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2 Things You Must Ask Your Logo Designer Before They Start
Are you looking at having your logo designed by a local logo designer or an online logo design service? Or, have you been quoted for a logo design that is an amazing bargain offer?! If so, keep reading before you take it any further. Many of the cheap logo design...
5 Tips on Automating Social Media Marketing
Whether you’re a freelancer, small business owner, or other sort of social media professional, you want your social media tasks to be more efficient. You certainly don’t want to sacrifice quality, but you want to spend more time with customer contact, strategy and...
What is your One Thing? How to make your business shine in the marketplace
There isn't much in this world that is truly unique - is there? Including in business, finding a product or service that no other business offers is rare. If found, its uniqueness is short lived, as others are quick to replicate. How then, can YOUR business stand out...
How to Secure Your Website From Hackers and Hijackers – WordPress 101
Website hacking and hijacking is on the increase again! Don't take your website for granted. Your website was a business investment, just like your computer hardware or vehicles. And, like them, your website needs ongoing maintenance, servicing and patch updates....
25+ Stock Image Websites for FREE Photos
Great images matter! Even more so, using images that you have the rights/permissions to use matter! Stock photo corporations now use technology to scan websites for illegally used images, and you do not want to be one to receive their correspondence once they find...
How To Get Instagram To Work The Best For Your Business?
Instagram is one of those Social Media platforms that many business owners are still trying to get their head around. Are you one of them? Here is a quick "How-To" and "What-To" for using Instagram in your business. 3 reasons Instagram works for business marketing:...
Christmas Card Marketing – does it matter?
It is November and the fist batch of fruit mince pies have hit the store shelves. We are entering in to THE SEASON! It is around this time that thoughts of Christmas marketing SHOULD start to cross our minds. Business Christmas Cards are one form of marketing that may...
How Website Maintenance Affects Your Business
I had some fantastic feedback from our email last month about your Business' Judgement Day. Yes it really was a true story! You can read it again here if you missed it (it was during the holidays after all). There were 2 questions that were commonly asked by many of...
Is Your Business Mobile Friendly?
What is a "Mobile Friendly" website? A "mobile friendly" (or mobile responsive) website is one that correctly displays the content of a website on small screens. The site adapts to whatever size screen it's being displayed on. Regardless of what device a visitor is...
Why do I receive spam emails from my own address?
"Why am I receiving spam email from my own email address" is one of the most asked questions I hear. When you are receiving emails from your own account, there are 2 possibilities at play: Your email account has been hacked and used to send spam Your email address has...
Put to Pulp Procrastinating with a Pomodoro
Are you losing control of your day due to procrastination? Are small interruptions like phone calls, Skype, e-mails and the fridge getting in the way of completing those tasks that absolutely must get finished? And let's not even start on the granddaddy of all...
How to track your online marketing activities
Assuming you are already set up with some form of analytics on your website, the following will guide you through how you can track your online marketing activities that take place outside of your website domain - in blog articles, forum comments, social media, emails...
The Morning’s Washing
Do you ever get to work and then “it” strikes….eek, “Did I turn the iron off?” or “Ah, I forgot to hang the clothes out!” or (in my case) “Did I bring the cat tray inside?” My working day typically starts around 9.00. Yesterday ‘it’ hit at 11.00 and I realised I...
eBooks and Digital Publishing – saving on many levels
The term ebook is short for “electronic book”. It is read digitally on a computer. Ebooks are increasingly growing in popularity. They are easy and cheap to produce and distribute. They can include video, audio, hyperlinks and animation as well as text and print. A...
5-1 Checklist Webpage Optimiser
Use this basic 5-1 checklist for optimising your website pages so to get better search results for your online website marketing. Write a keyword rich title for each page of your website. Check that your website has a description Meta Tag using your keywords. Do this...
















