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Taylor Jeane's avatar

All great tools! Have you tried GoDaddy? I use them as my website’s host rather than WordPress and I’ve been very happy with it.

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Casey Botticello's avatar

Godaddy's managed hosting is affordable and decent for website hosting. In my experience, it does not scale well as your traffic increases (why I eventually upgraded to a much more expensive but powerful hosting service, Kinsta:https://bloggingguide.com/kinsta-review/ ). But if your site is not having issues with speed or reliable page loading it can be a great tool. Also worth noting that Namecheap offers very similar services to Godaddy, generally at a lower price (and it includes some nice freebies like free domain privacy). But if Godaddy is working for you, I'd say stick with it (unless you have a bunch of other domains or sites, in which case Namecheap would be worth looking into).

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Taylor Jeane's avatar

I haven’t heard of Namecheap before, but sounds great! My practically nonexistent website views are not a problem with GoDaddy right now though 😂 thanks for the advice!

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Dustin Miller - PolyInnovator's avatar

Rather simplistic list, and ironic that you don't even list substack for blogging when that is literally what you are using. Wordpress is archaic, I used it for the past 10 years, and switched around. Tried substack for a while, and now on Ghost. The latter being far better than the other two by a large margin.

I still love substack, and revue was interesting to say the least.

Also Yoast is super overrated, has so many ads/issues/plugins to add to it. It is bloated like the rest of wordpress. Switching to other SEO plugins helped my page speed, and ranking 10X better. Although couldn't ever get wordpress IN GENERAL to speed up! hahaha.

Anyways interesting blog you have here.

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Joe Cheray's avatar

I love Trello. I am using it as a tool to build a business model around the condition of hypothyroidism.

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Max's avatar

Hey Mr Casey if you're a marketing genius - how smart is it to send out an email in the evening on Christmas eve? Just a friendly thought -

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Casey Botticello's avatar

I’ve never claimed to be a marketing genius…also worth noting that many of my readers celebrate a range of holidays, so trying to not send hem any messages around these dates would eliminate much of November, December, and January.

Also, a big part of digital marketing is experimenting and trying new strategies.

For example, maybe there is a segment of my audience who just wants to read a straightforward post and not think about the holidays.

Either way, the beauty of email is, if you receive a message at an inconvenient time, you can always hold off on reading it until a more convenient time.

Best!

Casey

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