13
February

Florida Web Design: Finding Qualified Prospects

Sales people that have been around the block, claim your ability to close sales is directly related to the quality of your prospects. So, the first step to completing a sale is finding good qualified prospects – people who need your products or services you offer and are able to make purchases.

You will need to actively find prospects if you are selling services, such as accounting or web design, or if you are selling products from somewhere other than a retail location, such as direct sales. Even if you sell products from a retail location, you will still need to select the right location for your store so that good prospects find you. Location, location, location, right?

Here are some of the most popular prospecting methods. Continue reading »

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6
February

Top 10 Tips for Designing Super HTML Email Templates

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, HTML emails are a wildly popular marketing tool and you’re sure to come across clients that want you to create them.

If you’re not familiar with HTML emails and HTML email templates, they’re annoying to develop and break all the rules you’ve ever learned as a web designer. Possessing the necessary skills to code them is a valuable skill set to have. Today, we’ll look at ten quick and easy tips to get beginners started on the path to creating functional HTML email templates. Continue reading »

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30
January

Social Media Ethics – So Where Do You Stand?

The social media ethics discussion is not a new one. For those of you who are at least somewhat active in this space, I’m sure you’re come across some of these discussions peculating on the net. As a Florida web design company, we often come across this situation.

The general question seems to be – “Do you promote your clients through your personal social networks?”

Obviously, it’s not a simple question, and quite a few variables can come in to play. Continue reading »

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16
January

Effective Search Engine Optimization for Web Designers

A lot of clients ask their web designers to optimize their website to increase visibility with the search engines and to attract more targeted visitors. Some designers and agencies offer specific SEO (search engine optimization) services and others really do not want anything to do with SEO. Most clients that ask for a search engine optimized website understand very little about what is involved in SEO and what it takes to achieve top rankings for competitive searched keywords.

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13
December

Link Building: Forum Style! Do Backlinks from Forum Signatures Provide Any Value?

I’ve see this question asked a few times bit by link builders who are in pursuit of valuable backlinks for their sites or blogs. Since it’s impossible to answer this question with a simple “Yes” or “No,” I’ll go over a few details I’ll found below.

Forum link building and forum backlinks can be totally 2 different concepts. Forum link building would be utilizing forums to build backlinks for a site. In other words, link building using forums with a sole intention of getting the link juice transferred from forum signature links. Continue reading »

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