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3 Simple Steps To Tracking All Your Digital Marketing Efforts

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As the Internet continues to evolve, and as businesses lean into it to attract and indoctrinate new clientele it becomes increasingly difficult to measure where your time, energy and marketing dollars are best spent.  This is a huge pain business owners have in 2020. As a business owner I feel you, there are so many mediums, so many ways to communicate with people it can seem daunting to try and … [Read more...]

How To Fix WordPress Website Crashing

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With any update to the Wordpress CMS or a plugin your client will find themselves in a situation where their website crashes. It's Wordpress, it happens! It might display a white screen with no error message when they try to load their website.  And their first instinct is of course, widespread panic, because an error message would at least give them something to say when they call up their … [Read more...]

How To Fix Google Docs To WordPress Blog Post Formatting (pt2)

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When you move a blog from Google Docs to Wordpress it adds a bit of formatting that can make your blog appear differently when you add it to your website.  Check out my previous video blog to learn a workaround to add new blogs and remove that formatting.  But lets say you forgot to remove that formatting on a blog and you want to correct it.  The video on this blog will show you a workaround to … [Read more...]

In 2020 the term “WordPress” has lost its meaning, and here’s why

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Wordpress is the world’s most popular CMS or Content Management System.  If you’re reading this, it's likely you know that already.  If you have heard of Wordpress but don’t necessarily understand its vastness, let me sketch an outline for you. [right] Today over 30% of the websites on the Internet are built using Wordpress.  It is the towering agent for managing content in this digital … [Read more...]

What Does It Mean To “Be Present,” And What Does That Mean For Your Website?

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Your website is the face of your business.  It's ability to create, guide and nurture a conversation is important.  There is a communication gap that exists between website owner’s and their customers because website owner’s don’t understand how they can communicate most effectively as they update their website.  I believe website owners should understand how they can play an active role in … [Read more...]

Is WordPress really not as easy as people say it is?

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I read an article recently by a popular WordPress blogger where he discussed the truth behind what people mean when they say those infamous words "WordPress is easy."  In the article the three points were (1) Wordpress is easy relative to alternatives. (2) Wordpress is easy to learn. (3) Wordpress is easy, once you understand it. But first, I want to slow down a bit to pose this question: Why … [Read more...]

4 Ways We Lose Connection With People Through Technology

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Have you heard the myth that the world is getting smaller? What is meant by this is that we’re more connected to the world as ever before, and not to just our tribe or village. It is true that we are more connected physically to the world, but not emotionally to it. Have you ever seen a family enjoying dinner at a restaurant in silence as each person focuses on their phones instead of on each … [Read more...]

3 Reasons Less Is More When Designing Your Website

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By now, most people know the value of SEO (search engine optimization). It drives traffic to their website. They understand the big picture, that if they don't invest money in this way, add great content, monetize products and market aggressively, they likely won't profit online. Let's assume you do everything right, and you generate a ton of traffic. But not a lot of sales. How can this … [Read more...]

3 Things Stephen Covey Can Teach Us About Technology

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One of the crowning accomplishments of the late great Stephen Covey, author of the classic 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, is his idea about the difference between effectiveness and efficiency. It can teach us a lot about the challenges of connecting with people through technology. With this mind, let’s talk about his greatest insights and relate them to technology. Efficiency is the heart … [Read more...]

How To Move Blogs From Google Docs To WordPress (Video Guide)

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We build a lot of websites in Wordpress, and we greatly encourage people to add new content to their business blog. Those who do usually have their own process for collaboration and curation of their content, but if you happen to use Google Docs, make sure you don’t make this mistake... Highlighting and copying all the text in Google Docs, then pasting it directly into your Wordpress … [Read more...]