we found was 3.0.1, which released back in July of 2010, almost 7 years old, imagine the security issues and bugs in this release!

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Meet Nix!

Today we are PROUD to introduce the newest member of the ASPnix family…NIX! You may find Nix hopping around the site …

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