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November 18 · Issue #55 · View online
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How to Set Up SSL for Free Using Cloudflare (Real World Example w/ CloudApp Custom Domain)
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In Episode 44 of the Tech Smart Boss Podcast, I talked about 3 ways to set your site up with SSL encryption and the reasons you needed to do is ASAP (listen …
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Episode 50: Recap Show! (A Podcast Table of Contents for the Last 24 Episodes) by Tech Smart Boss
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Stream Episode 50: Recap Show! (A Podcast Table of Contents for the Last 24 Episodes) by Tech Smart Boss from desktop or your mobile device
Top Articles of the Week
Why Startups Are Going Remote In 2017 – Product Hunt
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Today’s post is written by John Cunningham, co-founder of Remote Rise, which helps companies big and small go remote and enjoy the benefits of a distributed team. At Product Hunt, we’re big fans of…
The 4 red flags I missed as the startup imploded around me
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It began in a coffee shop interview and ended in a high-speed motorcycle chase. Come with me if you want your startup to live.
How to Not Price Your Product Like a Moron – The Mission – Medium
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In 1799, a 12-year-old boy by the name of Conrad Reed stumbled upon a large yellow rock resting in the churning waters of a river outside his house. Intrigued, the boy fished out the rock and showed…
Insider Series #1: Steal our Inbound Marketing Stack – Inside Viral Loops
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This piece of writing encloses the Inbound Marketing Stack we’re using for Viral Loops, and now you can get it to work for you. Note that it’s important to adjust this stack to what you do, otherwise it’s not going to make any sense and also it’s not going to work.
Is machine learning the future of marketing?
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What will the future of marketing hold? Will it be entirely automated by smart AIs that fully understand human nuance? Probably not. Will it be entirely manual and managed only by individual people without the aid of technology? Definitely not.
Cool Tech of the Week
It’s critical to have SSL enabled on all of your web properties these days (for the reasons, check out Episode 44 of the podcast) and when free options like Let’s Encrypt there’s no reason why you can’t.

As an API based solution, Let’s Encrypt is primarily going to be used by your software vendors to allow SSL on custom domains, but if you are hosting your own servers then I highly recommend you also use Let’s Encrypt.  Check out this is a video I put together on how to get free certificates from Let’s Encrypt for your Windows Servers. 

Learn more about Let’s Encrypt today, it can save your business a lot of money and make your websites more secure.
Let's Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates
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Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).
That's it for this edition
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