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Case in point: e-commerce. You’ll find plenty of plugins to evolve your WordPress site into a home for you to sell products, services and subscriptions. These plugins are almost always easy to install and use. To make this proposition even better, many of these plugins are free, so without spending a dime, you can have your WordPress offering goods for sale in minutes.

But which plugins are the right ones? Let’s take a look at five of what I believe are the best solutions to take your WordPress site to the next level.

Antivirus software, also called virus protection software, is likely one of the best-known types of cybersecurity software, with 77 percent of adults using it on their computer and 24 percent on their mobile devices. Originally developed to detect and remove malware or computer viruses, modern antivirus software can now protect against ransomware, browser attacks, keyloggers, malicious websites, and even sometimes phishing attempts. Most antivirus software uses signature-based detection to identify malware, making it great for protecting against known threats, but more and more the top vendors are adding machine learning-based detection even to consumer products, which can identify threats through unexpected behavior and other indicators.

One thing to note is that free antivirus software can sometimes be outdated or not serviced as frequently, so if you often work with sensitive data, you’ll likely need to pay for antivirus protection.

Podcasts offer online merchants a free and easy way to learn from leading brands and get practical insights from experts on growing and improving a business.

Here’s a list of business podcasts to try out in 2022. There are short podcasts on industry news and training, in-depth interviews and profiles, explorations on start-ups and global brands, and more.

If you want to start an email list but feel overwhelmed by all the technical mumbo-jumbo, there’s good news: You can ignore most of the fancy bells and whistles for at least your first 1,000 subscribers.

Read that last stat again; these are the people who have to market effectively to put food on the table, y’all. If you want your marketing to directly translate into money, an email list is one of the best and most effective approaches you can take.

“Email is so 2000’s,” read one reply. Why is there such a disconnect between the effectiveness of email and its cool factor? Email, SEO and blogs continuously outperform their social media counterparts, yet TikTok, Clubhouse and other fancy video platforms get all the buzz — even though their return on investment is murky at best.