How can you Spice Up your Small Business Blog?
When your business blog seems to be lacking, it can really affect your small business. Your business blog is what attracts visitors to check out more about your company so it’s really important to keep it up to date, relevant and interesting. Even with the most updated content, a blog that doesn’t have anything interesting to read might bore your readers. People want to see blogs that are not only useful but interesting and hopefully entertaining. Even in serious fields like insurance and manufacturing, you can still take the time to come up with interesting and entertaining content. Here is …
How can you Add LinkedIn to Your WordPress Website?
For those that are trying to grow their business, expand their network and make a social media presence, LinkedIn is the perfect place to join. It’s the most professional social network and it can somewhat act like an online resume to highlight your experience and accomplishments. It’s a nice way to find colleagues, potential candidates for a job and people you may want to network to work with on a project. Many website owners are starting to join the network realizing that it’s an easy way for others to find them and then eventually make it to their website. In …
Which WordPress Plugins Will Make your Site Search Better?
When your WordPress site gets bogged down with tons of old articles dating back from years ago, it’s time to find a way to search for them for not only your regular visitors but for newbies. There may be some great material from a few years ago that you’d love your site visitors to find but it’s buried somewhere and they don’t know what it was called. Your visitors need a powerful search feature to allow them to find specific posts. The default WordPress search feature is not going to cut it and you need to simplify this process by …
Which WordPress Development Tools Should you Be Using, but Probably Aren’t?
It’s easy to miss some of the excellent tools that WordPress provides you to make your blog excellent. With a busy lifestyle, it’s easy to miss some of the great tools out there to improve your business. You aren’t always going to catch when a new WordPress tool becomes available but you can still find out about them here with a summary of what they can do for you. You may not have heard of many of these great tools that will not only improve productivity but will offer you more exciting options. Here is a look at the latest …
Which Premium WordPress Responsive Themes Look Excellent?
When you’re trying to choose a great looking WordPress theme, you are fortunate to have so many possibilities in the design you choose. The themes continue to evolve and impress users. In addition, the use of mobile devices is causing WordPress to evolve even more so to accommodate the need for designs to respond well to smartphones and tablets. When a responsive theme is used on WordPress, the theme will adapt to the size of the screen it’s being viewed on because it’s flexible to any device you view it on. When you’re ready to update your WordPress site to …
Which Free WooCommerce Plugins are the Best for WordPress?
WordPress’ most popular eCommerce plugin is WooCommerce, a plugin that comes loaded with tons of extensions. You can pay for some but there are over a dozen of free ones that you’ll want to check out. From the WooCommerce Customizer that allows you to customize your button text and labels to Stripe for WooCommerce that allows you to accept credit card payments on your store, here is a look at these plugins and more that you’ll definitely want for your WordPress site. Pay with Amazon and Stripe for WooCommerce Want to accept credit card payments right on your WooCommerce store? …
Should a Startup Small Business Outsource Blogging Tasks?
When you have a small startup with a blog, should you outsource your blogging tasks so that you can focus on more important tasks? It’s hard to keep boundaries between your personal life and business, especially when business starts to grow. Most startup businesses can’t find a work-life balance and end up working long hours every day thinking that it’s the only way to be successful. The low salary and the long hours may seem worth it knowing that you are living your dream and building a successful company but when you are working on so many things, who has …
How to Make Your WordPress Site Look Better by Adding/Removing Specific Things
Did you know simply adding and removing certain things on your site will increase its look immensely? When you build your WordPress site, it’s important to build it to align with your business or personal goals in mind. It should represent your goals and objectives to its best ability which means you will need to customize it to make it accomplish this. By removing or adding a few default settings, you could make your WordPress site truly unique to you and your needs. Those developers that are knowledgeable on its capabilities have a list of things they will automatically want …
How can you Find the Best Free Plugins for WordPress?
When you’re interested in adding some excellent and free plugins to your WordPress, you have to know which ones are going to be the most relevant. There are over 40,000 plugins available so it’s incredibly hard to discern the ones that would make the most sense for one user. Some users are just looking for a simple span plugin while others want more advanced features. You don’t have time to sort through the thousands of options because it’s not only time-consuming but quite a chore. Rather than sort through the options, here is a look at ways to find the …
Do you Understand Personas?
If you’ve never heard of personas in business, they refer to a marketing tool for building a blog or business to encourage user engagement and loyalty. Examples of personas include buyer personas or reader personas which are used by bloggers to make marketing easier and more effective. If you want to use the powerful tool of personas in your business and blog, here is a look at what personas are all about and how to utilize them. What is a persona and why is it important? Buyer personas are known as “reader personas” and they are a fictional description to …
