Blogging For Small Business

Don't give it all away (but don't give up on FREE)

January 4, 2010
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It’s exciting, isn’t it? Witnessing the birth of a new paradigm, seeing it spread, excite people, confound others—we might call these “meme stages”. The idea of free, as explored by Chris Anderson’s book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, has taken the marketing world by storm and its effect has been extensive and largely [...]

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Announcing Blog Booster

January 2, 2010
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We’re proud to announce: Something To Help You Make Sense of Your Blog. You have a blog.  And you’ve blogged enough that you’re getting some traffic. But, your phone still isn’t ringing.  You’re not getting the “at bats” and opportunities that you’d hoped for when you got started. People seem to be coming in, but [...]

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Don’t Have $699 for Photoshop? Aviary for Chrome is Free

December 28, 2009
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Not all of us can rationalize plunking down hundreds of dollars for image editing software like Photoshop. While it’s a great product, most of the features that are premium-worthy will never be touched by the average person. In contrast, I’ve played around with GIMP, a freeware photo editor, and found it rudimentary but useful. It [...]

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Yes, You Own The Code

December 28, 2009
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We’re formalizing our terms of service as we speak, but one thing to know: You get the code.  The PSD files. The CSS, and the customizations for Thesis.  It belongs to you, you can take it off of our servers upon payment.  Your ideas are yours.  You have full rights to our execution of them [...]

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Claim Your SideWiki Now

December 22, 2009
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SideWiki is a Google project described as “a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read information alongside any web page.” So, for example, if you’re thrilled with the service you receive at a restaurant, you can overlay your kind words directly onto their site, without having to visit a third-party site like Yelp. But [...]

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Our Portfolio

December 22, 2009

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Do You Own Your Own Designs? A 10 Question Checklist for Websites & Blogs

December 17, 2009
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I was working with a client recently that wanted to move his website from his big name company.  They simply weren’t responding to changes fast, and they were charging obscene prices for minor fixes and tweaks.  The client wasn’t in control of his blog, it was on their server, and every time something was needed [...]

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Why the heck would I blog?

November 23, 2009

A ton of people really honestly want to know why they should be blogging.  And the short answer is “to get clients.”  That’s the answer, really.   We’re not trying to get famous, we’re trying to help real people in our neighborhoods.  We’re trying to communicate with people that we’re already helping. How does a blog [...]

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How To Update WP to 2.8.6 and Back Up Your WordPress Data!

November 16, 2009

This is a really quick (2 minute) video about how you can update WordPress to the current version. It doesn’t get any harder than this, really, for WP. Easy enough, right?

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First Things First: Change Your Password

October 17, 2009

First thing that you’re going to want to do is change your password. To do that, scroll to the bottom of the screen, on your blog, click “admin” and then login.  Your temporary password was provided in an email, and you can log.  You can then go to the “users” section in the tabs on [...]

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Some benefits of blogging for small businesses.

October 13, 2009

Some benefits of blogging: Get found by search engines. Get NEW customers from people searching for what they want. Get found by local media. Get personal interaction with your customers. Learn what customers want. Be a reference- be an authority in your industry. Position yourself correctly as an expert. Communicate and deepen the relationship with [...]

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