when you are your brand
How are you presenting your business online? A beautiful website, stellar copy & slick branding can be rendered totally useless by a careless photo of you, especially when you are your brand. In many cases your headshot is your prospective clients first impression...
where to get free & paid audio files
We've all heard that video is the way to grab attention these days & there are many tools available where you can create motion graphics easily. No video is complete without audio though. If you're not using a voice-over then a background audio track is the way to...
My WOMANifesto
I am a rule-breaking rebel when it comes to design but I believe that you’ve got to to know the rules before you can break them.
Easy Pricing Strategies to Determine Your Rates
It might just be the most stressful decision you ever have to make: what to charge? You’ve got the competition to consider, your own skill set, what you perceive to be your skills (yes, this is different from the former for most of us), what...
Blogging Basics: How to Get More Eyes on Your Website
The internet has an insatiable appetite for information. Billions of searches are conducted every single day looking for everything from how to bake an apple pie to why zebras have stripes. For anyone who conducts business online, these searches represent...
Common Misconceptions about Image Copyright
Using images online today is a crucial part of making sure that your blog, website, or social media posts get the attention they deserve. The simple truth is that people prefer to look at pretty things than boring blocks of text. Not only is...
Need More Clients? Think Like a Farmer
Do you think all a farmer has to do is wait until fall to harvest truckloads of delicious tomatoes or corn or squash? Think again! That farmer has worked hard all year long to prepare for that week or two of reward.He prepared the ground following last...
Fear-Based Decisions Are Bad for Business
At one point, every business owner will find herself in a troubling situation. Revenue is down. New clients are scarce. Profits are falling, and a peek at the financials is enough to bring on a full-fledged anxiety attack. Unless you’re Mark Zuckerberg or...
3 Sales Tips for Reluctant Sales People
Would it come as a surprise to you if I said we’re all sales people? It’s true.Every time you have a prospective client on a discovery call, you’re making a sales pitch. Every time you send an email or write a blog post with an offer, you’re making a sales...
Spam Scam … Don’t get caught!
Last year I became a bit obsessed with SCAM SPAM. I found it was getting harder to pick spam from genuine emails. They were getting clever. So I started screen dumping the emails. The scary thing is often they (supposedly) came from banks, paypal & other trusted...
FREE wordpress Tutorials
When you're trying to learn wordpress, or you've forgotten how to do something there are a trillion websites, posts, articles & videos you can google. But which ones are reliable, up-to-date & credible? How do you know when you are a newbie? Go Daddy (on of...
WordPress 101 : Starting out in WordPress
BEFORE YOU BEGIN Are you ready to start your website in 2018? With this new year many people are looking to create their own site and we've helped hundreds of people get started with their WordPress sites and we're here to help you too. In this video we'll show you...
WordPress 101 : Themes & Plugins
WORDPRESS THEMES & PLUG-INS Sometimes a plugin update fails or has an issue that will break your website that can only be fixed by updating the plugin. This can be a confusing process for new users but we're here to help walk you through it. In this...
WordPress 101 : Images in WordPress
IMAGES IN WORDPRESS Have you been saving images incorrectly? Most beginners don't know how to save images for optimum website speed. In this video, WPBeginner shows you how to save images optimized for WordPress. Some images on sites have small text below...
WordPress 101 : Social Media
WORDPRESS SOCIAL Are you wanting to promote your Facebook page with a WordPress popup? We've heard this request from many of our users and have helped show them how to create exactly this type of popup. In this video, we will show you how to create a...
WordPress 101 : Posts & Comments
WORDPRESS POSTS & COMMENTS Are you looking to show posts from a specific category on your WordPress site? The default WordPress method is the recent posts widget that shows posts from all categories but we have a few methods for showing the posts by...
WordPress 101 : SEO
WORDPRESS SEO Are you wanting to properly add keywords to your WordPress site? Meta keywords and descriptions allow you to improve the SEO of your website. We will show you how to properly add meta keywords and meta descriptions in WordPress. Are you...
SEO: using the Yoast WordPress plug-in
Getting your website to rank in search engines is essential to driving traffic to your business. One of the easiest ways to get new visitors that doesn’t require leg work on your part in terms of sharing content on social media or contributing to other...
WordPress 101 : Security
WORDPRESS SECURITY For security of your site it is sometimes required to force a reset of passwords for all of your users. This could be due to being previously hacked or if you decide that you need to do housecleaning on old passwords your users are still...
WordPress 101 : Login & Users
WORDPRESS LOGIN & USERS Are you stuck attempting to log in to your site and the page simply refreshes whenever you enter the login information? Don't worry, we've helped many users work their way through this problem and in this video we will walk you...
Video Tips & Tricks
If you're a beginner or just now thinking about getting into video in the new year then you've come to the right place. Videography is by far one of the trickiest things to get down pat, there are constantly new things you need to learn just to get the right shot then...