Problem Solved: Monthly Maintenance for WordPress Websites
Along with the great benefit of having a dynamic, easy-to-update website on WordPress, comes the flip-side: ensuring it’s properly maintained and running smoothly. Just like owning a car, we have to...
View ArticleStrategic List Building: Why it Matters and How to Use Your Website to Grow...
List building is the most important thing you can do to grow your business next to direct business development (picking up the phone and having a conversation with your ideal client). Why? People who...
View ArticleThree Things to Do Before You Hire a Company to Create Your Website
This must be the fifth time this year alone that I have spent an hour on the phone consoling someone who has had terrible experience with their previous web developer. In each case, a LOT of money was...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of an Effective + Powerful Sidebar
If your website is built on the WordPress platform (or even if it isn’t) you most likely have a sidebar on most of your pages. What you put there can make the difference between connecting with your...
View ArticleAttracting the Right People to Your Website
It’s great to have traffic to your website, yes? But have you ever wondered “who” exactly is visiting? Do you wonder if your website is going to resonate with the people you have identified as your...
View ArticleDo You Have a Press Worthy Website?
Over the past few weeks since I’ve been back, I’ve spoken to two small business PR clients who are moving their products from Etsy to creating their own websites. They have some really great products,...
View ArticleDo You Know Who Your Ideal Clients Are?
Recently we talked about attracting the Right people to your Website. But, do you really know who they are? Do you know everything about them, so you can speak in a language they understand–that really...
View ArticleAre Your WordPress Plugins Making Your Website Sluggish and Vulnerable to...
Guest post by Regina Smola, WordPress Security Expert and Founder of WPSecurity Lock. See the end of this post for details on Regina’s upcoming FREE security webinar, covering the latest security...
View ArticleTwelve Days of Unique Gift Ideas for Your Clients
In case you’ve missed it, we’ve been posting these ideas on our Facebook page since December 8th. We still have a few more to go, but since time is getting short, we’ll combine them all here so you...
View ArticleAre You Ready to Take Your Business to the NEXT LEVEL with WordPress?
At Connect Interactive, we use WordPress exclusively as the content management platform for our clients because it allows then to easily access and maintain their website. Anyone, regardless of their...
View ArticleGet a FREE Website Success Evaluation
Do you wonder how whether your website is helping you attract the right clients and customers? Would you like to find out what you are doing right and what might need to be improved? Request a FREE...
View ArticleIt’s Your Time to Shine: What You Need to Attract and Engage the Clients You...
You’ve been at this for a while now, and you know the clients you’ve been attracting are not the ones you really want to serve. Maybe you have been accepting clients who consistently pay you less than...
View ArticleKeeping Your WordPress Blog Safe 7 Essential Steps
Sites get hacked every day. Security is an important concern for any database-driven website (and that would include any blog). WordPress is no exception. Hackers gonna hack–and they are totally...
View ArticleHow to be Awesome on the Internet: A Conversation with Sarah Von Bargen
I’m changing things up on the blog. I still want it to be full of information you can use…but it needs more… people! Why? Because if I’ve learning anything after taking the past year off, it’s how much...
View ArticleThree Easy SEO Tools for Busy Entrepreneurs
Most of us know SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is something we need to be consistently working on so our blogs can be found in search, but it often gets pushed aside because we find it confusing and...
View ArticleEssential Business Routines for Creative Entrepreneurs
I’m a creative entrepreneur. My favorite people to work with are also creative entrepreneurs like writers, authors, speakers, coaches, designers, artists, and similar professionals. We build our...
View Article5 Reasons Twitter Wins Best Social Media Platform for Busy Entrepreneurs
photo credit: skersting66 I have a Twitter confession. After all these years online, I really haven’t paid much attention to Twitter. I feel bad about it, but it’s just that my social media experience...
View ArticleHow Profit First will Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster into...
Today I’m happy to share this conversation with one of my very favorite bearers of light for small business entrepreneurs, Mike Michalowicz. Mike hardly needs an introduction having been featured...
View ArticleCreate Email Newsletters People Actually Want to Open
I know…I feel your pain! It can be SUCH a challenge for creative entrepreneurs like you and me to keep up with all the things we need to do to keep our business in front of our list, on social media,...
View ArticlePut Profit First and Create a Profitable Business that Actually Pays You First
Profit First: A Simple System to Transform any Business from a Cash-Eating Monster into a Money-Making Machine is the newest book by Mike Michalowicz, author of bestselling business books The Pumpkin...
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