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BC Government Announces $12M In E-Commerce Grants For Businesses
The BC Government is helping small to medium size businesses get online and add e-commerce or online booking functionality to their websites with $12M in grant funding. This is an exciting opportunity to add web functionality to your store, with 75% of the costs...
How Much Revenue Is Your Restaurant Losing To Delivery Apps?
Delivery Apps may have been a good idea when the majority of your restaurant's revenue was coming from in house visits, but now due to COVID-19, most of your income is likely coming from online orders. Use our calculator to see the true impact of these delivery apps...
Get Online Ordering For Your Restaurant
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, most restaurants are operating in a takeout or delivery only capacity. Unfortunately, many restaurants have chosen to use third party online ordering apps like SkipTheDishes, Uber Eats, and Door Dash among others that typically take up...
How To Successfully Offer Take Out During COVID-19
Your restaurant has probably had to close it's doors sometime in the past few weeks. Offering take-out or delivery services is likely your only source of revenue at this time. Here are some ideas for you to think about implementing to increase customer engagement and...
How To Set Up Your Home Office To Make Working From Home More Effective
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, many thousands of employers are now required to let their employees work from home if it's at all possible to do so. While working remotely has long been a staple of the tech industry, it will be a new experience for employers in...
What To Put On A Resume Website
What Is a Resume Website? If your goal is to get a great job, the first thing you’ll need is a professional-looking resume. Despite all of the technological advances in today’s digital world, resumes are still a very important tool for landing the job of your dreams....
Remarketing & Other Opportunities When Using Instagram For Business
Recently, advertisers were given a new feature to take advantage of when using Instagram for business marketing. Previously, remarketing (the process of showing ads to people who have previously interacted with your business), was limited to targeting people who have...
DNS Flag Day Is Upon Us!
What's DNS Flag Day and why should you care? On February 1st, 2019 the global DNS is updating and if your domain isn't set up properly, your website could go offline! Why the upgrade? DNS, or the Domain Name Service is what lets us type www.checkmatehosting.com into a...
How To View Submissions From Ninja Forms
When it comes to WordPress plugins, few products offer greater potential than Ninja Forms. As a free creation interface designed for users without prior coding knowledge, this plugin lets you design forms for your site in a matter of minutes. This makes it invaluable...
How To Build A Brand & Define Your Company’s Style
When you hear the term "branding", you may think it only applies to huge companies like Coca-Cola or Nike who can employ entire marketing teams. While it's true that many national and international corporations spend millions on branding, it's just as important for...