Someone contacted me from my listing on the Mailchimp Experts Directory with an interesting question. In short, the Mailchimp user has over 100,000 subscribers and has been sending his email marketing to subscribers for over 18 months. What he has noticed is that during this year, open and click rates of campaigns sent to Gmail and […]
Archives for November 2015
Mailchimp Training Classes
We are getting excellent feedback from our Learn to use Mailchimp classes. People are finding the four hour face-to-face training very beneficial in learning the best way to use email marketing to meet their needs. We’ve had people from Government, charities, startups, small businesses and all other types of organizations attend. In 2016 we’ll be […]
Why websites are slow for Australians
Today is one of those work days where I’m catching up on administration; one of the joys of being a small business owner 😉 I’ve noticed recently that some overseas websites seem to be loading slowly so started to investigate. It appears that the Sea-Me-We 3 (South East Asia Middle East Western Europe 3) cable between […]
How to save a large file to a USB stick
Providing Mailchimp and WordPress services means that often clients need to send me images. Of course the simplest is to use Dropbox, Google Drive or similar however many of my clients prefer to save the images (or video) to a USB drive then give me the drive. With large files (e.g. over 4GB in size), […]
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Improve WordPress Image Quality Instantly
Did you know that WordPress purposefully reduces your image quality? WordPress does this to reduce image filesize which makes web pages load faster. For the majority of websites the minimal quality reduction is probably a good tradeoff for a better user experience for visitors (and SEO). If however you want ultra crisp and sharp photos […]