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September 28, 2026 By yclmanager5

Prevent Eye Strain While Working

There are some simple tips to help prevent eye strain while you’re at your computer.

Change the brightness of your monitor screen to match the light level of your room. EX: If you’re working with the lights off in the office, dim the screen. Or the reverse, brighten the screen when the sun is shining in the windows and adding to the florescent lighting.
Adjust the monitor and/or your chair until your eye level aligns with the top of the monitor. We naturally look downward by about 10-15 degrees. Next best option: Align so you are looking at the center of your monitor. Do NOT look up at your monitor! That’s bad for your eyes and your neck.
Increase the font size of your Windows displays and of your software programs. Use at least a 12 point font. You can even use a larger font later in the day to help with eye strain.
Be wary of the colorful background designs offered by Windows, Firefox and other software manufacturers. Yes, they are entertaining but they are harder on your eyes than a simple design where the contrast between the background color and the font is greater.
Take frequent breaks. No, not to play solitaire! Blink your eyes. Look out the window, across the room, somewhere in the distance. Do a couple of easy stretches sitting in your chair or standing at your desk. Close your eyes and take some deep breathes.

September 25, 2026 By yclmanager5

Where Is My Email Stored?

Here’s the scenario. You write an email in Outlook and send it to your best friend. Your friend then opens the email in her Gmail account.

Where is the email stored? In 4 places.

Your Outlook (email management software) saves a copy in Sent Items.
Your server (Cox, CenturyLink, Verizon, etc.) saves a copy in webmail Sent Items.
Your friend’s server saves a copy in her webmail Inbox.
Your friend’s Gmail (email management software) saves a copy in Inbox.

You can delete both of your copies if you want to. Delete from Outlook. Log into webmail and delete from webmail.

You can not delete your friend’s copies.

That’s why you always want to THINK before you hit SEND!

September 25, 2026 By yclmanager5

9 Expert Tips to Improve Email Marketing Performance

As email geeks, we love to obsess over exciting email designs and funky new coding tricks. But the real reason we send emails? To build relationships that drive business results.

To make email marketing work as a channel, you need to perform in three main areas: Deliverability, engagement, and value.

That’s why we hosted a Litmus Talks webinar called “Embrace the Email Performance Trifecta and See Major Results.” Together, we honed in on the elements that have the most impact when it comes to reaching the inbox, encouraging consistent engagement, and sending relevant emails your subscribers actually want to read.

Read on for nine ways to improve your email performance, and catch all their insights on-demand with the full webinar.

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September 25, 2026 By yclmanager5

How Email Marketers Should Navigate the Gmail Promotions Tab Today

“Gmail is one of the most popular inbox service providers (ISP) with over 30% of email client market share. However, ever since Gmail launched its tabbed inbox in 2013, some marketers have been clamoring for their emails to be delivered to the Primary tab vs. the Promotions Tab. There’s been a lingering perception that Gmail’s Promotions Tab equals the spam folder, but that’s far from the truth.”

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September 22, 2026 By yclmanager5

Word count and SEO: how long should a post or page be?

We often get the question of how long an online text should be. As this often depends on different factors, it’s difficult to give just one answer. But looking from an SEO and user-oriented perspective, there is a rule of thumb you can follow. We advise writing more than 300 words for posts or pages, while product descriptions should be over 200 words. Why? Because a higher word count helps Google understand what your text is about. It also gives you the room to give enough information on the topic being discussed, which is helpful for your site visitors. However, we don’t advise adding more content for the sake of it. Quality and readability always come first!

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September 18, 2026 By yclmanager5

What Is Organic SEO? How Do You Maximize It On Your Website?

The goal of any search engine is to give the searcher the “best” answer quickly and accurately. In a perfect world, the first listing on the search results would be exactly what you are looking for. Repeat searches build income for the search engine.

So when a search engine looks at (indexes) your website, they are looking to see how many answers you have on your site. When you optimize your site, you put in lots of answers and make them easy for the search engine to find.

Another factor is that your answer has to be relevant time wise. Again, the search engine considers a perfect answer to be new. If you wrote a great page of content one year ago about your primary service, it loses value because there is newer information out there on another site.

There are two types of SEO you can use to promote your website:

1. Organic SEO – You put content on your web pages and blogs containing information about your business. You use keywords and some coding tools to help search engines index your site. Keywords are the words or phrases someone would use if they were searching for your company or products.

Keyword Examples

BUSINESS	KEYWORD
CPR classes	CPR training, First Aid training, CPR training Phoenix, First Aid training Mesa
Website designer	Website design, small business website, Website design Arizona, Website development
Custom cabinets	Kitchen cabinets, Bathroom cabinets, Installation, Kitchen cabinets Scottsdale, Bathroom cabinets Gilbert

Your content should be building the amount of subject matter on your site. The custom cabinet company would write about how to select cabinets, kitchen trends, cabinet lighting, ageing in place tips for kitchens, etc.

The value of a blog on your site is that you can easily add new content that will show the search engines that you are on top of this topic. Your page content may be a little older but the blog posts are new and consistent.

2. Paid SEO – You can pay a company to do specialized SEO for your company. They will analyze the use of keywords on your site and by searchers. They will update your page(s) content to use a maximum number of keywords. Then the company will put in a bid with a search engine, most likely Google, to show up at the top of the search results for that keyword.

The bid amount is determined by the competition for that keyword. A bid for “real estate Scottsdale” is going to have a big price tag! A bid for “CPR training Mesa” will be lower because there is not that much competition for that word. If a new competitor moves into Mesa and starts bidding against you, the price will go up.

For paid SEO, there will be a set up fee to optimize your page(s) and put in your bid ($250 – 450). Then there will be a monthly budget determining how much you want to spend on your bids. The minimum monthly budget is going to be $300. It will go up based on how competitive your keyword(s) is and what your goal is. YCL can refer you to a company to work with.

How Can YCL Help with Organic SEO?

YCL can analyze the keywords on your website. Maybe you used only CPR training on a page and never added First Aid training. Maybe you only used CPR training once on the page.
YCL can add location content. We can add pages that talk about the work you do and emphasize that you work in Mesa and Gilbert and Chandler. (See an example at the bottom of this page.)
YCL can do basic optimization on your site by adding page descriptions, more keywords, page titles, etc. We will work on your main web pages and your blogs if you like.

Call today to discuss your best options!

September 18, 2026 By yclmanager5

21 Ways to Grow Your Email Marketing List

Here is a good article with practical recommendations for growing your email list. Email marketing is the best value in social media for small businesses.

Read the 21 Ways from MarTech.

September 15, 2026 By yclmanager5

Commercial vs. Transactional Emails: 5 Powerful Ways to Optimize Your Message

What would your email marketing team do with $650,000?

Whether you’re a hundred-strong team or a scrappy team of one, that’s a lot of moolah.

That’s the amount of an FTC settlement against Experian Consumer Services for violating CAN-SPAM by confusing transactional and commercial emails. The issue was not that their emails included colorful designs or even that it included information about Experian products.

It was that they did not allow members to opt-out of their emails.

Don’t make the same mistake.

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September 11, 2026 By yclmanager5

The Best 10 Personalized Email Templates by Industry and Use Case

We’ve got a few marketing secrets here at Litmus… and maybe your email team does, too.

We talk a lot about designing and coding emails from scratch. And we do a lot of that! But we also… sometimes… occasionally… use email templates. 😅

46% of email marketers have up to five emails in production at any given time. Sound familiar? And with teams averaging about 2 weeks to produce a single email, that’s a lot of concepting, designing, writing, HTML coding, reviewing, and testing in a short amount of time.

There’s nothing wrong with taking a few strategic shortcuts for your email marketing campaigns with an email template. But where email marketers go wrong is leaving templates exactly as they are, making them pretty blah campaigns—potentially sacrificing better business outcomes for speed.

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September 11, 2026 By yclmanager5

How Can Cloud Services Protect Stored Data?

Cloud services have become an integral part of our daily lives, catering to various needs such as storage, computing resources, and application hosting. With the increasing amount of data being generated and stored in the cloud, data security has become a major concern for both individuals and businesses. In this document, we will discuss how cloud services protect stored data and provide a comprehensive understanding of the measures taken to ensure the security of our valuable information.

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