website design that works

For a small business your website is a working horse. Make it work to your advantage As you can see, the new site has a ton of features the old site doesn’t: Have a good clean professional looking design information that will generate a sale or booking should be visible clearly at the top of […]

Virus on your PC

Recently one of my customers site was spiking in traffic and blowing the bandwidth. The first day I increased the bandwidth. But it blew it the next day. Seemed a bit fishy to me. I thought I would investigate the matter and when I logged into the FTP program I saw a folder called blog […]

WordPress Sites Rock

Search Engines love wordpress website. Must be the way they are structured and the way you can popularise them. What you can do with WordPress Sites:- Can be a normal site Can have a blog Can set up RSS feeds to popularise your site Can have plugin to create tags for your content. (These act […]

Why Use WordPress?

The dashboard is very user friendly. Even if you are not tech savvy it is very easy to use. There are thousands of plugins to extend the functionality of your website. Example – gallery, calendar, forums, polls, ratings and so many more. As your need arises you can add these functions. Standard compliant – WordPress […]

Small Business Blogs

Why should small businesses have blogs? It is the easiest way of interacting with your customers, prospects. Once it is set up even if you post once  in 3 weeks or once every month it adds value to your existing customers. Write a marketing message, announce new products an services have contests – anything to […]

SMBs attacked in latest online scam

New Zealand’s Stock Exchange cyber attack New Zealand’s Stock Exchange Market (NZX) experiences a severe  cyber attack for four days in a row.  The NZX was forced to close on the fourth day of the attacks after crashing due to systems connectivity issues.  The culprits of the attacks are still unknown. What we do need […]

Elements of a landing page

Anatomy of a landing page

Stick to a standard format for your landing pages and make it easy for your visitor. Grab their attention and encourage them to take action with visual clues. People have short attention spans – you have to hook them quickly. When they land on the page make sure you grab their attention and get your visitor hooked […]

Digital Marketing 101

Small business Digital Marketing

Small Business Digital Strategy Stand out on Google for your business. We can work with you or your team and come up with a strategy. 83%  of consumers expect to be able to get in contact with a business online. If you serve local customers, your business profile can appear when customers search for your […]

Google Makes Loading Time Important

To get ranked better in Google, your website has to load fast. I have always stressed this aspects to all my customers and state this in my promotions. A fast loading site gives the user a good experience. How many times we get frustrated and click away from a site that takes forever to load? […]

How to choose a web hosting company

For a small business your website can be the most important marketing tool, brochure, online shop for you. I have clients whose livelihood depends on their website. If you are planning to start a business like that or planning to sell online you need to choose your web hosting company very carefully. The things you […]