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  • Is It Possible for Your Website to Be Too Creative?

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    Everyone wants their website to stand out from the rest. It’s important to have a unique website design that is visually compelling. Great graphic design can make a website look more professional and inspire trust in consumers. But is it possible to go too far when making your website look creative? There are certain user [...]

  • Four Ways to Track Outbound Clicks

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    As website owners, we put some effort into setting up analytics so that we can find out where people are arriving from when they appear on our websites. We know how many came from Google and organic SEO, how many came from PPC, what keywords they searched for, and who came from social media, etc. [...]

  • Boost Sales Conversion Using Six Bulletproof Leads

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    Your Website Has One Job – Closing the Sales Funnel. Your website is your mansion, your piece of web real estate. People drop in, but do they just look around or do they buy? To sell to them, your mansion needs some great rooms. Rooms as unique as every client. Each room, or sales page, [...]

  • Are You Making These Mistakes On Your Website?

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    In this post I’m going to take a look at the website RieWriter.com, which is the website of poet and novelist, Rie Sheridan Rose. I’m going to analyze some of the issues with the site and offer some simple actions that she can take to massively improve the effectiveness of her website without spending a [...]

  • What Do Gaming and Highly Effective People Have in Common?

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    The concept of gamification has been gaining popularity over the past 3 or 4 years, adding game mechanics like points, levels, competition, badges for achievements, these are all being added to non-game contexts, like special Foursquare badges – and discounts – being given by Starbucks for check-ins, points and badges for answering questions on StackOverflow [...]

  • Building a Website with a Custom WordPress Theme

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    I was recently asked what’s involved in integrating a custom design with WordPress,  i.e. creating a custom WordPress theme and then deploying a site with that theme: How much is the cost of professional website design + development, using WordPress? I’m looking for an average, say 20 page, website, built with WordPress, with a good [...]

  • Plugin Review: Share a Draft

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    Ever need to show one of your draft blog posts to someone before publishing? If the recipient is not a registered user with at least Editor privileges on on your WordPress site, then they can’t view it. The Share a Draft WordPress plugin fixes that problem: you can share your draft blog post so that [...]