What A Business Website Should Do

What A Business Website Should Do

Today’s post is a guest post from Alec Hess from Full Voice Media – the premiere web development and online marketing agency who I partner with. In this 3-part series, Alec looks at why every business needs a website and e-marketing. Most businesses understand the importance a website to a company’s overall marketing strategy. Yet there are still...

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Lessons from Buying and Selling a Website

Lessons from Buying and Selling a Website

After I recently tweeted about the sale of one my first web properties quite a few people asked me how I did it and suggested I should do a writeup about it on my blog. I didn’t think there was anything special about selling a website but as it turns out there’s quite a bit of interest. With recent news about Mark Zuckerberg’s pre-Facebook gag...

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How To Use the 5 Why’s To Extract Benefits From Features

How To Use the 5 Why’s To Extract Benefits From Features

You may or may not have noticed a few changes in the past day with the menu layout that was done primarily to draw out my services and divide them up so they can be better differentiated. See I often complain about companies who bury information in their websites and are vague about what exactly their services provide and why I should consider them. I began making...

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Survey: What Would You Like To Know More About?

Survey: What Would You Like To Know More About?

I thought I’d take things in a different direction today. Instead of writing about what I think is useful – I thought I’d take a different approach and put out a survey and ask what you would like to see written. After all I write this blog to help others and if I’m off my mark then I’d like to know. But more importantly I’d like...

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How To Get Started With Keyword Research

How To Get Started With Keyword Research

Keyword research is one of those terms you hear floating around on the internet as being the holy grail of tasks when it comes to positioning your website and business online. Research the right keywords, they say, and you’ll be at the top of the Google food chain. But what exactly is keyword research – and more importantly, how the heck do you get...

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The GoDaddy vs. BlueHost Showdown: How To Choose A Quality Web Hosting Provider

The GoDaddy vs. BlueHost Showdown: How To Choose A Quality Web Hosting Provider

With the abundance of web hosting providers out there I’m often asked what web hosting provider one should use when starting out with a website. Of course there are tons of free providers out there. You can check out Blogger, WordPress.com, heck even Posterous will give you a blog looking website where you can update it through email. That’s all fun and...

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