No new studies you can report on in your field? Time to start mining past studies and reviving some old material or finding new twists on old figures. Pick any topic relating to your business – I’m sure you’ll find many if not dozens of recent studies on that topic. Your task is to extract the […]
Use Business Cards To Ask Offline Customers For Third Party Online Reviews
Had a great meal at a new local restaurant yesterday and, when we were paying the bill, they gave us a business card asking for a review on Trip Advisor. Brilliant. Now this particular card was created for this restaurant through Trip Advisor’s promotional program (another brilliant move), but you can make up your own.
How To Exclude Your Own Visits From Google Analytics
When you look at your own website, statistics programs like Google Analytics will track that as a visit. If you’re constantly working on and monitoring your site, this can really skew the stats, so you need to filter yourself from the results. In Google Analytics, it’s very easy to exclude your visits. The key is to know the IP […]
Hosting Account Suspended Because Of Malware
Had an email the other day from a website owner who woke to find this in place of his website and a warning email from his hosting company:
Test Any Mobile Device From Your Browser
I’m not interested in getting an iPad. But my clients need their websites to look good on an iPad, so how can I test in that format? Luckily, web browsers these days have simulators to show you how a site looks on most popular types of mobile devices. Note: simulators cannot match every single aspect of a […]
Check The Mobile Friendliness Of Every Page On Your Website
Is your website completely mobile-friendly? On one of my webinars recently, 7 small business owners volunteered to have their websites assessed. Only one of them failed the Google Mobile Friendly Test. So far, so good. The problem was: ALL of the mobile-friendly sites had at least a few serious design or readability flaws on smartphones and tablets. Look […]
When And How To Use URL Shorteners For Small Business Marketing
Use a shortened URL when you have tracking or other codes in your URLs. Users of social media are familiar with shortened URLs, but they aren’t just for situations where you’re trying to save space. This article is about when and how a small business should make use of free URL shortening services in emails and other promotional material. […]
Online Broken Link Checker
It’s annoying to get a broken link when you’re looking for something online. So make sure your site doesn’t have any. Sometimes you’ll happen to spot a broken link when you’re checking through your site – which you do, at least once a month, right? But more likely you need to use a link checker. […]
Solve Contact Form 7 Configuration Validator Issues
Properly configuring email forms is not always simple. Contact Form 7 is the most popular WordPress form plugin and, as of version 4.4, an automatic Configuration Validator function was introduced to try and prevent email configuration issues. For the most part, the Validator is straightforward, but there are two validation issues in particular which have confused […]
Cool Effects For Your Website Photos
Online image editors like PicMonkey or Canva make it easy to spice up the photos you use on your website. Take this image of a door bolt from my collection of free downloadable photos (yes, indeed, take it!): I like the angle of the shot and the narrow depth of field. And the colours are nice too, […]
The Old Patent Post
In every field there’s a long history of invention, some of it quite… unusual. Finding these unusual inventions and blogging about them can be a great source of both entertainment and sometimes education. A client of mine – a singing teacher – was looking for something fun to blog about and I suggested she try Google […]
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