March 2015
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Trying Out Foter
A client told me about Foter, a WordPress plugin that brings you tens of millions of free photos. We generally buy stock photos, find Creative Commons photos, or take appropriate photos for blog posts, make sure we’re well within our rights, and don’t bother the client with the details. However, this client keeps a database…
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Passwords Tell All
It’s been a wild day and we did not write a blog post for our website. Fortunately, our friends at WPEngine sent us a post they want to share, and we found it fascinating enough to share with you. Unmasked: What 10 million passwords reveal about the people who choose them It’s intriguing, but not…
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Shady Online Neighborhoods
There are some products that can be hard to sell online, because they have a rough history with the internet. A few years ago, alternative health searches on Google plunged users into a mess of spammy websites with keyword stuffed pages. Link requests from respectable health and beauty companies were routinely refused. Seth Godin’s Squidoo…
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Trying Out Canva
If you use social media and blogging for your business (and if you don’t, you’re missing a major opportunity), you need images all the time. People like visual content, and they also Like visual content, and Pin it, and Share it and Retweet it. But in our experience working with small to medium sized companies,…
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Doing Well by Doing Good
When someone asks you, “How are you?” an appropriate response would be, “I’m doing well.” People will say that responding with, “I’m doing good” is only correct if you’re Superman, but really that’s still not an appropriate response to that question. Even if your secret alter ego name is Clark Kent and you’re in the…
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How Much Is Too Much?
Social media is important for businesses. It helps you stay connected with your current clients, customers, and patients, and it helps you reach new ones. But it’s not as easy as it sounds to manage a social media account for your business or organization. You might start out boldly, but often business accounts end up…