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Divi Offers the Best in Speed and Performance With the Right Divi Experts, Hosting Environment, and Maintenance Plan
If your website is not as usable as it could be, a large percentage of your readers will simply leave your site without even giving it a shot. Speed is one of the biggest killers of usability. A slow loading web site can turn away thousands of potential customers. In this post I’m going to show you how using Divi and having the proper hosting and maintenance plans can give you excellent speed and performance.
Sunsetting Divi Staff
A little over four years ago, I created my very first premium plugin called Divi Staff. Little did I know this would become such a popular Divi Premium plugin. It has been an incredible learning experience, and I am proud of its success within the Divi Community in general. Nonetheless, I have humbly decided to sunset Div Staff effective November 10th, 2021.
Using Canva.com For Your Realtor Flyer
In This Tutorial, I Want to Show You How Easy It Is to Create a Realtor Flyer Using Canva.com.
Web Design
Divi Offers the Best in Speed and Performance With the Right Divi Experts, Hosting Environment, and Maintenance Plan
If your website is not as usable as it could be, a large percentage of your readers will simply leave your site without even giving it a shot. Speed is one of the biggest killers of usability. A slow loading web site can turn away thousands of potential customers. In this post I’m going to show you how using Divi and having the proper hosting and maintenance plans can give you excellent speed and performance.
Case Study: F&Z Dentistry Website Redesign 2021
F&Z Dentistry is in Rockwall, Texas, and in 2020, they moved into a brand new building. Naturally, they wanted a website that matched the new modern design of the office. So after a few strategy sessions, we began the redesign with the following goals in mind.
UX Design: 5 Web Design Tips That can Boost Conversions
UX web design allows you to provide a pleasant experience to your site visitors. As a result, they are likely to continue whatever it is that they need to do.
How Page Speed Affects SEO & Google Rankings
It has become increasingly challenging to rank sites or pages higher on the internet today due to the growing competition. And, at the crux of the solution to the matter lies within Search Engine Optimization. Of the many ranking factors that directly impact SEO, page...
6 Ways To Protect Yourself and Your Business When Working as a Freelancer
It’s fast becoming a cliché, but the pandemic is transforming the way we work. The widespread move to work-from-home has freed many people from the daily commute and the constraints of the office. And, with more companies looking to hire remote freelancers, more...
S.E.O.
Microanalytics Is a Great Lightweight Alternative to Google Analytics
Microanalytics is a simple, clean, user-friendly website analytics tool and is fully compliant with GDPR, PECR, and CCPA. Microanalytics was created and is hosted in the EU. It is a lightweight, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics and powered by renewable energy.
How to Strengthen Your SEO Strategy to Improve Visibility and Sales
Having a digital marketing campaign that does not use a stable strategy for SEO is similar to driving on an unfamiliar road without using a road map. The chances of success become slim as you are not able to find a way. SEO is a tool that can be used to let the...
8 Tricks to Make Your Website SEO-Friendly and Keep it That Way
If you have your website for years and are still not seeing results, consider following the tips listed above.
How Local SEO Compliments Mobile Marketing Efforts
Your target audience is more than likely using their mobile device to search for your products or services. Follow these few tips to ensure that your local SEO marketing efforts are on the right track!
How to Setup Your SEO Strategy for Different Languages and Countries
Keep in mind that an international SEO strategy starts with understanding how to best serve your customers and then making efforts to customize your content and search experience to their needs. If you can do that, you’re well on your way to conquer a competitive market and grow your global presence leaving your competitors behind.
The Divi Theme
Divi Offers the Best in Speed and Performance With the Right Divi Experts, Hosting Environment, and Maintenance Plan
If your website is not as usable as it could be, a large percentage of your readers will simply leave your site without even giving it a shot. Speed is one of the biggest killers of usability. A slow loading web site can turn away thousands of potential customers. In this post I’m going to show you how using Divi and having the proper hosting and maintenance plans can give you excellent speed and performance.
We Take Your Website Security Very Seriously and So Should You
Here at Monterey Premier, we’re committed to the performance and security of your website, especially as your business now relies on it more than ever. If you are not already signed up with our hosting and monthly maintenance services, take a look at what we offer and let us help you make sure your site is safe and secure.
Monterey Premier Is Proud to Be a Platinum Sponsor for the East Texas 2020 Man Church Golf Tournament
Once again, we are proud to have such a large East Texas family and we are excited that we can give back to a community we know and love.
Maximizing Your Workspace In The New Divi Builder Experience
In this short video, I will walk you through the steps on how to expand your workspace when working on the back-end Wireframe Mode in the New Divi Builder Experience
Monterey Premier is Partnering with Elegant Themes for Black Friday 2018
Our friends over at Elegant Themes are getting ready for their annual Black Friday sale and we are excited to be partnering with them for this big event.
10 Best Divi Child Themes in the Monterey Premier Divi Marketplace
One of the greatest advantages of Divi is the vast amount of child themes available from third-party suppliers. There are a lot of Divi child themes to choose from, but this can also make the choice between them more difficult. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the best Divi child themes found in the Monterey Premier Divi marketplace.
Business Strategy
One-Stop Guide for Selling on Amazon: Tips You Need To Know
Once you decide to sell on Amazon, prepare to get your hands busy every day. Many tasks are required at every step of the way—from planning and launching your store to maintaining smooth operations. The continuous work will motivate you to creatively and objectively...
How to Balance Your Full-Time Job With Your Freelance Side Hustle
During the pandemic, quarantine and remote work left some people juggling more responsibilities than ever, while others found themselves with more time on their hands. Of this second group, a lot of professionals took the time to further their education or apply their...
Prevent New Idea Burnout By Not Rushing Into Every New Idea
Coming up with a great idea can be very exciting once you start imagining all the potential benefits and additional revenue streams. It is easy to understand why you would want to drop everything to begin pursuing your new idea. But what happens when you are always pursuing the next “Big Idea”? You will inevitably become discouraged and frustrated by the time spent, wasted, and lost on all the failed projects. So, before you dive headlong into every new idea that comes your way, try implementing a few safety measures to help you prevent “New Idea Burnout.”
Freelancing
The Impact of Social Media on Freelance & Small Business Success
As it stands, social media is invading many aspects of society, and the freelance labor force is of no exception. Prospective clients do not check your social media feeds for negative reviews only. In fact, there is significant impact of such networks on growth and...
7 Technological Must-Haves for Coworking Spaces to Scale Up Your Business
Discover how you can use technology to make more out of your coworking business.
5 Steps to Becoming a Freelancer
Freelancing isn’t for everyone, but any professional can become one with enough self-discipline and motivation. Researching the market, finding a mentor, networking, and job searching will give you the best chance of success. Even if you can’t find clients immediately, don’t feel discouraged. It will take time for you to establish enough business connections to find a potential customer and start earning a freelance income.
Marketing
How to Leverage Your Google Workspace for Smarter Collaboration and Automation
Nowadays, companies balance their digital workflows with a wide variety of useful tools, from project management software to automating scheduling gadgets that help with smarter organizations. What’s interesting to note is that many businesses of various shapes and...
7 Link Building Strategies for Affiliate Marketers in 2021
Backlinks are essentially like votes — the more you have the better. All other factors equal, a site that has more backlinks will outrank a site that has no backlinks. Sure, things like creating comprehensive content still matter as you can’t publish subpar content...
Home Page Content vs About Page Content
Often times our clients have trouble differentiating what text is good for home pages, and about pages. On this post we hope to clarify what type of content should go on each page respectively.
Blogging
How Blog Comments Can Make Website Content More Powerful
You write blog posts, press releases, and guest articles to empower your content marketing endeavors. You promote them to make as many targets as possible to find your content. But is there anything else you can do with a published content piece to influence its...
9 Copywriting Tips & Practices to Write Persuasive Copy
Content marketing costs 62% less than traditional marketing and generates about 3 times as many leads. So, any sane marketing department is going to want to create great content that captures profitable leads and brings in traffic. However, the unfortunate truth is...
Top 10 Plugins You Must Have When Launching a Blog
You’ve decided to start a blog? There’s only one way to do it and that’s by using WordPress. This is by far the best and most popular platform for that, but you may want to add a few plugins when setting things up. As you know, plugins are small pieces of software that can help your website perform in a variety of different ways, and over time, some of them have crystallized as pretty much essential to any successful blog. Therefore, allow us to show you which plugins you really should have installed at the beginning of your blogging career.
Social Media Tips
How to Collect and Analyze Social Media Data
Knowing how to collect social media data is one way to better your brand establishment and recognition. Knowing how to analyze social media data is the other step. Utilize your social media profiles better and turn them into conversion tools.. Follow the upcoming...
6 Steps to a Successful Facebook Video Campaign
Deciphering best practices for Facebook video campaigns can be a daunting task. Crafting the perfect Facebook campaign isn’t as straightforward as uploading your video to Facebook and throwing some dollars behind it — you’ve got options. A lot of them. With the right...
8 Smart Tips to Successfully Sell on Instagram
There are many ways to encourage customers to keep coming back to your online store. And one of them using Instagram. So, pick a tip or two from this post and see how it will pan out for you.
Health Hacks
5 Stress-Relieving Outdoor Activities for Busy Entrepreneurs
Running a business is a stressful job, and as a modern-day entrepreneur, you are undoubtedly wearing many hats in your company. With all the work-related stress that accumulates over weeks, months, and years of not taking a vacation or finding a work-life balance, all...
How to Create an Employee Wellness and Fitness Program to Promote Workplace Health
Employee wellness has always been a top priority for most business leaders that know just how vital this is for retention and employee engagement over the long term. Hopefully, getting creative with these suggestions will allow you to design a program fit for your staff and your business budget, and of course, that will help reduce burnout and stress, while increasing employee satisfaction, productivity, and overall health.
Tips for Entrepreneurs: How to Make Sleep Work for You (And Why You Should)
Being an entrepreneur is tough and requires a lot of energy, time, and resources. Naturally, as the stakes are high, you tend to sacrifice a lot of things in order to succeed, but your sleep and overall health shouldn’t be among them. These simple tips can help you keep insomnia and sleep deprivation at bay. Invest in your sleep first, and you’ll be ready to take every challenge entrepreneurial life may throw at you.
Six Ways to Manage Your Mental Health as an Entrepreneur
Mental health stability is crucial for the success of any business. Entrepreneurship has its unique problems and setbacks, but hanging in there with anxiety and stress won’t solve anything
7 Unknown Ways Communing With Nature can Improve Your Productivity
Take your vacation leaves and put them to good use. It’s a time not only particularly made for some fun, but it will also give you a chance to reset and come back more productive.
Money Savers
How to Create The Perfect Business Video
A well-executed video placed on the right platform can dramatically increase the reach of businesses marketing efforts. Before you start posting content on TikTok, take some time to understand the app’s basics and its target audience.
5 Tips to Plan Your Personal Loan Repayment Better
If you are considering a personal loan, read these 5 tips! They can help you reduce your EMI burden, avoid late fees, and boose your credit score!
Faster Lead Generation and Money Saving Tips for PPC Campaigns!
Entrepreneurs can save money and boost their sales figures with pay-per-click campaigns when they follow these seven tips!
Parenting Hacks
5 Ways to Narrow the Nanny Search
Regardless of whether you plan to work from home, volunteer in the community, or just need some time to complete additional tasks while your children are cared for, it’s essential to find just the right, nurturing individual to help care for your little ones.
Tips on Finding Summer Jobs for Teens and College Students
Summer jobs are rewarding for many reasons. The main reason being that you will have extra cash to either save up for future events or immediate spending money.
The Joy of Bringing Another Into Your Home by Adoption
There are countless reasons why you may want to adopt a child. Get to know the joy of bringing another person into your home by adoption.
Military Life
The Crippling Nature of Being Shy
When I’m new somewhere I get like this. When I’m comfortable in a place, I’m not like this at all. That’s the thing about being a military wife and moving so much. I keep getting thrown back into terrified, shy April mode. It’s like I’m in middle school all over again.
Celebrating Veteran’s Day as a Military Spouse
As a military wife, I have seen too much of what our veterans and their families go through to not be a patriot at this point. We’ve laid so much down for the cause of our country: physically, emotionally, mentally, no really all the -ly’s. There is no benefit or discount too great to give a veteran, believe me.
Why You (Mom) Need MOPS
When you work at home, whether that means building websites or nursing babies, it has the potential to be lonely, which can crush your spirit. If you are a mom, with a child age 0-18, let your MOPS friends become your new work friends.
Design Tips
Using Canva.com For Your Realtor Flyer
In This Tutorial, I Want to Show You How Easy It Is to Create a Realtor Flyer Using Canva.com.
The 5 Best Logo Making Software for Mac
The Mac OS is preferred by most designers as it supports the latest technologies. However, you should always study all the designing software in a nutshell before installing the right one.
The Power of Visual Elements on Your Blog
The content people can find on your blog should be the thing that draws them to your domain. They might be interested in the topics you write about but once they open a page and read the text, they are likely not to come back to your blog because of other texts but because of the visual appeal.
A Five Step Guide To Preparing Strategic Homepage Content That Converts Infographic
In order to help my clients and fellow WordPress website developers with this unending inconvenience of dealing with homepage content creation, I decided to put together an easy to follow Five Step Guide To Preparing Strategic Homepage Content That Converts Infographic that can be shared and used to help others succeed.
Behind The Scenes of a Major Website Redesign and Rebrand at Monterey Premier
Over the years we have grown to include multiple types of services & products, a multi-vendor marketplace with over 240+ Divi add-ons sold by developers and designers from all over the world , and a multi-author blog with over 30+ contributors. In that process we learned a lot about our visitors that we simply did not know in the early days. So a lot of strategy and planning had to go into our 2018 redesign and rebrand. In this article I am going to spill all the beans.
Education
Top Ten Digital Marketing Strategies For Educational Institutes
Most businesses have converted their operations online due to the pandemic. Therefore, it is easier for educational institutes to follow suit and develop a powerful yet effective digital marketing strategy. That way, the students will be encouraged to complete their studies online and have better career opportunities.
Intelligent Design: The Influence Of AI On Big Data
AI is providing new and dynamic methods for understanding the value of the data we do have. Businesses seeking to apply AI to data will need to test the water before they take the plunge, but AI is certainly going to have a radical effect on how and why a business can make use of big data.
5 Ways the COVID-19 Pandemic has Impacted Professional Learning and Development
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many uncertainties to the business world, but there’s nothing you can’t achieve by simply riding the wave of change. Use these tips and insights to adapt to the new career development principles and capitalize on all the benefits that online learning and development brings to the modern professional.
11 Apps to Kickstart Learning for Students in 2020!
List of 11 free apps to learning for students. You can easily download it from google play store or App store without spending a penny. Download now.
How to Build a Strong Career Development Plan as a Freshman
A strong career development plan is a prerequisite of one’s success. Discover the most important aspects of career planning each freshman should learn.
Inspiration
How to Set Goals and Achieve Them: 5 Pandemic-Proof Steps
Learning how to set goals and achieve them during these trying times could actually be the key to ensuring success in the (very) near future.
4 Tips For an Effective Office Relocation Strategy
Every relocation is challenging, especially when you’re relocating an office and have many business-related responsibilities to handle during this period. Hiring professional help, especially if you have many obligations, is a good way to start. In doing so, you won’t...
The Importance of Connection and Community in the Modern World
In the wake of the pandemic, people have discovered what it truly means to connect, but also what it truly means to be lonely. So many single people, seniors, as well as entrepreneurs and students feel isolated and unable to connect beyond the occasional video chat....
The Importance of Maintaining a Work-Life Balance as an Entrepreneur
When it comes to the entrepreneurial lifestyle, we can all agree it’s anything but easy. It requires strength, perseverance, and sacrifice. And more often than not, the thing being sacrificed is personal life.
Productive and Fun Things to Do at Home During Coronavirus Lockdown
There are many fun and creative ways to spend your days during the lockdown. However, our list of things to do at home is diverse and productive!
Careers
Job Search In A Foreign Country During COVID: 7 Tips
Job searching is always a challenge! But the advent of COVID-19 caught the world completely off-guard. Many countries closed their borders overnight, stranding other nations’ citizens abroad. Tourists, businessmen, and migrants alike ended up stuck, with little hope...
How To Improve Your Job Prospects Post-COVID
Looking for a new job post-COVID? Be open to alternatives. Video interviews, flexibility, honesty and passion and down-to-earthness are the game of post-COVID careers.
Tips for Job Hunting Graduates
Your college time is the best period to work on amping up yourself with tools to handle job searches.
8 Helpful Tips for Managing Multiple Projects in the Workplace
There are going to be times when you have to manage multiple projects at once in the workplace. This endeavor can be challenging for the best of us, which is why there's no shame in getting a few tips and tricks here and there. To help you manage multiple projects at...
How to Retain Top Talent in 2021
Retaining your top talent is a priority for any employer, regardless of the industry they’re in. You’re not wrong for prioritizing this.
Working From Home
5 Tips for Healthy and Productive Remote Work
Working from home (WFH) has certainly become much more “normal” than before. And while it certainly has its perks, WFH can also be rather stressful and unhealthy.
Celebrating Veteran’s Day as a Military Spouse
As a military wife, I have seen too much of what our veterans and their families go through to not be a patriot at this point. We’ve laid so much down for the cause of our country: physically, emotionally, mentally, no really all the -ly’s. There is no benefit or discount too great to give a veteran, believe me.
Why You (Mom) Need MOPS
When you work at home, whether that means building websites or nursing babies, it has the potential to be lonely, which can crush your spirit. If you are a mom, with a child age 0-18, let your MOPS friends become your new work friends.
