If you have a website with a contact form, you’ve probably experienced it: fake inquiries, SEO solicitations, website development pitches, suspicious links and bots filling out your forms. For the WordPress websites I build and maintain for clients, one of the tools I’ve used for several years to combat this is CleanTalk Anti-Spam. I use it on my own websites… View Post
As a marketing ninja and website designer, I offer website maintenance as a service. And as being/offering all of those things to small business owners, I also often become their one stop for all-things-tech. I am sure you could only imagine the “quick questions” I get. One of the more common ones is that the website isn’t working or loading…. View Post
Email, we know it is a necessary evil for your business, and heck, even for personal use. I mean, you sign up for lists, opt ins, you have to have email to do just about anything online, to include dang near all social media because THEY want to spam you. I don’t think I have met ANYONE who doesn’t have… View Post
After you have created your business, non-profit or community group, one of the top few things you are hopefully considering for your business is getting a website. Let’s talk basic website essentials Hopefully you are enlisting in help, and more on that in a moment, to get this done and regardless, you need: domain name – the website address hosting… View Post
Change is inevitable, we get it, but it seems like the same “change” that helped businesses into social media just phased them out. Picture this: Enter social media for friendly relationships only – no place for business Business weaseled it’s way in – get followers and post to them pay for ads to get new followers – then speak to… View Post
With the holidays around the corner and inflation prices in 2021 being through the roof, folks are looking for more and more ways to save. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that we always need to be making our products or services cheaper. Because I do believe in, you get what you paid for as well as, cheaper… View Post
Looking back on the last few years, heck even the last 10 ish years, I continue to learn many things. I used to work for Corporate America and in doing so thought, I could never work from home, I just wouldn’t be motivated enough – little did I know. I thought I had all these friends in Virginia, until I… View Post
A website, it is your business card, but online. If you say, hey Jane, my friend, Sarah makes these cool widgets, you should check it out. Where do folks go to check that widget out? Facebook? Pfffftttt, let’s talk about that for a second – it is the WORST search engine, EVER. I mean, seriously, they are good for one… View Post
There are things that you do just once and then there are things that you do forever. Hopefully you will buy a house once, but you forever have to keep it up to date. Just like hopefully you buy/build a website once and then you just need to take care of it and keep it up. It isn’t enough to… View Post
No matter what type of online or brick & mortar business you are building, growing your email list is an important growth factor. Because it is against the law to send out spam (and any unsolicited email can be considered spam), you need to grow your list in a way that doesn’t violate the CAN-SPAM Act. Presenting a powerful opt-in… View Post
