Published by: LA Dezign.com on 09-13-2011
How many blogs and websites do you typically keep up with?
More importantly, how do you go about doing this?
Given that there are new developments, announcements, and theories every day concerning website design and search engine optimization, I need to do my homework for my clients, so I follow a ton of SEO blogs and technology news sites. However, I certainly do not have time each morning to visit each individual site and check to see which ones have new stories and which do not.
This is why I subscribe to RSS feeds, and why I submit my sites� feeds to directories and promote them to prospective clients.
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Published by: Jason Ciment on 09-12-2011
How many business cards do you typically collect at a given conference, trade show, or networking event?
How well do you organize and integrate them into your existing contacts without Outlook or some other CRM system?
With the days of the classic rotary rolodex falling behind us, it is ideal that we manage our new and existing directory of professional connections as we are now managing most elements of our lives; that is, accessible by a couple of clicks on our mobile devices.
Certainly, given the number of new prospects and reciprocal business connections I collect for my web design and SEO company in just a week or two, I appreciate a streamlined app for loading cards onto my phone
There are actually quite a few of these programs available, and we liked WorldCard Mobile the best
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Published by: Jason Ciment on 09-09-2011
As we discussed in an earlier Free Friday post that profiled the free bookkeeping capabilities of Nevitium Invoice Manager, simply because a certain program, application, or service is necessary to operate a business does not mean there is always room for its subsequent cost within a budget.
Even our web site design and SEO company began as a small operation that relied on cheap but efficacious administrative tools.
This is especially the case with smaller enterprises and start-ups and commonplace but costly programs like Microsoft Office.
Yet, owners and employees need to create and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations like most everyone else, and now they can do this for free
Read on.
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Published by: Jason Ciment on 09-07-2011
If you have TEXT on your website, read this blog post and don't even consider forgetting it. And as Dr. Oz just wrote, this sentence it followed with a period and then a paragraph.
Seriously don't forget what you are about to read because the free website I am referencing is mind-blowing. I won't even steal an image of something graphically mindblowing because this blog post is about text, let it convey the message with text (just conveniently ignore the image of the website).
Updating and adding new written content to your website can be a complex and time-consuming process, even if you are just making minor changes to your web copy.
It is important not only to proofread written content for accuracy and professionalism, but to select just the right font to make the text updates consistent with the rest of your site.
Web Designers will go crazy with what i am about to share.
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Published by: Jason Ciment on 09-06-2011
How often do you send out emails?
I can attest that as a business owner balancing a magazine subscription service and a web design and SEO company, I write and send out hundreds of emails each day.
Electronic correspondence has become the primary method of communication in most companies, both for internal communication and client outreach.
Given that you send an email even more frequently than you update your website, add a blog post, or share a new Facebook story or Tweet, wouldn�t it be productive if each outgoing message could contain a device to drive traffic back to you?
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