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One Way That Your Customers Can Save Gas...

This kind of ties into David Utter's recent article on saving your customer's fuel costs. I think that most of you would agree with me that these gas prices are getting ridiculous. Believe it or not, your customers are probably thinking the same thing every time they go to fill their tanks. Chances are that many of these same customers are also trying to think of ways to cut down on the amount of gas they use, if nothing else, just to save some money.

Small Businesses Get Taken Advantage of By Designers

My SEO partner and I met with a prospective client today - and it’s a good thing we met at her shop! Based on her existing website and the new, 28-page website that some designer has been building for her for the last 12 months (I kid you not), my assumptions about the business were pretty solid. To my surprise, I walked in the door and see something totally different! This woman and her husband have an interesting, viable and serious business going on but the impression one gets from both her old and in-progress websites is that of a lone hobbyist.

Are You Prioritizing Web Design?

As the Internet gets older and more flooded with sites, it is more important than ever to have a professional-looking web site if you want customers to take your business seriously. This should be common sense by now, yet it is appalling at how many wretched designs for business sites exist out there. eCommerce sites

DIY for Business Site Design?

I met with a potential client last week who’s been trying (without a lot of success yet) to put together a real estate site using one of the ubiquitous do-it-yourself sitebuilder packages on a prominent host. He asked me point blank: “What can you do for me that’s better than what I can get on (name of ubiquitous host)?” A very good question. We talked for about an hour, and I answered his questions and just submitted a bid for his project last night. But I thought I would summarize here… (Not in any particular order).