Category: Best Practices
5 Benefits of a Personalized Business Email Address
If you’re using a free email account (@yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, @gmail.com, etc) or the account that came with your internet service account (@att.net, @comcast.net, etc,) the email address itself can convey some additional, less than positive information to the reader or your emails. I recently received… Continue reading
3 Tips for Better Passwords
Those crazy Russian hackers (but not this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp47lvGR8Ek) are at it again. Hold Security reports (http://www.holdsecurity.com/news/cybervor-breach/) that a Russian crime ring hacked nearly half a million websites and amassed 1.2 billion unique user names and passwords which belong to over half a billion email… Continue reading
How to Embed a Google Map on Your Website
I love it when a business puts a map of their location on their website. Even if I know roughly where a business is, it’s nice to get a confirmation that my internal (and often on the fritz) GPS is correct. Of course, some businesses… Continue reading
Planning Your First Five Pages
Designing your website can be almost as complicated as designing your house. You want everything perfect when you launch. Of course, before that you’ll want to figure out what perfect is. Looking at other websites, getting input from friends and family, playing with color schemes… Continue reading
Your WordPress Site Got Hacked. Now What?
So, you just got a call from a friend who said that they went to your WordPress website on their iPad but it’s showing porn instead of your business’ regular page. Well, isn’t that special? There have been a rash of these events lately. Sucuri,… Continue reading
Why Facebook or Twitter Doesn’t Replace a Website
Why do I need a website when I already use Facebook? This is a common enough question. In fact, I heard it the last time I was getting my hair cut by Anicia. “We post everything to Facebook because that’s where the people are. Why do… Continue reading
Twitter Etiquette – 10 Quick Tips for Small Businesses
Twitter, like other forms of social media, are excellent resources for small business. Also like the other forms of social media, there are right and wrong ways to use Twitter for your business. As a relative Twitter noob* but a student of the process, I… Continue reading
9 Reasons Your Business Needs a Blog
Blogs aren’t just for personal journals or hobbyists anymore. Blogs provide businesses with a wealth of opportunities ranging from announcing new products and services to interacting with customers. Blogging also keeps your website active and alive rather than stagnant (the way 75% of business websites… Continue reading
Top 11 Pages Your Website Needs
One of the first discussions I have with clients is to figure out what pages their website needs in order to get started. As you read last week, your website doesn’t need to immediately launch with every page you will ever create. Your website does… Continue reading
How Many Pages Does My Website Need?
Think of every page on your website as an open doorway inviting search engine web traffic to your site. The more pages you have, the more keywords your website can feature. Keywords are how the search engines find your site. More pages = more keywords… Continue reading