You’ve got a hot new product and a user-friendly website. You’re excited because this new product could help your small business make ends meet, but not enough people are visiting your website to see why they should buy from you and not your big-business competitors. And since times are tough, you don’t have the money to launch a big ad campaign to drive people to your site. What do you do now?

Grab your customer’s attention – now – when they’re looking for your help! (more…)

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A quick look at the source of any page on our site will quickly reveal I’m a huge fan of  jQuery. Part of this is because I truly appreciate the simplicity and ease of use that it brings to the table, but an even larger part of it is that it’s just so much faster to code and debug.

Like it or not, there are two truths about web development:

1. You will never have enough time to do things the way you want to.

2. Everything will change.

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The email industry is constantly evolving but there are some basics about email marketing that will help your email land in your customers SPAM box.
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According to Verisign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief, there are 177 million domain names across all top-level domains, an increase of 16% (24 million domain names) over a year ago. That’s a lot of .com’s, .net’s, .org’s, and .edu’s – and the numbers continue to grow worldwide.

But what if you lost your prime domain name – actually lost your online brand, your trademark, that unique address you’ve worked so hard to nurture all these years? (more…)