Is your business on Vine?
Vine is the newest app craze in the world of social media. What is Vine, you ask? In short, Vine is a mobile app that allows you to create six-second video snippets, edit and share them with your friends and followers. The videos are shown in a stream, so you can easily see all the videos your friends share and quickly scroll past videos you do not care to watch. …
How to get feedback from your customers to improve your products
Getting feedback from your customers is a great way to find out what your customers need or how your business can solve a tough problem they have. And responding to that feedback is a great way to get customers coming back. What’s the best way to get feedback from customers? I talked with Mai Sue, a Product Manager on our team at Intuit to find out how she gets customer …
Sites We Love Winner – Frosted By Lesley, Inc
Our Sites We Love winner for the week of 03/26/12 is Frosted By Lesley, Inc! Business owner and website developer, Lesley, took a few moments to tell us about her business and share some tips that may help you with your business dreams! What inspired you to start your business? An avid baker for over 15 years, I caught the cake decorating bug about two years ago. After a while, …
17 Types of Linkbait Content to Improve Your Site
Attracting attention online is important, whether you run a blog, an ecommerce site or an offline business website. With all of the other sites out there screaming for visitors, being heard above the din can be difficult. Deploying “linkbait” content is a great strategy that will not only bring these visitors to your website, but will have others doing most of the work for you – for free! Word of …
How to Hire an SEO Agency to Improve Your Site’s Rankings
When it comes to building an effective business website, there are plenty of different elements that need to come together to form a cohesive whole. Search engine optimization (SEO) is just one of these components that’s vital to internet marketing – though it’s one of the least understood by most businesses. Hiring an SEO agency can help close this gap and improve your site’s rankings; however, be aware that not …
How to Move Your Website
Despite your best intentions when it comes to building and launching your website, situations do occur in which you’ll need to move your website. Maybe your company is going through a re-branding and redesign process and you’d like your website to reflect your new business name. Or maybe you’re moving your website to get away from a hosting provider whose actual up-time never quite reflected the guarantee advertised on their …
Do You Need a Custom Website Design?
On April 5th, we discussed the relative pros and cons of hiring a professional website designer to build a new web presence for your company. However, even asking the question of whether or not you should hire a web developer makes one critical assumption – that every business needs a customized web presence. In fact, the reality is that – in many cases – as long as your business website …
Words That Sell: How to Beef Up Your Website’s Sales Copy
If the words “sales copy” make you think of popular Mad Men character Don Draper and other advertising stereotypes, stop right there! The truth is that every website “sells” something, whether you’re vending physical products, trying to capture leads for an offline business or even just trying to convince people to follow your line of thinking. And since we all “sell” online, we all need to be concerned about making …
Is Social Media Important For Your Biz? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Yes it is! More and more small businesses are starting to understand the importance of Social Media and how it can benefit their businesses. Take a look for yourself!
Site Design through the Eyes of the Search Engines
In the real world, spiders have as many as four different pairs of eyes – each of which perform a specific function depending on the individual family or classification of spiders. In general, though, the visual acuity provided by these compound eyes give spiders a natural advantage over their prey, as they’re able to scan and process information about the world around them more quickly than other insects. The eyes …