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A great business strategy is to target a niche market and become the Guru. Sometimes you find yourself as a Guru of something unexpected, my friend Laura Huer is a perfect example, one grateful roofer...
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I originally wrote this post in 2013, but I think it is important, so I am making a few tweaks and running it again. I hope I have enough cache, or good will that they don’t decide I am a naughty...
View ArticleSigns That You Should Pass on A Web Design Project
We have all said to ourselves at some point, “I regret taking this job”. There are many reasons you take a job: financial, to build your portfolio, you don’t know how to say no thank you. I want you...
View ArticleWhere I Go To Learn // My Tippy Top Favorites
One of the most challenging parts of working with WordPress as a web designer and helping clients with their social media (email, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, etc) is that the industry is constantly...
View ArticleWhy Word of Mouth May Be Hurting Your Business
I am working with a new client on their digital marketing and on their list of marketing strategies was “word of mouth”. This makes sense for so many things: hey who cuts your hair, which internet...
View ArticleFinding New Business
Not a week goes by where I don’t come across the question, how should a web designer find new business. Just like any business, my new clients come through referrals and people finding me online. I...
View ArticleWhat I Despise About My Business
It’s a wrap on Q1/17 which bumps right into our taxes being due (if you are in the US). So while I am thinking about what I could have done better in the organization and management of the previous...
View ArticleHow to Add an Amazon Affiliate Link to Your WordPress Website using the Divi...
Hi there, today is the fist day of summer vacation in my house with all of the children home and you can literally hear a pin drop For a mum who has two away at college and two still home full time...
View ArticleAirbnb: 3 Ways You (or Your Clients) Can Use Your Skills to Grow Your Business
I often spend time coaching clients on how to broaden their business. Of course, it makes sense for me to suggest ways bloggers can monetize or how using email and building a list is an invaluable...
View ArticleFinally Your Website! It’s a Challenge / Throwdown / Charge
As the founder of a Facebook Group with 28K+ members and 16K+ active weekly users I see a lot of commentary around all the things that don’t get done when trying to launch a website. I culled through...
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