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5 Free Tools To Optimize Your Image

By Mark Pridham | April 1, 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a website developer, I am always concerned about optimizing every website my team and I create. This includes everything from writing clean code to optimizing images for faster download. When the Internet was younger and we had to support users on dial-up modems, image optimization was absolutely critical. Today’s high-speed networks allow us to…

Controlling Your Email In 3 Easy Steps

By Mark Pridham | February 26, 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re anything like me, your inbox can get overloaded on a daily basis, and it can easily get away from you. I used to struggle with this until I made a conscious decision to control my email instead of letting my email control me. If your inbox is wildly out of control, here are…

Best Times For Social Media Sharing

By Mark Pridham | February 21, 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs a business owner, I want to make sure that my time spent on Social Media is as effective as possible. With that it mind, I did a bit of research that I thought I’d pass on to you. Every Social Media network has different “best times”. There has been countless studies done on this…

How’s Your Schedule?

By Mark Pridham | February 19, 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesI read a great story the other day in Success Magazine about Ron Howard. The article was titled How To Be The Nicest Guy In Hollywood, and talks a lot about his career, his fairness when working with others, and how he deals with conflict. But one of the things that really grabbed me was…

How Many Of Your Customers Are Mobile?

By Mark Pridham | February 12, 2013

Reading Time: 3 minutesHow Many Of Your Customers Are Mobile? As we know, the amount of Internet users that use mobile devices is growing at a fast pace. Adults access more media on mobile devices than newspapers and magazines combined, and more and more users are using their mobile devices to access your website than ever before. If…

How To Add A Google Alert For Your Business

By Mark Pridham | February 7, 2013

Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you are in business, you want to know when people are talking about you, good or bad. In this day and age, these conversations are increasingly happening online. If you have someone saying awesome things about you or your business, wouldn’t it be nice to know about it quickly and be able to thank…

Are You Making These Mistakes On Your Website? (Part 2)

By Mark Pridham | February 6, 2013

Reading Time: 3 minutesYour website is one of the most important marketing tools your business can have. It is your 24/7 salesperson that never sleeps. Unfortunately, it can also be one of the most ignored parts of your business. Last time I talked about the issue of having an outdated website. This is the second of a series…

For Paper Lovers

By Mark Pridham | January 28, 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a recent post, I talked about using an online application for your “To Do” lists. By far the majority of my lists, scheduling, correspondence and even note-taking is done on some sort of electronic device … mainly my Mac, iPad or iPhone. The majority of my bills are sent/received electronically, my banking is 95{f6f7d31e87099d0d6b7ac3a4bf513410b4bc7fc64f9a286f558d07e02807de3e}…

Are You Making This Mistake On Your Website?

By Mark Pridham | January 24, 2013

Reading Time: 3 minutesYour website is one of the most important marketing tools your business can have. It is your 24/7 salesperson that never sleeps. Unfortunately, it can also one of the most ignored parts of our business. This is the first of a series of articles that discuss common website mistakes, and how to correct them. An…

2013 Website Trends

By Mark Pridham | January 1, 2013

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs I do every time at this point in the year, I have been doing a bit of research on what we can expect to see with regards to website trends for the the upcoming year. Here are 10 trends that I think we will see in 2013. Greater Use Of Typography – We will…