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Is Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) the Answer to the Future of Search? 🎨

Published: November 8, 2024; Updated: February 8, 2025 Filed Under: Internet, Marketing

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Search engine optimisation (SEO) is evolving (or is that mutating?) once more as generative AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity eat someone’s lunch.

“Fucking Good Content” – Dan Kelsall (Book Review) πŸ“˜

Published: February 19, 2024; Updated: February 24, 2024 Filed Under: Books, Marketing

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This short, funny book is a reality check, pattern interrupt and life-saving antidote to all the ineffective, eye-rollingly bad marketing vomited into our minds.

Small Businesses Finally Start Marketing… and All It Took Was a Global Pandemic 🏁

Published: July 28, 2020; Updated: July 20, 2023 Filed Under: Internet, Marketing, Operations, Social

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During COVID lockdowns, many small businesses stumbled across effective marketing strategies as a direct result of trying to stay altruistically relevant.

Don’t Be a Boring Bastard! Use Your Business Website “About” Page to Build Trust with Prospects 🥰

Published: September 4, 2018; Updated: September 12, 2023 Filed Under: Marketing, Video

Pixelated Digital Heart

Don’t allow your business website “About” page to be a predictable romp through all the cliches we’ve seen before. Leave out the bragging and chest beating. Do this instead…

“Don’t Make Me Think: Revisited” – Steve Krug (Book Review) πŸ“˜

Published: November 14, 2017; Updated: February 17, 2024 Filed Under: Books, Design, Web Development

Don't Make Me think - Steve Krug

A person of average technical ability must be able to navigate your website easily. This is required reading for anyone wanting to create a better experience for their visitors…

17 Detailed Twitter Tips for Hosting a Successful Tweet Chat

Published: May 3, 2016; Updated: February 18, 2020 Filed Under: Marketing, Social

Are you a social media manager or small biz owner developing a Twitter community? In this instruction guide, I reveal my best tips for hosting an amazing tweet chat…

Overwhelmed by Web Design? Use This 10 Step Project Checklist and Stay in Control

Published: November 10, 2015; Updated: February 18, 2020 Filed Under: Design, Web Development

Website Design & Development Checklist

Are you a web design client or consultant? Do you need to track project progress? This website checklist is a coherent action plan for setting priorities and better managing your time…

Automatically Post Any RSS Feed to Twitter via Sniply and TwitterFeed

Published: January 27, 2015; Updated: April 15, 2017 Filed Under: Marketing, Social, Video, Web Development

Auto Post RSS through Sniply

Here’s a novel way to use free social tools to add an extra dimension to your Twitter content curation. The system uses Sniply and Twitterfeed…

Web Designers: Create Community Websites to Promote Your Services

Published: August 31, 2014; Updated: October 22, 2016 Filed Under: Internet, Marketing, Social, Web Development

Create Useful Local Community Websites and Promote Your Biz

A good way to promote your local website design business is to create a website providing something of value or that solves a problem in the community…

Local Business Content Marketing Ideas 🍎

Published: February 27, 2014; Updated: August 25, 2023 Filed Under: Internet, Marketing, Social, Video

Local Business Content Marketing Ideas

A local business should be thinking of how to connect with customers instead of broadcasting. If your product/services are as good as you believe, prove it…

The Long Term View on Digital Marketing

Published: August 25, 2013; Updated: April 15, 2017 Filed Under: Internet, Marketing, Social, Web Development

Think Long Term for Your Small Biz Digital Marketing

With Google’s ongoing search algorithm updates/penalties the emphasis for internet marketing is on content, sharing, value, sociability, engagement, and community…

Small Business Website – DIY Vs Pro ⚖️

Published: January 2, 2013; Updated: September 8, 2023 Filed Under: Design, Internet, Marketing, Web Development

Small Business Website - DIY Vs Professional

There’s no question about it: a website is essential for any small business. If you don’t exist on the web, you’re creating unnecessary inconvenience…

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