The DIY Dilemma: Why a Do-it-yourself Website May be a Bad Idea: Part 2

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Websites are showing up all over cyberspace, offering free website templates and promising you,…..well, promising you a free website template. That’s pretty much it. The question of what you’re supposed to do with it is left open. You’d better be ready to answer it yourself before clicking “download now”, and be ready to answer a few more questions, as well. continue reading


The DIY Dilemma: Why a Do-it-yourself Website May be a Bad Idea: Part 1

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There’s an old proverb which says; “A man who acts as his own attorney has a fool for a client.” There’s a grain of truth in that, not just for legal matters, but for any undertaking what requires specialized skills, from rewiring your office and repairing your delivery van to, yes, designing and building your business website. I’m not saying it can’t be done, but is it worth the effort and risk?

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Coupon codes and your ecommerce website

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If you’ve done any online shopping yourself you’re probably well aware of coupon codes. These are codes that can get you spiffy discounts on whatever you’re purchasing. A simple internet search for the site you’re purchasing from can usually result in a number of listings of sites where people post these codes for others to use. If you run an ecommerce site and you’re unaware of this, then you’ve got a little catching up to do. continue reading


Complaints, Complaints: The End of Customer Service

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Years ago, you could go down to Wilson’s Hardware, on Main Street, and buy a new drill. After stopping at the soda fountain, next door, you took your new drill home and found out it didn’t work. No problem. You could just take it back and Mr. Wilson would be there, ready to make it right. That’s the way things worked, at least when wearing the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia. continue reading


Twitter Round Up – July 2011

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Once again, we’re a week late with putting up the Twitter Round Up for the previous month, but we’ve been busy with projects over here! July seemed to be a good month for great, informative articles found on Twitter though. There’s a number of things that we felt were just good business topics and then just about everything under the Design heading is a good read (even if you’re not a designer, it helps to understand them). continue reading



Coffee Break

Take a coffee break with us and find some fun, odd or unusual stuff on the web!

When lunch was awesome.

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Does anyone else remember the era of the cool, metal lunch box? Any cartoon, movie, tv show, etc. that a kid was into inevitably would crack out a lunch box right around “back to school” season.

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Going to the Dogs: SEO Out of Control

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Don’t take this the wrong way. Search engine optimization is a useful tool. It helps businesses get their message out and stay one step ahead of the competition. For someone shopping online, it usually brings what they’re looking for right to the head of the queue and saves a lot of time. SEO is an important part of the internet and it’s here to stay. You’ll get no argument from me on any of that. continue reading