Jeff from Local Marketing recommends using a password manager like LastPass or 1Password to store unique passwords for every account. Cybercrime ranks as the world's third-largest economy, making reused passwords dangerous. He walks through WordPress password resets and stresses documenting login details to avoid future stress.
And I would recommend document that, put it someplace, or better yet, and this is not a plug for any of the, I'm going to call it the 1Password type of tools, but I would recommend having a tool where you only have to remember 1 password and everything else is generated for you. I'll give you an example. We use a product called LastPass. And so what happens is I have 1 password that I have to remember that will then get me into all my accounts. Well, that takes a lot of pressure off of that. But here's the other thing for that. And this was, this was a surprise. The other day I heard this, that the third largest economy in the world, US being one, China the second, the third is cybercrime. Let that sink in a minute. The third largest economy. So the last thing we want to do is we want to overuse some, some passwords that we remember, like, you know, our street name, our wife's name, our birthday, our pet name. Password, for God's sakes, or forgot my password. What this does is when you put this in there and then let's say you put your Gmail account there, it'll auto-generate something that don't even try to remember it and then save it. And then every time you go to log in, it'll say, do you want to use? And whatever that password process is, you click it. Yes. You put in your main password, which you remember. Again, I would not recommend using something like I just said. Come up with something unique and put it in there, and then it will populate it. All right. So the big reason I wanted to put this out there today, because I feel like whenever we have clients, we've had, we've had many clients recently come aboard and they didn't know for sure what their passwords were. They needed to reset them and they didn't know how to do it. And they felt this anxiety. Please don't have that. Just know, hey, what URL, what domain do I need to log into? So if it's your website, you know, it could be the name of your, of your website forward slash, and if it's a, um, if it's a WordPress and it's wp-admin, log in, use your email address in there, and then hit forgot password, or put a password in there that you know that probably is not going to work, or the one you last remember, and then password reset, and then go through that process of resetting. It's probably going to send you a code on your phone, and they're going to want to verify that. That's great. And then just reset it, document them, and move on. It should not be a situation where it's a lot of high stress.
