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Welcome to Marty Dickinson's solutions, tools and resources page! Here, you'll find specific solutions to the most common problems professional speakers have in their speaking businesses, writing and internet marketing. By clicking through the links and making a purchase, you may help Marty receive a small referral reward. These dollars are used to power Speakers Speak Group and Speakers Speak LIVE without charging for them directly. Additionally, the vendors see traffic coming from our group, which makes them want to send more of their customers our way...which ultimately benefits YOU by interacting with more speakers. Your support is appreciated!
When Marty ran his web marketing agency as a done-for-you service center (1996-2016), his team implemented hundreds of websites for speakers, authors and traditional business owners. By 2008, all of those implementations were involving WordPress. The problem today is that WordPress website are such a big target for hackers that you spend more time and money keeping it locked down from hackers than it's worth. If you choose not to invest in its constant maintenance (plugins, WordPress version numbers, PHP versions, cross-plugin compatibility), well, you probably have malicious code embedded on your website and you don't even know it. The result is always the same thing: Dropping everything you're doing to frantically fix your broken website.
The Solution: Marty wants you focused on building your speaking business not supporting WordPress! We offer a robust alternative to WordPress that we'd like to introduce you to. Contact Marty Dickinson directly for details at SpeakEveryWeek@gmail.com
For any professional speaker with a website, using the right domain name registrar is essential. If your website is the heart of your business marketing, your domain name is the brain. The average professional speaker registers more than 30 domain names throughout their speaking career, and some even register more than 100 domain names. It can be tempting to take advantage of promotions from other registrars for deals like $.99 or even FREE domains, but when renewal time comes around, the prices skyrocket. That's why we recommend Best Domain Place, a secure domain registrar that has been around since 2003 and offers competitive, long-term pricing. Although the initial purchase cost may appear a bit higher than other registrars, you'll save money in the long run. To start taking advantage of the benefits of Best Domain Place, set up a new account and consider transferring your existing domain names over.
The Solution: Marty recommends Best Domain Place, a secure domain registrar that has been around since 2003 and offers competitive, long-term pricing. In fact, Best Domain Place is one of the few registrars that allows you to actually own your domain names, rather than just leasing them. Although the initial purchase cost may appear a bit higher than other registrars, you'll save money in the long run. To start taking advantage of the benefits of Best Domain Place, set up a new account and consider transferring your existing domain names over.
Creating and editing videos is only the first step. Too many video makers never publish their videos due to the time-consuming process of preparing titles, descriptions, transcriptions, and keywords in a way that will help them get more views. To make the time investment worthwhile, you need to post the right written content with your videos to increase their visibility.
The Solution: Marty recommends This AI app. Simply upload your video in an MP4 format and press a button - all the text content you need for your video will be ready in less than 10 seconds. Copy and paste the content and customize it to your needs and you're done!
Many online course systems exist and each is different than the next. You practically have to get the free trial and upload your course files for each one of them before you'll know which one is truly the best fit for what you offer. The big challenge with most online courseware is that they are difficult to setup and after you go through the extend of learning it all, you discover one deal-breaking limitation. The system we use is no different. It has limitations too. It's just that the limitations were less severe than the others for us.
The Solution: Marty recommends This Online Course Software. It allows us to create two pages for the opt-in process which we need in order to highly vet our Speakers Speak LIVE participants before they join. The online course component is very customizable and we love how it can store multiple file types for an unlimited amount of course sessions. There is also a full site builder that is NOT reliant on WordPress to power the content pages, which is important to us for security reasons. Support is very responsive and there is a highly active private Facebook group for users where you can get most questions answered.