A day cannot go by without hearing about another new virus, malware, ransomware, cyber attack or some mischievous action that compromises business and personal systems. There are countless online reports that tally and analyze these data in a variety of manners. It can be truly mind boggling and scary to read about all the threats we need to constantly defend. …
Locally Hosted Web Servers
Upon deciding to build a website, your company’s first natural instinct may be to host the site internally. After all, you’ve got a computer and a broadband internet connection. That’s all you need right? Not quite. Do you have an on-site staff that is well educated in the areas of inter-networking, web server management, internet security? A staff that isn’t …
Custom Web Design
Your website should be a powerful business, marketing, and customer relationship tool that guides visitors through a wealth of information in an organized fashion. When you consider your website design, begin with a look at your strategic objectives. Focus those efforts to produce a site, unique to your business, which will be a true business asset. If this is your …
Alexa Rank for Your Website
From time to time people ask me about their Alexa rank. Or if we’re doing positioning research for a client we may bring up their Alexa rank. If you’re not familiar with the term, an Alexa rank, is a relative ranking of the “popularity” of a website compared to all other websites, based on the traffic a website receives. Alexa …
When is a Website Done?
Let’s say you’re going to get a brand new website. You might decide to create it yourself, hire your nephew, or have it built by a professional firm. (I know which of those three you should choose, but that’s for a different article.) Regardless of your choice, when will the website be done? On the due date, before the due …
Getting Customer Feedback
What kind of products, services, or information does your customer want? Are you regularly asking them? Sometimes getting your customers and prospects to open up about what they want is difficult at best. You call them up and they haven’t thought about it, so you don’t get good information. Or you send them a survey in the mail, it sits …
“Natural” Linking to Your Website?
When discussing methods of driving traffic to your website someone will undoubtedly say that you need to build “natural links” to your site. What are natural links? And is natural linking really natural? Let’s start by taking a look at what natural linking is. Basically it is linking to your site that occurs naturally. Duh, pretty straight forward. But consider …
Drive Traffic with Your Corporate Blog
“Why don’t I get good website traffic?” “Is something wrong with my website?” “Do I have to spend more money?” “Is there something I can do that won’t cost much?” “I know that if people actually got to our website, it would sell for us.” Maybe you’ve had some of these thoughts regarding the poor performance of your own website. …
Solving a Form Security Issue
You may or may not realize that we develop websites and host them for our clients. What I’m about to tell you comes from that expertise. Over the past few months we’ve noticed a security issue that has become a major concern. If you have your own website, you should be aware that SPAM Bots and Form Bots have been …
List Building Club – Review
Whether your business is online or offline, virtual or brick and mortar, one of your biggest assets is your customer and prospect list. Don’t get me wrong, simply having a list does not create value. Copying names out of a phone book doesn’t create value. Buying a list from a list broker doesn’t create value. Having a list of people …
- Page 1 of 2
- 1
- 2