Category Archives: Featured

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…

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…

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 a…

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…

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…

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…

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…

6 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Clients From Your Website–#6

It’s time to reveal the final reason many businesses aren’t getting clients from their website or blogsite. And what is that reason? Reason #6- Your site is stale. Believe it or not, it really does matter how fresh your site is. What do I mean by ‘fresh’? Of course your content is going to be…

6 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Clients From Your Website–#5

If you’ve been following this series of posts, you’ll know that we’ve been discussing reasons you may not be getting clients as a direct result of your website or blogsite. The first three reasons had to do with your content/copy and yesterday’s reason was all about how easy you make it to contact you from…

6 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Clients From Your Website–#4

Over the past three days we’ve explored some things that might be keeping you from gaining clients from your website/blogsite.   All of the possible reasons we’ve addressed so far have been related to your content and copy.  Today we’re going to start looking at other possible problems spots. I would list Reason #4 as making…