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Digital and Growth Marketing

Best Free Shopify Apps for Small Businesses

More than one million businesses use the Shopify eCommerce platform to sell products online. It doesn’t take a detective to figure out why. Shopify…

Nov 16, 2020
Digital and Growth Marketing

Best Social Media Management Tools of 2020

As one of the foundations of digital marketing, social media marketing helps businesses get the word out about their products and services. Once considered…

Oct 12, 2020
WordPress

Selling shoes that don’t exist: how we built First Pitch by Reebok

Reebok wanted to crowdfund sneakers with prices that climb a dollar per pair. No platform did that — so we built one. The first…

Sep 15, 2020
Digital and Growth Marketing

Traffic you control vs Traffic you can’t control

COVID-19 has shown us that if you don’t have an easy way of reaching out to your potential clients any time you have an…

Jul 10, 2020
Digital and Growth Marketing

Selling Through E-commerce and Social Commerce

Maybe you’re new to e-commerce and selling online, and that’s probably because the coronavirus pandemic has forced you to move your business online. Or…

Jul 8, 2020
Digital and Growth Marketing

How to Write Content that Answers Questions

The internet has a ton of information on it. When researching any given topic one can find arguments for or against; one can find…

Sep 10, 2019
Digital and Growth Marketing

How to Write an Email Newsletter That Grabs People’s Attention

You got mail. Even more accurate, you got email; lots of it. All it takes is an hour long meeting and a half-hour for…

Apr 8, 2019
WordPress

My WordPress Development Workflow 2018

Development & business workflows are deeply personal opinions we all have when it comes to creating with WordPress. Over the years I’ve become more…

May 17, 2018
Digital and Growth Marketing

Social Media for Business Presentation

This past week I was honored to be invited to speak at the City of Asuza’s inaugural Small Business Week event. I talked about the importance…

May 12, 2017
Running a business

Demand a Proper Scope Phase

What follows is a lesson for people looking to hire a freelancer or agency to build out your next big strategy; your next website;…

May 8, 2017
WordPress

[Tip] Rendering Beaver Builder Layouts on Archive Templates

Page builders. They’re all over the place and if you build sites for clients then you’ve at least given some “side-eye” at the solutions…

Aug 29, 2016
Running a business

Life Balance Tips — Kick Ass at Work Without Going Insane (or Why Spending Time Away from Work is the Best Way to Kick Ass at Work)

I’d like to start by acknowledging the irony that I’m writing a blog post about this—I’m going to give you some awesome work/life balance…

Aug 5, 2016
WordPress

Pressmatic Teardown

I saw the tweet that Pressmatic was announced as a Sponsor of the WordCamp in my backyard. I was curious and took a look. I…

Aug 3, 2016
Running a business

ActiveCollab 5 vs. Asana

How we work; how we set up our workflows and go about our day-to-day business is a very personal thing. There is no shortage…

Jun 30, 2016
Digital and Growth Marketing

The Best Damn Articles on Branding in the Known Universe

What a neat day today is. Adam Fout, from Blue Steele Solutions, has offered to grace our blog with some top notch article wizardry…

Jun 10, 2016
Running a business

Blogs on the Internet You Should Read

The internet is a huge place. More content is generated today than at any other time. It’s hard to keep up with all of…

May 25, 2016
WordPress

Syncing Content For WordPress? There’s a Plugin for That!

There are over 40,000 plugins in the WordPress repository as of this writing… I suppose that will remain true long after, right? Oh well!…

May 6, 2016
WordPress

Remove Annoying Admin Notifications With This Awesome Plugin

WordPress is a pretty awesome tool. It’s well developed and has a lot of great features out-of-the-box. But some of the baked in features…

Apr 27, 2016
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