I’m currently working with a few realtors on their upcoming web site and have hit a brick wall.  As a web designer, I would think it’s pretty straightforward to take listing data and listing information of the homes my realtors have sold and place this info on their web site.  After all, we can already [...]

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Changing your company name and how you brand yourself can be a daunting task. Obviously you have to tell your existing customers, change your logo, and launch a marketing campaign just like you might launch a brand from scratch. But there are probably a hundred other things you might not consider when branding or re-branding your business – both offline and online. I learned that the hard way when I changed my own company name and how I market myself earlier this year. Continue reading to hear my first hand experience and learn some cool tips along the way.

I just got off a call with a potential client that asked me for help.  They initially contacted me via email (I have no idea how they found me and will post in the near future about that) and I replied back to the site owner with a quote and time estimate. I then did [...]

I’m learning a lot about SEO lately and how search engines index content.  One idea I stumbled upon reading about SEO optimization for your blog is the idea of using lots of Categories almost to the point of over-using it.   I’m convinced now that having lots of Categories in your blog is beneficial to both [...]

  About 7 minutes.  That’s all the time I took to write this blog post.  I didn’t login to the WordPress admin pages, and I didn’t visit my blog to post this blog entry.  How did I do it?  Read on for more. Tip #1: Write about anything.  You think you need to write about [...]

Out of the blue, I was contacted today by a local business owner seeking WordPress theme customization from a theme they purchased on Themeforest (by the way, read about how I was able to provide everything the client wanted in my other blog post)  At first, I thought someone referred them to me, but after [...]

If you own a web site or design web sites for companies, you should be checking site performance on a regular basis.  It’s the only way to know objectively if you are on track towards improving your search ranking and keyword placement, and thus getting a positive return with your online marketing efforts. Of course, [...]

Are you standing out?  Are you marketing just like everyone else or are you taking the extra steps to stand out against the competition?  Good companies market themselves like everyone else and most of the time, that’s ok.  The problem, however, is that in a democratized market online where the barriers to competition are neutralized, [...]

I’m writing this post for a client I have just started working with in the hopes that it clears up some of the mystery around this topic and perhaps you will also learn a thing or two from my 2+ years of working with WordPress. If you spent any time at all with WordPress, you [...]