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Buying Online: Getting Your Customers To Do It More

So you've gone ahead an invested in the creation of an ecommerce website, a place where your customers can buy your products online. Good for you! What happens sometimes, with a lot of smaller stores especially, is you've built it but yet the people are not coming....

Why I Don’t Volunteer Web Work

Why I Don’t Volunteer Web Work

About a year ago, I made a policy that I don't do volunteer work related to my field. And I told people. 99% of people totally got it... and some even said it was a 'great idea'.  About 1% don't say anything (and secretly think I am a jerk I'm sure). Note that the...

Why Social Media Marketing Costs Money

Social media marketing has revolutionized the advertising industry from the business point of view because it's three things: fun, ubiquitous, and free. But the thing is it's not really free because even though it is free to use, social media takes time and some...

The Oldest Websites We’ve Seen

After running into a website designed in 1999 (a vendor for a client we have), I realize it's been awhile since I've seen an Internet 1.0 site. For fun, I posed the question to the Breaking Even Facebook page. And boy, did our friends deliver! Here are some gems they...

How Chicken Sausage Beefed Up Their Mobile Website

My friends have a weekly poker game. At said poker game, everyone brings a little something to share foodwise with the group. Alice brought some fancy sausage to the last poker game for grilling purposes: In back of the package was a QR code. As someone who regularly...

Why You Don’t Need A Web Designer

I love these questions that come the moment you aren't expecting them. "Isn't designing a website easy?" a new friend asked me. "You know, with tools like Squarespace, Wix, etc, do people still need web designers?" I gave kind of a crappy answer at the time. We were...

Helping Your Web Person Help You

Being among the masses that help people with computer (or more accurately internet) problems daily, there are a few things we the geeks would like you to know: 1) Sometimes we don't know what you are talking about. Really. 2) Sometimes we genuinely can not replicate...

Are You Busy?

Ah summer. It's a good time of year filled with iced coffees, strolls in scenic places, and charring meat. For the past year, I've forced myself to take weekends off, despite the fact that my workload almost doubles in the summer. Baring an all caps email from a...

This Week In My Brain: June 25, 2013

On this ridiculously hot day in my life, please appreciate some things that have made me think... and smile online in the last week or so. Mainly courtesy of Pinterest:           If you like these, there is more on my 'For Thought' Pinterest...

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