How Your Small Business Can Use AI for Big SEO Wins
Your small business can use AI for more than just automating repetitive tasks or analyzing customer data. You can also leverage AI in your SEO activities.
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How to Super Size Your Freelance Niche
In a crowded and competitive online space, getting business can be hard. You can throw a lot of money at the problem, or you can work smarter. Leverage yourself and your network. Repurpose what’s in front of you. Don’t just think outside of the box, step outside of it.
Tips and Tricks from Two Decades of Freelance Experience
So you want to be a freelancer? Here is some advice from twenty years as a freelance caterer, web designer, teacher, and writer on two continents.
Cater a Wedding for 100 People Without Using a Food Processor or Build a Website Using Only HTML and CSS
Learning how a tool works is just as important as using it. Building a website with page builders doesn’t offer you the “why” and “how” that writing HTML does. Find out more!
The Top 4 Things Your Website Should Include
Your website should contain many things, but there are 4 things it shouldn’t lack. Read about the importance of content, speed, security, and accessibility.
9 Benefits of a Multilingual Marketing Approach for Your Business
Here are 9 tips for a multilingual marketing approach. Reach people in their location and in their language.
What Does Hygiene and Sustainability Have to Do with Marketing?
Clean marketing allows things to go from A to B faster, easier, effectively and more efficiently. There is less friction. Speeds wins. You win!
WordPress and the Rise of Full Site Editing
WordPress is perfect whether you are a beginner or a professional. Use it for your cat’s blog or your online shop. With the Full Site Editor you can design in WordPress even easier!
8 Ways to Promote Your Small Business Online for Free
Forget contracting an agency. Do you have a website? Do you have access to email and social media? Then you can promote your business, yourself, for free.
Working as a Senior in Our Digital Economy
The term “senior” means different things to people. Usually it means someone with more experience. Older workers have more experience but a more difficult time finding work. Why is that? Perhaps freelancing is the answer.
How to Plan, Structure, Write, and Market Your Own Book while Dealing with Writer’s Block
How Can You Plan, Write, and Market a Book While Dealing with Writer’s Block? This is not going to be the final word on the subject. More like a pre-penultimate teaser article. With revisions. Writer’s block is a myth. The real problem is often that you don’t take writing a book seriously enough. Don’t despair. You aren’t alone.
Are Cookies Going Away in 2023?
Google announced that it will phase out 3rd party cookies in the Chrome browser. It also does not plan to build any similar tracking devices. Their plan is for this to happen in 2023. This change will affect anyone advertising with Google Ads, as 3rd party cookies are important for retargeting us when we move from one website to another.
Online Marketing is important not only for your business, or your nonprofit. It’s also important for your school.
How do you first generate interest in your school and the programs you’re offering? You make sure you’re well covered in social media. You make sure you’re well covered for search engine optimization. Once you’ve got people’s attention, they’re going to go onto your website.
7 plus Reasons You May NOT Want to Be Self-Employed
Perhaps, just perhaps, being your own boss is not for you. It isn’t for everybody, and that’s okay!
4 Online Marketing Tips for Your Nonprofit
What are four important things nonprofits need to think about when it comes to their online marketing? Bridget Willard and I talk about them!
Agile, Design Thinking, Mindfulness – Embracing Small to Win Big
Speed wins. If you can do something faster, you have a better chance to succeed. If you can ideate faster, produce faster, test faster, win customers faster, and innovate faster than your competitors you will win. But, is being fast and winning necessarily the best goal to have? This month, Charlie and I look at a much more upbeat, positive side of Digital Transformation – the methodologies that are on the cusp of this transformation. Learning to fail in order to succeed, taking the time to reflect, being people-focused, and being authentic.
What is this Design Thinking Anyway?
Too often websites are defined by the internal users. Use Design Thinking to think out of the box and include external users too.