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Last week I posted an article about helping you on Craigslist. One of the questions I was asked was ‘How should I accept payment through Craigslist?’  Here are my thoughts: I think Paypal might be the best way to accept payments online. It’s good enough for Ebay & a billion other shops. You can accept [...]

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Last week I posted an article about helping you on Craigslist. One of the questions I was asked was how to put Picasa images on Craigslist. This is a tricky one, but I’ll get you through it.

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Years ago I wrote a small tutorial on How to Put Pictures on Craigslist. Since then, that little article has been the single-biggest driver of traffic to my website and to my business.

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One of the best tactics you can follow to improve your rankings is to get as many links back to your website as possible. And there is no better way than free, right?

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In 2010 I gave a speech on website desing and development at the Picture Perfect event organized by the beautiful Daniel Stowe Botanical gardens. After having to miss out on attending last year’s event due to personal obligations I was invited back again for 2012. I thought this would be a good time to revisit my original notes and post them on-line with additional clarifications and links to more information. I’d be happy to speak to your group, too!

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With the tools available on the market almost anyone can design a website these days. So why then are so many website designs abysmal failures? This is an important question to ask if you are going to spend your resources of time, capital, and effort. In the end, building a website is a lot like writing a novel or building a house. If you take a little bit of time to sketch out your ideas and then order them in a logical progression, you’ll save a lot of heart ache later on.

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Here’s a quick tutorial on how to create and brand a Facebook Page for your business.

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A local school district invited me to come speak to their 9th grade class on careers in technology. The coordinators are looking for business members in the Lake Wylie community to come and share the path they took to their current profession. Since my website design clients often ask how I got started in this business I thought I would take this opportunity to share my story. At the end of this article is a comments section. I’d love to hear how you got started in your business, too.A local school district invited me to come speak to their 9th grade class on careers in technology. The coordinators are looking for business members in the Lake Wylie community to come and share the path they took to their current profession. Since my website design clients often ask how I got started in this business I thought I would take this opportunity to share my story. At the end of this article is a comments section. I’d love to hear how you got started in your business, too.

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Sharing is caring. In this Valentine’s day edition of Charlotte Web Development I’ll take you through some ways to get some love for your website and your company through social sharing.

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What can the owner of a small business website learn from 3 large, successful companies? If we looked at companies where the website homepage is an important – if not the most important way – they get customers, what would we learn that could benefit us? In this article I’ll describe what I found and what lessons we can take from them to improve our homepages.

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