Category Archives: Free Advice
High Quality Video Images Using PPT and Photoshop
I hope you enjoy this video: Creating high quality video images using PPT and Photoshop. I’ve been doing a lot of voiceover lately for clients. They’ve been giving me a PowerPoint presentation, I help them select and purchase the images…
Your Search Results Are Biased!
Reminder: Your search results, when checking your own business rankings, are BIASED based on how you search, what you search, who you are connect to and what you click on. Same goes for everyone. The cleanest way to see what…Spotting scams from companies – take 5 minutes to check them out.
With the ease of being able to create a “company” online – buy domain, get quick or free hosting for basic template website, have email account forward to another, get a popup or “executive suite” type of address aka, PO…
Test your subscriber’s journey from time to time.
We want people to subscribe to our posts, our feeds, our photos and more. When we invite them in, we take them on a subscriber journey. This starts from the first time they give you their email address and most…
Beware of email domain scams.
A client wrote today to verify the piece of mail he received regarding domain renewal was a scam. YES, it was. I know a lot of small business owners, and large, that fall prey to the bait and switch to…
Short checklist when you are moving your site.
Divorce is a terrible thing. There are a lot of pieces, including splitting up digital assets such as a joint business website. If you are looking to split up a company, change hosting companies, hosting platforms such as moving from…
Your WordPress is up-to-date, but how about the PHP database?
For those of us that work in WordPress, we are familiar with the notifications and prompts to update plugins, themes, our WordPress engine, and those working in Genesis platform, that too. BUT, what we don’t always do is consider how…
Learn from Ted Cruz’s mistake: Get yourname.com
It may be too late for you, even with your middle initial, but what about the new baby in the family? The graduate? It’s that time of year. Show them you believe in their future by purchasing their domain for…
Checklist to get more people listening & subscribing to your podcast
Yes, there are tons of articles on this. But there are some basic steps that a lot of newer hosts miss, which cuts into their subscriptions AND replays. The key is to test it as an outsider or get someone…
What I learned about CPanel mail and Managed WordPress Today
An exciting day for my client: BellaViaVenue.com in Sherwood, OR. She took her site from something not mobile friendly, not easy to edit, configure and change up to a beautiful Avada themed site. We spent some of her budget on…
When was the last time you called YOU at your company?
We all know the drill to fill out our online profiles in social media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, trade associations and directories, your bio page, email signatures. And you all know by now how I feel about REAL…
In Person Networking Kit
Last night I attended a local networking event. Lately, I’ve been skipping most events for a variety of reasons. The biggest reason is ROI (return on investment) of my time. After working a full day, creating solutions, guiding clients, I’m…Blab Rant: Your contact page, it stinks!
B.L. Ochman and I dipped a toe into the new venue, Blam.im to rant about contact pages, your footer, your top links. Make it easy for us to find you. Stop hiding your key people. If you are that inundated…