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Eight Simple Ways to Get More Visitors to Your Business Website

You’ve finished building your business website. So, it’s time to sit back, relax and watch the visitors roll in, right? If only it worked that way. If you build it, … Continue Reading

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Conquer E-Commerce with Volusion Online Store Builder

When starting up, most businesses need to build a website and set up a credit card processing system to accept customer payments. While the average startup or small business can … Continue Reading

Startup Step: Accept Credit Card Payments / Build Your Website
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What is The Cloud? (And What Can It Do for My Business?)

The cloud is an increasingly important resource for your business and your personal life.  There’s just one problem: Most people don’t know what, “the cloud” is.  The answer is actually … Continue Reading

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How to Use ‘Local SEO’ to Attract More Customers in Your Area

If you are a small, local business, you are probably wondering how you can get your website displayed in the local search results of Google, Yahoo! and Bing. The answer … Continue Reading

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Quick Tip: Tips to Generate More Leads with Your Website

Calls-To-Action If you want your website to help you generate leads for your business, I would say the most important thing to do is to make it obvious to people … Continue Reading

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Build a Community on Your Website

“The web is where people come to belong; it’s deeper than just Search,” Darren Rowse, founder of ProBlogger, said at the 2010 BlogWorld conference. Rowse was speaking about how your … Continue Reading

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6 Simple (Non-Technical) Ways to Make Your Business Website More Effective

As a business owner, you may have already created your business website by hiring a designer, using a website builder or creating a simple WordPress website.  Now that you have … Continue Reading

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How to Create a WordPress Website in One Day

Websites are game-changers.  A great website can help you as an individual and/or your business stand out, as well as drive a lot of traffic to key products, services, deals … Continue Reading

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SEO: Play the Hand You’re Dealt

Our resident search engine optimization wizard, Koby Wong says that much like poker, SEO is a game of chance but also one you can win. Wong loves poker so much, … Continue Reading

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Elements of an Effective Website

As Jen talked about a few weeks ago, if you’re a business you NEED a website. Whether you use a web designer or a website builder, the reasons for having … Continue Reading

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Why Your Business Needs a Blog

Remember around 2002 or so when everyone and their dog had a blog? All you would ever hear was “Check out my blog!” It became so ubiquitous that it wasn’t … Continue Reading

Startup Step: Build Your Website / Promote With Social Media
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SEO for Beginners

If you’re setting out to build a website for the first time, you’ll need to learn a little bit about SEO, or search engine optimization. SEO is defined as the … Continue Reading

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Hiring a Web Designer vs. Building Your Own Website

You want the first thing people see on your website to be an image mosaic of your photography.  You want to upload a viral video of your crazy web contest.  … Continue Reading

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No More Excuses for Not Having a Website!

Last year, I explained Why Your Small Business Needs a Web Site and responded to people who think that a website isn’t necessary for your business.  In conjunction with the … Continue Reading

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Keeping Your Mom and Pop Shop Open via Web Optimization

A webinar I participated in yesterday (Using Your News to Drive SEO, via PRWeb) brought to light some very salient points that directly relate to my last post about web … Continue Reading

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Why Your Small Business Needs a Web Site

As I was searching Google for “small business tools” today (as I regularly do), I came across an article written by CPA Gene Marks called “We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ … Continue Reading

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The Simple Answer to the Question ‘How Do I Get My Site Ranked at the Top of Search Engines?’

Because I have a background in Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization, the most common work related question I encounter is, “How do I get my site ranked at … Continue Reading

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