How to Make A Website: The Best Three Options!

So you want to make your own website instead of dumping thousands into outsourcing to some Swedish design firm?  Great!  The days of elaborate coding and spending thousands of dollars to get a freaking awesome site are long dead.  In today’s world you only need to code if you want to, and a single person can ...

Want To Rank Well? Don’t Make These Stupid SEO Mistakes!

While SEO can certainly give you an advantage in climbing the search engine rankings, it can also smack you back down just as quickly.  You should be extremely careful when choosing what SEO tactics you’ll be using, or an SEO company that doesn’t want to “get into the details” on how they’ll make your site ...

Branding

I bet I can guess why you’re here.  You have a product or business that is doing relatively well, and it dawns on you that you need to “get” a brand.  The major misconception is that your brand is something that can just be conjured up and hung on a wall, much like a mission ...

Your Business Should Be Using Hootsuite To Monitor Your Brand! 1

Hootsuite (www.hootsuite.com) is a great tool for monitoring social media.  Along with great features comes an even better price: free!  Below is a short video describing why your business should be using Hootsuite. Full screen Popup Regular: It’s that easy.  So what are you using to monitor your brand?  If the answer is nothing, you ...

The Revolutionary (Old) Way To Start A Blog 2

Something is dreadfully apparent in today’s society: we want things to be fast and easy, but also expect near perfect results.    We might spend countless hours looking for the “best way” to do something.  But while trying to make find the best way, we run into one little problem… We never get started!  Or ...

Business Breakdown of Beard Beanie: Social Media Can’t Fix Everything! 2

Tweet This Lets talk about Beard Beanie (www.beardbeanie.com).  They have the original beard beanie design, and used to be the market leader in this weird little niche.  But currently, they are loosing market share and have some production issues.  Lets jump in! The first thing you’ll notice is that their homepage is quite serious… Dark ...

Speed Up WordPress By Killing Slow Plugins

Too Slow Your website is slow, trust me.  If you don’t believe it check out http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt to test your site speed.  For a site just starting out you’ll want to be under 4 seconds.  If you’re actually making money and have a decent amount of visitors, you’ll want to get that number around 2 seconds, or ...

Members Area

Welcome to the Members Area!  Here you can find a collection of useful tools and tips only available to members!  Did I mention that becoming a member is free? -Kyle Fitzgerald

Business Breakdown of Pantheon Guitars

I thought you might find it interesting to see how a one year marketing plan might look for Pantheon Guitars (www.pantheonguitars.com).  This is aimed at the CEO, so it’s implied that he knows about the industry, competitors, etc. Proposed Pantheon FY2013 Marketing Plan This proposed the marketing plan for Pantheon Guitars for FY 2013.  The ...

Speed Up Your Website With A Free CDN!

The Tale of The Slow Website It might be one of the last things you think about, but a speedy site not only makes visitors happy, it makes search engines happy as well.  So why not speed things up?  A content delivery network (referred to as a CDN) are a great way to boost speed with ...