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Pen Publishing's tribute to the beloved heart of the company, Karla Goewert.
The Importance of Content Marketing for Small Business Owners
See how a blog can help your business!
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I can definitely tell it's Christmas, my house was flooded with the delicious smell of cookies last night...
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Social media is becoming a critical tool to the growth and online presence of your business. If you don't believe us, here are 5 reasons you should consider social media management.
This Earth Day, we’re going to tell you about how Microsoft 365 can help your business be greener going forward by switching to digital business solutions. Happy Earth Day from Pen Publishing Interactive!
With Microsoft Teams, it’s easier than ever to have a virtual celebration for the holidays to ensure everyone is safe yet together, while they’re apart. Read this blog post to learn how to get started and to get some ideas for making the event fun!
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Could your website use an update? The features of your website can attract consumers and encourage them to do business with you, or it can send them to the arms of your competitors. The design, functionality, and features of your website can determine your business’s success going forward.
Pen Publishing Interactive is proud to announce that our custom CMS, FlipperSD™, now integrates with Square. Say goodbye to monthly fees and start collecting payments online.
Pen Publishing Interactive of Wichita, Kansas is here to help you optimize your website for success. Download our free Website Performance Checklist to start improving today!
We strongly recommend enabling Two Factor Authentication (2FA) on your Pen Publishing hosted email. 2FA adds an extra layer of protection to your SmarterMail account and can significantly reduce the likelihood of unauthorized access to your account (even if your password is "hacked").
Your Business Class SmarterMail with Pen Publishing Interactive now comes with exciting communication and collaboration features. SmarterMail’s group chat feature allows users on the same domain to chat with each other, instantly and securely. You can also now video chat with up to 8 users!
Pen Publishing Interactive's email client, SmarterMail, has released exciting new features in their latest update including file storage, sharing, tasks, notes, and more!
Pen Publishing Interactive is proud to announce the newest update to our business class email platform, SmarterMail. The latest update to SmarterMail includes new features to promote collaboration, sharing, and productivity.
From email name to custom domains, Pen Publishing Interactive is here to help keep your business email professional and secure.
Pen Publishing Interactive of Wichita, Kansas is excited to say Happy 150th Birthday to this great city! The Wichita community is a great place for friends, family, and business and deserves to be celebrated.
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Pen Publishing Interactive of Wichita, Kansas Summer 2020 Newsletter. Information, insights, and more. All your online business solutions in one place.
Pen Publishing Interactive unveils a new logo and launches a new website for Burnham Composite Structures. Read our press release to learn more.
Email is a great tool for your business, but it isn't designed for collaboration. Microsoft Teams is the collaboration hub your team needs to succeed.
Article Categories: Articles and Blogs, BlogIcon_office Office 365
Pen Publishing Interactive is proud to announce The Center for Same Day Surgery’s new logo, branding guide, and website design.
You should be constantly updating and evaluating your website. Here are 3 ways you can easily improve your website today to increase your online success.
Pen Publishing Interactive has all your online business solutions in one place. Our team can support and help your business stay on track with a variety of resources, tools, and strategies to help your business during this trying time. We've put together a list of services and products you can take advantage of to help your business with day-to-day collaboration and sales promotions.
We want you to know that we will continue providing the products and services you depend on us for.
What would you or your business lose forever if you didn't have backups? Celebrate World Backup Day by figuring out how to protect your important data. Take a minute today to examine your current backup practices and see if there's more you can do. Work with a professional when it comes to the programs and tools you utilize for your business.
Viruses, both human and cyber, are a constant threat. Cyber criminals are capitalizing on the excitement surrounding the coronavirus with malicious online attacks. Read our post to find out more about these attacks and how you can keep your computer and your information safe.
Article Categories: Articles and Blogs, BlogIcon_office Office 365
FlipperSD CMS
Your e-commerce website goes down and you can't contact your freelance 'team' for help. After some time your website runs again. You've decided this can't happen again. Revenue loss and frustrating your customers is not an option.
Feature Friday
We've all been to online meetings where the connection drops and audio issues happen. Frustration sets in and productivity goes out the door. And all you wanted to do was login, see the presenters screen and meet.
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Custom domains are the start of everything from professional emails, company website and promotional product micro sites. Learn more about why everything starts with your own custom domain.
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Welcome to the new decade!
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Feature Friday
FlipperSD™ e-commerce features allow administrators to add products one at a time or by batch importing through a spreadsheet.
Feature Friday
In the video, you will learn how easy it is to migrate your WordPress website from staging to production using the Plesk WordPress Toolkit.
Article Categories: Feature Friday Feature Friday, WordPress
Pen Publishing Interactive announced today the launch of the new High Reach Equipment website. The new site features a streamlined, custom responsive design and provides information on rental equipment, equipment sales, repair and inspection services, OSHA compliant training, High Reach Equipment locations and allows visitors to request quotes.
Feature Friday
Microsoft's Outlook Web App allows you to automatically forward your e-mail to a different mailbox.
Feature Friday
In Outlook, the default font is 11-point Calibri in black. It's used when you compose new email messages. You can change the default font and its color, size, and style — such as bold or italic.
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ssuing discount coupons is a great way to keep existing customers interested, promote new ranges of products and attract new buyers.

Learn how easy it is to set up coupon in FlipperSD™ e-commerce
Chocolate Pie, Football and Feeling Thankful
Article Categories: Newsletters, Partner Showcase
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When online shoppers realize they’re getting a special deal, they are motivated to spend more time browsing and buying.
Feature Friday
For this week's Feature Friday we've included information on how to set-up a personalized signature for Microsoft Outlook Web App (browser-based) and Desktop Client.
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Feature Friday
When you have multiple vendors handling online services it makes it extra difficult to get the help your business requires...
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We live in a visual culture where images are becoming the “universal language”. The quality and number of product images make a bigger impact on buyers than product-specifics.
Pen Publishing Interactive today announced the launch of the new Kansas Association of Nurse Anesthetists (KANA) website. The website runs on Pen Publishing Interactive’s FlipperSD™, an established website content management system (CMS).
Feature Friday
A product attribute is a characteristic that defines a product and will affect a consumer's purchase decision. For example, product attributes can be size and color which may include options such as small, medium, large or red, white and blue.
We were hoping to sneak out for one last hooray on the lake. Then on my check-in call to the office, my staff informed me that it had snowed in Kansas. I know Kansas weather all too well, so I shouldn't have been surprised at this sudden change.
Article Categories: Newsletters, Partner Showcase
Feature Friday
With FlipperSD™ CMS e-commerce features you can easily create an online store. In this video, we will show you how to add a product and assign the product to a products section (online store) on a website.
Feature Friday
In this week's Feature Friday we've included information on how to set-up email out-of-office autoresponders...
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Pen Publishing Interactive, an online business solutions provider headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, today announced the launch of the new public and intranet websites for Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas.
Feature Friday
Plesk Professional WYSIWYG Editor and Code Editor are handy tools that simplify website updates and maintenance that does not require FTP.
Feature Friday
Learn how easy FlipperSD™ makes it to create users in this short video.
Feature Friday
Watch the video to learn how quickly and easily it is to create a database backup and restore a database using Plesk.
Feature Friday
A URL redirect is a web server function that sends a user from one URL to another.
Feature Friday
WordPress websites are frequently targeted by hackers. Plesk WordPress Toolkit provides security recommendations to keep your WordPress site secure.
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Feature Friday
Articles or blog posts can be used to attract visitors to your website. Learn how easy it is to set up an Articles (blog) section.
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One way to provide access to specific files on your website only to specific users is by creating a password-protected directory.
Pen Publishing Interactive today announced the launch of the newly developed website for The Arnold Group (TAG).
Feature Friday
With FlipperSD’s Links section you can create a page on your website where visitors can view a list of internal and external links.
Feature Friday
If your website incorporates custom data processing applications or is designed to generate web pages dynamically, you will probably need a database for storing and retrieving data. Learn how to create a database and database user in Plesk.
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Feature Friday
One of the most convenient ways to update your website content is to upload files, images, and documents through File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
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With all of the technical jargon out there for email, domains and websites, do you sometimes feel like you are swimming with the sharks? We understand how difficult that can be. On our Pen website, we provide an online Knowledgebase of articles on topics including: Office 365, FlipperSD™, WordPress, and Plesk.
Article Categories: Newsletters, Knowledge Base Knowledgebase
Feature Friday
A WordPress theme determines the overall design of a website including colors, fonts, and layout. By selecting a different theme, you change the look and feel of your website without changing the content. With WordPress Toolkit, you can install and manage themes.
Feature Friday
FlipperSD™ CMS allows you to easily build a professional website. Create and manage all your content with the native page types of FlipperSD CMS™.
Feature Friday
With FlipperSD's Downloads sections you can create a page on your website where the visitor can view, download or email a specific document.
Pen Publishing Interactive today announced the launch of the newly developed Pumpers Dancewear e-commerce website.
Feature Friday
Online forms are notorious for being flooded with bogus submissions from spambots. Lucky for all of us there are tools that help block those spam form submissions.
Pen Publishing Interactive today announced the launch of the newly developed Western State Bank (WSB) website.
Feature Friday
Learn how to organize Articles, Documents, and Images using Icon and Keyword tags.
Feature Friday
Eliminate the need to copy and paste multiple articles to multiple sections.
Learn about our team's summer gardening project, cycling event, certification achievements and other early Summer 2019 news!
Article Categories: Newsletters, BlogIcon_office Office 365
Feature Friday
Learn how to connect FlipperSD's SEO Maximizer Basic with Google Analytics to give you an overview of your website traffic.
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404 Crawl Error Analyzer and 301 URL Redirect Tool with Google Search Console Intergration
If you work for or own a small business, chances are you are always on-the-go. Lucky for us, Microsoft created Teams to help businesses maximize productivity.
Article Categories: Articles and Blogs, BlogIcon_office Office 365
Domain names are often registered and used for company websites and for e-mail addresses. Explore the basics of domain registration, renewal and expiration.
Our goal is to provide a higher quality service to all of our partners.
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For a limited time only, save on our website content updating services with our Spring BOGO deal. Purchase one-hour of website maintenance services and get an additional hour free!
WordPress is popular but is it the best option for your website? Checkout these WordPress alternative content management systems and learn more.
Celebrating 25 Years!
Pen Publishing Interactive is celebrating their 25th anniversary this year.
Article Categories: Newsletters
You’re starting your business and you need to create a business e-mail address. Learn why you should create your professional business e-mail address.
FlipperSD CMS
Pen Publishing Interactive Inc., an online business solutions provider headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, announces new version of their popular website content management system FlipperSD.
FlipperSD CMS by Pen Publishing Interactive
As we celebrate 15 years of developing and delivering hundreds of FlipperSD websites we are humbled to introduce the most recent version of our robust website content management system. Learn about the new features and functionality!
Highlights from Our Year
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Microsoft Outlook is a powerful collaboration tool. That's why we've compiled a list of shared calendar features we love.
Article Categories: BlogIcon_office Office 365, Articles and Blogs
Optimizing your website and improving your keyword ranking doesn't happen overnight. Start by following these tips on optimizing your website and online presence for SEO.
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Are you making the right moves to avoid exposing your personal data and email password to hackers?
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Part Three: How a mobile friendly, responsive website design helps your business rank higher in search results.
FlipperSD CMS by Pen Publishing Interactive
SEO Maximizer Standard is a powerful and easy-to-use search engine optimization tool developed for FlipperSiteDeveloper CMS.
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Part Two: Items to consider when developing a responsive website, specifically design elements and website navigation.
Responsive Web Design Series: Introduction to RWD
If you haven’t heard of Responsive Web Design (RWD), now is the time to learn about it. RWD is a design technique that allows website content to adapt to multiple viewports.
FlipperSD CMS by Pen Publishing Interactive
Check out the latest notes on the July 2018 FlipperSiteDeveloper CMS release.
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Every day people are turning to technology and search engines, not printed directories, for help on thousands of micro-moments in their life. Thumbing through a phone book and hoping to, by chance, choose a reputable dentist or mechanic isn’t going to meet those needs.
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We use the term “Google” like “Kleenex” or “Coke.” And for the world’s best known search engine, that’s obviously a good thing. But for marketers, there’s a bigger issue at hand. Consumers don’t define “search” the way marketing people do.
What are small businesses’ Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions for their website? The list is in! Web DesignWeb, Hosting, Google AdWords, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and SSL Encryption. Those are the most common requests we’ve heard from customers since the first of the year.
We are proud of what we've accomplished this year and are excited about the plans we have for 2018. Check out some of our highlights for 2017 and a sneak-peek of what we have coming in the first quarter of 2018.
Article Categories: Newsletters
“S-S-L website encryption? Please, spell it out for me!” SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption is technology that creates a secure connection where it’s needed most – between your website visitor’s browser and your website’s server.
Scams can happen to anyone, including us. Here is an example of a criminal that is using our company information for malicious motives: Our identity is being used as part of a phishing scam. We don’t know who is behind this scam, nor did we give them permission to use our information.
Website been on vacation too long? Send it to school.
Article Categories: Newsletters
So much has been written about Social Media’s role in small business marketing that most small business owners feel their eyes roll into the back of their head when they hear those words. Want to see them go ahead and keel over right where they stand?
“If you try to be all things to all people, you won’t be anything to anybody.” How focusing on core services and products can accelerate marketing efforts.
Article Categories: Articles and Blogs, Insights
How do we answer one of the most frequent questions our customers ask us?
Finding a reliable SEO company isn’t a search for new gizmos. There are people involved, too. Check your email these days, and it feels like there’s someone on every street corner peddling “Page 1 rankings, guaranteed!”
Yesterday, one of our clients called to tell us they were moving their web site hosting to a company that also offers online marketing services. When we told them we provide web design, search engine optimization and social media to a wide variety of our clients, it was a complete surprise.
One of our clients called yesterday to tell us they were moving their web site hosting to a company that also offers online marketing services. When we told them we provide web graphic design and copywriting, search engine optimization, mobile sites, pay-per-click advertising and social media to a wide variety of our clients, it was a complete surprise. In fact, the client was disappointed they didn’t know, or they’d have “called us first.”
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When long-time supporter Pen Publishing Interactive approached Ronald McDonald House Charities Wichita (RMHC Wichita) and asked if they could donate a mobile “solution” to their existing website, CEO/Executive Director Susan Smythe was certainly pleased to accept the offer.
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We hope you’re staying warm this winter. Meanwhile, here are a few words for our valued Pen customers on how your customers are warming up to using their mobile devices to view your web site.
Pen Publishing Interactive Partners with Zix Corporation. Pen Publishing Interactive Completes Security Offering with ZixCorp Secure Email Encryption Services
Pen Publishing Interactive has announced the launch of the new Wichita/Sedgwick County Crime Stoppers website, www.wsccs.com. Pen Publishing Interactive provided the functionality and design using FlipperSiteDeveloper content management system (CMS).
Every now and then it is worthwhile to take a look at how strong the passwords you use are. From time-to-time we get calls to re-set passwords that were forgotten and frequently those requests are to set a password to something easily guessed.
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We will be updating all of our mail servers over the next two weeks.  New synchronization options have been added.  Webmail has the most changes including a more efficient interface. We are excited to be able to bring these improvements to you and I am confident you will...
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Congratulations to Karla Goewert for being selected for the 2011 40 under 40 by the Wichita Business Journal. The Wichita Business Journal recognizes promising young people in business.
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ZixCorp and Pen Publishing Interactive Announce Partnership
Pen Publishing Interactive, Inc. has announced that we have partnered with ZixCorp for encrypted email services. ZixCorp is the leader with their suite of email encryption services.
FlipperSD CMS by Pen Publishing Interactive
So do you have a traditional website built using Dreamweaver or another type of desktop editing software? You say you have heard of content management systems (CMS) but you do not think you need one. You keep your site current, right? Did this happen to your company’s website: Build new...