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alanjenkin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:57:46 +0000

What Could Happen If Someone Gains Entry Into Your WordPress Blog?

alanjenkin — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:02:15 +0000

I don’t want to scare you but I want you to be aware of the reasons why you should
backup your WordPress blog, and even better protect it against someone getting access to
that site.

I have just spent the best part of three weeks restoring my sites after five of them were
hacked. You can read about that experience in my previous post.

Someone getting into your WordPress blog can delete anything that is there, can replace
it with something else, redirect it and in fact access every single file in that WordPress
site, sometimes other websites on the same server. That is why it’s really important to
keep people out and backup your site just in case something goes wrong.

Something that is very easy to do if someone gets into your WordPress blog is delete it.
There is in fact a plugin called Bulk Delete that can delete all plugins within that blog,
kind of a scary thought. But if you keep your blog backed up, then no one can really hurt
you, even if you just use something once per month or once per week.

Let’s say in the worst case you back up your site on a Monday, and someone gets into
your site and deletes it on a Friday, at least you have only lost the past five days of work.
You haven’t lost the past two years, if not more.

What is even scarier is that someone who gets into your WordPress site might replace it
with something else. Many terrorists, religious and activist groups have in fact used
hackers to gain entrance to weakly protected WordPress sites and replace it with their
own images and content.

What also might happen is someone might set up your site to redirect to a new site, or
display some ads. And even worse, if your site gets flagged as an attack site, as a problem
site other people will not be able to see it.

That is something that might happen, is if you load your WordPress site and it seems to
be redirecting to some far off place on the internet, it might have been hacked and you
should investigate that.

One of the scariest things about someone getting into your WordPress site is that they
will probably be able to get access to all files in your site using the using the file manager
plugin in WordPress. And even if you don’t have this file plugin installed, they can easily
install it from the WordPress dashboard. And depending on how your server is
configured, they might be able to see every single website and account on that server.
Kind of a scary thought.

If someone gets into your WordPress blog, it’s not just about them changing content or
redirecting to a new place, they now can see all your files, all your blogs, all your videos,
all of your information. And all this is a reason for you to lock down WordPress.

Use a hard to guess password and be very careful about where you log into your blog
from. And above all, backup your site, so just in case the worst happens you are still
protected and you can still get your stuff back.

Backup your WordPress blog so you can get your stuff back later at Backup Creator.

Website Security

alanjenkin — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:18:48 +0000

I just found out that five of my websites had malware! Two were already blacklisted by Google.

I was listening to Terry Anglin’s WordPress webinar on GVO Academy this week, when he was explaining why you need website security and how to secure your website if you’re using WordPress. Since I joined GVO, I have found their free training webinars invaluable. This time was no exception.

Between my wife, Billie, and me we have ten “active” websites. We have both been busy with other things lately, so the websites have been neglected. Most of them use WordPress, which is excellent for building any type of website: WordPress is free, and it’s no longer just for blogs.

Unfortunately, websites attract hackers, and a free security scan from Sucuri showed malware on my five most active sites, two of which had been blacklisted. After I found the first, I spent about a day trying to fix it, and was left with two files that I couldn’t see how to get to. It was then that I decided to check my other sites, and found that four more websites were infected with malware – so much for my website security!

At this stage, I had a choice. Either create a clean website myself, or call in reinforcements. I decided the time had come to get a professional to do the work, so I bought a year’s subscription to the paid version of Sucuri.

Sucuri claims it takes them about 4 hours to clean a website. Given my limited experience, I doubt I could do it in four days, but these guys are doing it all the time so they know what they’re doing! For me it was worth the money to have the sites cleaned and all my sites monitored for a year.

Prevention is always better than cure, so if you have a site, WordPress or otherwise, I suggest you might like to secure your website now before it gets hacked. If you do get hacked there is a danger that innocent people going to your site will also be attacked. In any case, the least that is likely to happen is that you will be blacklisted by Google, meaning that you’ll lose most of your traffic.

How to Secure Your Website

Sucuri has the following recommendations:

Change your FTP (or SSH) domain password to a good strong one, preferably using a password generator. Mine was pretty strong on some of the sites, but not the really strong kind that a generator, such as that included with GVO, gives you. I use Roboform to remember my passwords, but they suggest that Peguta and Lastpass are also good.
Change your administrator password if you are using WordPress or any CMS. Clean out any admin users that you don’t need, and change the passwords of the others.
Change your database password. You may need to change the wp-config or configuration.php file to recognize the new password, depending on how you change it. If you’re using GVO’s Web Host Manager, this is all automatic when you change the domain password.
Run a virus scan on your PC – it may also be infected. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is good for this if you’re using Windows.
Update your site to make sure you have the latest applications running
Back up your site regularly.

These are all excellent recommendations. If you’re using WordPress, I would also suggest that you install the free BulletProof Security plugin. It may not catch everything, but along with the other items you will be pretty safe, and you can run a free Sucuri scan right from BPS. (That’s how I found my problems originally.)

Terry Anglin has several other recommendations for WordPress users – catch his webinar on GVO Academy if you need to know more. GVO Academy alone is worth the price of GVO for me. You can get it with HostThenProfit, at a bargain basement price (under $10/month.)

GVO, HostThenProfit and Sucuri all have affiliate programs – they don’t cost anything to join, so I joined them all. So check out your site now – if it’s a WordPress site, install the BulletProof Security plugin and run the free scan. Then start securing your site if it’s not already done.

Here are those links again:

GVO Academy
Sucuri
HostThenProfit

Webcasting – The Business Tool You Can’t Live Without

alanjenkin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:25:09 +0000

Why Webcasting is the business tool you can’t live without

Home businesses are changing. New business tools are creating new home business opportunities, and none more than webcasting. Webcasting has the power to transform your business.

I know you have heard it before: business tools that worked yesterday are obsolete today. If you are involved in network marketing, internet marketing, or any other online home business, you know it’s true. This is not to say that you must abandon current practices, just that you can improve them using new business tools.

The biggest change in 2012 will be the increased use of webcasting to grow your business. Webcasting has been around for a while, but it has been expensive and too complex for many home businesses. All that has changed now.

Yesterday (January 23, 2012) GVO launched their price-smashing webcasting product, MeetCheap, as a new home business opportunity. Before looking into that, though, let’s consider why you might want to look at webcasting as a business tool. What would you use it for?

Why Webcasting?

Webcasting is a way of getting in front of a large number of people at minimum cost to you and them. Once you have the service, all you are investing is time, and you’re investing that more efficiently than almost any other way. Webcasting gives your prospects an opportunity to know, like and trust you by seeing you and hearing you talk without traveling to a meeting.

When I was with a previous network marketing company our primary reach out method was to invite prospects to sales meetings. These took place at a venue that was more than an hour’s drive away from home for me. Most of the time, none of my prospects would show up at the meeting.

Now, with webcasting, I can hold the same meeting with a global reach. Nobody has to travel: this saves time and money for everyone. And I can email or phone with reminders right up to the last minute to let people know when the webcast is starting.

Training

In addition to prospecting, webcasting is a wonderful business tool for training your team. GVO even has regular training webcasts that my team can attend on every subject from sales psychology to website design: six days a week there is at least one highly professional training webcast, and some days as many as three. To train your team, you can integrate your own webcasts with this schedule.

How to Webcast

Like any new business tool, there is something to learn. Fortunately, GVO has made webcasting so simple with MeetCheap that the learing curve is very short. You can start by simply webcasting a PowerPoint Presentation and graduate to videos and desktop sharing.

What is in MeetCheap?

Here are a few of the main webcasting features. Some of these may not mean much at a first glance, but they are explained on a link I will give later.

Audio/Video Controllers

Enable or Disable web cam or microphone

Desktop Sharing

Moderator can display desktop to mambers

Presentation

Converts and presents PowerPoint

Record

Moderator can record full audio/video

1×4 Full Duplex

Moderator can bring in up to 3 other people in audio and video

Chat

Text message to/from guests

Members

Lists all members present

Multiple Moderators

Create multiple moderators for live events

White Board

Draw on screen, sites, PowerPoints

Live Show

Live streaming video
To see the full list of 27 webcasting features and their explanation, go to http://gr8netbiz.com/7odl

Why MeetCheap?

I won’t go into all the reasons you should choose MeetCheap over other webcasting solutions, but I will invite you to at least take a look at it. I believe you will pleasantly surprised at:

the affordability
the reliability
the business opportunity.

Now, while you’re thinking about it, watch the 2-minute video and read the details about webcasting with MeetCheap at http://gr8netbiz.com/ksru and watch your business grow!

New Year Opportunity

alanjenkin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:20:49 +0000

Yesterday I posted about exercise on one of my other websites. In that post I gave a link to the online fitness program I use. However, what I did not mention is that it can also be used as a highly successful network marketing business.

Right now is absolutely the best opportunity of the year to promote a fitness program. Most people have created NewYear’s resolutions and are looking at how to achieve them. For many of them fitness, weight loss and lean muscle mass are major concerns – what better time to promote a fitness program that enables all three at a very competitive price?

Don’t miss out on this opportunity! For less than $10 per month you can start a networking business and also get fitter than you have ever been in your life. Go now to http://gr8netbiz.com/7rt to register for a free webinar that will show you how.

New Domain Hosting Package Offers More For Less

alanjenkin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:54:28 +0000

In September 2011, GVO.com announced a new domain hosting package. OK, I know domain hosting isn’t the most exciting topic around, but the interesting thing about this announcement is the price point. Joel Therien has recognized that in the current economy marketers are looking to save money wherever possible: his new offering (Host Then Profit) is intended to meet that demand.

You may know that Joel moved from Canada to San Antonio, TX a couple of years ago to get better bandwidth and less costly support for his servers. I used to be with Kiosk, Joel’s previous domain hosting company, which later changed its name to Global Virtual Opportunities (GVO). I left Kiosk because I found their service somewhat erratic and difficult to use.

Since then, I have used a variety of services, including GoDaddy and HostGator, before joining GVO again a month or two ago. I made this move when I recognized that I was paying too much for domain registration, domain hosting and autoresponder services. I found I could save money and also have a single point of contact for problems by moving all that under one roof.

Apart from price point and functionality, the three main concerns with a domain hosting service are:

Reliability
Ease of Use
Support

Kiosk had its problems with the second and third of those criteria. I’m delighted to find that the problems have now disappeared: the last few years have made a huge difference. So now I’m excited to see the new offering, which should fill the bill for a lot of marketers.

What does Host Then Profit offer?

It’s a “GVO Lite” package designed for marketers who want domain hosting for a limited number of websites but also need some of the other facilities a marketer requires, such as autoresponder, blogs, videos and a conference room. It also includes massive amounts of free training, notably the renowned GVO Academy webinars, which occur daily. (If you’re not interested in GVO’s other offerings, you might find value in these free training webinars, which cover everything from marketing to WordPress.) And, of course, if you need to upgrade to a more versatile account, GVO has the packages to accommodate you.

For me, the big saving comes in the free autoresponder that is included with all the GVO domain hosting packages: right now I’m paying for an Aweber account that looks after one non-profitable website that just costs me money! I am also looking forward to working with the Video Producer when I can find some time and, maybe later, the conference room. I pulled together some information from GoDaddy and HostGator for comparison with Host Then Profit, and created the following table:

		HostThenProfit	GoDaddy	HostGator
Domain Hosting (per month)	4 domains	$9.97	$15.96*-$59.96	$6.36*-$7.96
Domain Registration (.com)	1yr	$14.95	$15 (after 1^st.yr.)	$15.00
(per year)	5yrs	$9.95	$11.99	$15.00
Email accounts		500	500	unlimited
Autoresponders		4	-	-
Campaigns		5	-	-
Blog Builder		4	-	Site Builder
Video Producer		5	-	-
Conference Room	seats	5	-	-

*3-year rate

I hope I got all those numbers right: GoDaddy and HostGator always seem to have special deals going on, but my experience has been they catch you for the first year and then raise the price after that. The prices I have given for Host Then Profit are monthly with no contract. Oh, and by the way, there’s a $1 trial offer if you want to put a toe in the water.

What’s the buzz about GVO?

alanjenkin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:46:06 +0000

What’s the entire buzz about GVO?

GVO (Global Virtual Opportunities) – formerly Kiosk – is a company owned by Joel Therien who has a 12 year track record of experience in the network marketing and internet marketing industries.

GVO has rapidly created a big buzz in the internet marketing and the MLM , Network marketing arenas due to the fact that it is the only company online that has the knowhow and the expertise to join these two very important business models in a once in a lifetime opportunity.

What makes GVO such an incredible business opportunity?

The answer to this question is twofold:

First of all when you get your hosting package through GVO you will get several services like unlimited autoresponder system, complete video marketing system with easy video producer and video hosting, full audio and video conferencing system, downtime monitoring software, that not only are included but that will also mean significant savings compared to buying all these services separately.

Second, you will have the opportunity to participate in a MLM compensation plan that is much more than a simple affiliate program and makes it an entire business in itself; let me explain:

How do I get compensated?

To motivate you to promote the business, GVO pays you 50% commission on the first month of every person that is directly sponsored by you.

Then we have the 2 x 10 Binary Hybrid Matrix Plan that will pay you 5% per month of up to levels down making this a full matrix of 2,046 people and that alone will earn you $4,600.00 per month!

Wait! It gets even better because you will also get a 20% matching bonus on your personal referrals down to 10 levels.

Once you have a downline of 14 people or more then you earn a new profit position in the matrix that you can also make money from.

What guarantees that people will stay?

If you have been online for some time and you are serious about building an internet business, you know that in today’s market, these are tools that you or any internet marketer can’t afford not to have and that you will be using on a daily basis: that is the key that makes the compensation plan a very successful one.

With this business model you will build an organization of avid and constant users who will be using the services every day to run their businesses and therefore will be happy to keep paying their monthly fee!

How do I join?

At GVO we even give you the opportunity to try us and fall in love with our services before you commit to a longer stay.

Just pay $1.00 today and this will give you full access to all the services and features for a full 14 day trial period.

Hope you find everything you are looking for under one roof with unsurpassed quality: see you inside!

Alan Jenkin is an Internet and Network Marketer who owns and runs many websites: you can read more of his GVO business at http://www.wwkiosk.com/members/alanjenkin/team_gvo_invite.php

Is GVO The Ultimate Marketer’s Toolbox?

alanjenkin — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:49:17 +0000

When marketing on the internet, sometimes you feel like your head is going to explode! The amount of tools, systems, and services out there will make your head spin which make promises of easy riches when you use them.

Every day, there seems to be another “magic tool” that pops up promising millions of visitors to your site and large sums of money in your bank account….effortlessly.

It can get overwhelming and take focus away from what you should be doing to build your business.

As you know, there are tools out there that not only make your life easier, but keep your business running on auto-pilot for you.

The trick is to know which ones to focus on and which ones to stay away from!

Let’s go through the essentials which every top internet marketer depends on a daily basis to run their million dollar businesses…

1) Web Hosting

Obviously, without hosting, the internet would be a pretty boring place to hang out. If you have a domain name, you need a place to host it so others can find you.

Hosting companies out there range from free all the way to over $500 a month for dedicated hosting.

The key is to find a company that provides 99% uptime and also provides 24/7 support in case you ever have a problem.

And of course, just like anything, you get what you pay for.

2) Autoresponders

Have you heard the phrase, “The Money Is In The List?”

Well, having an autoresponder and building a list that knows, likes, and trusts you is the fastest way to literally pushing a button and having money coming in your bank account… faster than you can say… Hot Biscuits!

The formula is simple.

Create a page that gives something of huge value totally away for free. This could be a free report, a video lesson, an audio interview, or a live webinar.

Then, in exchange for your free information, the visitor will give you their name and email address.

And then the magic happens. You can follow up with them automatically and offer more value and even get them to buy something!

This is all done using an autoresponder, all automatically and efficiently for you.

Again, companies providing autoresponders range from $20 a month up to $99 a month.

3) Video Hosting

The internet is all about video. And without some type of video on your website, most people will simply not hang around.

Video allows you to bond with your visitor and create more trust than with just words on your site.

We’ve all heard of YouTube for sure. But is a free service that is known for pranks, jokes, and music videos the right image for your business?

There’s a reason the top marketers host their videos through paid services and you should, too.

4) Website Builder and Prospecting System

99% of internet marketers don’t have the time and/or the skills to create their own websites or prospecting pages. Trying to learn website design and html code is not the best way to spend your time.

That’s where website builders come in. You simply customize your pages with your own video, product info, autoresponder, and you’re done!

5) Live Webcasts

The most powerful way to sell is face to face. You get instant feedback and customers can ask questions and get their answers immediately.

Since we don’t want to meet all our visitors in person… Webcasts are the next best thing.

We can sit in the comfort of our own homes and present to people all over the world. Product demonstrations, video overviews, live questions and answers, it’s all possible with Webcasts.

If you’re not using Webcasts in your business, you are missing out on thousands of dollars of sales.

Typical companies charge between $49 to $99 a month and more.

The Top 5 Essential Tools

These are the top five tools that every top marketer uses and depends on a daily basis to make sales on auto-pilot.

And you can too.

Now, you can get all these great tools from different companies and pay between $150 to over $350 each and every month.

Or, you can make the smart decision and get them all from one company and save a huge amount of money.

GVO offers all these tools under one roof and for only $1.45 a day. That’s less than a Starbucks coffee!

And the best part is, for a limited time, you can take advantage of all these amazing tools and profit with them for a full 14 days for only a $1.

Don’t decide now, use all the tools and see how powerful they are and how they will help explode your business online right now.

Go here for your test drive:

http://alanjenkin.GoGVO.com