Greg Dickens

5 Best Upwork Alternatives for Local Businesses in 2026

Discover 5 alternatives to Upwork for local businesses seeking reliable web development, automation, and tech support.

Why Your Local Business Needs a Tech Partner (and How to Find One)

A tech partner gives you long-term support at a fraction of the cost of agencies and full-time developers. Here's how to find the right one.

9 Zapier Alternatives for Local Businesses in 2026

Zapier is incredibly powerful, until you hit its limitations. Maybe you've quickly realized you need more than the 2-steps offered on the free plan. Or you're frustrated that hosting a form on your own domain costs $700 per year. Or you've spent hours

How to Start a News Website: A Step-by-Step Guide

No matter what is going on in a community, if it's experiencing highs or lows, there are always events happening and things going on. This means that there's always going to be value for someone to connect the dots, inform people of events and tell the

How to Deploy WooCommerce on Railway

This guide demonstrates how to launch a fully-functional WooCommerce store using Railway, a cloud platform that simplifies e-commerce deployment. You'll have a production-ready online store running in just a few minutes. Here's what you'll need: * A GitHub account (Railway uses GitHub

WordPress vs. Ghost: Which is Better in 2026?

It’s over 10 years now since Ghost launched on Kickstarter as an alternative to WordPress that would be “just a blogging platform.” For many years, Ghost lived up to that billing, as a more streamlined and modern version of WordPress that didn’t have the overwhelming number of plugins

Can AI-Powered Companions Help Local Media Drive Audience Engagement?

Local journalism is facing an identity crisis. Once seen as the most trusted source of information, many local outlets now struggle to win the attention of readers while navigating shrinking newsrooms and increasing skepticism of the media at large. Winning back readers will require more than just better headlines—it

Ghost and SEO: Everything You Need to Know

Ghost is one of the main technologies that we recommend to small publishers. It has a great balance of being free and easy to use, yet having lots of modern technology that creates a great reading experience for your users. At the same time, it offers out-of-the-box

How to Use Ghost as a Landing Page

Often we come across the question is it possible to use Ghost to launch a simple landing page. It seems to come up frequently in forums and various places around the web, but usually people have a similar reaction: Why would you want to use Ghost for a landing page?

Building a Funnel Report in Looker Studio with Plausible Analytics

❕Since the publication of this blog post, Plausible Analytics has released their own official Looker Studio connector that we recommend you use instead. You can find a guide on how to use it here. Funnel reports are very common when looking at website analytics. This is because they map very

Conduct a Content SEO Audit for Free with Plausible Analytics

❕Since the publication of this blog post, Plausible Analytics has released their own official Looker Studio connector that we recommend you use instead. You can find a guide on how to use it here. Whatever your business may be, content marketing without a doubt will play some role. And anyone

How to Get Member Data from Mailchimp

Mailchimp is an email marketing tool that people either love or hate. A big reason that people dislike Mailchimp is that it makes seemingly simple things much more difficult than they need to be. One of these things that should be simple, is getting data about all of your Mailchimp

Building a Mailchimp Integration for Google Sheets [Free Template]

Despite lots of new entrants in the email marketing platform space, Mailchimp is still a go-to tool for lots of small businesses and online publishers. One of the reasons we are still big fans of Mailchimp is its extensive API. This makes Mailchimp a great platform to build on

Getting Started With the Mailchimp Marketing API

Mailchimp is one of the oldest, most reliable email marketing platforms out there. Even though there are newer, cheaper options for email marketing out there, Mailchimp still is the tool of choice for lots of online publishers and small businesses. One of the reasons that Mailchimp stands out from the

Creating Custom Charts for Plausible Analytics with Looker Studio

❕Since the publication of this blog post, Plausible Analytics has released their own official Looker Studio connector that we recommend you use instead. You can find a guide on how to use it here. We replaced our Google Analytics with the more privacy-focused Plausible Analytics almost a year ago.