Do you have a co-dependent relationship with your business?

By Fran Watson, Life Coach and Licensed Teacher of The Art of Feminine Presence A year or two ago, I had a revelation. My business is its own entity – it has own life force that lives outside of me. In fact, for legal purposes, corporations are considered a person and even have rights. And […]

Create content to bring more clients to your business

Today we’re going to talk about traffic! Not the kind you get stuck in every morning but the kind we actually really need and want as local business owners. Those eyeballs on our website, social media, or even physical foot traffic to our brick and mortar store. Otherwise we might find our business at a […]

Keywords – what you need to know

Keywords, in the world of digital marketing, are the phrases and words used by others to locate your business online, in other words, the main words, your future clients type into the search bar to find your business. Keywords are also how a search engine i.e Google or Bing know to send your future client […]

Ten commandments of blog posting

I like reading and commenting on other people’s blog posts. It’s fun, in most cases, and I like learning new things, get  updates on topics that interest me, original tips for presents etc. When reading these posts I come across things that in all honesty drive me nuts and in some cases discourage me from […]

How to promote your business for free

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Well, almost. Few days ago I’ve seen funny image with these equations that caught my attention: Fast + Good = Not Cheap Cheap + Fast = Not Good Good + Cheap = Not Fast And that’s exactly how it works with promoting your small business. If you want to see good results fast, it’s not […]

Ask for online reviews

The best places to ask for reviews are the places where your clients “live”, where they like to hang out and of course where they are most comfortable leaving reviews, such as Facebook, Yelp etc. Make sure you always ask for reviews on your Google My Business listing. Getting reviews and being active on Google […]

Benefits of hiring local SEO agency for a small business owner

Are you a small business owner? If yes, would you always choose a local SEO agency to do your digital marketing? Tough question, but no worries, you don’t have to answer it right now.  Maybe wait until after reading this article. You’ve probably already came across some e-mails or even phone calls from various marketing […]

What to Post with Facebook’s New Algorithms

In January Facebook announced it would be reconfiguring its news feed algorithm. Facebook will now focus more heavily on giving its users a more meaningful social interaction. Meaning it’s going to show you posts that have engagement or will spark in engagement and not mindless videos you can just watch or posts that aren’t going to […]

Not Secure Warning from Google Chrome

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Google’s ultimate goal is to have 100% of the world’s websites load securely via HTTPS. So starting this month, January 2017, Google’s Chrome browser will start flagging some websites that don’t use web encryption (not show the “s” –  https://) as “Not Secure”. This is the first step in Google’s plan to call out or […]

Recycle your web content

website content, keeping your website active

Want to keep your website active? Running out of new ideas to post? Running out of time?  No worries, you can always recycle your old content. You can rehash your old content into something new and exciting! Here are a few ways you can do that: Create an eBook from  your collection of blog posts. There…now you […]