Recent Articles
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WordPress Business Websites – the eBook
How to build a full website for your business for less than $200 and in just a few hours. It is true that a website can be complicated and expensive, but your’s doesn’t have to be. You can get started right now with my new ebook “How to create a Business Website” for only $15.…
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Mobile Responsive WordPress Themes
Mobile devices like iPhones, iPads, and android devices have become very popular over the last couple of years. This popularity has fueled discussions for “responsive” theme design. This basically means that your theme changes based on the size of the screen your viewer is using. Most phones allow you to view a site and “pinch and zoom”…
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Quick Email Marketing Refresher
Email marketing is important. I’ve talked about it on a number of occasions (Can email marketing help your business?, Using Newsletters and Email lists for your Business Website, Content Updates). Recently I read an article by Amanda Henson over at the Small Business Bonfire where she gave a great overview for Building an Effective Email Marketing Platform…
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How to write the content your audience wants
One of the things I often hear people wondering about is what to write about on their website. What I often don’t hear talk about (particularly with business websites) is how that content should be written to help search engines index it better and users to enjoy it more. Copyblogger has a great service called…
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Small Business Kickstart Kit now available on the Kindle
A couple of months back I recommended the Small Business Kickstart Kit by Alyssa of the Small Business Bonfire (join free here). This kit was recently made available on the Kindle so I thought I would just make you all aware if you are interested, it’s a great option to get access to the materials. Here…
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3 ways to keep WordPress secure
I’ve been a bit slow on updating this site. I have lots of ideas but not enough time. What I’ve decided to do is setup a schedule for posting. My goal is to write one original article a week and the second to find one or two good articles that I have read and post…
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Get a sneak preview copy of my upcoming ebook
Over the past few months I have taken some of the best posts form the website and compiled them into a step by step guide. I am excited to announce that this weekend I finished my book titled “How to Create a Business Website”. It is a step by step guide to setting up and…
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Protecting Your WordPress Website
So you’ve taken all this time to setup a website for your business. You’ve added pages of content and your customers are starting to find you. Then, out of the blue, your website gets hacked. Your customers lose faith in your services, and Google blacklists your website which makes it harder for new customers to…
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Backing Up Your Website
Your website is important to you. You’ve put hours of time into getting it setup and getting your content just right. The last thing you want to do is lose it. Don’t worry, you have a few options that can keep your files safe and give you peace of mind. Manual Backups (NOT RECOMMENDED) The…
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Using Newsletters and Email lists for your Business Website
As you know email marketing can be a great tool to keep people engaged with your brand and content. Using an email list to send out both newsletters and update emails is a simple way to market. Here are a few things you can use email newsletters/broadcast email messages for…
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Custom Home Page
Some themes have home pages (like my site) where they use widgets to allow you to customize the home page. Other themes just list the blog posts on the home page. This usually isn’t what you want when you are creating a website for your business (especially because if you delete all the posts it…
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Email Marketing – Content Updates
If your website has a blog or you write “articles”, sending out teasers and content from your articles is a great way to keep people interested in your content and keep them coming back to your website. There are a few different ways that…
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