Creator Financial Toolkit: PayPal PayPal was created in 1998 but has only been known as PayPal since 2000. PayPal has been established the longest of the financial institutions I will mention in this post. At its basic level, Paypal makes it possible to send and receive money via email. So it goes without saying that
Creator Financial Toolkit: Wrapping Up and Conclusion I know what you’re thinking, Wrapping Up and Conclusion has Part One? I figured that if I told you how the accounts working together could save you money. You would understand why you should read these posts. To me, it's not a matter of which account you should
When registering a domain, a lot of consideration should be put into the domain name you choose. Your domain is how the online world finds you online; after all, your domain name will be an extension of your brand. If you are known by the name "mybrand," you should try to register.“mybrand.com”. Or the closest
In this series of posts, I’ll be talking about what I call the "The Creator Financial Toolkit". The toolkit is a set of financial products and services that I believe a creator entrepreneur should have. These products and services can be beneficial to creators that operate on an international level and will allow creators to
20i WordPress hosting is what this post is about. I'm going to share what I have learned over the years. Essentially, the different types of hosting and what you should be looking out for when choosing a website hosting providerMoreover, I will be talking about 20i and why you should consider 20i, the UK’s top-rated
I consider myself an independent creator. Part of being independent for me is having my own platform to deliver my creativity to the online community. This blog, "The FYI" (For Your Information), represents a place to find updates about me, "Raymond Bruce," the creator, and a resource for creators. Whether for audio or video, my
So I haven’t written a post in a while. This is not what I had planned; however, the site was not performing the way I wanted. Load times were terrible from my perspective. raymondbruce.com was taking between 7-10 seconds to load, which was just unacceptable. You spend day and night working on your website, only
WordPress plugins are a functional part of many WordPress websites. WooCommerce, a WordPress plugin, is the number one e-commerce plugin used by thousands of sites. Adding e-commerce functionality to your site is a must for any online business. However, e-commerce is not the only functionality you may want to add to your site. Social media
On my journey to becoming an online creator, one of the most important tools I required was a computer. Evolving, I decided to pivot to also include video elements in my creation process. Which in turn means my computer requirements are now different. While my computer was capable of handling the music side of my
When building raymondbruce.com I decided to use WordPress. This is after years of being a Joomla user. Joomla, however, I left behind after a lot of resistance by myself too switching to WordPress. One of the main reasons for the switch from, was Joomla's inability to create multi-site websites natively. Multi-site basically means the ability
