Category Archives: Get marketing!

Does your website have muffin top?

Muffin top is a common enough topic of conversation among females all over the (first) world, but what does this unfortunate situation look like when it applies to your website? We’ll examine this issue in today’s video. We’ll also see what could be confusing your customers on your website right this instant. Since confused customers [...]

5 Reasons Your Last Promotion Fell Flat.

A while ago you figured out how to create a promotion for your business and mastered the way to hold a sale without breaking your brand, so you hit the ground running. You created a few promotions and pimped the shit out of them. But they fell flat. They didn’t get the response you wanted. [...]

How do you switch to a new website?

Transitions. We all have to make them. When you’re working on a new website or portfolio but you don’t want your readers to know, how do you keep money flowing your way? How much effort do you put into maintaining your current website when you know it’s going to be toast in a few days [...]

How to make the grunt work less grunt-y.

True story: In college, I shed a bunch of pounds and could run a decent 5k and was working out twice a day. Then I fell in love, got dumped, and the personal trainer friend I worked out with died. Her working out helped her find her cancer sooner (woo!). But she still died. I [...]

ABOUT THAT PRODUCT YOU SHOULD BE SELLING…

Imagine you’re a fat kid stuck in a donut shop. Alone. What do you do? I’ll bet you grab a maple bacon turnover and go to town. You double-fist the Cap’n Crunch donuts and drink coffee straight from the spout. You’re curious about donut making so you inspect all the equipment while you’re on a [...]

HOW-TO GUIDE FOR 3X PINTEREST TRAFFIC

Since everyone on roughly everywhere on the interwebs is all abuzz about Pinterest, I figured I’d put some effort into this growing social media giant for my own blog. On November 1st, 2012, Pinterest accounted for 2.1% of all my web traffic. Piddly, right? Within 8 weeks I had tripled that number, and it’s still [...]

BRANDING IS JUST THE BEGINNING.

Good branding is only the beginning of your marketing journey. As you’ll see in today’s episode of Web Wednesday, providing specific information to help put your customers at ease goes a long way toward getting yourself clients. Even things like print size and social media icons make a difference in how your audience members perceive [...]

Build trust without really trying.

In this episode of Web Wednesday, learn the surprising place you can find more e-mail subscribers! You’ll also learn a simple way to get peeps to trust you more from the minute they arrive at your website. It’s called social proof, and you can leverage it to up your trust factor instantly. Following today’s post, [...]

WOW, THAT’S LONG. (That’s what she said.)

SEO can be an absolutely amazing asset for your business, but it can also hurt you when there are potential clients — not robots — roaming your site. In today’s episode of Web Wednesday, we’ll take a look at SEO that’s hurting a website and how to make it stop. You’ll see examples of fantastic [...]

MAKE EACH VISIT LAST LONGER. (That’s what she said.)

In today’s episode of Web Wednesday, we’ll explore the simple, inexpensive fixes that will keep potential clients on your website longer than ever before. We’ll take on a couple with gorgeous branding and design.  These elements aren’t enough to keep potential clients engaged, moving through a website as planned, and calling, though! In the comments, [...]

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