Introduction
Welcome to the Majority Media Newsletter
The Majority Media newsletter is designed to help keep you up to date on the latest news and articles. Curated to save you time on searching for relevant articles. Whether you already own your own business or you're looking into it this will be a useful newsletter helping to provide you with insights and information.
If there are specific topics or categories that you'd like to see added or more of, feel free to reach out and it will be taken into consideration.
Questions Business Owner Are Asking
8 Reasons to create a website for your business
If you're on the fence about whether or not you should invest in a website. This article may help you decide on whether you can afford to continue to promote through social media options like Whatsapp & Facebook messenger or if you should take that next step with your business and invest in a website.
Helpful Tips
SEO SEMPER | How to Quickly do Internal Linking in Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, BigCommerce, or Shopify
If you're using one of the templated sites Like Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, Shopify, or BigCommerce. You could be missing out on opportunities to boost your SEO and ability to direct visitors to pages that would help you close more business.
Here is an article that explains a method on how to set up your internal linking so that you can link the blog articles to relevant pages. Helping you steer the customer journey towards a sale. You worked hard to get the visitor to your website. Make sure that as they're reading the article that you're providing them with access to more information on how you can provide that product/service. Keep them on your website and with you in mind as the best option available.
WordPress
Another Credit Card Stealer That Pretends to Be Sucuri
I can't tell you how many times I receive a random email from someone pretending to be from a company. If they're not trying to get you to provide your login credentials. They're out to gather more personal information.
Make sure that you're on the lookout for the credit card stealers that pretend to be Sucuri. If you're a customer be wary and make sure you're being contacted by the actual company.
Here's a tip. One of the things I always look for is the sender's email domain. Surprisingly some scams are lazy and hope that you will be too and not check the sender's info. Another thing to check for is if you're on an email sent directly to you or if it's my email along with a host of others at the same time. When it seems shady I click on "reply all" to confirm who else was emailed. Worse case you can always check with Sucuri to confirm the email came from them prior to sharing and personal information.
New Critical Vulnerability for WordPress Users
This week be sure to check on your website if you're a Drupal user. There is a vulnerability for version 8.8.11, 8.9.9, 9.0.8. It allows attackers to upload an arbitrary file by adding a second extension to it.
As a result, this can lead to remote code execution. Protect access to your website. Run your scans and check for updates on the latest version to correct the vulneratbility
Upcoming Events
Summary - Crowd Funding: And Leveraging Online Fundraising For Your Business
On December 2nd The Federal Reserve Bank of New York in partnership with IFundWomen will be hosting an hour-long webinar focused on Crowd Funding and Leveraging Online Fundraising for your business.
You can register here. It runs from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET.
2020 Virtual Marketplace Exchange Summit
On December 9th there will be a virtual summit for the Garden State Minority, Women, and Veteran-Owned businesses.
The summit will include helpful information on the following categories: -Construction -Technology -Transportation -Financial Services -Professional Services -Manufacturing -Commodities -Utilities
You can register at https://www.eventdex.com/Virtual-Marketplace-Exchange-Summit/
MBE/MWBE
The MWBE Certificate: An Intro to the What, Why, and How | Justworks
There are so many entrepreneurs out there struggling to compete in their market. Feeling overwhelmed by larger companies with deeper pockets for their marketing budget. Even the playing field with a pursuit of your MBE/MWBE.
The Minority Business Enterprise/Minority Business Women-owned Enterprise certifications are a way to help you compete. Here's an article on the basics questions most people ask about MBE/MWBE. The goal here is to get you the baseline of information and then start to go into more details in future issues on how to attain your certification and the options out there once you have it.
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News
Stimulus package: Will a deal get done before 2020 ends? Congress preps for final sprint - CNET
Here is the latest on the status of the Covid Relief Bill. There are so many entrepreneurs and people, in general, hoping for some sort of relief to come as they try to hold onto their businesses, homes, and just stay on top of their bills.
Stay up to date on where things stand and plan as best you can to weather the wait.
PPP forgiveness simplified for loans of $50,000 or less - Journal of Accountancy
Here is an article providing a bit of insight into the PPP loan forgiveness status. There are a lot of businesses that did receive the loans and had to make some tough decisions in how they used it.
Staying up to date with the options on how to prepare for what happens when the bill comes due. it will be helpful to know what your options are and have a plan in place so that you're not scrambling trying to find answers and solutions last minute.