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Optimizing Images for Your WordPress Website

Tips From Pitch Clips, Website, WordPress Tips

Large image sizes can be a huge problem in website speed and performance. Read this post to learn easy strategies for optimizing your images for your WordPress website!

TpT and Mac: Creating a Preview

Tips From Pitch Clips, TpT and the Mac, TpT Tips, TpT Tools

Creating a preview for your TpT products is one of the best things you can do for your product. If you have a mac, the process is super easy!

TpT and Mac: Flattening a PDF

Technology, Tips From Pitch Clips, TpT and the Mac, TpT Tips, TpT Tools

Do you use a mac computer to create TpT products? You are going to be AMAZED at how EASY it is to flatten your product! Bonus – the tool is FREE!!!

Link in Profile for Instagram without the subscription!

Instagram, Tips From Pitch Clips, Website, WordPress Tips

Links are not natively active on Instagram posts. This article provides you a way to provide a link in profile page where a user can go and quickly access your desired link. Using the plugin Essential Grid, create the page, add the link to your post, and your link in profile page is automatically updated!

Tips from Pitch Clips: Turn your video into an animated GIF!

Pitch Clips, Tips From Pitch Clips, TpT Tips

You can make a video. And turn it into a GIF. With all sorts of fancy transitions, pictures, etc. The sky is the limit. (though remember no sound on GIFs!). You can use this for your quote area, for custom pins, for promo pics, anything!!

Pitch Clips – A Year in Review and Resolutions for 2016

Goals and Resolutions, Pitch Clips

Around January I started making my own clip art to satisfy some needs I had for my other store, Pitch Publications. When I realized that I was causing problems for my music teacher friends with the clip art releases, I adjusted in May and Pitch Clips was born!

Tips From Pitch Clips: Cloud Storage

Pitch Clips, Random Tips, Technology, Tips From Pitch Clips, TpT Tools

Today I want to talk about something that changed my life – professionally and personally – cloud storage. I am still SHOCKED at how many people do not use some sort of cloud storage, whether it be Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, Box, Amazon Cloud, OneDrive, etc. I use a combination and it has saved me countless hours and many tears. If you have ever left a file at work or home, or had a hard drive crash, then Dropbox will save your life. (I speak of Dropbox because this is my primary form of storage, but you could easily sub any other service of your choice).

Fabulous Freebies Blog Hop!

Collaborative, Freebies, Pitch Clips

Join the Fabulous Freebies for Teachers group for a freebie hop in many areas!

TpT Clipart Tribe Presents: Franken-Doodle-Stein Halloween Blog Hop

Collaborative, Freebies, Pitch Clips

Come take a look as a group of 12 artists come together to create a super fun Halloween image!

Tailwind: Making Pinterest Enjoyable Again & {FREEBIE}

Pitch Clips, TpT Tools

Are you a teachers pay teachers seller looking to drive traffic to your blog and/or website? Look to Tailwind! It will change your game! #pitchclips

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I’m a busy mom of three and a music educator in Atlanta, GA. My goal is to provide motivated teacherprenuers with great graphics and time-saving tips so they can focus on creating!

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A website is simply a series of files that a browser computes as an interactive site. A “host” is the computer that your website files live on. When someone visits your site, your domain name (www.site.com) says “go to this host and get those files!”

Obviously you don’t want your computer to be a host – can you imagine if your site went down every time your battery died? Instead, we hire super computing companies to host our files. This helps with speed of delivery and uptime (the amount of time your website is accessible to the world).

Popular hosing companies you may have heard of include: GoDaddy, BlueHost, BigScoots, WPEngine, Siteground, and Flywheel (to name a few). You can absolutely choose one of these companies to go to on your own (though please let me give you my recommendations for which to choose!).

Why buy reseller hosting?

What I am I selling is called “reseller hosting.” I don’t physically host your website at my house. Instead, I buy a huge block of server space from a hosting company, and resell it to my clients in smaller pieces.

What do you get from this instead of buying on your own? In most cases, I can offer a more premium product (faster, larger RAM and hard drive) at a smaller cost to you.

What do I get from doing this? I’m a TpT seller just like you. But my hobby is web design and coding! This stuff is FUN to me. So I get paid to do my hobby and it helps offset the costs I incur for my own TpT business websites.

Limits?

You may have noticed the fine print on the pricing tables that say: This hosting plans are for websites with up to 10,000 views a month and under 3GB in size. See FAQ for more information. Contact me if your site has more traffic or is much larger in size.

Most TpT Seller Websites get traffic in the under 10,000/month category. If you get more THAT IS AWESOME!!!! But that means that you need a slightly bigger plan to accommodate your traffic. I can help you with that, it just won’t be under my standard Silver plans. Just reach out to me and I can help!