Wordpress

Why I build WordPress CMS sites exclusively

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ~ Chinese Proverb Up until recently the best looking websites around were packed with heavy imagery, Flash splash pages, lots of scripts and other weighty bells n’ whistles. The heaviness doesn’t [...]

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Girlington Garage new site

Auto repair shop website gets an overhaul

I’m so thrilled to reveal this freshly launched website for a local auto repair shop here in Burlington, Vermont. Why would a car repair shop even need a website? Just ask Human Business Works President, Chris Brogan, who offers a little insight on why all businesses need a website. Hard to believe 60% of American [...]

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Search benefits of the blogosphere

Create online content by blogging

Have you Googled your hospitality or tourism business lately? If you have a small business in the restaurant, lodging or other tourism-dependent industry, you know its not easy rising above travel industry juggernauts like the Expedias, regional membership or review sites. But by building good, keyword-rich content on a regular basis, you’ll be prompting search [...]

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What I want from a restaurant website: The Oatmeal

Trust your designer

I love building websites, especially with WordPress. I really enjoy sitting down with a business owner or marketer that wants to revamp their online presence with a new or redesigned website, social media branding or to brand-up their email marketing templates. And I really anticipate digging in and uncovering every little thing that will propel [...]

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We don’t need no stinking website!

Hard to believe there are still restaurants, b&bs and smaller hospitality businesses that DON’T have a website. At least not one that they own. And I get it – why spend all that time and money developing an online presence (and voice, image or video library, personality, brand loyalty, thought leadership, etc) when review websites, [...]

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