We need a website but we don’t have the budget for what we need. What can we do? We hear you. New business. Small marketing budget. It’s a dilemma for small business owners or startups.  But you need to be able to market your business. And the most efficient way to do that is with […]
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When you started your business, you filled out the requisite paperwork (type of business, tax forms, etc), and opened accounts (bank, credit cards, shipping, etc.). You followed the rules for setting everything up. But did you think about whether or not your website was ADA-compliant?  Was it accessible for people with disabilities who wouldn’t be able
Is your small business website ADA-compliant and why else you might be sued. Read More »
After your WordPress website goes live, you may think the website work is finished. Not so. Cybersecurity challenges  are ongoing. Your website maintenance should be ongoing as well. WordPress is the most popular content management platform in use today and is constantly evolving. With its popularity comes security risks. This means that the core version
Why you should have a monitoring program set up for your website. Read More »
So you’ve got a brand new website, and it looks great. Well designed. Smart use of color. Smarter use of white space. Reasonably intuitive navigation. A business owner’s dream website. But there’s one significant problem. Your website simply isn’t engaging. It looks good, loads fast and seems to work well. But the copy is bland.
How to craft engaging web content. Read More »
September signals the start of fall. A time of new beginnings — change of season, a new school year, for some companies a new fiscal year. For small business owners, fall is often the time to think about ramping up business. Maybe you need to refresh dated marketing material. Or spruce up your website with
If your website isn’t functional & secure, you’re losing business. Read More »
We were excited to be on Shalom Klein’s radio show, Get Down to Business, yesterday. We talked about good website design, what makes a website great and why our clients like to work with us. Many thanks to Shalom for the shoutouts. And yes, we’d love to come on your show again!   Listen to our
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At least once a month, we get a frantic query from someone with a website they can’t update. Their web designer or developer is AWOL They don’t know how…. can’t remember…never learned how to manage their site. So it’s basically useless. Can we help? Unfortunately, the answer is almost always no. We can’t do anything
It happens often. We meet with a business owner who’s struggling to build sales but won’t commit….or hasn’t set aside…. any money for marketing. How does that work, you ask? Well, it doesn’t. Our main business is building websites. But we approach web design and development with a marketing mindset because our team has a
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We love the WordPress community!  This was the weekend of WordCamp Chicago.  As usual, it was a time to learn, to share, and to meet old and new friends.  We’ll be posting some of the interesting sessions here as soon as they’re posted on WordPress.tv. Steve was a speaker this year, on the topic of “Fun
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There’s a big difference between done and done right. You’re starting a new business and you’re on a limited budget. Your head is spinning with all that needs to be done, and most of it is being done by you. But you’ve never built a website and you don’t really have time to learn how
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