In the course of the average month, I usually look at more than a hundred Facebook fan pages. I click “like” on some and pass on the rest. Lately, I’ve been noticing something troubling. Too many businesses are making Facebook pages, posting for a day, a week, or a month, then losing interest . Continue Reading
The early days of online sales were an era unrealistic expectations. I remember people saying, “I can sell to people all over the world.” Too often they didn’t realize they’d also have to compete with merchants all over the world. Since then, things really haven’t changed much. Continue Reading
Let’s say you have a small business or professional office. You’re not going to do e-commerce. You won’t be taking payments online. You won’t be communicating with clients or customers directly through your website. You just want to establish your online presence. What do you really need in a website? Continue Reading
I recently came across this article, “20 Mind-Blowing Mobile Marketing Statistics Every Marketer Should Know” while browsing Twitter and wanted to elaborate on some of the statistics.
We provide mobile and responsive web design, however a lot of folks are still under the impression that the mobile market doesn’t matter. Hopefully this article and the statistics presented will change some perceptions and inform you as to why you should care about mobile users. Continue Reading
Back on January 1st, 2011 the credit card industry rolled out mandatory PCI Compliance for both e-commerce and traditional brick and mortar merchants who accept credit cards. Here we are 2 years later and many business owners delving into doing business online and obtaining a merchant account are still unaware of what steps they need to take in order to be PCI Compliant and avoid monthly penalty fees (or worse). Continue Reading
We’ve had a number of clients hit us up and tell us that their website has spam links on it. After hearing this a number of times and being unable to find any spam links or adware/malware actually on the site, we knew something else had to be up. Having not encountered it personally and unable to replicate the issue, we turned to the internet to find an answer. Continue Reading
Not long ago, I was sent a link to everyf******website.com, a satire site that, like all good satire, has a fair amount of truth in it. Before you click through I’ll warn you. There aren’t any ***** to be found. If you’re squeamish, maybe you’d better just move on. I haven’t been squeamish since c1972 and I value blunt language, so I’m going to tell you why I think everyf******website.com is right on target. Continue Reading
Previously, I wrote about the allure of website-tech “bells and whistles”, and provided a few more than $.02 on how to determine the elements actually worth including on your site, as well as some ways to leverage them effectively. Continue Reading
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