Author Archives: TMarieHilton

Could Your Business Benefit from an Interview?

Have you ever considered doing an interview to help spread the word about your business?  An interview can give you some insight into what people want to know about you and from you.  It can increase your exposure to potential clients and let them get to know a little more about you and your business.
I’ve [...]

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What is Free Costing Your Business?

Today I want to discuss those businesses and business people who try to save money by doing it themselves and finding it for free.
In my former life as Suzy Q. Homemaker I was famous for saying, “I can make that myself”.  I was an avid crafter and oftentimes I’d see home decorations or jewelry that [...]

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Your Business Website is Your Online Sign

If you think you’re not getting clients or customers from your website, this post might just change your mind. After writing my recent post “Why a Business Website Beats the Yellow Pages (& Earns You My Money)” that same old complaint about business websites reared it’s ugly head again.
“I never get clients (customers) from my [...]

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Why a Business Website Beats the Yellow Pages (& Earns You My Money)

Moving to a new area can teach you a lot of things, but it wasn’t until I became an entrepreneur that I noticed it can also educate you about business.  And more specifically about how fearful businesses can be about making changes.
I’ve been bit surprised at how many local businesses here in my corner of [...]

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Easy Footers and Sidebars with Headway

Today I wanted to post two more videos showing just how easy it is to create a site that you can customize for your business.
In the last video, I showed you just how simple it is to change colors, add a custom header and move the navigation around the page.
In the two videos below, I’ll [...]

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What’s the Hoopla About Headway?

You might have heard about the Headway theme for WordPress?  It might even be the reason you ended up here on my website. But do you know why there’s been such a buzz about the premium theme?  It depends on who you talk to.  The visual editor, the ability to add ‘leafs’ to create [...]

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What’s So Great About WordPress?

If you’re reading this, you are probably already aware that one of the most important things you can do for your small business is to create a website.  If you’re just starting out or looking to give your current site an overhaul you are faced with choices as to just how to build one. You [...]

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How Do You Handle Rate Negotiation?

I recently followed a thread on one of the forums I frequent that told the story of a virtual assistant  contacted by a potential client who was actually shopping around for the lowest price during their consultation call.
While I think it’s rather rude to be doing price negotiations with several professionals while on a consultation [...]

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Did you Resolve to Grow a Successful Business?

Today is the first Monday of the New Year.  I think any of us whom own and operate our own business would say that we always resolve to be more successful in the coming year.  In an effort to assist you with that task, I’ve worked hard over the past few weeks in order to [...]

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Why Do I use the Headway Theme for Wordpress?

I did some work on a client blogsite yesterday. That in itself isn’t anything new, since a majority of my clients utilize my blogsite services on a regular basis. What was a bit different was the fact that my client’s site was using the Thesis theme.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve used Thesis on sites [...]

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