When Do You Know You Need an Office? Like most freelancers, I started my business working from the kitchen table. It was 2009 and I was living with my husband Tim in our teeny one-bedroom condo in Illinois. When I first started working from home, it was life changing because I had spent years schlepping […]
Guest Blog by Chris Bintliff Neil was clearly exasperated. We were talking about web strategies for his enterprise services business. No small outfit – they have the largest service staff in his state and the largest inventory. But like a lot of small-medium sized businesses, you wouldn’t know it from his website. It was thin on meaningful […]
Historically, websites were a line item in a standard marketing budget, directly beneath the all-important stationery and letterhead expenditures. Websites of yore functioned merely as online versions of the business’s brochure, showcasing basic contact information and listing services or products. Business websites used to be optional, and it was very common for businesses to just […]
Online printers such as Vista Print and Got Print have made getting business cards extremely cheap and easy for startups. If your budget is limited, you don’t need a graphic designer to design business cards for you (although we definitely recommend it!) But if you choose to order your business cards online using one of […]
iCandy Academy explains the Enfold theme dashboard, and teaches you how to re-size your logo for placement on your website.6 Enfold Theme Dashboard and Logo Resizing When we activated the Enfold Theme it brought us to this page with the Enfold Theme options. If you need to get back to this page at a later […]
White’s Collision Service, Inc. is a rapidly growing auto body repair business located in western Oregon. Over the past 15 years, they have opened four new locations throughout the Dallas, Ore. area, and they have plans to continue expanding to other nearby towns in the coming years. The Problem With all of this expansion and […]
This all started with you, our customers and followers. At some point, every customer we have built a website for in the past 6 years asked us about search engine optimization (SEO) and wanted to know how to get their business’ website on the first page of Google. Naturally. Who wouldn’t want to know that? The problem […]
Written by Sally Stirn In the words of WordCamp Central “WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.” With a little more than a week of reflection and review I’ve decided to share […]
Old fashioned word-of-mouth recommendations are to your garden what external link building and social media sharing are to your website. The goal is to get as much buzz as possible from as many high profile places as possible. If your garden is an exciting place to visit, people will recommend it and share their experiences […]
If you missed the webinar session on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, Candy shows you how to track, measure and guide your content and social media strategies using insights from the free Google Analytics platform in this new webinar video. This is an introductory course that will cover…