Episode 170: How To Avoid Common Website Horror Stories with Brenda Cadman

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Your website is how many of your potential clients find you, learn about what products/services you offer, and how they can hire you. But are you safe from becoming a website horror story? Too many wedding professionals unknowingly set themselves up to become a horror story that can result in lost income, stress, legal action, and even losing your entire website. Imagine how you would feel if you lost your entire website, if someone took it hostage, or if some lovely person decided to redirect it to a Russian porn site. That’s why in this episode, we’re talking about how to avoid common website horror stories!

Brenda Cadman is a website educator and owns Bon Accord Creative, a website education and development company based in Charlottetown, on beautiful Prince Edward Island (yes, the land of Anne of Green Gables).

After spending the better part of two decades supporting small businesses with their websites, she now has a keen interest and focus on empowering wedding industry and other creative professionals to build their website confidence and to learn how to better protect their websites.

In this episode we’ll cover:

The 5 buckets of horror stories
The importance of backups
Why account ownership is crucial
Why you shouldn’t delegate ownership of accounts
What to look for in a hosting company
Why not regularly updating your website opens you up to hacking
The importance of having a strong password
Why you should limit login access and admin levels
The risk of not having access to all of your website-related accounts
Why you should have a security plugin
How to avoid hiring a web developer from hell
Why you should ask to speak to previous clients
Steps that you can take today to avoid being a horror story

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More from Brenda:

Website: www.bonaccordcreative.com
Instagram: @brendacadman
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BonAccordCreative

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a marketing and business nerd who fell in love with the wedding industry.

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