You’ve got a website! Congratulations! It really is a great accomplishment. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that your job is done. You’ve got to promote your website in order to help it promote you. Having a website and not promoting it is just like printing flyers and then leaving them sit on a [...]

The great post-Thanksgiving sales are no longer restricted just to physical store locations. For example, Amazon.com is offering special deals today. Be sure to check out your favorite retailer’s website to see if they have any Black Friday specials.

If you have Google AdSense on your website you’ll want to review your ad colors. Google recently made changes to the “clickable” areas of AdSense ads and your present color scheme may no longer work to your advantage. Previously everything in an AdSense ad was clickable. The text in the body of the ad was [...]

None of us likes to think of the worst case scenario when it comes to our businesses. What if you’re a campground owner and your campground is inaccessible because of forest fires? What if you need to close up shop for a few months because of family illness? What if a snow storm forces you [...]

Do you ever have a problem remembering your great blogging ideas? I sure do. Sometimes I’ll be at the grocery store when the perfect idea for my next post pops into my head. Two days later when I sit down to write all I can remember is that I had an idea. I have no [...]

This is just a reminder to not click the links sent to you in emails that want you to verify your data. Typically these emails look like they come from Amazon.com, PayPal, GoDaddy or other large, well-known companies. One of my clients sent me a great example today. The email looked like it was from [...]

Has this ever happened to you? You’ve written a brilliant blog post in Microsoft Word. With a sense of accomplishment you copy and paste it into WordPress. You hit the “publish” button. Your triumphant smile turns into a grimace as you look at your blog. The text looks funny. What happened? What happened was Microsoft [...]