New Website? Here’s a Quick SEO Checklist

Optimizing your site for search engines will help crawlers identify and understand the nature of your site and what information it contains. This enables your site to appear on relevant search results and determines how it will rank. Let’s just say this, the better optimized your site is and the better quality of content and links…

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Responsive Web Design 101 for Small Business

In April of 2015, Google began implementation of its “mobile-friendly” search algorithm update, and soon thereafter revealed its mobile phone search volume now exceeds desktop/tablet search volume in the U.S., Japan and eight other countries. These incredibly important data points demonstrate how mobile Internet usage is changing the rules of the game for company websites.…

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Avoid WordPress Hacks & Security Risks

As a small business owner, your website is the main component of your digital marketing strategy. As 23% of the entire internet is made up of WordPress sites, there’s a good chance that your company’s website is one of those WordPress sites. It’s imperative that you keep your website in tip-top condition and avoid any…

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Increase Your Site’s Conversion Rate with UX and UI Optimization

Managing or increasing conversion rates is certainly a tricky game. Very often, designers and developers leave this task to the marketers who invest tons for a “social presence” and produce content that doesn’t give them the desired results sometimes. The problem with this approach is that we’re not contemplating first how we (the designers) could…

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How to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment

Shopping cart abandonment is one of the challenges faced by businesses, with the average rate of abandonment edging close to 70%. Small businesses, in particular, can be heavily impacted by loss of sales through cart abandonment. This infographic serves to highlight some of the major factors that can lead to shopping cart abandonment and how…

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First Time Speaker: 4 Tips to Build Your Speaking Career

If you’ve wanted to build your speaking career, but aren’t sure where to start, you’re not alone. Most entrepreneurs and authors I work with who aren’t doing speaking engagements are not always sure where to start, either. Do you start by pitching yourself to a speaker’s bureau? Do you put a speaker page on your…

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Discover How These Two Web Design Trends Can Boost Your Engagement

If you’ve ever wanted to say something like, “As far as I’m concerned all web designers can go to you know where!” it looks like your request has been granted. Okay, I’m not talking about what immediately popped into your mind when I wrote that opening with the reference to the “h-word.” I was actually referring to…

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What is an Inbound Marketing Campaign?

According to HubSpot, inbound marketing campaigns are concentrated efforts that align all of your marketing channels around a single message and goal. After determining the message and goal, the campaign kicks off with a marketing offer—something valuable and relevant for your audience that you promote through your marketing channels. Next, you nurture the leads from…

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6 Platforms for eCommerce Success

Having your own Web store is not only exciting, but running it can actually be a lot of fun. Apart from that, an eCommerce website can also help you earn additional income. In fact, you can run your site alongside working a full-time day job. You never know—your online store may just make you more…

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