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Cybercrime cost $600 billion in 2017.   What are the top threats and vulnerabilities for 2018?  Stan Stahl of Citadel Information Group returns to walk us through the threat landscape and discuss ways to build awareness about addressing cybersecurity. Dr. Stahl is a pioneer in the field of information security, having entered the field in 1980. Earlier in his career, he secured teleconferencing at the White House, databases inside Cheyenne Mountain and the communications network controlling our nuclear weapons arsenal. Dr. Stahl excels at helping his clients develop and implement information security management strategies consistent with their unique information security responsibilities, their business realities, and their cultural circumstances. He has that rare gift of being able to describe the complexities of information security in a way that makes sense to real-world non-technical business professionals.

Are you one of the tens of thousands of businesses using WordPress to power online courses to generate revenue or to train your staff? Join us for this episode of Press This as we interview LearnDash's Justin Ferriman. Justin will be sharing strategies you can use to launch a successful online course using WordPress to help grow your business or help your best get better. If you're running an online course product or thinking about it, don't miss this episode. Listen now!

Anna Sabino is the designer behind the jewelry brand Lucid New York, which she started after leaving her Wall Street career. Her jewelry collections are sold in more than 100 stores all over the world and have been featured in People Style Watch, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan. Sabino is a contributor to Huff Post and Medium and is a certified career coach. She speaks and leads workshops on growing your creative business, generating multiple streams of income, and working remotely. You can find valuable business advice at AnnaSabino.com.

Flash: the startup failure rate is considerably less than the 90 percent we hear about all the time. Since 2001 the total number of startups returned 1x or less to investors was at or under 60 percent, according to Cambridge Associates as reported by Erin Griffith in Fortune in June 2017. Still that’s only somewhat good news -- it still means more than half of all newborn companies do not make it to adulthood . . . or a fully realized corporate experience. According to Cambridge, a very small percentage of failure comes from disaster or other forces beyond your control. Hear how to avoid the rest.

Today on Entrepreneur Effect our host is joined by Morgan Simon. Simon is a widely-recognized leader in impact investment who builds bridges between finance and social justice.  Over the past seventeen years, she has influenced over $150 billion in capital.  Simon currently co-leads Candide Group, which supports two clients, including members of the Pritzker family on behalf of the Libra Foundation. She is also co-founder and chair of the non-profit Transform Finance. Previously, Simon served as the founding CEO of Toniic, a global network of impact investors, and as the founding executive director of the Responsible Endowments Coalition. She has worked with the United Nations in Honduras, in corporate reform with ForestEthics, and in domestic microfinance with the Women's Initiative for Self-Employment. She currently serves on the boards of the Restaurant Opportunity Center, The Working World, and CARE Enterprises. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Simon serves as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College's graduate school program. She lives in the Bay Area.

Breakations, Working from Anywhere, and Why It's Time for Us to Mix Things Up! James and Arlene discuss why breakations are an integral part of any marketer's lifestyle now and how it allows you me to recharge the batteries a little and also to enjoy the fruits of all that hard work.

RIP Jill Sampey; Google: Content Order, Position & Placement Matters. Where you place your content on your page can impact your rankings.  Daron Babin got a couple cats. WebmasterRadio.FM just wanted to be sure everyone knows that.

We’re one of the 12 best!We’re one of the 12 best! Vote early, vote often. Vote like a Ruskiebot with a stolen VPN. China cracks down on funeral strippers hired to entertain mourners, attract larger crowds

Vahan Petrosyan explains how to take a WP site  from http to https and offers a bunch of shortcuts in an article that runs like a checklist. Great resource to bookmark, especially for newer SEOs

Avoid an SEO Disaster During a Website Redesign and Pubcon Austin is on – SMX Advanced is upcoming! June 12 – 13 Seattle

Our host Peggy Anne Salz from MobileGroove catches up with Fabien-Pierre Nicolas, Head of Global Growth at machine-learning driven news discovery app SmartNews, to discuss  how marketing to all sides is the best way to boost UA in the ‘Age of Trump.’ Fabien also talks about his mission to eliminate the filter bubble in news consumption, and how his approach to ad creatives have helped in that effort. Finally, he shares tips to improve user acquisition and engagement, recalls how a clever change in font allowed his team to double the conversion rate on Google Play in just four weeks, and reveals the many other surprising shortcuts and accomplishments that earned him the title of Mobile Hero as chosen by Liftoff, a full-service mobile app marketing and retargeting platform.

This show covered a wide variety of SEO topics including the pending Chrome browser update, Google’s new efforts to improve WordPress, a compliment from John Mueller, a new AMP story feature, questions from listeners, and more.

The Tech Agenda in Washington DC for 2018 as Bennet Kelley speaks with Internet Infrastructure Coalition Co-Founder & Policy Working Group Chair David Snead. When the House of Representatives returns to work on Monday there will be approximately 90-days left on the House calendar until election day.  What is on tech’s agenda for this election-year session.