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Website Design

First I’d like to thank everyone who visited my booth and or attended my speech at the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden Picture Perfect event last weekend. Thanks especially to the organizers, staff, and DSBG for putting on such a great event! After my speech and through out the weekend I collected emails (that’s why I [...]

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The most important thing you must do your your website is something that very, very few website owners and wannabe’s do before building their websites. This is often the difference between success and failure. First Identify the Need If you don’t have a need, you don’t have a website. Before starting to build a website [...]

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All too often I see websites that have great potential. These are well-run companies with successful business models and they don’t understand why their websites just are not performing.

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As you know, I just finished up a header and logo contest for this site. And, well, if you’re reading this page on my site, you already know the winning entry – Matt Dougan’s logo carried the day. Congratulations, Matt! Of course, since the other designs were so close in the contest, it would be [...]

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The following is an interview with Charlotte, North Carolina Photographer Jill W Lang. I met Jill through LinkedIn and she is another person who uses WordPress to run part of her site. You can find her blog here – it’s regularly updated with awesome photographs from all around North Carolina (like the one right above [...]

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The Logo & Header Contest is now Closed! Thanks to all who voted and gave feedback! A HUGE Thanks to the designers! It’s time to vote in my Logo & Header contest. Some very talented designers answered my call for help and submitted headers and logos. They are all great. I wish I didn’t have [...]

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Hi all! Thanks for coming by. I’m doing my first interview for this blog with a local Charlotte area photographer. I’d love to have your questions. If you have anything you’d like to ask a professional stock photographer, now’s the time to do it! Just leave it in the comments below! Thanks!

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FTC roundtable explores privacy in an information economy Google has a great article on th3 latest FTC rulings that have bloggers more clearly disclosing their affiliate policies. Here are some bullet points. John Chow, and internet marketer/blogger with my favorite disclosure policy reminds ust that “The easiest way to comply with the rules is to [...]

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If you have a small business website, you need to have a way for prospects who found you on-line to contact you. There is little point in doing all that hard work of building a website, promoting and marketing it, putting up great content if you are not getting any business from it. Matt Blasi, [...]

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My About page is my second-most popular page after my home page. It’s where people go to see if I’m human. Hey, that’s human. With all of the trust elements and directed response that you’ve built into your home page, this is the natural follow up that curious web surfing bipeds choose to take. Continue [...]

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