As we all look back at 2016 and wonder… did we complete all of those things, or goals, we set out to do for our personal life or our business life…we start to plan the same for next year. Then, with all of the Best of X out there, it got me to thinking… I could recap blogs that are… View Post
Pinterest is one of the greatest tools available to grow your business. A lot of people think of Pinterest as a social network. Instead, think of it as a search engine for visual content. A visual search engine lends itself to introducing others to your content in a fun and easily searchable format. Using Collaborative Pinning An often underutilized feature on… View Post
Think back to the last time you did a blog. (Hopefully, it isn’t that long ago, like a week or few weeks!) Do you recall how long it took you to write the blog? I am talking about just writing the blog, not the graphic creation, editing or the fluffy stuff, I’m talking just about how long it took to… View Post
I was asked recently to speak to a group of dual-credit high school/college students. The class that I was going to be speaking in was mainly teaching them the importance of networking. The instructor is married to a girlfriend of mine, knew I was a small business owner who rocked networking and wanted me to share with his classes the importance… View Post
WordPress Websites Are Becoming the Norm For Small Businesses. What exactly is a WordPress website? Wikipedia defines WordPress as a free and open-source content management system based on PHP and MySQL. In non-geeky terms, WordPress is a website platform that comes equipped with a content management system (CMS). A CMS allows website owners to update content, publish blog posts, and… View Post
I was thinking about what to do for my email marketing update and procrastination came to me, together with with several recent conversations with some friends, potential clients, clients and heck, even myself! Now, I don’t claim to be a time management pro like my pal Jackie Harder, and she is amazing by the way, but it’s always so much… View Post
I am writing this blog because I offer Pay Per Click (PPC) services. Too many folks don’t understand it, and that’s okay, that’s why you hire someone to do PPC management for you (also known as search engine marketing (SEM)) so you don’t throw money out the window. Anyways, I had a conversation with a client recently about this very issue… View Post
It is all too often that I come across a client who doesn’t have a login for a specific social media website or other. It is more typical to not have a Google Plus login because Google has changed the rules so many times for example Google Maps Google Pages Google my business Google local and all are now mingled… View Post
Recently I wrote a blog about the difference between search engine optimization and a website that is search engine friendly. It is so often that people don’t understand what search engine optimization is or they feel that their website is already optimized for search engines when in fact their website is search engine friendly meaning ready for you, the website… View Post
It’s too often that I come across great content in blogs or on websites but when considering sharing on Pinterest, other image sharing site or social media see that they haven’t fully taken advantage of their images on their blog. When you create a blog you obviously want to have awesome visuals to complement the story of the blog and… View Post