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3 Shows That Help You Brand Yourself

With all the reality TV polluting the airwaves, finding something that could be useful to our professional lives is like searching through a figurative landfill looking for a piece of buried treasure. Afterall, according to www.direct.tv, 88 percent of… Continue reading

Finding Design Inspiration in Unlikely Places

For web designers, a lot of what inspires us is from the on-line world. We look to other web sites and other web designers. We remember what we learned when we were studying graphic design and web design but the… Continue reading

How To Create a Website With WordPress

If you need to make a quick and simple website for internet marketing purposes, using WordPress is a great option. WordPress is traditionally for creating blogs, but with their easy layout designs and optional plug-ins, it can simply be converted… Continue reading

Why a Reliable Web Host is Crucial for a Small Business

When it comes to your small business’s website, nothing should stand in the way of reliability: You want website uptime, not downtime; you want online sales, not missed opportunities; you want customer support, not user frustration.

Knowing your site-reliability factors… Continue reading

Email Marketing Tips for WordPress

You may not think of a blog or an email marketing campaign as the same genus of animal, but WordPress (the CMS software that builds websites) and email marketing actually do go together perfectly quite well. In fact, some website… Continue reading

Where Is Your Traffic Going?

Does your business that’s been around for a while need a boost? Accept Einstein’s theory of insanity and realize that if you keep doing the same thing, you’re not going to get different results. Maybe your advertising, social media, or… Continue reading

Balancing Between SEO and Web Design for a Better Website

There have been lots of debates on whether or not a website that is well-optimized can be well-designed as well. A DIY Website Builder is designed to help you achieve this balance, but how would a website that has factors… Continue reading

How to Choose a Color Scheme for Your Blog

You’ve done the hard work: you’ve chosen a blog theme, and perhaps you’ve written a post or two. You’re trying to put together a design to appeal to readers, but you’re clueless about finding a color scheme. You don’t want… Continue reading

Don’t Stop Marketing

“Go ahead. Cut your marketing budget when things get tough. I get it. That’s like saying, ‘I’ll throw some logs on that fire when it warms up in here’.”

For well-positioned companies, an economic recession should not prompt marketing cutbacks,… Continue reading

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