We all love our websites. They’re like our kids sometimes. We helped create them, we’ve enjoyed watching them mature, and if you leave them unattended, they might just blurt out embarrassing personal information. But as much as we love our work, we sometimes need to get away from it. Maybe it’s a business trip, maybe […]
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If there’s one thing you should take away from all of my blog posts, it’s that I’m insanely talented. But the other very important takeaway is that everything comes down to SEO. You can have the cleanest, most efficient site on the planet, but if search engines haven’t found it, neither will your customers. And
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There are good websites, there are great websites, and there are cheap websites. And nothing says “please try out our competitors” like the latter. Your website is often your first introduction to your potential customers, and just like a brick-and-mortar business, you want to make sure your visitors don’t walk inside and instantly start spotting
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Trolls, there are some tried and true ways of dealing with them. If you’re Gandolf, you trick them into arguing so long they turn to stone. If you’re a Billy Goat Gruff, you get your oldest brother to knock them into a river. And if you’re a Bergen, well, you just eat them. But the
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Your content is what makes your site yours. It’s a key part of your business—whether it’s your site design, your name, your brand, your marketing, or your written content. And the minute someone copies and pastes, your business is now diluted. Every time your content is duplicated, you become less and less of a unique
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Reputation management plays a huge role in your business’s success. That’s why it’s so important to make sure your company is presenting itself in the best light possible. The definition of reputation management is not so easily pinned down. Some believe that it involves social media monitoring, others think it has to do with public
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That’s right, We’re Talking Ergonomics We’ve talked a lot about what goes into a website, marketing your website, even how to manage your website while on vacation. But for this post, we’re going to take a step back from the website, a few feet outside your computer screen, to focus on you and a few
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There are some amazing websites on the internet. There are also some amazingly bad websites out there, and wow are they stinkers. I’m not talking the strange and bizarre sites like www.omfgdogs.com that are so bad they’re ironically good. I’m talking about corporate and small business sites that a team of web managers looked at
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A brown box with a smile. A big yellow M. A partially eaten apple. Each one of these logos represents a company that does billions in business and has operations so complex that your organizational charts need organizational charts to understand. Yet one very simple, very plain symbol manages to capture all of that. Yep,
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Social Media Management Tools One of the best tricks for “getting it all done” is delegation. Heck, for those of us who have sons, a little internal timer started the day they were born, counting down the days until we can delegate mowing the lawn to them. With websites, though, delegating is a little trickier,
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