10 Essential Elements Your Website Needs to be Competitive
We all know our website is critical to the success of our business. Simply having a website isn’t enough because every competitor has one too. Because our website is the most critical communication...
View ArticlePopular Web Design Trend Parallax Scrolling: Essential Considerations Before...
If you’ve spent any time online in the past year, you’ve most likely visited a website that’s been designed with a popular web design trend called Parallax Scrolling. I see people having their sites...
View Article10 Reasons Your Website Must be Mobile Friendly to be Competitive
Mobile is here in a big way. We’ve known this was coming, but who knew how how fast it was going to dominate the online marketplace! In the last three years, the growth of mobile–it’s use by just...
View ArticleWeek in Review: The 7 Most Crazy Helpful Resource Links for Entrepreneurs
It gets overwhelming–all the information out there. Some great, some not-so-great. What we really need is a quick checklist: do this, not that. Or, step-by-step action plans to get us from where we...
View ArticleEssential WordPress Plugins Checklist: The Plugins We Use for Every Client
WordPress Plugins can be a blessing and a curse. A blessing because you can easily add functionality to your website without having to know how to code, and because there are limitless options from...
View ArticleEssential Reading for Creative Entrepreneurs
Whether you’ve been in business for years, or you’re only thinking about starting your own business, these books will educate, inform, and inspire you. This list is really just the beginning–I still...
View ArticleHow to Write Blogs Posts People Actually Want to Read
Just like coming up with great content for your Newsletter, it’s critical to have a solid content strategy for your blog if you want to maintain (or gain) a strong online presence. At the same time,...
View Article3 Free Apps for Sanity and Sustainability
I love me some Lynn Baldwin-Rhoades. She is one of the smartest people I know, and she LOVES entrepreneurs and supporting them. She’s a teacher, mentor, dear friend, and a self-described community...
View ArticleSimple + Effective Blog Post Ideas for Crazy Busy Creative Entrepreneurs
By now, we all realize the importance of keeping fresh content on our websites to increase our findability in search. Search engines pay attention to sites that continue to generate fresh, relevant...
View ArticleHow to Turn Your Website into a Rock Star Sales Machine
If your website is doing it’s job, it should be sending you sales on a regular basis. If not, it’s time to look at a few things to help you get the most out of your most powerful selling tool: your...
View ArticleIncredibly Helpful Resources for Crazy Busy Creative Entrepreneurs
If you’re like most of the entrepreneurs I know (small business entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, book authors, writers, speakers, coaches and consultants, designers, etc.), you’re running your business...
View ArticleLatest Project Reveal + Why I LOVE My Job
We just finished up and launched our latest project, a professional online presence for Author, Speaker, Cultural Critic, and OSU Literature Professor, Dr. Koritha Mitchell. I honestly have to pinch...
View ArticleWordPress is Like a Car: How to Keep it Running Smoothly
WordPress is like a car. It needs regular tuneups to keep running smoothly. Having your own self-hosted WordPress website is a beautiful (and necessary) thing for any serious business owner or...
View ArticleWhat to Tweet Cheat Sheet for Beyond Busy Entrepreneurs
You know you need a business presence on social media. It’s not just for the relationship-building–which is HUGE–but also for the online visibility that you need to create and maintain so your...
View ArticleImprove Your Search Results through Blog Commenting
Quality links from other websites in your niche is a great way to build online visibility (findability) for your own website. When you comment on another blog, you get a link back to your own website...
View ArticleEasy To Use Social Media Management Tools for Wildly Busy Entrepreneurs
You’re writing regular posts on your blog because you know you need to in order to make sure your site is indexed by search (and people can find you in search), and provide value for those on your...
View Article5 Shockingly Easy, Totally Painless Ways To Build Your List
You’re a clever, driven entrepreneur (that’s why you’re reading this, right?) so you obviously know your list is one of the most important tools in your proverbial marketing tool box. You also know...
View ArticleNot Just An Ebook! 5 Ideas For Newsletter Opt-ins You Haven’t Seen A Million...
Are you tired of hearing me talk about newsletters yet? I’ve nattered on about how to build ‘em, how to get people to open ‘em, how I’d love it if you signed up for mine. But I’ve still got a one more...
View Article4 Ways to Give New Life to Old Blog Posts
Did you know I’ve written hundreds of blog posts over the years? Not just on this blog either. That’s thousands and thousands of words, stretching back across the years, breaking down the hows and whys...
View ArticleGet Your Subscribers to Talk Back With the World’s Easiest Autoresponder
Your list: you’ve got one, you’ve done all sorts of clever things get people to join it, and you write emails that your subscribers actually want to open. Wonderful! Internet high five! The whole...
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