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7 Quick Tips to Speed Up Your WordPress Website

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We all know that time is the number one most important commodity. If you have a WordPress website, and you’re hoping to deliver lightning-fast load times as standard, you’ve come to the right place. Here are seven quick tips to get your site up to speed. 1. Optimize Your Images Quality images play a crucial role in attracting customers and maintaining their interest in interacting with your website, but there’s no doubt that they can also throw a wrench in the works when it comes to load Read More >>
Web Design In 2019 What Not To Do - Digital Marketing Raleigh

Web Design In 2019 – What Not To Do

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When websites first burst onto our computer screens, way before smartphones, people who were into programming used to think it was a good idea to embed music and videos launch from the moment their website was clicked. Do you remember those days? We’re pretty lucky to be in a time now where we no longer have that with every single site. The cheesy website tricks of 10-15 years ago may well have been cringey, but it’s these early stage experiences that helped us to learn exactly what NOT Read More >>

Website Trends for 2019

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Web design is complicated — there’s no doubt about that. If you want your website to convert clicks into customers effectively and consistently, then the design is a big deal. Here’s what people always get wrong — it’s not just the way your website looks, it’s also about how easy it is to use in the first place. This is why, as a business owner, you should pay close attention to your website design and the way that it works for your users. A website that looked fantastic in 2014 Read More >>

8 Ways to Optimize Your Website and Improve Conversion Rates

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As a business owner, you’ve probably heard the phrases “click-through-rate” or “conversion rate” and “optimize” more times than you can count.  If you’ve worked with a marketing company before, it’s likely these were all items on a long checklist of things to do and track.  Simply put, these are all items and buzzwords that are highly important when discussing your business goals and how your website helps you achieve them.   In this article, we’ll discuss 8 ways to optimize Read More >>

3 Signs Your SEO Sucks

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Small business owners are the wizards of DIY work.  Need to fix a copy machine?  Nobody owns copy machines anymore; throw it out the window and go to Kinkos.  That was a bad example, but as a small business owner, you know you’re frugal when it comes to certain everyday items you need completed.  That has somehow extended to Do-It-Yourself SEO. Your first mistake is thinking you know anything about Search Engine Optimization; you don’t, and it’s hard.  As someone who tried to do the Read More >>

5 Social Media Marketing Blunders

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In the world of Marketing, it’s often easy to tout oneself as a “Social Media Guru.”  You post a few cat videos, get over 50 likes then, boom.  You quickly find yourself posting for your friend’s homemade jewelry Facebook page.  It sounds simple, and it means extra time spent scrolling the news feed.  However, in actuality, Social Media Marketing is much more than post and go. In this article, we’ll talk about a few blunders many of us have made (and learned from) and how you can Read More >>

The 9 1/2 Best Digital Marketing YouTube Videos Under 10 Minutes of 2016 / 2017

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Yes — I’ve plundered through umpteen minutes of marketing speak; some highly informative and some had me looking for a bottle of sleeping pills. I've come through the other side of the digital rainbow unscathed and armed with information to help those in marketing need. Alas my avid viewer, you get to partake in only the good, plus short, marketing videos that I thought worthy of your inquiring minds. Enjoy the knowledge I bestow upon thee... (in no particular order mind you) Digital Read More >>

Website Critique, Analysis, and Reviews

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Website Analysis, Meetup, and OnWired -- it's like strawberries, whip cream, and brown sugar. If you’re local to the Raleigh/Durham area, have a website, and want to have it analyzed for any of the following: marketing prowess conversion ability SEO brand consistency customer perspectives and so on and so forth You need to reserve your FREE space on the big screen to have your website critiqued by folks who’ve been creating websites and digital marketing campaigns for quite Read More >>
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Mobile Website Design Has Taken the Creativity Out of Web Design

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My take on why responsive website design is sucking the creativity out of the web design industry as a whole.

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Meetup Recap: Social Selling Masterclass

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As I’m becoming more active within the local Raleigh/Durham community, I thought it would be nice to share the benefits of local Meetups. This one in particular was sponsored by a friend of mine and marketing extraordinaire, Cole Watts. His Triangle Marketing Club provides very insightful data and entertaining speakers. Tonight for instance, we enjoyed the marketing and sales savvy of the talented Lindsey Boggs. From the event page: Join us in May as Lindsey Boggs, Social Selling Expert, explains Read More >>