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            <title>Free Link-in-Bio Page on Your Own Domain</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ever handed someone your website, your LinkedIn and your booking page one at a time?

A single page of links fixes that, and you can host one on your own domain for free. It's one small HTML file on GitHub Pages plus one DNS record, and GitHub provides the HTTPS.

We wrote up the exact steps, including the code to paste:
https://www.northboundproductlab.com/blog/link-in-bio-page-own-domain.html

If you're tired of sending three links when one would do, it's worth an evening this week.

#SmallBusiness #Founders]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ever moved a website behind a new service and wondered if you broke the email?

Worth checking. Cloudflare's free plan costs $0 a month and includes a CDN, an SSL certificate and DDoS protection, but you do have to switch your nameservers and copy your DNS records over carefully.

We wrote up the exact steps, including the SSL setting people usually get wrong:
https://www.northboundproductlab.com/blog/cloudflare-free-plan-setup.html

If you own a domain and your site isn't behind anything yet, it's worth doing this week.

#SmallBusiness #Founders]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ever had someone message you "hey, is your website down?"

Worst feeling. Usually it's been down for hours and you had no idea.

There's a free fix for this. UptimeRobot checks your site every 5 minutes and pings your phone the moment it stops responding. No credit card, and it takes about 10 minutes to set up.

We wrote up the exact steps here:
https://www.northboundproductlab.com/blog/free-uptime-monitoring-alerts.html

If your business has a website and nobody's keeping an eye on it, it's worth doing this week.

#SmallBusiness #Founders]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Paying $84 a year for Google Workspace just to have one professional email address?

You can get you@yourdomain.com for $0, with mail arriving in the Gmail inbox you already use and replies sent from your domain.

Our step-by-step guide uses ImprovMX for forwarding and Gmail's "Send mail as":
https://www.northboundproductlab.com/blog/free-custom-domain-email-setup.html

#Founders #SmallBusiness #Productivity #Email]]></description>
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