Tips and Tricks
Why Collect Email Addresses from your Website
Email marketing – the why: If you have a website (whether it’s a full site with multiple pages or a blog), you will want to have an email sign-up form highly visible so people can sign up to receive new content from you. Heck, even if you don’t have a website but you use Facebook,…
Read MoreHow to Save Time and Be Productive with Skype
When Skype first started, it was known as a way to talk to people anywhere in the world, computer to computer, for free! It was also a way to call landlines or mobile phones for a small fee by adding credit to your account. These days, Skype is used for so much more than calling…
Read MoreOur top 10 picks to find the perfect images for your website (and social media)
Your images are the eye candy of your website. They give your content interest, help explain what’s going on, make things more fun and best of all, give your website stay-worthiness. Too little or the wrong type is boring at best or run for the hills at worst. If the first impression people get is…
Read More5 Creative Ways To Refresh Your Marketing And Increase Sales
We all know it’s getting harder to stand out online, so the last thing we, as entrepreneurs, should be striving for is more ‘sameness’. If you’ve been struggling to reel in new customers, then the time has come to press refresh on your marketing strategy and try out new tactics. Here a 5 Creative Ways…
Read MoreJPEG & PNG – What’s the difference and why you need to know
What’s the difference? The quickie definition of each is: PNG: (Pronounced ping) PNG is short for Portable Network Graphics, which are formatted files that have been compressed with no loss of quality to the image. This is called a “lossless” image compression. JPEG or JPG: (Pronounced jay-peg) JPG is short for Joint Photographic Experts Group,…
Read MoreConnect your business email with Gmail and work smarter!
Get rid of webmail Ready to make your life easier? If you have a website, you’ve probably set up (or had someone do it for you), your business @yourwebsite.com email addresses(es). If not, do it. It will make you look professional and like an actual, legit business. When your email addresses are set up, they…
Read MoreSteps We’re Taking to Improve Our Business: For Starters, Instagram
If you’ve already been following us on Instagram for a while, you probably know that we have recently stepped up our Instagram game. Big time! If not, we invite you to start following us today! If you’re not on Instagram or don’t know how it works, we can help! A little background: Like so many…
Read MorePerfecting the Perfect Website Color Palette
“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” ~ Wassily Kandinsky When you’re building your new website, choosing the perfect color combination is one of the big-dog processes of the visual design (just like choosing the fonts and images), and getting it right is essential. Good news is, it’s one of the fun aspects…
Read MoreMaintaining Your Website is as Important as Getting a Haircut
Wait! What?? What the heck does maintaining a website have to do with getting a haircut? Oooh, glad you asked! Let’s say you have long hair. If you don’t get it cut every so often, it’s still going to look ok on the surface. I mean, you can always just throw it up in a…
Read MoreEven Experts Hire Experts
Specialist: a person who concentrates primarily on a particular subject or activity; a person highly skilled in a specific and restricted field. Do you ever get asked to do things related to your business, but it’s not really your field of expertise? We do. On a regular basis, we’re asked things like: “I need to…
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