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Let’s face – times are tough right now, and they’re probably going to get tougher. Even if you are lucky enough to be working from home, there are a lot of companies that will not survive the economic hit that is coming.
What can you do to prepare?
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MailChimp pretty much owns the email marketing space. They’re like the NetFlix of email lists. They were early to the game while providing a good product that was easy for non-technical users to use.
In fact, I personally used them for multiple companies I ran and controlled.
But over time, if your list grows, it can get mighty expensive to keep up with MailChimp’s costs (or any other list builder/manager for that matter).
MailChimp offers many great features for marketing automation and data management; but I found I was handling most of that work with other tools (like Mautic, which I’ll write about another time). MailChimp was primarily used for one thing – to send email to the marketing list.
If you’re not making use of their tools, it’s ridiculously expensive to use MailChimp. So I began looking for alternatives that would save me money.
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Cybercrime, put simply, is any crime carried out over either a network or a computer (or both).
A criminal may have many different motives, be it to damage or disable a network, to spread malware and false information, to infect a computer or network with a virus, or to steal customer information from a company and then hold that information for ransom.
We also live in a world where cybercrime is a significantly greater threat than most people realize, with an average of one new hacker attack every 39 seconds.
The easiest way to hide your IP address is to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network), which is simply a service that allows you to create an encrypted connection to the internet via a server that is given to you by a VPN provider. Since the connection is encrypted, no one else has any access to it (not even the provider will have access).
Here are five cyber security trends that we are seeing as well.
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